In an unlike turn of events, a modder has found a way to get P.T. working on a PlayStation 5.
Lance McDonald, who made his name making Bloodborne run at 60 FPS on PlayStation 4, and was involved in jailbreaking the PlayStation 5, has done it again with one of the most notorious unreleased projects in video game history.
Lance shared these statements on Twitter, alongside a small video functioning as evidence of his accomplishment.
“hahahahhHAHHAHA I got P.T. working on a fully updated, non-jailbroken PlayStation 5! Eat shit, Konami! This console has never been jailbroken, I was able to transfer a hacked PS4 emulator from a different jailbroken PS5 using USB backup to unlock the game on my main PS5!
The gist of it is that you need to own P.T. legitimately on your PSN account and you need to have your PSN account activated on a jailbroken PS5 and on a normal, fully updated PS5.”
Lance also revealed that he would be streaming the game playing on his PlayStation 5, which, depending on when you read this, is coming up in a few hours or it has already happened.
What’s most interesting about this hack is that Lance managed to get the game running on a PlayStation 5. Konami had Sony tag P.T. as unplayable on the console, which turns out to not be the case at all.
The second most interesting thing about this hack is that it’s running on an unhacked PlayStation 5. What’s suggested by all this is that Sony had not yet removed all the workarounds to make P.T. playable on PlayStation 5 consoles. It might even be the case that people can still get it running on their PlayStation 4s if Konami ever deigned to allow it.
For those who don’t remember, P.T. stands for Playable Teaser, and this was a playable teaser for the now cancelled Silent Hills. Hideo Kojima, then vice president of Konami Digital Entertainment, was all set to take over the Silent Hill franchise, until he wasn’t. In a surprising and acrimonious split, Konami fired the famous game developer around October 2015, after 30 years working for the company. In the surprising fallout of this split, Konami also ordered all copies of P.T. be forcibly removed for all the consumers who downloaded it.
Circumstantial or not, Lance revealing this hack was interestingly well timed, as Konami just confirmed they would be revealing one or more upcoming Silent Hill projects. Two weeks ago, French film director Christophe Gans actually leaked this news early, but it was a little hard to believe that it was true, Gans’ reputation aside. That’s because the last Silent Hill games released all the way back in 2012, including the very unpopular Silent Hill HD Collection, PlayStation Vita RPG Silent Hill: Book of Memories, and stereoscopic 3D enabled Silent Hill Downpour, released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Maybe Lance was thinking about the timing of this hack for the Halloween season and the Silent Hill correlation was a complete coincidence. Either way, if P.T. is no longer available to most consumers, Silent Hill will soon be coming back for everyone.
Source: Twitter
