{"id":13251,"date":"2026-01-02T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/prices-for-an-old-star-wars-game-have-ballooned-because-of-its-role-in-a-ps5-jailbreak\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T23:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:58:00","slug":"prices-for-an-old-star-wars-game-have-ballooned-because-of-its-role-in-a-ps5-jailbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/prices-for-an-old-star-wars-game-have-ballooned-because-of-its-role-in-a-ps5-jailbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Prices for an old Star Wars game have ballooned because of its role in a PS5 jailbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The price for a PS4 copy of the relatively obscure Star Wars racing game, <em>Star Wars Racer Revenge<\/em>, has dramatically increased in the last few days because of the game&rsquo;s use in the latest PlayStation 5 jailbreak, <em>Eurogamer<\/em> reports. The PS2 game was originally released in 2002, and was ported to PS4 by Limited Run Games in 2019. Its role as a key ingredient in the jailbreaking process was announced on December 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Interested jailbreakers need <em>Racer Revenge<\/em> to jailbreak PS5 12.00 firmware because of a bug in the game&rsquo;s Hall of Fame feature, according to <em>Eurogamer<\/em>. The bug makes it possible to inject new code into Sony&rsquo;s console, and because the PS5 is able to load and play PS4 discs, <em>Star Wars Racer Revenge <\/em>is an easier method to pull the jailbreak off. Retail releases of games are a common way to execute exploits and hacks because, unlike digital copies, they can&rsquo;t be directly patched.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">While the PS4 version of <em>Star Wars Racer Revenge<\/em> was available for anywhere between $14.99 to $37.50 when it went on sale originally, used copies are currently listed for as high as $411 on eBay. Sellers are naturally trying to capitalize on the game&rsquo;s new position in the jailbreaking meta and raising the price accordingly. Of course, it helps that there&rsquo;s only a small number of copies to go around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">As the company&rsquo;s name suggests, Limited Run Games releases old games in limited quantities as collector items. The company only ever made 8,500 copies of <em>Racer Revenge <\/em>per its own data, so the game is already rare in some sense, and now expensive to boot while there&rsquo;s interest in the PS5 jailbreak.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Prices for an old Star Wars game have ballooned because of its role in a PS5 jailbreak<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price for a PS4 copy of the relatively obscure Star Wars racing game, Star Wars Racer Revenge, has dramatically increased in the last few days because of the game&rsquo;s use in the latest PlayStation 5 jailbreak, Eurogamer reports. The PS2 game was originally released in 2002, and was ported to PS4 by Limited Run&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/prices-for-an-old-star-wars-game-have-ballooned-because-of-its-role-in-a-ps5-jailbreak\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Prices for an old Star Wars game have ballooned because of its role in a PS5 jailbreak&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}