Motorstorm and Everybody’s Tennis are back on the PSN
It is rare for me to mention when Sony does something right, so let me do this today.
Many gamers have happily discovered that the 2 psp games Motorstorm Arctic Edge and Everybody’s Tennis, are finally back on the PSN store, and, hopefully for those who had previously bought these games, in their download lists.
Motorstorm and Everybody’s Tennis had been respectively used by hackers Teck4 and wth(a.k.a. Yosh) to run unsigned code (homebrews) on the PS Vita, which led to the release of VHBL, a piracy-free homebrew loader for Sony’s new handheld. Sony quickly removed the games from their online store, and patched, in Vita’s firmware 1.65, the exploits used in these games. And we were left wondering how long it would take before the games are made available again on the store.
Lots of people, unaware of the technical ins and outs of these hacks, were also afraid that these games would never come back on the store. Others shared their anger against hackers (and against me for publicly disclosing both vulnerabilities), as they had paid Sony for a game they couldn’t play anymore.
Thankfully, Sony doesn’t always get everything wrong, and in this case they did the right thing: pull the games temporarily to prevent the hack from spreading, patch the firmware, then put the games back. Except for their lack of communication on the matter, I believe, in hindsight, that it was the best way they could handle the situation.
It goes without saying that if you are on firmware 1.65 or above, VHBL for Motorstorm or Everybody’s Tennis will not work anymore, so do not buy these games if you expect them to lead you to homebrew, the hacks have been patched. That being said, these are both very good games 🙂
We also have ongoing plans to release a new version of VHBL, which will be compatible with firmware 1.67. As for the two previous versions, it uses a vulnerability in a psp game.
So are you saying if your still under 1.65 the game itself hasn’t been patched and we could still d/l the game and install VHBL?
Whether it’s patched or not doesn’t matter. You can’t gain access to the PS Store through a proxy so there’s no way to get the game on the Vita without updating, unless you have a 2nd Vita. Heck Sony probably took extra measures and made it so that you can only have one Vita registered on your account.
use ps3 and have more accounts forign and not get access to grvity daze with forign
I’m pretty sure the PS3 will check to make sure the Vita is up-to-date or something. Otherwise, why would they have this feature only on PC with the CMA? Sony is a big company, and big companies make sure there is no loop hole.
If a hacked ps3 could access psn, then I guess both of these patched games VHBLs could be used again on a fw <1.65 psvita xD
PS3 =/= PS Vita though. Sony obviously took way more precautions with the PS Vita to avoid the mistakes of the PSP and PS3.
It was my understanding that you can use a proxy to fake your firmware version and still access the store from the old Vita firmware. Wonder if you can also download the games that way too…
That got patched. You can’t anymore.
Im not so sure about that, I was using the charles proxy app to use 1.61 to get on PSN during 1.67 right until wololo announced he has a 1.67 VHBL, then I just updated but point is I was using the charles proxy method like a week ago, worked fine.
Remember that maintenance earlier in the week? That was when they patched it.
Very good!
And best wishes for you,wololo!
I think you forgot to mention the possibility that the game itself has patched/fixed the buffer overflow.
PRetty sure that’s not the case, I doubt Sony has access to the source code, and, for example, the company behind Motorstorm does not exist anymore.
Big Big was a Sony studio so technically they could have the source code of Motorstorm
exactly “technically”. Sony is not the local farm company you run to for you daily amount of source code. These thinks are protected. Unlike your information, on their servers.
lol 😆
Nope, at least I checked Everybody’s Tennis and the Eboot.pbp’s md5 didn’t even change lol
It’s still 3A7F4246900B0C1FFE7733DB865AF7D5 as it’s always been
The same afternoon I update to 1.67 in prep for new vhbl these two are back up, lol. Would have been nice to see if it still worked or if they did indeed patch the game. Oh well, at least (as you said) Sony did the right thing.
im pretty sure that you would have to update the system the latest firmware just to get on psn store. hence forth the game is patched and worthless for Vhbl. My question is how does Sony know how to patch it anyway?
