Modder Gets PT Working on PS5

gamerant.com:

It’s now possible to play the cult classic horror title PT on the PS5, thanks to a modder’s discovery. What’s more, they were able to get the game running on an unmodified console, though the process of making that happen does require the use of a jailbroken PS5.

For a long time now, the “playable teaser” for Hideo Kojima’s canceled Silent Hills project has been trapped in a limbo of sorts. The free demo was only available on PS4 for a brief time following its 2014 release, before the messy breakup between Kojima Productions and Konami led to it being completely removed from the PlayStation Network. Outside of those who’ve kept the game downloaded on their PS4s, no one has been able to play it officially since then, forcing interested gamers to either recreate PT in other games like Dreams and Halo Infinite, or resort to hacking to access it, as streamer Lance McDonald did to get it running on the PS5.

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Earlier this month, when McDonald first showed off the PS5 being jailbroken, it wasn’t possible to actually get PT running on the system, but he has since figured out a workaround. The process is somewhat convoluted, but the gist is that one needs to have PT already on their PlayStation account, log into said account on a broken PS5, and then download the game onto that console. From there, they can copy it onto a USB drive and insert that into an unmodified PS5, making it possible to play PT and other unsupported games on a legitimate, fully-updated current-gen console.

Naturally, doing so still requires players to use a jailbroken PS5, which is very much against Sony’s terms of service and could result in one getting banned, cutting off access to PT and the rest of their PSN