PS Vita hack: How Ninja releases work
It’s a recurring question we get whenever there’s a hack in approach. Given the nature of the exploits we release, we have to be careful in the process, in a way to provide enough time for as many people as possible to get the hack.
With a process we started more than a year ago with the first VHBL release (that was an exploit in Motorstorm), hackers are regularly releasing exploits for the Vita (exploits within the PSP emulator actually) on this site.
PSP exploits on the Vita all follow the same pattern: a hacker hijacks the savedata of a given PSP game, in order to take control of the PSP system within the emulator. This allows us, depending on the hack, to run either a homebrew loader such as VHBL, or an emulator Custom Firmware such as CEF or ARK.
Vulnerabilities are pretty common in PSP games, but they used to be more convenient to leverage when these games were available on UMD. Today, as PSP games for the Vita can only be purchased online through the PSN, it is very easy for Sony to simply remove any game from the store if they find that it is used as a vector for a hack. They’ve actually been doing exactly that for the past 8 exploits that were released last year, by pulling the incriminated game mere hours after the hack public announcement.
To counterbalance that, we use a system where we let trusted people know about the exploited game in advance. We then progressively increase the number of people who know about the game, until a point where we announce the exploited game publicly. We do not release the actual exploit on the day of the announcement, in the hope that this could delay Sony’s decision to pull the game, but history have proven that they trust the content of this blog even more than some of our readers 🙂
The rules we put in place to choose the people who are able to know about the exploit in advance have become complex with time, but the principle is overall simple: members of our forum at /talk get to know about the exploit before the general audience. Within our members too, there is a system of priority which I won’t detail here. Bottom line, if you are part of our community and have been acting “normally”, there are good chances you’ll know about the exploit early enough. Even if you are not part of the privileged people who know about the game long enough in advance, all members of our forums (except people who’ve had warnings) end up getting the information at least several hours before the public announcement.
I’ve described this system many times already. It is of course far from perfect, but it’s the best we’ve found so far. I initially described it in this article, which explains in more details lots of the reasons behind this release process. Another good resource is our ninja releases sticky thread on the forum. Can’t get any clearer than that
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send me please :3 cesar_avitu@live.com.mx
me pueden mandar el exploid jejejeje
Even without the name of the game = ( I want to play Zelda and Pokemon: D
Send to me Ckameron@hotmail.com!!!
hello my Friends, please send email warllison-sousa@hotmail.com
Salve galerinha brasileira, eu como muitos aqui esta aguardando um exploit definitivo pro vita, realmente com a nossa realidade é impossível desfrutar dos games, igual fazíamos na época do Snes, Megadrive, nintendinho e etc…onde os games eram menos de 15 usd. Realmente comprar um jogo na psn onde custa 39.99 dólares num pais onde o salario minimo não passa de 350 dólares é muito complicado. Aos amigos estrangeiros, fiquem ciente de nossa realidade rsrs
Exelent idea on how to include everyone slowly. I cant wait to get homebrews, as im sure most people cant, continue on wololo, you are an insperation to hackers and homebrewer alike
Oh just fyi to all the people who cant read. If u put ur email you are probally going to be the last of this “community” to br informed. Cheers
hello Wololo, just want to start by saying what you do is amazing. I just got my Vita not long ago, I have a PSP Go with several PSP games and some homebrew on it, I was hopeful for a way to transfer my games over to my Vita without having to utilize wifi or the PSN because currently where I am at, my peak download speed is 8.6kps….. I just created an account on your blog, it’s Cain532, I know I probably am not deserving of being one of the first to hear the release, but I would hope you consider me to not be the last. Take care!!
Heyyy.. Please… Send to me !!!
my e-mail is regis.farmacia@terra.com.br .. please send to me !!!
PSN Account Locked And Loaded. Remember Patients Is A Virtue .
My send the name of the game to coley
. thank you in advance
papaguno@gmail.com
Already the third day did not get out to the site and the forum, and information all there 🙁 diaspar@yandex.ru
I keep waiting for signs of life U_U
My PSN Card awaits to be spend on.
we are more than 30 thousand members here. so just wait 1 leaks and were all done… just understand and wait.
*** I want in on this I’ve been waiting for this exploit ages a way to get my psp games without buying them again ! waterdropss@gmail.com mail me the name !
You are mistaken both on what vhbl does and on how ninja releases work. Please read more attentively.
would you send to my email wswgh2013@126.com
thanks
pls send me the exploit a few hours b4 the P.A. newbie here.
illumy13@rocketmail.com
this is what you guys need to do. “bluff” sony, and see if they’ll take out a butt load of games. don’t say specifics, but just say a bunch of game that would actually have the exploit or not. in doing so, you’re doing a boy who cried wolf. also, you can cripple sony since they’ll end up taking out games that are not needed to be taken out.
That will cause that thousands of people will buy the wrong psp games and blow millions of dollars in Sony´s ***
I think you deserve the dumbest poster award.
Really, really, really stupid idea.
I just want to emphasize how stupid this idea is… so I’ll post this again.
Really f.ucking stupid. Omg.
Jesus christ. REALLY stupid idea.
Genius
please,dit moi le nom du jeu,des que possible,des mois que j’attents!!please mkc88r@gmail.com,thanks!!!!!
i wish there would be an exploit for dissidia duodecim or tekken or god eater burst. unfortunately these are the only psp games i have.
And I would like to know the name of the game to use my vita VHBL nomas is filling powder jeje =D.
Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.
Sad but true
I can’t wait I updated to 2.05 when I bought my vita and it’s been collecting dust just waiting for an exploit. My thanks out to all the people working on these
when will you release it?
did you release it already…using the ninja release something like that i hope that i know what is the exploit games…srry for bad english
Now Thats How You Pull Off A Ninja Release ^___^
i donated to play…p network. am i priviledged?
Why not
Step 1 : Find a game that is expensive
(people won’t buy)
Then shout out loud !WE FOUND A HACK!
Step 2 : Sony pulls that game out out.
Step 3 : We say “Sorry , wrong title. The actual hackable game was x .” Then say the same about the game x ( which is ugly and unhackable ) : !HACKABLE!… And so on.
Well , I think Sony will remove the unhackable games and leave the hackable games on PSN , which translates in more fun 4 all of us. Trolling SONY… Poor people…
UNLESS… They patch the game and release it again…
Then they WILL troll us… That’s 4 SURE !