[RUMOUR] PS4 backups already on torrent sites!?

[Maxternal]

Just one (slightly off-topic) question: I presume the Wii U discs are physically Blu-Ray, for obvious economic reasons. How hard was ripping those, compared to a conventional BD disc? Was it as easy as with this case?

I heard a BD-ROM drive won't even read them. If they're anything like how Wii/GC disks compared to DVD disks, I think the format of the information within each disk sector would be different.

 

[GHANMI]

Err...this isn't all that much brutal, seeing how they're just BluRay Discs like PS3 games before it.

Wii U discs use their own format (Wii U Optical Disk is what they're officially called IIRC), though they're fairly similar to BluRay (being developed by Panasonic and all). No idea if they've been successfully ripped yet or not (I don't really keep up too much with the Wii U hacking scene"), but a quick search on various sites shows there aren't many reliable rips of any Wii U game out yet.

Didn't really mean the "exploit" itself but rather the fact it's done even before the console is out (officially, that is ).
I'm aware of one single Wii U dump reported here some months ago so yeah, it has been done before.

 

[p1ngpong]

PS3 isos were on torrent sites for years too before there as any means to play them.

 

[Langin]

PS3 isos were on torrent sites for years too before there as any means to play them.

Maybe this situation with be different I will cry if Sony hasn't done it's security right (again).

To be honest, I hope it won't get hacked till it has made a good start. ^w^

 

[tbgtbg]

Being hacked would be a good thing for them. Look at PSX, PS2, Wii, all hacked to shit, all dominated in sales in their respective gens. Sony should just sell the PS4 pre-hacked.

 

[Gahars]

What's the use of a backup if you don't have a PS4 crack up?

 

[raulpica]

Maybe this situation with be different I will cry if Sony hasn't done it's security right (again).

To be honest, I hope it won't get hacked till it has made a good start. ^w^

PS3's security was awful since day one, and Team overfl0w showed it with no problem. It just was that no-one was seriously dedicated to hacking it.

If Sony didn't lawsuit everyone's ass, nowadays you'd see exploits for 3.55+ fws. I'm sure they'll pop up like mushrooms some years after Sony discontinues support for the PS3, thus lessening the risk for an individual to hack it entirely.

Usually much of a system's security is included in custom silicon. I dunno if they've done a custom design based on AMD's CPU or just used an one off the shelf. If they did choose the latter, the PS4 will be hacked in NO time.

...what to do with an hacked PS4, you say? Well, you'll be able to run Windows on it, since it's pretty much a PC (btw, it's just a joke, Windows won't probably run because of general architecture differences)

 

[emigre]

PS4 has no gaems.

 

[GameWinner]

PS4 has no gaems.

I was waiting for this!

 

[mary1517]

Well, that was fast. And a little pointless atm too.

 

[Idaho]

I suspect a trick from SONY to trigger rumors about a hack and sell PS4 to unadvertised "wanna free gaems" pleb...

 

[Maxternal]

PS4 has no gaems.

Tomorrow it will ... well, some

P (btw, it's just a joke, Windows won't probably run because of general architecture differences)

VMWare FTW

 

[GamerzHell9137]

Now we only need a USB stick so we can play gaems on PS4 ;OO; ..... Nope, its gonna take some time.

 

[McHaggis]

...what to do with an hacked PS4, you say? Well, you'll be able to run Windows on it, since it's pretty much a PC (btw, it's just a joke, Windows won't probably run because of general architecture differences)

CPU: AMD 8-core x86-64 processor
GPU: Radeon-based graphics engine

...what architectural differences? I bet Windows drivers are already available for most of the hardware.

 

[raulpica]

CPU: AMD 8-core x86-64 processor
GPU: Radeon-based graphics engine

...what architectural differences? I bet Windows drivers are already available for most of the hardware.

Huh, absent BIOS/UEFI (!!), ACPI support 'n' stuff, maybe?

 

[Idaho]

Huh, absent BIOS/UEFI (!!), ACPI support 'n' stuff, maybe?

Well code your own, don't you know assembler ? lelelelel


(Would still be easier than finding potential flaws on the PS4 system I guess)

 

[Taleweaver]

Aw, c'mon...seriously?

Look...I can understand this is a user submitted news thread. It says "rumour", so you know to take it with a pinch of salt. But front page news? Please...


My bet is someone just ripped a blueray movie, encrypted it a bit, renamed it and uploaded it for lulz. Should we really care? If anything, sony employees are probably laughing their ass off while wannabe pirates are filling up their hard disks with useless garbage.

Also: damn...I had this fun link from before. A fake download site that claimed to let you download literally everything you could enter in the search box (of course it had some impossible way to register before you could actually download things like "the internet", "love", "a real car" or "Battlefield 7"). Unfortunately, it no longer works, or I would have included some "links" to Xbox one games.

 

[drfsupercenter]

I've come across ISO rips of Wii U games, FWIW

They're 25GB (scientific GB, whatever that equates to in 'GiB') in size - at least New Super Mario Bros. U was. Not like I could actually do anything with it, but I downloaded one for kicks to see if anything would open it, and of course it wouldn't.

 

[WiiUBricker]

lol the PS4 won't be hacked anytime soon. Sony would lawsuit you to hell.

 

[Deleted-236924]

Being hacked would be a good thing for them. Look at PSX, PS2, Wii, all hacked to shit, all dominated in sales in their respective gens. Sony should just sell the PS4 pre-hacked.

1- Sell it "pre-hacked"
2- People rush to buy the system
3- A couple days later, Sony: "Hey guys, we noticed an issue that allowed people to play pirated games freely"
4- *Sony "fixes" it*
5- ???
6- Profit!