Sony PlayStation Portal is a streaming handheld and can't run games on its own – a far cry from what players expected. However, according to Liliputing's report, some hackers have announced that they have cracked PlayStation and have successfully run a PSP emulator: PPSSPP locally. Andy Nguyen said on X: "After more than a month of hard work, PPSSPP was able to run natively on PlayStation Portal. Yes, we've hacked it. With the help of xyz and @zetatwo. ”
Picture: Andy Nguyen
By the way, Andy Nguyen's screen name is @theflow0, and if you are familiar with the cracking of PSV, you will know that H-Encore-2, Vitashell, Nonpdrm, these indispensable self-made applications and plug-ins are all from the hands of this great god. He also developed Adrenaline, a PSP simulator for PSV (in fact, an improvement on the PSV's built-in PSP simulator to make it more free). In addition, he has discovered system vulnerabilities in PS4 and PS5. So, does this mean that interested players will be able to crack their PlayStation Portal implementation very quickly? However, Andy Nguyen said that he has no plans to make the hack public in the near future, and that there is more work to be done.
But then again, from the earlier teardown, we know that the SoC of the PlayStation Portal is the Qualcomm SG4150P, which is a modified version of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 662, and the memory used is Samsung LPDDR4X. In addition, Andy Nguyen also said that the storage space inside the machine is only about 6GB. No matter how you look at it, if you let PlayStation Portal run a more open Android, you will only be able to run some retro games, and as for Genshin Impact or something, you should still play it with PS5 streaming.