Sony's PlayStation Portal has been hacked to allow running the PPSSPP emulator, as revealed on Twitter by Andy Nguyen. PPSSPP, as some of you may be aware, is a free and open source PlayStation Portable (PSP) emulator available on most platforms, including iOS, Android, Windows PC, macOS, Linux, Nintendo WiiU and Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series S and X, and more.
As you might recall, PlayStation Portal (previously known as Project Q) is based on Android, which might have made the work of hackers easier. Nguyen, who also credited xyz and Calle Svensson for making it happen, then clarified the hack is not ready to be released publicly in the near future as there's still a lot of work to do.
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Still, this could pave the way for more hacks for Sony's accessory. After all, the PlayStation Vita was a homebrew dream. Of course, the PlayStation Portal is more limited since Sony designed it as a mere remote-play device for PlayStation 5 games. In Wccftech's review, Kai Powell wrote:
The PlayStation Portal isn’t quite the portable successor that players have been asking for from Sony since the decline of the PlayStation Vita. That being said, the PlayStation Portal does one job and does it exceedingly well. It might not reinvent the remote play experience, but for those relying on controller clips to mount a phone to the top of a DualSense controller or third-party controllers that use a mobile device as the display, an official Sony product just makes sense for a unified solution. It might not replace those Backbone controllers and other devices that players might have in their home, but the PlayStation Portal might wind up being the controller that players start reaching for first.
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