The game exploits patched by Vita FW 3.00, and how this will impact future VHBL/TN-V releases

Acid_Snake

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65 Responses

  1. beastes6453 says:

    hi wololo if i understand correct vhbl lose many game and
    is restricted and tnv4 will ru like a charm…. so do you think with this news a game exploit for 3.00 will be release at same time of tnv4.And thank you and all other giving us good work and candy for psp an vita ty

  2. LTTP says:

    Things getting worse for Vita :'(

    • roflrofl says:

      I warned you that Sony was going to patch all this sh*t and crackdown about a week ago.

      Everyone thought I was trolling.

      Reap what you sow.

  3. curious says:

    i was thinking the same thing why patch things that make sales but w.e. thank you for update Acid_snake

  4. TORbrowser says:

    still sticking with 1.81, madblocker exploit…

  5. greysmoke says:

    Im on the gameocracy exploit, Ive got a ps3 ready to go for open cma to get me TN-V4. BRING IT ON #%@* SONY CORP!

  6. Rob says:

    If you’re a dev and you make vita games, just include a flaw in your game and you’ll sell thousands!! 😉

    • McLoven says:

      ^^LIKE^^

      *psp/vita games

    • PlaGeRaN says:

      +1 with this guy!

    • SsJVasto says:

      That wouldn’t work, the Exploits are only in PSP games and minis.

      – A PSVita game is native and hard to exploit AFAIK, we don’t have an opensource SDK yet for it;
      – A PlaystationMobile (PSM) game is written in .Net and runs in a mono environment (a sandbox) that could possibly be exploited, but there are no homebrew for that, AFAIK;
      – a PSM Application is validated by Sony before reaching the Store, so if you put an exploit and it’s obvious, you are going agains the Liscence Agreement you accepted when you became a developer, and you will have serious legal issues (because you’re “attacking the system’s stability”);
      – You can distribute your game for free (if you’re ready to pay Sony 1$ each time the game is downloaded), which is similar to homebrew anyway (free game download, no DRM)

      People who CAN do this probably wont…

      • DarkenLX (Louis Royal) says:

        ^^^^^ A PSVita game is native and hard to exploit AFAIK, we don’t have an opensource SDK yet for it.

        And it will most likely never get a openSDK until the system dies because sony knows that is like opening all the doors and windows in a house and saying try to break in. Sony is not stupid just …. Slow…. lol atm at preventing exploits sdk would give us almost all tools for hacking the vita well aside from making cfw which im guessing would need a key like the ps3 has on its firm we get a key and [insert badass *** dance here] we get cfw

      • DarkenLX (Louis Royal) says:

        ^^^a PSM Application is validated by Sony before reaching the Store, so if you put an exploit and it’s obvious, you are going agains the Liscence Agreement you accepted when you became a developer, and you will have serious legal issues (because you’re “attacking the system’s stability”)
        True But if you dont publish it and just provide the code as open source you have not gone against the tos… see the psm gets a key to let you test load the app to your ps vita w/o publishing for debuging so.. the vita will run it since you have not published it you have not invailidated the tos it only applies if you put it on the psn store

  7. mixedfish says:

    Sony don’t need pity cash from ‘thousands’ of sales. They are more than willing to forgo some profit for the sake of legitimacy, i’m sure any big company would do the same.

    • wololo says:

      I agree with this comment. I don’t think Sony cares about the few thousands of sales of minis they get from exploits, compared to the hundreds of thousands or millions of sales they make from “regular” use of their services

  8. landy says:

    I just went to know if 2.60 can use TN-V4 to play psp
    game on vita, cause my psp is too old.

  9. Marjojojo says:

    with great games coming along vita, it’s getting harder and harder to choose between an exploit and updating. haha. i think wololo and his friends has a big part on why sony has been getting great games. haha. maybe great games like injustice, coming in this november, is a result of sony’s fight against hacking 😀

    • Chuckthetekkie says:

      This is why I have 2 Vitas. One for eCFW and one for PSN. I got a great deal on my one Vita so I didn’t mind forking out the money to have a Vita for PSN use.

