• Colonel Panic@programming.dev
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    13 hours ago

    the PS4 can be jailbroken with a €4 disc from aliexpress nowadays, and it has a great catalog of games. slap a 1tb external hdd on it, download games from archive.org, presto

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      5 hours ago

      Why disc? Been few years since I used my PS4, but I remember jailbreaking it as long as you are on the correct firmware was as simple as caching a website offline and bookmarking it to run the exploit whenever you turned on the PS4.

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      13 hours ago

      Wait, you can get jailbreak discs from aliexpress? That might be worth looking into…

      (although, how do we know if it’s got malware on it?)

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        12 hours ago

        you can also burn it yourself if you have a bluray burner, the software the aliexpress discs use is freely available (search for “goldhen”)

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          11 hours ago

          Oooh awesome. I figured normal burned discs wouldn’t work.

          We don’t have a bluray burner (only a CD/DVD drive) but have been kinda wanting to get one.

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            11 hours ago

            Shoot, apparently it’s not open source. That’s not confidence-inspiring… but then again PS3 CFWs weren’t either (*sighs*)

            Does that apply to PS4s running 11.something? I can’t remember what OS version our PS4 is on, but it’s new enough that a jailbreak only came out pretty recently. Needed a specific game disc to work.

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                11 hours ago

                Oooh lovely!! We’re uh, pre-12.5 I think.

                A DVD won’t work, right, it’s gotta be a bluray? Because if we can do this with a DVD-R and not need another reader, that’d be great.

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                  21 minutes ago

                  nope it has to be BD. honestly just get it from aliexpress, a BD burner is €100+, not really worth it to buy one for single use