Breakthrough PS5 jailbreak that sent Star Wars: Racer Revenge prices skyrocketing might not work after all

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Perhaps all those eBay sales were a bit premature

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At the end of 2025, a breakthrough exploit was revealed that seemed poised to make PS5 jailbreaks on recent firmware feasible. The vulnerability relied on the PS4 edition of Star Wars: Racer Revenge, and the news sent prices for that game skyrocketing on the secondhand market – but now, weeks later, it's starting to seem like the jailbreak might not work after all.

The exploit functions in two parts. First, the in-game vulnerability in Racer Revenge is used to load a piece of software called Luac0re – a derivative of a previous exploit tool called mast1c0re – which then opens up the console to deeper kernel-level modifications. This is the part that was demonstrated a few weeks ago, and that still works.

Dustin Bailey
Dustin Bailey
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.

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