YouTuber Dammit Jeff offers large bounty for definitive PS5 modification in partnership with the FULU Foundation, currently sat at over $30,000

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Today is an incredible day to be a Tamer! The long awaited exit from early access to 1.0 has finally come to an end! Today, Palworld 1.0 is out and it has a massive patch note! Including 72 new pals, new bosses, more NPCs, and countless revised/new features! Although you don’t have to delete your save file, the team does suggest doing so for the best experience of the game! Source and patch notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1623730/view/686383649529010623?l=english

A YouTuber with over half a million subscribers, Dammit Jeff, (in partnership with Louis Rossmann's FULU Foundation)has offered a substantial bounty for the release of a significant PS5 exploit. In a video posted to his channel yesterday, he detailed his plan to revolutionise the hacking scene for the console in response to Sony's much maligned decision to go fully digital in 2028. He also gave instructions on how to keep the console on the lowest possible firmware by disabling updates, along with a scathing rebuttal to Sony's talking points regarding the shift.

"This feels like it's only a net benefit for Sony. That's it. The only thing we get out of this is, 'Oh, well... It's a little more convenient.' ... I keep seeing the same statistic everywhere- Yes. 85% of PlayStation game sales were digital last year, that is correct. But- And this is important- Adoption does not equate preference. ... How many people do you think chose the disc version of the PS5 over the digital version of the PS5? 82%. ... Clearly consumers still want at least the choice to decide where and how they buy their games."

Both Dammit Jeff and the FULU Foundation put up $10,000 each, and small dollar donations are coming in steadily. The bounty is totalled at $32,572 at the time of writing, while the largest payout Sony has ever made for the disclosure of an exploit was $20,000 to TheFloW's exploit from 4 years ago. There are significant conditions attached to receive the bounty, however.

The disclosed exploit must:

Demonstrably allow for the modification or bypassing of the PS5 hypervisor to the extent that an alternate OS can be booted (Stability of the alternate OS is not required)
Either be a one-off implementation, or an implementation that takes no more than 10 minutes to execute if it needs to be repeated
Work on firmware version 13.42 or newer (The most recent firmware at the time of writing)
Be able to access the PS5's primary computation, memory, and graphics hardware on the alternate OS
Allow the PS5 to continue to be capable of being booted into its original operating system, with the capability to play PS5 games

On top of that, if the modification is a hardware modification, it must also not require hardware that costs a meaningful percentage of the PS5's cost, and be able to be carried out by someone with only basic soldering skills and equipment.

It was reported at the beginning of the month that Sony anticipated the negative backlash toward the decision to cease producing physical games, and while a huge backlash continues to flood their social media pages, the company has remained steadfast in its decision-making. Weaponising crowd funding is just the latest in a long line of schemes to strike back at the company, but this has gotten significantly more traction than any of the previous ones. Links are below if you want to contribute.

Source

Bounty Page

Discord Server

FULU Foundation Website

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Today at 3:27 PM

This is exactly what I knew would happen decades ago

Gamers are lazy, they've become self entitled where they expect everything to be at their fingertips without having to leave their bedrooms.

Thinking buying digital and getting it almost instantly is the way forward.... ignorant to the fact you buying something that you'll never own.

Just like how Sony have removed studio cannal movies from every customer that had bought it..... not rented.

Rather than simply removing its movies from the store, thus no longer being available to buy by new customers.

They've permanently removed it, all because sony refuse to pay the licencing fee.

So this proves that they WILL and CAN do the same when it comes to games, all because they say in their T&Cs that you are forced to agree to in order to purchase.

And whats worse is the gaming industry will seek ways to maximise profits even more, not only by charging more for games, removing physical production costs..... but they'll also stop paying to host games for downloading.

And gaming be turned into cloud based streaming, which will also save money on producing expensive consoles with expensive hardware.

Because you dont need any of this when it comes to streaming, all you need really is good network adapters to get the best speeds possible.

And you can bet like us old generation demanding physical.

This generation that thinks digital is the best... they'll be like us, angry that they're paying more money and now getting absolutely nothing in return.

And that new generation of gamers will be completely brain washed into thinking its brilliant to be paying more and getting nothing.

They'll simply see that they're getting instant access to said game(s), no waiting for it to install off a disc, no having to wait for it to download then install.

Im getting instant access on high end hardware to maximise graphical quality and they'll be loving it.

It'll happen trust me.

Im sticking to what I said decades ago, as soon as gaming forces digital only.... I'll stop buying consoles.

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