Private release exploit game leaked, get it while it’s hot! (Vita FW 3.01)
The private release by Matthew_Wi was leaked! Last chance for TN-V on firmware 3.01!
After noticing that his download got hundreds of clicks, Matthew_Wi decided that his exploit should be publicly released. Here are the details:
These files are in no way an official release here, so do not bother anyone but me about any issues regarding the exploit.
I’m releasing this also because the game is half price for a limited time. So here goes!
-Details-
Game: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 2 Innocent Sin (Do not screw this up, there are two Persona 2 games on the shop, Innocent Sin is the only one that works!)
Regions: US & EU (Sorry no Japan from me.)
Type: TN-V
Firmware: 3.01 or below-Triggering the Exploit-
Simply load the provided save from the main menu.-Thanks-
quikrazor87
wololo
Acid_Snake
Again, the game is Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 2 Innocent Sin. It is available for $9.99 on the US and EU stores. If you would like to donate to the guys who help with his exploit, feel free to do so.
Donate to Matthew_Wi:
Donate to qwikrazor87:
Download
You can download the savegame files for the game here:
After you download that, just use copy the files from the TN-V download page, into the same folder (to make sure you have the latest TN-V version), and transfer to your Vita (Open CMA is recommended for the transfer).
More details on the installation process can be found on the TN-V download page, or you can also check the video below:
It is a bit sad that Matthew_Wi’s private release were leaked. Well anyway, that’s all for now from me, The Jay Doctor. What do you think about the exploit game leak? You can let me know in the comments (I do read them). Or on Twitter, where I can be contacted/followed @The_Jay_Doctor, using the links below.
Source: /talk
I wonder if Sony will dare to remove Persona 2 Innocent Sin, because Persona is a very popular franchise and I bet Persona 2 Innocent Sin sells a lot.
Yea… They’ve removed Monster Hunter before which is much more popular. And removals are only temporary anyway.
Would had been funny had this been leaked when they were having the Persona series sale not to long ago.
Preety fun how the private xploit winded up leaking earlier than many ninja releases
Totally agree, this confirms (if it was needed) that this way of doing releases is not solving any of the issues we had with Ninja releases, and that ninja releases are still a better way overall
The vital point of ninja releases is that it gets to trusted members first and then slowly makes its way down to complete novices, while with this giveaway even a /talk member who registered 1 day ago and made just 1 post could get his hands on that game.
There is a lot of people which have friends with Vitas or just simply put name of that exploit somewhere because it’s too expensive for them and they at least try to make that info useful when they personally can’t do anything with it.
It doesn’t prove that ninja releases are better, just leaks by novices don’t cause any serious damage as the name would have been revealed nevertheless in a short period of time, same can’t be said when something has to be private.
But that had to be shown at some point, so this wasn’t a total waste. Also it has stayed up for a bit after being released, so hopefully a fair number of people will get it. If we had stuck to the ninja release method and there was another leak, then we’d have even more people criticizing ninja releases; at least this helps show that ninja releases are the least bad option we’ve found thus far.
It will be interesting to see how long it is before Acid’s private exploit is leaked or patched. A group of 5 to 10 people might be sufficiently small to work for a while, though I assume Sony will still patch it pretty soon. (and therefore show that even a successful limited release is of little utility as compared to ninja releases)
regardless if it a bad method, they themselves would have to understand that ninja release are better than public release since it allows as many people to grab the games before sony pulls it from the markets.
but if the leaks continues to, there no points in doing this works if people think they can claim credits for the exploits or getting money simply for the leak.
thanks for posting this..
wagic.. finally!!
It’s already removed from EU PSN.
You aren’t looking too hard. It’s still there.
It actually isnt. You can still get it from the EU Store.
heck, there are even 2 bundles it is in!
Honestly, im working almost all day, and I will miss this too, I hope sony will not pull out of the psn before I get to home, also I believe that these private releases, and also the ninja releases are not the solution, i believe the best way would be announcing a date and just let it aavailable to everyone at the same time, by example: we have a new exploit available for 3.01, and we are going to release it on saturday march/15/2014 at 6pm cst, doing this way, the game exploit will never leak, and everyone will had time to prepare to download the game, and check it at the same time, maybe the sony will remove the game but I doubt they can remove it before 1 hour, and I believe most people is able to download a psp game in 1 hour.
It may cause the servers to overload and crash, effectively a ddos
Multiple psn store regions, multiple time zones, multiple servers each region.
I dont think that the sony servers are that weak.
well so much for the giveaway, matt must not be happy right now.
I’m at home, wifi working, debit card ready, 0:48 AM atm and I was gonna go to bed but I chose to look at wololo.net for the first time in months, saw this pop up at the top, shat bricks.
