PlayStation Classic Hacking: You can now load any PS1 game you please through a USB

December 12th, 2018, 17:20 Posted By: wraggster

UPDATE: Gpghax’s author, Maku, asked me to add some important information. Firstly, gpghax is not meant as the go-to solution for adding PS1 games to your PlayStation Classic and you should use BleemSync instead. Secondly, he (Maku) is the author while the three mentioned below were people who helped him, this wasn’t made clear in the README. Thirldy, this mod doesn’t work on non-EU PlayStation Classic models and again, this wasn’t included in the README when this article was written. Maku would like to remind you that this method has potential to make your PlayStation Classic useless so use with caution.

It seems that Sony made virtually no attempt to secure the PlayStation Classic which led to it being hacked mere days after its release. Now, regular end-users can use these hacks to load any PlayStation 1 game they want with gpghax.
Why load other PS1 games on a PlayStation Classic?

As people have already cracked it open, we know that the PlayStation Classic is just a somewhat cheap ARM mini PC running an open-source emulator and a dodgy UI that doesn’t even incorporate all of the emulator’s features.
Unfortunately, the game selection on the PlayStation Classic isn’t great so without a doubt, people wanted to play other games on this mini-console. Now, this is possible thanks to gpghax which lets you run any PS1 game you want off a USB pen drive!

What is gpghax? How does it work?

gpghax is a software solution that modifies the PlayStation Classic’s game database to allow you to swap out games with other ones. The folks behind it are madmonkey (who found the intial entry point for the payload launcher), DanTheMan827 and skogaby and they’re still actively updating the hack with new features (like auto-backing up the database file on the PlayStation Classic when the hack is run).
Yifan Lu, a prominent PSVita hacker that took considerable interest in hacking the PlayStation Classic,

As of right now, it has the following noticeable issues:

• You have to mess about with a database (SQLite) editor to add custom games which may be a bit difficult
  
  • That being said, you can use SCUS-94426’s folder (21) to inject a single custom game without modifying the database.
  
  
• There’s a bug in which your console would refuse to boot if you add a game, navigate to it in the main menu, shut down the console, remove the added game and then boot the console up.
  
  • This happens because it would be trying to load up a database entry that doesn’t exist

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