SKFU teases us with what could be a native Playstation Vita hack
Just recently developer SKFU has made progress on what could be a native hack of the Vita, giving us our first visual glimpse!
It seems hacking progress is regularly attempted outside of the PSPemu (which is the typical eCFW and VHBL) by SKFU. Awhile back you may remember our reporting on news that the developer SKFU was able to get a developer PsVita and had slowly started to peal back the veil of his own Vita exploit by releasing common app paths in the Vitas filesystem.
Now, SKFU has revealed a picture of what could be a native Vita exploit, confirming that he has made progress with that Dev unit. SKFU posted the picture below and playfully teasing us by saying “VHBL is not the only thing working on 2.02 :-P”
It seems that if this photo is correct, SKFU has been able to do a very in depth analysis (something we saw with his reveal of the Vitas common app eboot paths) of the Vita and has made some progress in his investigations. What’s shown in the picture is a custom icon and naming of said application.
But don’t get too excited yet. Showing icons of homebrews in the XMB has always been possible on the PSP, it didn’t mean the PSP would accept to run them if they weren’t signed. The PS Vita however is known to prevent you from even copying homebrews to the memory stick, so SKFU has at least figured out how to do that… or is this just a feature of the dev units?
This could be a false lead, but as of now this is the only known one outside the pspemu, besides Yifanlu’s UVL. This is likely to be a huge and developing story so stay tuned for more information, we’ll try to reach out to SKFU for more details on this.
It’s not hard at all to fake this, it would take me minute to render a wallpaper with the right deme sins and a fake icon with some text under it then upload it onto the vita and go to photos and display it. Then simply taking a photo. Yes a video of the icon in wiggle mode(move icons) would be nice and enough to verify. But this doesn’t raise my eyebrow even the slightest. And even still if he found the app paths and change the ico n the app name that still isn’t hard nor impressive, it’s one of the first things I would do if I had a dev console. Honestly. Nothing impressive has came out of this infant scene. Oh lawl lawl lawl we can run things in the psp emu big deal, that’s useless, at most we can run isos? Come on. I bought my vita hoping there was a native exploit by now. Honestly someone probably already got into the system. Someone we don’t know about and that has real skills. Other than writing an app that runs in an ancient environment we’ve mastered years ago (psp emu). Sigh..
I hope a proper Vita hack doesn’t come out for another year or 2. I think the Vita doesn’t have enough Vita games yet to have a hack for it and if one came out for it now it would probably kill the Vita completely given devs are already a little scared to make games for it now.
After some thought and mild analysis I think it just might be a hex edited param.sfo as mentioned by SS.
Metal Gear Solid HD works out to 19 characters (spaces count as characters)
His “title” is 17 characters. Add a space before or after, or add 2 spaces before (this one seems more likely as it looks like the first line is offset) and it works out to 19 characters.
Just some more food for thought…
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I would rather get updates on the progress of said exploits rather than ‘Look at what I can do that you can’t!’ updates. Not asking for devs to release their unfinished work or their finished work prematurally, but real information…
Well sadly this is all I have to report on. Sometimes secrecy is the only way to protect a developer and keep his work safe, but I agree that a little more information would be nice.
Hmm not going to say that it IS fake, but it wouldnt be hard to fake it.
I will wait till I see a video before I will believe its real progress, still images are WAY too simple to fake!
Oh and if you do make a video showcasing this progress, make sure we can see you turning the unit on and booting up, because it would be a simple matter of just faking something, and then playing the video file back on the system in full screen mode :).
As I said, I will wait till I see some real proof of progress before I will start getting excited!
I like to take peoples word for it… and im def not going to bash someone who is trying to contribute to the scene, ive been observing the vita scene since i got my vita a few months ago, i dident really say muc as i was deep into the ps3 scene still and wasent very interested in the vita scene yet, but since then i see a whole lot of people hating and only a small amount of people supporting, this is why these developers come and go like buses! GOOD JOB SKFU, KEEP UP THE GOOD WOKR!!!
can u use a real game card for modding or do you have to download the game from psn?
Lol this the guy I had to help to take the ps3 drive mech apart, he was full of bs back then
Thats not a dev unit
how can you be sure?
SKFU has done Jack *** with regards to releases in the past. Nothing has every proved useful that he has apparently done.
Happy new year booooogaaah!
Happy New Year!
don´t teases us please show 🙁
HAPPY NEW YEAR ANYWAYS…..
@wololo the mayan has ever said that the world would sink
They have only said that is facing a new age ++ 66 years – 66 years = 1946 the end of wwII+66=2012+66=2068 …..
12 + 66 ≠ 68.
Your answer was just what I nedede. It’s made my day!
yes I now 1945 is the end of WW2 but the new age is facing 1946 with a new world order the UNO believe it or not……
United Nations (UN),UNO for United Nations Organization,not the uno the game…
^ Do you smoke rocks dude?
jus sold my PoSV, hack that ***
Sounds and looks similar to JeoWay ‘s project on CFU. He said he may just modify the PSP XMB to run Vita Content and through the Native stuff. I dont have any idea but it sounds really cool 🙂 🙂 🙂
Anything new on this?
does 2.02 work on the older games mad bloacker….
No. The mad blocker exploit was patched, it cannot be used beyond 1.81
Any updates on this?
So Wololo, What happened to this glorious piece of… This.
Really. I, and everyone else, would love to have an update