Dear Sony, it has come to my attention that one of the PSP games available on the playstation Vita has a vulnerability that could lead to the execution of external code by some malicious users. Therefore I am writing this blog post so that you can patch the game or remove it from the PSN store as soon as possible. Preferably, I suggest you take the money from your clients first, and prevent them from downloading the game afterwards, just like you did with Motorstorm Arctic Edge, 3 weeks ago. This way it will be a win-win situation for you, and you can always blame it on the hackers later on.
As a matter of fact, I have discovered that some “hackers” (I prefer to call them terrorists) have already prepared a tool wich, using this vulnerability, could allow people to run software that would be extremely dangerous for your business, such as 20 year-old 8 bit games and 154 different versions of pong.
I think this puts your business at risk, and I’ve tried to stop those vilains by all means necessary, but sadly it seems they are not breaking any law. Hopefully, giving you the name of the game will help you to take some efficient action. Those people are clearly wrong in their mind to try to play crappy open source software, when they could enjoy a great game such as Ridge Racer for less than 10$ a track, (which is clearly not a ripoff compared to the price one would have to pay in the real world to drive cars that completely defy the laws of physics. Although on that subject I woud like if you could help me, as my version of the game seems to be blocked in “demo mode” for some reason. All the 5 cars have exactly the same specs, so surely there’s something I’ve done wrong somewhere.)
I digress. The name of the game is Everybody’s Tennis. It is also known as Minna no tennis in Japan. Thankfully the game is not available on the US Vita store, so this should limit the problems on your end. I heard however that these hackers have prepared a US version of the hack just in case that version is being sold somewhere such as the HK store. I also heard people can buy the UK version from the US if they buy some PSN cards from resellers on ebay and other sites. If I may give some advice, I think this is not secure enough. True, you did a good job in preventing people from buying games outside of the country they live in (and being a French living in Japan, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the fact that I can’t buy any game on the French PSN, this is exactly how globalization should work, and it helps me sparing lots of money by not buying any game), but I think in order to avoid future hacks, you should simply prevent everyone from buying games on the PSN, which will guarantee you a complete control of the market.

The hackers also announced they would release their hack a few hours or days after they announce the name of the game being used. They claim this only allows people to run “homebrew” games and that in no way it allows people to play pirated PSP or vita games, but I think this is not an excuse to hack.
I realize it is saturday evening for your teams in Europe, and Sunday morning in Japan. I hope you will not have to wake some people in the middle of the night just to take action, I would have chosen a better time, but I myself have very little time to blog outside of weekends.
Hoping that working together we will be able to stop hackers. I seem to be one of the few people on Earth who understand that the real enemies of the Vita are not your poor marketing techniques, the terrible software such as the “back to the 90′s” netfront browser, the bad launch lineup, the delays on the playstation suite, the recent downgrade from 5 to 2 allowed copies of any given psn game, and the increasing competition of smartphones that all have better CPUs than the Vita. No, the real enemies are those people playing Lamecraft, who are clearly killing the videogame market, so let’s destroy them together.
Please pay extra attention to the dev known as wth, who apparently is behind this whole thing, as well as Teck4 who apparently helped him for the Japanese version of the hack. I also heard that somes guys named mamosuke and msparky83 were involved in the testing. It would be good if you have a way to maybe track these guys’ phones or something. Or maybe you can simply sue them, I heard it’s something you do very well.
Yours truly, W. Ololo
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Watch how fast this comment gets deleted…..
Sure, homebrew games are great. But it has been proven time and time again, homebrew invites piracy. There has never been a case in video game console history where these two did not go hand in hand. As everything becomes simpler and electronic, the temptation has never been greater to just click away. One game load and soft mod later, each gamer is left with a choice. Either click “download” or go to the store and spend $45 on the same game.
