PlayStation Classic因简单的基于USB的游戏ROM而被黑客入侵
Sony’s PlayStation Classic mini-console has only twenty games pre-loaded, and there’s no built-in mechanism for adding more. But the system also uses a popular open-source PlayStation emulator to run its ROMs, so an unofficial expansion was more or less inevitable.
索尼的PlayStation Classic迷你控制台仅预装了20款游戏，并且没有内置机制可以添加更多游戏。 但是该系统还使用流行的开源PlayStation仿真器来运行其ROM，因此非正式的扩展或多或少是不可避免的。
Only a week after the gadget’s official release, modders have cracked the rather basic software wide open, enabling it to boot PS1 ROMs off of a USB drive plugged into one of the controller ports. In fact, “cracked” might not be the right word, since the PlayStation Classic is remarkably insecure and doesn’t seem to do any verification of software running on an external drive. A GitHub developer has already made a tool that allows users to load up PlayStation ROMs on a USB drive with the correct file structure, inserting them into the console’s own game browser.
小工具正式发布仅一周后，修改器便**了相当基本的软件，使其能够从插入控制器端口之一的USB驱动器启动PS1 ROM。 实际上，“**”可能不是正确的词，因为PlayStation Classic非常不安全，并且似乎不对外部驱动器上运行的软件进行任何验证。 GitHub开发人员已经开发了一种工具，该工具允许用户使用正确的文件结构在USB驱动器上加载PlayStation ROM，并将其插入控制台自己的游戏浏览器中。
The process is a little finicky, but it’s essentially just running a single PC application and checking to see that files are stored and labeled correctly. At the moment permanent modification of the console’s built-in storage isn’t quite so easy, but that might not be practical anyway. PlayStation ROMs are much larger than those of the NES and SNES, whose mini editions were also quickly hacked and expanded.
这个过程有点棘手，但实际上，它只是运行一个PC应用程序并检查文件是否已正确存储和标记。 目前，对控制台的内置存储进行永久性修改还不是那么容易，但是这可能并不实际。 PlayStation ROM比NES和SNES的ROM大得多，后者的迷你版也很快遭到黑客入侵和扩展。
But for all those players saddened by the exclusion of that one PlayStation title they loved, there’s now a documented process for getting said game on the Classic. More extensive ROM support for other consoles might come later since the PlayStation Classic definitely has enough power to handle 8- and 16-bit emulators. Gamers hoping to build a dedicated emulation box might be better served by something like a Raspberry Pi or an NVIDIA SHIELD.
但是，对于所有因自己喜欢的PlayStation主机名被排除而感到悲伤的玩家，现在有一个记录在案的程序，可以在Classic上发布这款游戏。 由于PlayStation Classic确实具有处理8位和16位仿真器的强大功能，因此稍后可能会为其他控制台提供更广泛的ROM支持。 希望构建专用仿真盒的游戏玩家可以通过Raspberry Pi或NVIDIA SHIELD等更好的服务。
来源：通过The Verge的GitHub
翻译自: https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/the-playstation-classic-gets-hacked-for-easy-usb-based-game-roms/