With Sony's controversial, highly anti-consumer announcement that it would cease production of physical games in 2028, efforts to hack the PS5 have ramped up. Just a few days ago, it was announced SharpEmu was working on a PlayStation 5 emulator, and not long after, Game of the Year winner Astro Bot was seen being booted on the software.
Now, aiming to take things a step further, YouTuber Louis Rossmann is offering a bounty, which currently sits at over $16,000, for anybody who can bypass the PS5's hypervisor, allowing for an alternate operating system to be booted on the console.
Louis Rossmann is a big advocate for consumer rights and digital ownership. His YouTube channel has over 6.5 million subscribers, and he runs the non-profit FULU, an organization that funds "transparent, verifiable work that restores digital ownership and user control."
In a new video on his YouTube channel, Rossmann said:
"We're releasing a bounty program where if somebody comes up with a solution that allows you to modify or bypass the PS5 hypervisor to the extent that an alternative operating system can be booted with a one-off implementation that works on firmware 13.42 42 or newer...
