Costs for an outdated Star Wars recreation have ballooned due to its function in a PS5 jailbreak

The worth 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 characteristic, based on 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 better technique to drag the jailbreak off. Retail releases of video games are a standard strategy to execute exploits and hacks as a result of, in contrast to digital copies, they’ll’t be immediately 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 the moment listed for as excessive as $411 on eBay. Sellers are naturally attempting to capitalize on the sport’s new place within the jailbreaking meta and elevating the worth accordingly. In fact, it helps that there is solely a small variety of copies to go round.

As the corporate’s title suggests, Restricted Run Video games releases outdated video games in restricted portions as collector objects. 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.