Hacker gets discontinued P.T. running on unmodified PS5
Enlarge / Loading this onto a PS5 requires jumping through quite a few hoops.
For years now, Hideo Kojima's cult classic P.T. (or "Playable Trailer" for a canceled Silent Hills project) has only been playable on the million or so increasingly hard-to-find PS4 consoles that downloaded the free demo (and didn't delete it) before it was completely removed from the PlayStation Network. Now, one hacker has gotten the game to run on an unmodified PlayStation 5 by using a second, jailbroken PS5 as a go-between.
Streamer Lance McDonald demonstrated his P.T.-on-PS5 method in a stream early Monday, detailing several prerequisites and steps that will make it difficult for many interested players to copy. Chief among them is McDonald's access to a second PS5 system that he said he hadn't plugged in for over a year, when he used it to try the Elden Ring Network Test. That means the console was still running an old version of the PS5 firmware and was thus susceptible to the recently revealed PS5 jailbreaking method that Sony patched after firmware version 4.3.
Using that jailbroken system, McDonald says he could log in to the system from a PC using an FTP client and "edit the list of games you're allowed to run on your PS5." That's important, because even users who have previously managed to transfer a legitimate PS4 copy of P.T. to their PS5 have been faced with a message saying: "You can't use this PS4 game or app on the PS5."