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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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Is this a real email to them? It would be hilarious if it was. If not, you should send it anyways. Thanks for the hard work guys!
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hhmmm, wololo i thought wth n tech4 were ur buddies, but no matter i guess lol
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What a beautiful, well written letter. Hope Sony appreciates it as much as I did. Great Job, Wololo!
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All your base are belong to us
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Lol
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LOL
its suppose to be funny, right?
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*gives standing ovation*
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Yeah! Down with hackers!!! >_<
They ruin everything by allowing people to do what they want with things they own.
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lolol
o wololo why you make me lulz ?any who heres hoping this one last longer ^___^
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lol..Clever!! enjoyed the read… would love to be a fly on the wall during sony’s meeting when this is brought up!!
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Eh wait… Is this an announce for the game we should buy..? O_o
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pretty much indeed lol
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Yes. Not ridge racer though, that one really sucks. Buy everybodys tennis.
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Oh well! Nice one Wololo! Love the works of all u guys! I just hope this time I’ll have the time to get the game >.< I'm gonna go make my Uk account and buy the game right now
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Oh and by the way, should I stop the internet access on my vita just to be sure?
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Lol how would you download the game then? But yeah, disconnect it afterwards.
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Lawl,yeah that’s what I was thinkin’ to do xD
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So if you do not disconnect our PSV from the internet,
Sony can still remove the installed game in our PSV?
Please correct me.
Thank you. LOL
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ridge racer is possibly the worst game on the vita.
not even sure why it was “delayed” in release over here.
Oh well rayman origins, wipeout, dynasty warriors, shinibido all play well and there are more games I want/will get in the future so -shrugs-
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xD let’s see how long this one will stay
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3/24/2012
7:51PM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Still in store!
Still in store!
Still in store!
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hey wth , is this the game we have to buy for the game or is it just a false letter ? xD
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naturally it is
no fake here
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This made my day! Lol!
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Dear Wololo, This is what people with power and money can do too community loving people like you…
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“An excellent message” ~Chef Excellence
Made my day.
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Lol Thanks
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Omg this is hilarious! I lol’d so hard reading it. Nice work everyone!
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I love how all these evil hacks are all exploits from some of $0ny’s “Big series” Motostorm first and Minna no * I’m just waiting for the next exploit to come from Frobsher says or better yet Welcome Park
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“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.”
Can someone explain the point of this? Seems like there is a hack that would work on the US end without having to buy a UK point card, etc,. Is that true? Little more detail please for us US gamers?
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the US version was exploited, but it’s not available on the us vita store, so….
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or maybe for some reason the US version of this game is being sold on the HK store?
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we are not sure what version of the game is being sold in various countries, so just in case wth prepared the exploit for the US version as well, in case that version is sold somewhere. The game is *not* available on the us store. As an English speaker, the best (as far as I know) for US people is to buy the game from the UK store.
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lol!!!
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Hey guys whats the best place to get (EUR)psn cards from?
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Nice one
….best release ever lool…Congratulations to everyone involved in this project -
THX NOT COOL
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Wow, I call hackers terrorists too! Though I actually call everyone terrorists, that way I can punch anyone I want in the face and be fighting the war on terror.
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I think Sony should sue themselves for not being securely secured. When people crack their own bought product, Sony called them Hackers and sue them. But when Sony couldn’t handle the lost of our credit card, what did they do? Trolling around like having no clue.
Special Olympics of New Youth!
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baha… yeah, they stole my money from motorstorm!!! I WANT TO PLAY MOTORSTORM DAMMIT!!!!!
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LOL wololo you always say it right. good man.
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Finally, there was someone who stood up on behalf of the nice giant corporations that only want to take money from people in exchange for crappy products.
Wololo should be given a medal or some kind of reward, there are very few people who are “courageous” and “smart” enough to stand up and tell the dangerous hackers “no more, this is the company I want to steal my money, this the company I paid for a product I don’t own, this is the company that tells me I have no rights over my legally bought products and that is something I won’t allow to change!
