The hack is very useful on the PS5 and also PS4's that have not been Jailbroken as you can run Ps2 homebrew through the PS2 Emulator, giving you the ability to run some homebrew and in this case Retro Emulation. InFamous Second Son + Killzone Shadow Fall + Knack BundleĪdditionally, people are reporting that consoles bundled with The Last of us usually ship with firmware 1.76 or 2.03.Update v1.1 - Add support / instructions for 4 additional libretro core's: Handy (Atari Lynx) / Atari800 (Atari) / Mednafen_Wswam (Wonderswam) / Prboom (Doom + mods)Īs the Mast1c0re hack matures, we are seeing some PS2 homebrew appear for the Hack that is progressing on both the PlayStation 5 (PS5) (6.50 firmware) and also the PlayStation 4 (PS4) (10.01+ firmware), the Mast1c0re hack is an exploit within ps2 emulation on both the PS4 and PS5 that has remained unpatched at the time of writing. On eBay, you can look for PS4 Launch Systems in the Game consoles category. The listings below are old bundles shipping with the old PS4 hardware, which are guaranteed to have firmware <= 1.76, if you buy them new. The best way to get yourself a PS4 with low firmware is to buy one of the old bundles, and get it new. If the PS4 isn't on the firmware you want return it.īuying a PS4 new, with guaranteed low firmware:

Any bundle released before August 20th, 2014 will have a firmware on or below 1.76. If you do happen to buy a 'used' console I HIGHLY recommend you message the seller and ask what firmware the console is on. To make sure you have the right firmware version make sure the console has never been open this way you have a 100% chance of it being on 1.76 or lower. I've seen this on NextGenUpdate for awhile and decided to bring it here so all of you know how to get a console of version 1.76 so you can start modding.ĪLL credit goes to xJustJesse ( creator of thread on NextGenUpdate )

Ps4 1.76 update