      • Marjojojo says:

        can you use 1 account in different vitas?

        • deathhell says:

          yes thats wat me and my cousin do. we share the same accout and on different vita and we split the games two at 1 price which we do 1/2 and 1/2

    • wololo says:

      Good games, PS+, and great online offers are the best weapons Sony have today against hacking. I for one am glad they fight this way more than with legal action, or stupid anti piracy measures. I think they got it right, basically.

  10. francis says:

    Very well explained acid. Thanks..bin clarified… Waiting for the tnv4 and hs krnl.

  11. francis says:

    If i cn get krnl i wl donate smthn.

  12. brunoso says:

    This f*CK 3.0 update f*cked my WiFi gameplay on MK. I cannot send an invitation on it. Almost crash my Savegame too. Very sad about this. De really need a native hbl!

  13. I gave up on hacking my vita. I will end up just updating it for better things anyway…

    • Sky Yuki says:

      Well good thing that i already gave up at 2.12
      And went with psn goods (still sad i can’t play games i want on psp but hey i brought vita so play vita game i keep telling myself that)

    • stOneskull says:

      i want to try tn-v for about 2 months.. then go back
      i couldn’t be offline for ever but for a little while is fine

  14. Dr.Jones says:

    Will I need a PS3 to get TN-V4? I have Dart Game exploit on 2.60. How to do anything without updating vita firmware? Hallo?

    • tangra87 says:

      No, the only thing you will need is to stick with your corrent ps vita firmware and wait for the TN-V4 release and meanwile no update.

  15. phil87700 says:

    SOLD my VITA 🙂 Are you happy now SONY?… Keep on releasing crappy updates and patches.. Im happy with my Made in China – Brick Game.. 🙁

  16. phil87700 says:

    Lol.. waiting for the slim vita release… Pal. 😉

  17. Leires says:

    I may be a bit ignorant to some of business, so I’m just throwing out a guess.. Aren’t they obligated to keep up security? Can they not get in trouble legally by allowing/at least not working to slow down this stuff? I mean, it seems kinda stupid myself, but..surely there’s reason behind their madness, *** as it is to us, isn’t there? Then again, i guess that would be like PC makers getting in trouble because people pirate things..hmm..

    Maybe they’re just paranoid as heck? There’s gotta be some reason..I guess it doesn’t fix anything to know -why-, but..surely there’s something to it.. I really expected this, though..They tend to do big things to full-number firmware. :/

    Thanks for telling us in detail though, sir snake of acid, what all was patched. Pretty sad, but that’s sony for you. ._.

  18. MovingxTarget says:

    Honestly there should be one VHBL exploit a year. If we release vhbl exploits the way we did this year we wont have anymore. People just need to be ready for when a exploit comes out,thats it honestly.

  19. jbaby2883 says:

    PROJECT:Sony-Dark…who’s willing to donate. Let get a group together called DarkSonY and fund a project “Sony-Dark” and the hackers together to do some work. After we get into you know what we only share to those that make a donation to join.

  20. LaidBackBlack says:

    Still using my UNO exploit.

  21. Frostburn says:

    If you replace a PS Vita memory stick for a bigger one, would it have to run on the latest firmware? Or would it work on the current firmware on the vita/old memory card.

  22. demonchld says:

    Maybe u have a leak reporting those games to Sony?

    What they did will not affect Sony at all as most people dont even bother or even know how to hack there device. Whats killing them is no devs want to make games for it. Im still holding onto mine waiting for your release 🙂 I have Pokemon XY so im good for now lol

    • Dmaskell92 says:

      I’d like to personally thank Sony (and all of the members who continued to e-mail Sony, really big thanks to these guys!).

      This would have not of been possible without your dedication.

      Look at how many circle jerking firmware kids are crying right now. Maybe they will learn how to “purchase” a legit copy of the game, instead of pirating.

      We are one step closer to eliminating piracy on the Vita.

      Good job.

  23. Joe K says:

    Using my uno exploit and thinking of buying another vita to at least use my ps+ membership that i hardly use at all on my ps3.

