Star Wars Racer Revenge Price Skyrockets Thanks To New PS5 Jailbreak Method

You've probably never heard of Star Wars: Racer Revenge, the beloved 2002 sequel to Star Wars Episode I: Racer. The good people of the early 2000s couldn't get enough of all things pod racing, and Racer Revenge was a product of that popularity.

24 years later, pod racing isn't the cultural powerhouse it once was and yet, Star Wars: Racer Revenge has returned. It turns out, the physical version of the PlayStation 4 release of Racer Revenge is integral to a new PlayStation 5 jailbreaking method. Essentially, executing code from Racer Revenge's disc allows users to access pirated content on the console (nice spot, IGN).

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One of the developers of the upcoming jailbreak, Gezine, confirmed the necessity of Racer Revenge in a post on X. In the video, we see Gezine entering Racer Revenge's Hall of Fame, which causes a debug menu to appear.

This discovery has caused the price of Racer Revenge to increase threefold over the last couple of days. On the re-selling website eBay, the price of Racer Revenge has gradually increased in the days since the method's discovery. Currently, prices are over $300 with no signs of the price dropping anytime soon.

Worse yet, the PlayStation 4 version of Racer Revenge never had a widespread release. The physical version was published by Limited Run Games, and the retail site Resell Calendar estimates that only a maximum of 8,500 copies are currently in circulation.

This means that any aspiring pirate or hacking hobbyist who wants to perform this jailbreak method needs to acquire a physical copy of a scarce game in a market where prices are rapidly increasing.

As for pod racing enthusiasts, they'll be ecstatic that pod racing is coming back in a big way with Star Wars: Galactic Racer. Announced at The Game Awards, Galactic Racer is the debut project of Fuse Games and will be published by Secret Mode. Galactic Racer will have both a multiplayer mode and a story-driven single-player campaign, and is set for release at some point in 2026.

Between the revival of a dormant genre and the bizarre emergence of a decades-old bug, will 2026 be a renaissance year for pod racing?