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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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Everybody golf shows as £29.99, is this the right one?
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No, not golf, Tennis
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Ahhh, lol my bad. thank you
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I lol’d at “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”
يلعن ديبك يا وولولو
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Wololo you need to get some sleep, my friend.. I’m worried about you..
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I don’t know why he’s so invested in this Vita hacking thing. Aren’t there countless machines out there that can run homebrew better and with far less hustle than the Vita? And consider the fact that he spent the whole of last year claiming he would never buy another Sony product again, only to end up buying a Vita and subjecting himself to Sony’s intrusive DRM again! It’s like their parting their butt-cheeks and begging Sony to screw them just so can whine about it. Sometimes I think some of these hackers are just some crazy masochists.
Wololo, save yourself the stress and work on getting Wagic on as many platforms as possible. Forget about Sony.
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the big screen, physical controls and style of the console is what draws attention.
I mean tablets would likely work but then again the people who own android tablets are fewer than vitas…
PC is relatively pointless due to software that already exists (not totally but relatively to the vita) and phones are too small for it to work well in a touch only environment… Hell I have a Galaxy s2 which has a rather largish screen for a phone at 4.3inches but adding my fingers to the mix on a screen that large is still uncomfortable in games.
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just bought the game seems to be still up here in the european or german PSN store…
Thanks for your hard work wololo, can´t wait to get some homebrew running -
Wololo.. you are a genius mate… and I’m with you 100%
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Just bought the game and can’t wait for the HBL files!
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when can we play isogames for free?
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still up in uk store as of 1.45 pm
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Dear wololo, u dont worry that your website will be attacked?
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Hilarious !! Chapeau !!
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well written
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J’aime beaucoup ta démarche !
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Hi i live in the us and i thank sony now’s the game that can us HBL how the hell dos 2 game that can us hbl not work off us market and work on uk and jp PS i get hot shot tennis get a grip its the same game as Everybody’s Tennis what the hell
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what!?
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LMAO
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It’s true
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Is this still working? Anyone know a place to buy a JPN PSN card and have the code immediately?
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9:41am in the us… 7 minutes left downloading the game! thanks!
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EPIC RELEASE. Good for me good old PSP is and will be my last Sony console.
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WOLOLO: Excellent work!
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this would cost more than a vita game in the usa to play vhbl, no thanks.
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Awesome post mate! As well as awesome work
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If you got artic edge you dont need to get everybody’s tennis right ?
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right, they should have more or less the same compatibility (although to be honest wth did lots of work and I think the tennis exploit has better compatibility, but nothing that cannot be fixed on the motorstorm version)
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Thx for the info mate.
Saves me spending another couple of Euro’s -
I also havent turned the Vita on since i got Artic Edge lol ….
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Will read again, 20 outta 10 right there…lol
That was just brilliant
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yeah sony attacking it’s TRUE fan base is pissing me off too. the fact that we want to play homemade software or old roms has nothing to with piracy and even if I could pirate games I wouldn’t ireally just want a HEN/VHL so that I can play old pc games and roms…
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i’ve already bought a bunch of vita and psp games anyway…
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Unless you own those old PC games and ROMS, it has everything to do with piracy.
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Yes but at the same time it is literally a victimless crime aslong as there is no way for that game to be bought legally.
Call me a filthy pirate or say that I am justifying it but really I don’t care, if something has no way of being bought, will never have a way of being bought again… I see absolutely no harm in pirating it… For instance I will download an out of print book rather than sit there without it.
Oh and anyone who mentions buying the book or games secondhand is just stubbornly stupid and hasn’t quite realised that that does nothing except line the second hand dealers pockets.
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Eh, Wololo, le jeu “Hot Shots Tennis” semble être la version US de Everybody’s Tennis/Minna no Tennis non?
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Oui. Mais ce jeu n’est pas disponible pour la vita.
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Ah d’accord au temps pour moi alors!
