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Poor Sony. The original PSPs have been a favorite of pirates and hackers for a while. They’d create custom firmware and then go nuts with homebrew, emulation and piracy. Sony probably thought going download-only with the PSPgo would keep that from happening. Sorry to say, that isn’t the case.

A hacker going by the moniker FreePlay has found an exploit in an unknown game downloadable from the PlayStation Store. That’s right, a hacker has found a way to start to crack the PSPgo using one of Sony’s own PSN games. FreePlay hasn’t been able to do much other than get into user-mode and tinker around. So, at the moment, no custom firmware. But, as FreePlay states in his video, it does provide hope that the PSPgo can be cracked and could eventually run custom firmware.

Let’s watch FreePlay’s video showing the initial attempts at hacking the PSPgo:

FreePlay has a series of videos on his YouTube channel, showing this universal PSP hack in action on both the PSPgo and a standard PSP.

FreePlay has stated that he is not going to reveal the game which could act as a gateway for hackers, for fear of Sony altering said game so it couldn’t be exploited. As long as Sony doesn’t know what game he’s using, it can’t remove or patch the game.

After seeing this news, it probably won’t be long before we see a PSPgo running custom firmware. I’m going to guess hackers will accomplish that task by Christmas.

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