It was to be expected that the playstation portal received the corresponding hack treatment from the scene community, however, we did not think that the feat would come so soon. That is what the well-known hacker Andy Nguyen (theflow0) has announced through his Twitter account, leaving as a sample a simple image says a lot.
PlayStation Portal has been hacked
Conceived as a streaming device from which you can play remotely in another room of the house with your PS5, the PlayStation Portal has left many users with a bittersweet taste. The reason was obviously the limited functionality offered by the console, as many expected to see something more capable in a portable device with the PlayStation logo.
As always happens in these cases, the scene community has had to arrive to complete and improve a product, and on this occasion the first thing they have managed to do is run the famous PPSSPP emulator natively, which turns the device into a PSP.
After more than a month of hard work, PPSSPP is running natively on PlayStation Portal. Yes, we hacked it. With help from xyz and @ZetaTwo pic.twitter.com/AXuRROo6Ip
—Andy Nguyen (@theflow0) February 19, 2024
It is important to emphasize the concept of “running natively”, as it confirms that software has been installed on the device and could be the beginning of many things.
How is it done?
At the moment the details of the exploit are unknown. The creators of the hack warn that this is just the beginning, and after a month of working on finding a way, there is still a long way to go until a decent version of the hack can be released. One of the details worth highlighting is that the hack has also served to discover that Portal has 6 GB free storage, so there will be room to install things.
Nguyen has promised that this weekend he will upload videos demonstrating how the system works. PPSSPP emulator on PlayStation Portal, so we can know a little more about the process. This is undoubtedly very interesting news, since it could turn Sony's streaming device into a completely different device and much closer to what users had imagined from the beginning.
For instance, would be able to run the Xbox Game Pass app to access the Xbox game streaming service, and also enjoy Xbox games on the Sony device. Not to mention that the list of emulators that could be run would also be quite extensive after seeing how the PSP emulator runs correctly.
Source: Andy Nguyen