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I wish to inform you that there must be some evil homebrew developer has used a exploit on your website to upload exploit using software …
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It seems like Wololo got inspired by Mahatma Gandhi’s and Martin Luther King Jr.’s way of Non-violent Resistance
Wololo forever!
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Help!!! I keep getting (The connection to the server has been terminated NP-2244-2) Trying to buy everybody’s Tennis from UK store. Anyone know how to fix?
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Dave I just purchased the game 5 min ago. 10 min download left
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You can’t use a non UK credit card in the UK store. You HAVE to buy a PSN card or code and use it. Thats why I missed out on Motorstorm last time around.
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Pingback from Anonymous on March 25, 2012 at 6:55 pm
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I bought at morning gw+1 and that was right
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Please , Im Still needing to know if its worth updating from 1.06 to access the ps store ?
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Yes. It’s fine. Theres been no major discoveries on 1.06 so theres no need to BE there.
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Just downloaded the game with no issues. Bought the uk card (I’m in los Angeles) formatted the psvita, created a uk account.. Smooth sailing.. Thanks to everyone for this awesome work!
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Hey wololo would you compare the vitas security to be as tight as the ps3s? Or a little less?
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realease of the savedata exploit ?
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can i just buy the physical copy of the game if ever i can no longer Download the game at the psn store?
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Is it removed i can’t seem to find it.
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can some one upload the game to the net?, can we do that…because i dont have the capability to ddownload the game…so im just wondering if you guys( who already downloaded it) can upload to the internet
pls guys…reply
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@Clarkalel:
The game is still up in the european PSN store, try to search “everybody” and youll find it. -
ok i got it had to log in to psn. Also after i am done is there a way to switch my psn network back to US and keep the game working and Playable ?. Thanks guys.
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No
sorry it is tied to the account and region as i can tell on my vita
Like all games?
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can some one upload the game to the net?, can we do that…because i dont have the capability to ddownload the game…so im just wondering if you guys( who already downloaded it) can upload to the internet
pls guys…reply
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no
the game is download only do you own vita? You have to own the game
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so where we could download the pkg file then????
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are you a filipino?
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the problem is, i will have my ps vita on 19th of april…. thats why i cant download it and i dont know anybody that has a ps vita…well ps vita is not yet that common here in the philippines… pls help me
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I think Wololo missed a point in his message.
I know you accept a good non agressive criticism,
so well, the thing is, sony wants to prevent this
kind of things, not for the emulators or homebrews,
we all know that it owuldn’t stop here, because maybe not
you, or not 90% of other devs, but one will eventually
create an iso loader, a way to piracy the psp games…
So well, because of piracy we all suffer…
It’s like Nokia, with N900, ( I had mine, and I know
the story ), one of their show off of the device
was with an emulator, the Drnoksnes, how many emulators
does this device has? Many, I participated on the port
of one of them myself, but we know it doesn’t stop
here when we talk about gaming devices! People always
want more, and they exagerate… -
Allllllrrriiiigghhhhttttt i bought the game
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I disagree. Sony wants to stop it because they can’t get a cut of the homebrew market. Piracy is a side effect, but they don’t care where the games come from as long as they get their cut. If they don’t get their cut, they’ll do whatever they can to stop it.
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Just downloaded the game and damn… I thought I’m buying 25 pounds worth shit, but this game is quite good even. I’m really enjoying it, plus all the homebrew. Good buy
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I already knew what the game was via /talk forums. So I had it downloaded already. I don’t know what time he announced the game, but here I am at 4PM CST and its still up. I downloaded it on my Vita on Friday and backed up my Vita right after with my Vita in Flight mode and used OpenCMA. So I have it, and I’m also downloading it on my MediaGo to use it on my CFW Go because its only fair that I bought it and I should be able to play it on my Go. (Mismatched US/UK profiles unfortunately).
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Ok so i got the game now what do i do????
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? Are you freaking kidding me? *****slap****
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lol now u cant play it trolllie haha we need 2 w8 so they could release the filess or show us how 2 do it
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When is VHBL using everybody’s tennis exhibited?
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