  24. Haze7 says:

    Will we have some type of Vita FW Flasher in the future?

    • greysmoke says:

      My friend, almost anything is possible with the right hardware. If I can downgrade a ps3 with a lil soldering skill, why not a vita? We could use some nice high res pics of the mother board. Identify the chips and pinouts. Would make the devs life ALOT easier. ;D

      • Dmaskell92 says:

        I’d like to personally thank Sony.

        This would have not of been possible without your dedication.

        Look at how many circle jerking firmware kids are crying right now. Maybe they will learn how to “purchase” a legit copy of the game, instead of pirating.

        We are one step closer to eliminating piracy on the Vita.

        Good job!!

  25. Sheldon cooper says:

    All This is over if I got that in vita you could do the firmware downgrades, would already be a great battle won..

    Sorry for me bad english..

    • Dmaskell92 says:

      I’d like to personally thank Sony.

      This would have not of been possible without your dedication.

      Look at how many circle jerking firmware kids are crying right now. Maybe they will learn how to “purchase” a legit copy of the game, instead of pirating.

      We are one step closer to eliminating piracy on the Vita.

      Good job!

  26. FallenHalos says:

    If i havent updated will i be able to jailbreak my psp vita on 2.61? And when will it come out?

  27. alaha says:

    To all who wants to buy second Vita for PSN and keep exploited Vita, why dont you try to buy PSP? Its already totally hacked and Sony gave up. If exploit was effects Vita side I’m totally agree with you but waiting for new exploit for playin PSP games is pain in the *** and buying (or using throwed a side PSPs) PSP is much easier.

    If you ask for me I’m using UNO exploit. I have PSP-3000 but I’m playing PSP games on Vita instead of PSP. 5″ OLED makes games beautier. I know I’m crossing with above. But its getting harder by the time. If Sony releases a Vita game that I cant refuse I’ll have to update. Coz I wont miss anything.

    Sometimes I thought Sony gave up on PSP but why still chasing PSP on Vita? Or is there a gateway between Vita Side and PSP emu that we dont know? It seems not possible limitations on PSP emulator and communication protocol but I’m suspicious. At least I know we have ability to access vita content(very restircted i guess) while in PSP emu coz i can play musics on Vita with TN-V.

  28. Wrozen says:

    Well…..who has two thumbs and is never updating his Vita past 2.12 now?! This guy!

  29. Dmaskell92 says:

    I’d like to personally thank Sony.

    This would have not of been possible without your dedication.

    Look at how many circle jerking firmware kids are crying right now. Maybe they will learn how to “purchase” a legit copy of the game, instead of pirating.

    We are one step closer to eliminating piracy on the Vita.

    Good job.

    • Dmaskell92 says:

      Some want this exploit for more than Piracy, only douches like you focus on the ISO, when I want better homebrew support. Spam with my name all you want, IP addresses are traceable.

      • Realist says:

        Sure, some people are focused on legal homebrew, but that’s an incredibly tiny minority, and you’re a fool if you think otherwise.

  30. Dmaskell92 says:

    I’d like to personally thank Sony.

    This would have not of been possible without your dedication.

    Look at how many circle jerking firmware kids are crying right now. Maybe they will learn how to “purchase” a legit copy of the game, instead of pirating.

    We are one step closer to eliminating piracy on the Vita.

    Good job!!!

  31. Realist says:

    “Essentially what they did is patch a piece of software that, instead of making losses to their business, it gave the potential for a game to sell thousands of copies, in the end they receive money and loose none.”

    Yeah, nobody ever used VHBL to play PSP ISO’s …oh wait.

  32. Franz says:

    No ones mentioning buy a used psp dirt cheap now if we can buy a bnew vita then we can probably buy a psp and play games on it i bought ps plus and updated cause lol how can i play uncharted gravity rush

  33. Rodrigo says:

    Hello i have a psvita on firmware 3.0 and would like to know if the TN-V4 will be compatible with this firmware.

    sorry my english.

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