Wololo, RELEASE TEH TITLES
To everyone saying you can’t access Motorstorm or Tennis without updating to 1.67: Yes you can. Just not directly through the Vita. Nothing’s stopping you from going on your PS3 (if you have one) and downloading it to there, then using Content Manager to put them on your Vita.
Now, if you can’t access PS3 Vita Content Manager without updating, or you don’t have a PS3…then I’ll have to retract my above statement. I’ve never done PS3 Vita transferring on a non-updated firmware (since the previous exploits before this current one were EU only)
But yes, some people might wanna play Motorstorm and Everybody’s Tennis, and don’t want them for the exploits, and for that, I say good job, Sony.
Sony employee kill him LOL J/K, I agree they patched the game and what’s done is done.
sparkey480: use spell check and its only one title and no.
The games are still unpatched but you won’t get access to them if you’re not on FW 1.67. On FW 1.67, the exploited Savegames won’t load and are shown as “corrupted savegame”.
The word “Teh” is a common replacement for the word, “The”. It’s done purposefully.
It’s one title yes, but that one title means the difference between Homebrew games and nothing.
The PS3 won’t transfer any PSP Game to the Vita without an online connection to PSN. And when you try it, it says that you have to update your FW to 1.67 😉
I wondering what have changend that the Proxys won’t work anymore.
🙂
me too – I guess that was the reason of the maintenance.
just like with the ps3 the proxies only work for about a week after a firmware update. Nothing new here
wololo ur killin me release already plz 🙂
I been checking regularly every 30 minutes since I read about their finally being a U.S exploit. Iam dying of anticipation. XD
Please be patient and wait….
Perhaps I can take my mind off it for a while and play some magic with teh college buddies. 🙂
indeed! anxiously awaiting this myself ehhe
I had access to the psn store before updating. Seems if u leave the vita on stby and the store open u can still DL new stuff. I was able to dl and try that horrible montezuma game and play it last week and i was on 1.61. I wonder if they made the games require firmware 1.67 though.
Sony did something that doesn’t screw over its customers and increase their profit$? *thump thud clang* damn it, gravity just reversed =-(
the dropped prices yesterday they announced for the psp vita games in us
wololo!your work is much appreciated, but don’t hold out..Give he people what they want!
These games are not available on US PSN. Neither is phantasy star portable 2. I don’t understand why they re available for vita in UK and not US.
They were never available for the vita in the us. Probably for some contractual reasons.
I’am downloading motorstorm just in case vbl comes out for it 😀
It doesn’t matter, you couldn’t access the PSN with 1.66 anyway.
I have to disagree that this is Sony doing something right, it’s really more of Sony finally fixing something they did wrong. Sony punished their legit customers again, for their own means. I believe they may choose these types of actions to make it look like hackers are the problem, so that everyone will get mad at hackers instead of Sony themselves. Two years ago, I was a pretty big Sony fan, but they’ve done everything they could think of to push me away…F “em.
Yeah i agree with that Sony does not care about the Consumers.
Also why is the price on the picture £14.99 o_O i only paid ££6.99 for it
You know man, I’m kind of sick of seeing you post repeatedly about this piracy free homebrew. Stop beating around the bush and being less than honest on the subject. There is not a SINGLE video game that exists that is public domain yet. So even if you’re loading SNES or wad files and emulating them, it’s still piracy no matter how you cut it. Just call it what it is.
its not piracy if i bought the umd games and converted them to run on home brew for vita but sonys customer service and policy has been horrible lately i remember when ps3 came out they weren’t so strict about linux it was your risk which is is believe right and it is not sonys there not losing money at all we still have to buy the game vhbl is not piracy sony
Not piracy, but still technically illegal. The DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) states that it is illegal to circumvent copy protections on hardware to play backups… legally owned or not.
Could you show us exactly what article you are referring to?
Not a single public domain game?