Congratulations Wololo, you are very inspiring in your letter and I felt that I also had to stand up on behalf of this company that sells me crappy games and consoles with crappy sofware!
All of us should follow Wololo’s example, let the evil, greedy companies take our money and give us products we don’t own. -
For some reason, this post sounded sarcastic…O_o?
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It is, indeed.
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Everybodys Tennis is $50 in Australia
Big RipOff from Sony-
Sure is.. luckily i got Motorstorm.
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LOL
It’s so funny.
Thanks for the hard work u and ur buddies have done.We all support u.
I hope u will get a great breakthrough in hacking. -
everybodys tennis is HK$288, quite expensive for a psp game. while vita’s virtua tennis 4 costs HK$244 in the HK store. weird isnt it?
lets see how many hours before sony remove this game in the psn store.
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“back to the 90′s” netfront browser. LOL XD
In this way of releasing the name of the game Sony will get confused because you sounded drunk Hahaha. I bet you only think about releasing it this way last night while your drinking beer?
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LOL WTF ??? Why are you making this post and authorized wth to post how exploit on the forum ???
I m totally new here and I just buy the game for telling you , so I really don’t understand this thread utility … @wth we know you work here for us but I think you need to leave this website and open your own Cheers
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This game still on Playstation Store,
Last checked:3/24/2012 7:00 (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) -
Your such a troll XD
I almost thought you were serious until like midway through the first paragraph. God I would have been screwed if you were being cereal. -
LOL nice. I’m just waiting for a higher “Hack” to play my homebrews. I have to way to get UK psn cards, and it’s a lot of work to restore your vita and such, instead of waiting for a better release of a HBL, ect.
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umm it does sell on us store btw us title name is “Hot Shots Tennis” look it up
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Forget it,its “get a grip” title
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LOL!!!!
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10/10. Excellent post.
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Nice job!
I wish I could spend the money in this game, but it´s too expensive. Are there any plans for an exploit for a demo so we don´t need to pay money for the game? : /-
There aren’t any PSP demo’s on the Vita store.
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considering this game is called hot shots tennis in the US, i noticed it’s actually on the store. I’m assuming it can’t be transferred so I’m not going to waste the money but there is a demo of the game so I’ll try that first to see if it will transfer to my ps vita. prob not but worth a shot. Game is 20 in the US btw.
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superb post! it got me first. thanks for all the devs behind this.
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I like the letter
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It’s nice that you brought this to the attention of Sony but the entire letter was entirely unfunny and extremely childish. You definitely came across as bitter and butthurt. Oh well.
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I didnt find it came across childish. He had to state the obvious facts of what sony does and incorporate it in his speech. Of course it will sound sarcastic… but childish?
The intention is for them to think about what they have done. They may only read one thing after all
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Yeah, I’m not particularly known for having a subtle sense of humor… oh well
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isn’t it the same thing as “Hot Shots Tennis: Get a Grip” which is on the us ps3 store
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Yes. The game however cannot be transfered on the vita from what I’ve been told. You can still give it a try but I’m pretty sure it won’t work.
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Hey Wololo, how many people did we get in the prerelease? I heard Artic Storm got around 6000 before it was prematurely publicized
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Technically, about 7000 people were made aware of the release before it was public. It seems however that despite my many hints, some people didn’t see the message, that had been up for almost a week. Overall, I estimate that somewhere between 1000 and 1500 people were actually aware of the game, out of which I don’t really know how many people actually bought the game… optimistically, I’d say between 50 and 200 people? It’s not worse than what it was for the Motorstorm exploit.
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You know, for the longest time I was curious about how the system worked. Despite how few people were ‘actually aware’, I think the system couldn’t have been better for people actually active. I noticed it immediately (I think).
I bought the game and I was able to relax
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