Prices for an old Star Wars game have ballooned because of its role in a PS5 jailbreak

The value for a PS4 copy of the comparatively obscure Star Wars racing recreation, Star Wars Racer Revenge, has dramatically elevated in the previous few days due to the sport’s use within the newest PlayStation 5 jailbreak, Eurogamer reports. The PS2 recreation was initially launched in 2002, and was ported to PS4 by Restricted Run Video games in 2019. Its function as a key ingredient within the jailbreaking course of was announced on December 31.

jailbreakers want Racer Revenge to jailbreak PS5 12.00 firmware due to a bug within the recreation’s Corridor of Fame function, in response to Eurogamer. The bug makes it potential to inject new code into Sony’s console, and since the PS5 is ready to load and play PS4 discs, Star Wars Racer Revenge is a neater methodology to drag the jailbreak off. Retail releases of video games are a typical approach to execute exploits and hacks as a result of, not like digital copies, they’ll’t be straight patched.

Whereas the PS4 model of Star Wars Racer Revenge was accessible for anyplace between $14.99 to $37.50 when it went on sale initially, used copies are at present listed for as excessive as $411 on eBay. Sellers are naturally making an attempt to capitalize on the sport’s new place within the jailbreaking meta and elevating the value accordingly. In fact, it helps that there is solely a small variety of copies to go round.

As the corporate’s identify suggests, Restricted Run Video games releases outdated video games in restricted portions as collector gadgets. The corporate solely ever made 8,500 copies of Racer Revenge per its own data, so the sport is already uncommon in some sense, and now costly in addition whereas there’s curiosity within the PS5 jailbreak.