There hasn’t been any information and even rumors for a PS4 Jailbreak on newest firmwares, and it appears Firmware 9.00 will stay the “golden firmware” of hacks in the intervening time.
Firmware “rollback” is now the place everybody’s been trying, as increasingly more instruments are made obtainable to revert a PS4 to some earlier firmwares. There are important limitations to the approach, which is why persons are reluctant to name it a “downgrade”, however mainly in case you have the fitting soldering abilities, it turns into potential to create a backup of your 9.00 PS4, after which swap backwards and forwards between 9.00 and the newest firmware. The caveat being after all that you want a PS4 on Firmware 9.00 to being with.
Modded Warfare has printed a video the place he iterated on this course of, and built-in a Teensy 2++ inside his PS4, to make the swap between firmwares even simpler. He says altering firmware now takes about quarter-hour.
Revertible PS4 by Modded Warfare
I used to be tempted to name this a “Dual firmware” PS4, however within the present state of Modded Warfare’s experiments, there’s a bit of labor concerned to commute between the 2 firmwares, so it’s not simply the push of a swap but.
The idea is straightforward, and iterates on the firmware revert system that Modded Warfare demonstrated late final yr: create a backup of the required recordsdata and chips (soldering required) in your PS4 9.00, then upon getting that, it’s “pretty” simple to replace to the newest firmware, then revert again to 9.00 by copying the backup recordsdata again to their unique location. The “copying” step requires a Teensy 2++, and is finished via PS4 Syscon Tools.
What this new course of innovates on, is that the Teensy board is now built-in contained in the PS4 console: as soon as that’s achieved, there may be much less soldering required, usually talking much less steps, in order that going backwards and forwards turns into simpler.
Limitations
As we will see within the video, there are limitations to Modded Warfare’s approach, however I’m assuming the approach might be refined additional with the intention to restrict the influence.
First of all, some minor soldering/desoldering seems to be needed on the Teensy board, each time one reverts the firmware. I’m assuming a {hardware} swap can be sufficient to eliminate this requirement.
Secondly, Modded Warfare mentions each time a revert is finished, the information on the onerous drive is technically “misplaced”, as a firmware reinstall is required. In this case, I’m assuming that having two onerous drives (one for every model of the firmware), and doing a swap earlier than rebooting, can be sufficient to keep away from the difficulty. Of course, I’m positive some individuals will think about methods to have two onerous drives plugged in and swap simply.
I can’t wait to see how individuals will take this to the following degree. Maybe we’ll begin seeing some true “twin firmware” PS4s someday quickly?