Only problem, Vita is out of battery, after the most dramatic search for my charger, I am now waiting for my Vita to charge up.
Then I’ll have to update the FW, then log into PSN, add the funds and download this damn game.
You have no idea just how *** suspenseful this is atm.
To be fair, it is sunday early morning (like 4am). Sony does not work at weekend/sundays, therefore you have like 24 hours to get all this done.
Okay, I just purchased this game from PSN and downloading. Problem is I only have a 4gb Vita memory card, and my 64gb memory card is still in the mail.
Assuming this exploited game is removed from the PSN before my memory card arrives, will I be able to install the CFW on the other 64gb card? I already purchased the game
Make a backup of the game via CMA to your pc and use OpenCMA
Transfer the game to your pc via openCMA. Delete a game off your memory card after backing up to your pc of course. Then dl P2 on your vita and transfer it to your pc and then transfer your other game back to your card.
Thank god its possible! Thanks you two
I already bought Persona 2 Innocent Sin when it was first released on PSN.
well, it’s your lucky day! 🙂
Us up. downloading now. To be honest who can be trusted. Really it is not that bad to WAIT for some awesome respectable devs, to just give you there hard work. Thanks Matt
I’m downloading the game thank you very much for this release!
Ouch, it’s gonna cost 29,90€ in the EU PSN Store…
That’s a lot, considering the next “bug-fixing” FW is gonna coma faster than we like it…
BTW, a real shame it wasn’t kept private (the leak, not Matthew)…
Some tossed in a fair ammount of money awaiting a longer pleasure with the exploit…
The game is 29.99€ in europe – but it’s working like a charm! Thank you so much!
Its $43.95 in the Aus store so its another game I wont be getting.
I’ll be just my luck, if I did get it which I dont want to play it anyway the next firmware will come out the next day meaning I wasted all that money on a game I will never play.
I dont mind spending up to $10 on a useless game but not $44. And I would want it to last longer than a week.
I’m ***… whomever release the leak out. It was suppose to kept it a secret..
I second that, As one of the people who won the giveaway just to see it be released anyways…. it sucks.
It’s for 39$(119 Polish zloty = 39.245486 US$) in Poland *** ehh better wait for Vita firmware update :C
where dowload free games for my psvita (url ) diferent to psn store?
PS+ is what you want.
I’ve just created a US account. The price is $43.95 US? Anyone else seeing that?
Not showing up on US for me at all.
It’s 10 USD on US Store
I’m only able to see Eternal Punishment, no Innocent Sin >.< I'll look again.
Use the search function on the store, the game name starts with “Shin megami….” not “Persona 2…”
thanks so much – downloading now
i actually found it by typing “persona 2” which showed me result for Innocent Sin. Then i tried “innocent sin” which gave me same result, but to be sure, i research it with full name, which gave me exactly the same result.
I see that people started reporting that it has been removed, maybe thats the case. Yet, i bought it about.. 20mins ago in EU store for 29GBP
@Bedle, yes, it appears if you search persona 2, but if you just see the list (that shows from P to S) you will se Persona 2 and other games and at the end of the list you’ll find the exploitable one.
So, the best way to find it is using the search function.
This is ***, I actually won the competition yet I couldn’t afford the game yet, so I was patiently waiting until I had the money, seeing as how it was a private exploit I was confident that I would have plenty of time to wait before I had actually had to purchase the software. But instead it’s gets leaked leaked, not even a week after the competition is held. And now I have no possibility of actually getting this game or exploit at all, thanks heaps Mathew_Wi and whoever the *** leaked this.
I don’t like how you put the guy who brought you the exploit in the first place, and the guy who leaked it, in the same category. You sound extremely ungrateful. I understand your frustration, but blaming the person who provided you with the exploit in the first place is completely uncalled for.
Remember, they are doing something free to you, so you will not complain about it, and Im sure you will use this to play pirated games, so I call this Instant Karma. Btw I’m waiting for a full kernel exploit but i doubt someone can do it, I believe the only way would be using hardware explits like modchips and/or memorycard loaders like on the nds.
You yell at this guy for pirated software when he didn’t even mention that, then you say you just want a full kernel exploit (probably for piracy) just so the vita gets even less support from 3rd party devs? Please realize how stupid that sounds….
So, 2am, i finished doing my work and was brushing my teeth and i thought “ill just scroll a little of facebook, to see how ppl enjoy their lives since im unable to do cause of my work” and BAM! first post Wololo’s expoited game! Oh man, i instantly dropped my toothbrush (i think it ended up in toilet) spit all over the mirror toothpaste and start running for my Vita which was collecting dust cause i didnt had an exploit. Instantly powered on my Vita (almost dropped it TWICE by doing so) and rush on PSstore to see is game there.