I think the PSP Go was a hard-learned lesson for us all. Either let the third party devs create games and charge a price for them. Or figure out a way to hack into my $320 system just so I can play that 152nd version of Pong. Once a system security is brought down, 3rd party devs turn a blind eye to the console altogether. Again, I use the PSP Go as an example. So now, thanks to “Homebrew Developers” (I won’t call them hackers, they are purely INNOCENT!! lol!), I cannot play the latest and greatest games that PROFESSIONALS create. I have to settle for 152 versions of Pong and 4 versions of Sonic the Hedgehog that came out in 1993. I don’t get to enjoy Metal Gear Solid Part 7, because the third parties cannot pay their professional developers. The purpose of a business is turn a profit. If the business cannot FORECAST turning a profit, it will find means of profit elsewhere. Which means that ALL of us are stuck with 152 different versions of Pong that was created in Johnny DoGood’s homebrew basement, rather than games that are for today’s handheld standard.
The system security was never meant to be a challenge to extremely overbored programmers and devs. It was meant to keep an honest person honest. Y’all are not proving anything to anyone. If the “homebrew devs” wanna prove something to someone, here’s the “Great Challenge.” Develop homebrew software that ONE HUNDRED PERCENT ELIMINATES piracy within your homebrew app, while at the same time, letting others enjoy your 152 versions of Pong, because maybe some people are just stuck in 1973 and think that Pong is still the greatest thing around! I’m not stuck in 1973. Im typically stuck in the current day, month, and year. I was done with Pong 30 years ago. I want to play a title created by a professional team of developers. That is what my system was meant for. To turn a profit for 3rd party developers as well as Sony. It was not meant for 152 versions of Pong. If it had been, it would’ve been developed and sold. We can all read legal jargon, hocus pocus bullcrap; having a decent vocabulary is nothing exciting. Sure there are loopholes in the legalese. But….. we all know what’s right. We all know what the system was meant for. Picking locks has been around for many centuries. Your not proving anything to anyone. If somebody created it, somebody can recreate and/or access it. Locksmithing 101′s boys and gals.
So……. before you load up your version of C# or C++ or whatever your using to program… have a little bit of ethics… I would like to be the first to CONGRATULATE YOU!!! YES!! AWESOME!!! YOU CAN DO IT!!!! YOU HAVE PROVEN YOUR SKILL AND GET BRAGGING RIGHTS!!!
but…..
NO!!! I don’t want you to do it!! because it scares off 3rd party devs…. and makes my $320 Vita nothing more than an Atari 2600 released in the year 2012!!
So I guess the long and short of it…. don’t even TRY to claim innocence!! When you give pirate’s a ship, 20 cannons, 40 crewmembers, AND tell them where the unarmed ship full of gold is…. your just as guilty as the pirates!!
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This is a cool piece of ‘positive’ vibe regarding the ludicrous situation that is become now with many ‘global’ brands, that do everything in their ways to make ‘petty’ local people.
If I could still, I would downgrade my PS3, just to be able to use the media player I saw some time back. However, I feel that might not be an option anymore. Then again, I’ll check again.
Open Source is open as a source, not as a means. It means that you can read what every line of code does (if you are able to read it) and be sure it is FAIR. You can adjust it to your likings, or ‘flavor’.
Sure the device you bought is created by a big company, but so are hammers and bikes and cars (never pimped your car or bike? Yes you did, AND A CAR IS FREAKING 1000 times more expensive. Do you think a car manufacturer worries about how you use the car on the road? If you drive 220, will it reflect on the manufacturer or de driver?).
Nuff said, hacking came from the original anarchy mindset. Which in base just meant that you take ownership AND RESPONSIBILITY for your actions and being, instead of putting it in the hand of powers that be. It didn’t mean ‘Be an ass and do whatever you want’.
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Where’s the like button?
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nothing much constructive here, but I LAUGHED MY A** OFF!! sarcasm is my favorite kind of humor.
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your an Asshole and you know it
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Marks a flamer >_>
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Sarcasm is a faggots punch, real men don’t use words they break jaws >8)
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Just finished reading all this lol. And you say hacking ruined the psp if i remember correct they made a fortune and it was that successful they released vita (psp2) in some peoples eyes so as i say hacking it never really affected it too great tye ps1 was a massive hit mare billions and you could play pirates with just swaping disjs or a xploder cartridge that was a third party cheating cart. Aw and the ps2 got hacked and theres another console made billions and the devs that made games and finally ps3 hacked and boom another console still making loads of cash and no one is goin stop making games so my point being is hack on and hopfuly pirate games come to vita too cause im sure it aint goin to ruin it.
