Sony's PlayStation Portal Hacked To Run Emulated PSP Games

An anonymous reader shares a report: Sony's new PlayStation Portal has been hacked by Google engineers to run emulated games locally. The $199.99 handheld debuted in November but was limited to just streaming games from a PS5 console and not even titles from Sony's cloud gaming service. Now, two Google engineers have managed to get the PPSSPP emulator running natively on the PlayStation Portal, allowing a Grand Theft Auto PSP version to run on the Portal without Wi-Fi streaming required. "After more than a month of hard work, PPSSPP is running natively on PlayStation Portal. Yes, we hacked it," says Andy Nguyen in a post on X. Nguyen also confirms that the exploit is "all software based," so it doesn't require any hardware modifications like additional chips or soldering. Only a photo of Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories running on the PlayStation Portal has been released so far, but Nguyen may release some videos to demonstrate the exploit at the weekend.

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