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Sony sells Tomb Raider Legend on the PS5 for $30. It's a PS2 game from 2006. Millions of people still own the disc, which goes for about five bucks used, and until modders stepped in this week, the PS5 flat out refused to read it. Nothing technical was ever stopping this. The PS5's disc drive has always been physically capable of reading a PS2 DVD, and Sony already ships its own PS2 emulator on the console, the same one running that $30 Tomb Raider. Hobbyists got PS2 games running on regular…
Pirat_Nation@Pirat_Nation1d ago
This is crazy, a jailbroken PS5 can now play original PS2 game discs directly, without needing to copy the games to digital files first. Modders have found a way to use the PS5’s disc drive to read original PS2 DVDs and run the games through an emulator. But they’re not stopping there. Modders are also working on getting original PS3 discs to work on the PS5 So Sony could have made this possible years ago, but they never did, they preferred to keep charging users for useless remakes.