![]() That payload could be anything, such as a homebrew game, but in this case went all in and developed a simple tool that unlocks the console’s optical drive so it will play games burned to CD-Rs. The name contains the memory address of the payload. Thanks to this oversight, a long and carefully crafted name can be used to load an executable payload into the console’s memory. ![]() When the game sees a custom character saved on the memory card it will automatically load the name field to show it on the screen, but it turns out the developers didn’t think to check the length of the name before loading it. ![]() A new exploit released by allows users to run copied games on all but the earliest hardware revisions of this classic console, and all you need to trigger it is a copy of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2.Īptly named tonyhax, this exploit uses a classic buffer overflow found in the “Create Skater” mode in Tony Hawk 2, 3, and 4. The original PlayStation might be pushing 30 years old now, but that doesn’t mean hackers have given up on chipping away at it.
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