Kotaku reports that a PlayStation homebrew developer using the handle Zer0Day published an AI-generated reverse-engineered copy of GoldHEN, the closed-source PS4 homebrew enabler maintained by Sistro and a small team over about five years, and defended it in a GitHub README and on X by arguing that ‘code should not be a cage’ and that ‘creativity should never have to ask for permission’. Sistro has said the GoldHEN source stays private because it has been abused before, and contributor Pharaoh2k said the rip-off copies years of unpaid work on a fully copyrighted, actively maintained project. Kotaku ties the dispute to wider turmoil in the PlayStation scene, citing roughly 1,840 GitHub forks of the young PS5 emulators KytyPS5, SharpEmu and AnyPS5, up from about 1,300 three days earlier, as evidence of a wave of vibe-coded projects.
AI developer rips off PS4 homebrew tool GoldHEN, claiming 'freedom of speech'
Kotaku reports that a PlayStation homebrew developer using the handle Zer0Day published an AI-generated reverse-engineered copy of GoldHEN, the closed-source PS4 homebrew enabler maintained by Sistro and a small team over about five years, and defended it in a GitHub README and on X by arguing that 'code should not be a cage' and that 'creativity should never have to ask for permission'. Sistro has said the GoldHEN source stays private because it has been abused before, and contributor Pharaoh2k said the rip-off copies years of unpaid work on a fully copyrighted, actively maintained project. Kotaku ties the dispute to wider turmoil in the PlayStation scene, citing roughly 1,840 GitHub forks of the young PS5 emulators KytyPS5, SharpEmu and AnyPS5, up from about 1,300 three days earlier, as evidence of a wave of vibe-coded projects.
Source: Kotaku