Sony’s PlayStation Portal handheld is designed to stream games from your PS5, but that hasn’t stopped Google engineers from hacking the device to run emulated PSP games. Google security engineer Calle Svensson and cloud vulnerability researcher Andy Nguyen showed off some of their work on X/Twitter, revealing a PlayStation Portal running the PSP version of Grand Theft Auto 3 through the PPSSPP emulator.

Nguyn added in a second tweet that the hack is entirely software-based, allowing the engineers to exploit vulnerabilities in the handheld without needing to change its hardware. Don’t expect this hack to go public, as Nguyen said there are currently no plans to release it.

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