New PS5 and PS4 jailbreak exploits trigger a 1,000% surge in prices for an obscure remaster of the 24-year-old Star Wars Racer Revenge, with copies reaching $300

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There have been a variety of developments in the PS5 hacking scene over the past handful of days, and it's all pointing to a happy new year for jailbreakers – and owners of the disc edition of Star Wars Racer Revenge for PS4. This game is at the center of a new exploit allowing PS5 and PS4 jailbreaks, and the news has sent prices for the game skyrocketing on eBay.

PS5 and PS4 jailbreaks have been possible for years, but most of them have some serious caveats, requiring you to start from a console running old firmware. An exploit called mast1c0re allows hackers to jailbreak these consoles through the relatively modern 12.0 firmware series, which means much more recent consoles can be hacked.

That, of course, is what's just happened for Star Wars Racer Revenge. On December 31, a member of the PlayStation hacking scene called Gezine posted a video demonstrating mast1c0re running through the 2002 Star Wars racing game. This version of the hack has not yet been released publicly, but it represents what could be a far more accessible way of jailbreaking PS4 and PS5 consoles.

But there is a catch: the physical PS4 version of Racer Revenge was issued through boutique publisher Limited Run Games. The game is no longer being manufactured, and it's estimated that less than 10,000 copies of the disc are out there.

Prior to news of this new exploit making the rounds, copies of Racer Revenge were regularly selling for about $30. Now, sales have exploded in volume and value, with some prices reaching as much as $300. Some listings have gone up for as much as $400, and while buyers aren't yet biting at that price, it's clear that anybody who happened to add the PS4 version of Racer Revenge to their collection ages ago are now sitting on a gold mine, all because of the promise of an exploit that hasn't even yet been released to the public.

That's not even the only jailbreak news for Sony consoles this week. The end of 2025 also saw the leak of the PS5 ROM keys which, as our friends at Tom's Hardware note, could open the door to even easier hardware exploits in the future.

Our list of upcoming Star Wars games includes a major new addition to the galactic racing lineage, but I'm guessing Sony would be happier if it didn't have anything to do with this whole jailbreak thing.

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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