It begins: First exploit on PS4!

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artur-fernand said:

DanneSandin said:

artur-fernand said:

DanneSandin said:
But what does that mean? What's the benefits? I'm quite unfamiliar with hacking, so I don't really know/understand the benefits of hacking a console? I'm guessing they're trying to hack it so they can play pirated games or something?

This, and homebrews. More spefically emulators. I don't know if many people know that, but the PSP is a powerful portable emulator, capable of running games from virtually every single console up until the SNES/Genesis (plus the PS1 obviously).

The Vita and PS4 would offer much more possibilities on that regard. But piracy is the most sought out feature I believe.

Homebrews? Is that the same thing as playing emulators? So hacking a console means that you can more or less play any game you want on that console, and not only pirated games from the interwebs? Thanks for the info =)

Homebrew = unofficial software made by nerds in their free time.

And theoretically, it means just that (keeping in mind the hardware needs to be able to handle the emulated system. I assume the PS4 would be able to emulate everything up until the Gamecube, plus the Wii, minus the original Xbox). But you obviously need to wait for someone to develop the emulators for it. Given the PS4's popularity, I'd imagine it would be a matter of time for those to appear, once it's properly hacked (if ever).

The Vita seems to have a somewhat strong cult following... I'm not sure.

Dolphin is very Cpu intensive and doesn't have superb multithreading support. While I have no doubt with enough time a GC/Wii emulator can show up on the PS4, it would have to be a brand new emulator that takes advantage of the PS4s cores, otherwise the Cpu just has too weak non-threaded performance.