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Excuse me while I explain some common views that I share.
I bought my vita for more than $200. I own it. I do. Not Sony. I should be able to do what I want with it, even exploit the PS Vita that I bought. That being said, I shouldn’t be able to exploit Sony, because I don’t own Sony. I know it sounds stupid but in my mind that’s how it works. When you own something, you should be able to do what you want with it.
I also have a love/hate relationship with Sony. Their products are great, probably the best on the market. But the fact is, Sony strangles their products so much that, for example, I can’t enjoy games that I bought from them and payed money for. The vita has endless capabilities but Sony’s fear and misattribution is limiting it to playing a handful of terrible games (or should I say expensive samplers) and checking your facebook.
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I live in Australia.
Our dollar has been 1:1 with the US for aprox 5 years.
I have serious issues with being ripped off, and treated like an idiot, which is exactly what sony and other games selling corporations are doing to us.
Would you pay $110 for any new release playstation game? (NOT collectors edition, NORMAL edition)
Would you be ok with waiting up to 6 months for a game thats allready out in the US to become avaliable in Australia? (i can understand the wait from JP/EU to US, but when the games in english, and the country thats waiting is also english speaking, whats the excuse?)
It all revolves around controll, and greed.
The direction gaming is heading is you’ll buy the opening level for a game, still for full price, then be expected to pay $20 for each chapter of the game, then $50 for the ending.
This is happening because corporations are trying to turn the computer game industry to the fashion industry. Pump out as much crap, for the cheapest ammount possible, and change what’s considerd “in” every week so people go out and spend more money, on more useless shit.
We the consumers are allowing it.
This bullshit about “well if you dont like it then dont buy it” is a stupid analogy of the situation. We’re allready being punished purely for being walking wads of cash in the eyes of corporations, why punish ourselves further by denying us the experience of a game?
ITs going to come down to – the entire direction of games, and consoles needs to change, radically, or you’ll be paying top dollar to use a device capable of everything your home PC is capable of, but it wil be locked down to perform only 1 or two tasks, in the name of corpoate greed.
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I support all 3 gaming companies for the games that they make and I don’t use piracy. Their demise is a result of their lack of innovative software and their adamant belief that gamers should take what they’re given and shut up. I have several psone games that I would love to transfer to my vita and are all legitimate purchases. If HBL allows this before Sony, I’ll use HBL. I do understand exclusive content though, I mean MS owns Bungie, Nintendo owns retro studios and sony owns naughty dog, so it makes sense that they will be developing games for their owners. That is the only reason I own all 3 systems. Wiis whole STFU and take what we give is the reason when the wii U comes out, this fish is not biting. I believe now they allows you to transfer your purchases to another Wii, but I mainly used it when it just came out, before xbox and ps3 came out, so all that content is gone after my white one crapped out on me and I got the black one to go with my av receiver. I contacted nintendo and all my purchased stuff, ie tracks for band hero, guitar hero, etc. was not allowed to transfer. I know some people have fought hard and they allowed it, but the number that have succeeded is too small for me to care. When the time comes, I’ll give sony and ms my money and show that gamers support the companies that support gamers. I still have my white xbox, original with some customization, like 6 inch exhaust grill and fan for cooling, which luckily got the red ring before the 3 years and they fixed it. I play the 360 more because I have so many series games on that, that I did not want to lose transfer data on, Mass effect 3 comes to mind, but I play the ps3 for my old school stuff and battlefield 3. They know what gamers want but in attempt to try to keep the gamers to themselves they push them away at times. I still want to play FF7 on my vita as the remote play lags most of the time and my job’s internet runs off a proxy that requires login so I can’t use wifi for faster connection there. Again they want to limit exposure but in return push gamers away. To avoid security issues they do not allow a vpn/remote access to the ps3 directly, it has to be done through psn. Until then I got the vita and I love it, catching up on my psp games that I missed, dissidia for example, and I am patiently waiting until the next HBL release and hoping that either sony or the hacking team get a way for me to get my ff7 on my ps3 onto my vita.
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Incase nintendo dsi had intended us to fly hed have provided us with wings lmao :
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