Games dont have to be in the public domain for people to play them freely. For example, my game, wagic, is under the bsd license. The doom version i am showing in my videos is the free to distribute shareware version. Look up the /downloads section of this websites for thousands of free games or apps.
This is what i mean by piracy free. Emulators are another story, i agree. But it seems that to you, as for many console gamers, videogames stop at sony, nintendo, and sega…
Im so tired at comments that say i promote piracy… Always the same arguments about emulators, the only arguments you can find since our code does not allow to play psp and vita games. Find new ideas, ive read that *** about 20 years old games for the past 5 years.
It’s not piracy if I already own the SNES game. What could possibly be your motive? This isn’t something that’s gonna have a negative impact on any market (in fact it’s probably good for the Vita market). This is people having fun with systems and games that they paid for and own, or having fun with games that are free.
The Vita is potentially the greatest portable emulation device ever created. I’ll gladly buy new games and play my ancient games on it.
I can play all the SNES games on an emulator if I want and game companies do not lose any sales since there isn’t a market to begin with (at least not anymore). Nobody gets hurt from this so called “piracy”.
That last part brings up a red flag, new one is not a game?
what do you mean
You could have did this article on the release of the title and tutorial
how do you even know if a games compatible with vhbl
how do you even know if a games compatible with vhbl?
Checking every 5 hours to make sure i get the game before sony takes it down
So did Sony Patch them or just take them down for a bit and block the exploited save data from running on newer firmware revisions? If so then we could use the Charles debugging proxy method to get on use PSN store if you were not able to buy either of the games before they were pulled but you did not update your vita
I use an rss aggregator on my android phone with only this feed and have it alert whenever a new article is posted. It may not be as good as the ninja list but its a close second and certainly beats refeshing constantly 😉
@wololo, you know EXACTLY what I meant. There’s no point in playing semantics over it. And why the display of naivete? You know well that 90% of the people looking forward to this are after exactly what you say it isn’t (or shouldn’t) be used for. I was just simply making the statement that it get’s equally as old hearing people hide behind the term “homebrew” as it does hearing people complain about emu’s and free domain. So why bother? Just call it like it is and dodge the piracy speech eh? I grew up with my uncle making video games of his own and building arcade machines. So I love homebrew and look forward to seeing it evolve with every generation of hardware and I back the work being done here 110%, I just don’t agree with how it’s sometimes presented.
So whats wrong with emulation? People say piracy is bad because the game companies lose sales. But what sales are there to be lost in emulation? The games aren’t even for sale anymore.
bahaha! wololo!! you speak in such a news reporter way!
i couldnt help but read your article with a news reporter accent thing. 😛
Has anyone checked if Motorstorm has reappeared in their download history? Mine hasn’t yet, but I’m not sure if that’s just because it was one of the 10 games you got for buying a PSP Go here in Europe.
Am I the only one who was bugged about how the screenshot was with a camera, and not the Start+PS screengrab tool?
That was taken by a PS3 I believe. So you can’t take screen shots of that, without having to use a camera.
Wololo I have HBL for my psp go that I download from YOUR downloads section on THIS site and it let’s me play backed up pirated games I got from the pirate bay , u say ur code does not allow pirated software? BS!
shutup troll, hbl/vhbl isn’t made for pirates, thats why its called HOMEBREW loader!
Then why* does it…
YOU CANNOT JUST LOAD AN ISO THROUGH HBL YOU HAVE TO USE AN ISO LOADER WHICH IS A HOMEBREW THAT YES USES HBL BUT COME ON THATS LIKE EVERYONE BEING MAD AT GEOHOT because he HACKED THE PS3 & someone else figured out how to play pirated games on his hack.
Just because someone miss uses something doesnt make the creator at fault.
YOU SOUND LIKE AN PS3 scene MEMBER always moaning & complaining about things especially piracy.
Bottom line just because you can use something for a different purpose doesnt mean you have to.
Besides we all know that if you want psp games you use cfw not hbl.
So leave wololo alone