If you’re among the PSJailbreak or PSGroove adopters who have sacrificed your PlayStation Network access (by refusing to update your firmware) to keep your new found console freedom, there’s a neat new hack surfacing that you may be interested in.
A contributing member of PS3Hax has figured out a way to play any PS3 game on a PSP via the console’s remote play function.
A post on PS3Hax forums details how the hack was discovered:
“Last night I backup SF4 (little did i know this has trouble seeing the controllers), ran the FTP program, lifted the SFO out, edited in in SFO editor to allow remote play. Then put the SFO file back, entered remote play and ran the modified game. Instead of showing the fail screen for trying to play a non-remote play game over remote play this time it worked and we got to the same screen when loading the game properly.”
One of the more interesting aspects of this process is that it even allows play of games that aren’t supposed to have remote play functionality. And performance seems to be good too.
An admin at PS3Exploits writes, “At first I thought games that weren’t remote play enabled probably ran really slow and lagged terribly. I was wrong, the first game I tried this on was Killzone 2 and it ran surprisingly well no audio lag, buttons were responsive, and the video was smooth without any hiccups.”
It is mentioned that the process only seems to work with PSP remote play, as tests with pc remote play did not work.
Apparently, Sony’s latest firmware update to block USB hack exploits hasn’t dampened too many spirits in the PS3 hacking community after all.
