New PS5 and PS4 Jailbreak Exploits Spark a 1,000% Price Surge for an Obscure Star Wars Racer Revenge Remaster, With Copies Hitting $300

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Now this is jailbreaking.

Recent developments in the PS5 hacking scene suggest a very happy new year for console jailbreakers—and for anyone who owns a physical copy of the PS4 version of Star Wars Racer Revenge. The 24-year-old racing game has unexpectedly become the centerpiece of a new exploit, sending its resale value skyrocketing on eBay.

While PS5 and PS4 jailbreaks have technically been possible for years, most methods come with major limitations, often requiring consoles to be running outdated firmware. A newer exploit known as mast1c0re, however, works on the much more recent 12.0 firmware series, meaning far more modern consoles can potentially be jailbroken.

There’s a significant drawback, though. mast1c0re relies on the PS4 version of the PS2 game Okage: Shadow King, which is only available digitally. Downloading digital games requires logging into the PlayStation Network, and signing into PSN forces a firmware update—one that would immediately break the exploit. Unless Okage was already installed on a system running firmware 12.0, this method is effectively unusable for most players.

Because mast1c0re takes advantage of Sony’s PS2 emulator, hackers have been searching for a disc-based alternative. A physical PS4 disc would allow installation without connecting to the internet, neatly avoiding forced firmware updates.

That workaround appears to have arrived via Star Wars Racer Revenge. On December 31, PlayStation hacking community member Gezine shared footage showing mast1c0re running through the 2002 Star Wars racer. While this version of the exploit hasn’t yet been publicly released, it represents a potentially far more accessible jailbreak method for both PS4 and PS5 consoles.

There’s another catch, however. The physical PS4 release of Racer Revenge was published by Limited Run Games, meaning it had a very small production run. Estimates suggest fewer than 10,000 copies exist worldwide, and the game is no longer being manufactured.

Before news of the exploit spread, copies of Star Wars Racer Revenge typically sold for around $30. Since then, demand has exploded. Prices have surged by more than 1,000%, with completed listings reaching $300, and some sellers even attempting to charge $400. While buyers haven’t fully embraced those highest prices yet, it’s clear that anyone who picked up the disc years ago is now sitting on an unexpectedly valuable collectible—all based on the promise of an exploit that hasn’t even been released publicly.

This isn’t the only jailbreak-related news for Sony consoles this week. The end of 2025 also saw the leak of PS5 ROM keys, which, according to reports from Tom’s Hardware, could eventually pave the way for even more powerful hardware-level exploits in the future.

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