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Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years

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  1. criddell · · focus · HN ↗
    This will be great for preservation of PS2 games. Well done!

    It seems like preservation of games for later consoles is a lost cause. If I pull out my PS5 30 years from now and pop in my Cyberpunk 2077 disk to play, I'm going to have a barely playable game.

    It's better than nothing, I suppose, but I won't be able to re-play the excellent version that I played through last year.

    1. deaton · · focus · HN ↗
      Everything gets broken eventually. Every Nintendo console except the switch 2 is wide open. Even the "unbreakable" Xbox consoles were broken with Damage Control. Anything worth breaking will be broken, eventually, whether in software or by a mod chip.
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