YES! IT IS! its a bit pricey, like 29GBP for me, but man, i have to have it!
10mins later.. boot into familiar PSP menu!
Working like a charm! Im sooo grateful to you guys and my lucky star today! 🙂
As of leak.. well, hes aware to which winners he shared the exploit and process them as he should. Im reaaaallllyy grateful for exploit, and dont get me wrong, but people cant appreciate someones good will. :/
On other hand.. my Vita finally became useful, so.. ty once more.
off to bed, im working job no2 in 3hours, now that i know that everything works, ill be happy tomorrow, im to tired now 😀
im working in 3hours,
So just curious, can I actually play the game itself if I set it up to run TN-V, or will it only work without the TN-V files?
Yes, you can play the game, there is an option on TN-V recovery to ignore the exploited savedata or something like that (can’t remember right now, but you can do it)
Cool, I’ll get this as well. Appreciate it.
Just checked: the option is “Fix Exploit Savedata”
Games available in the NZ store, but it’s $56.95… Looks like I’ll be sticking to my US exploited game.
damn it, its like $44 in Australia
Whoever leaked this is such a ***. I was one of the winners of the competition and as usual a *** had to leak. First competition I won in my life too out of luck.
Matt knew it was going to be leaked but i had better faith in those 25 people
Trust.No one
As soon as the Game gets deleted from the store I cancel my Credit card payment. Reason: “I’m sorry. The Game isnt downloadable anymore. And I get no access to it” haha
Does anyone know whether an account is tied to a specific vita? I ended up buying this game on my NZ account, but now have two exploitable games, one on a US account I created specify for the game, and this on my main account. Thinking of possibly selling or giving my US account to a friend – since the only game that’s on it is one of the previously released exploitable games.
Also, when you backup using cma, is the backup tied to the memory card you backed up from, or just the PSN account that was activated on the card at the time of backup?
I guess 1 account can be on up to 2 vitas, And i think there is an option on SonyEntertainmentNetwork website to untie an account to a system (in this case, PSVita)
AFAIK, the content is only tied to your account, not to the memory card.
I finally got it! It’s a shame that it was leaked tho. Thanks a lot for posting this.
i am confirming that persona 2 Innocent sin is still up on the us psn store @$9.99
its 6:48 here in San Fransisco
how about me I’m the luckiest winner on the 25 people selected and the psn card is hard to buy on the Philippines the giveaway is use for the who win and keeping shut their mouth this is bul____ the psn card i just buy will came thursday….this is bu____ …… this make me mad….. you know KARMA soon…..
If feel for your man, I was one of the winners as well and I had to wait till Tuesday to purchase the game, I guess there no chance of that happening now. I hope whoever leaked the game title and download link has something bad coming there way. It’s just so unfair on all the people who entered the competition and did everything legit only to be sc*** over by some little brat who thought he could get away with leaking PRIVATE information.
Reports have been coming in that it has been pulled. This account talks about it.
https://twitter.com/mmforums/status/442470924575866880
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 2 Innocent Sin is still on the US Store
Which PSP 6.60 Firmware do I need for the Vita? In the guide it just says PSP 6.60 but in the download page it only lists PSP Go and PSP 1000 etc
Not the Go one
the on for PSP 1000/2000/3000
Thank you 🙂
I started downloading it on the US PSN, but it is running extremely slow. I ran a speed test on my modem, and it’s not the problem. Is anyone else experiencing slower than usual downloads from the PSN? It was slow last night, and seems even slower tonight. Anyway, thanks for the announcement. This is the first time that I have caught the exploited game in time. 😀
So when Vita firmware 3.02 or whatever comes out, if you update to it you lose the CFW current? Suppose a leak is then discovered for 3.02 using another PSP game. Can you then go to 3.02 and keep your original exploit, or does going up a firmware level require constant purchases off the PSN
This hack requires two things
Kernal exploit (This is the main exploit, it allows you to boot into a fully unlocked CFW psp environment and play Psp backups)
And the usermode exploit (The game savedata exploit)
When the next firmware update comes out, it’ll almost definitely patch the kernel exploit, this means even if a new save data exploit gets released after the update, you wont be able to launch the kernel exploit with it and wont be able to load TN-V. You’ll only be able to use VHBL and a some homebrew. Kernel exploits are fairly rare, while save data exploits are pretty common – so if you update, assume you wont get access to a new kernel exploit again.
Im 3 bucks shortt 🙁
Can I download the game using my vita?
I downloaded it from my ps3 can I transfer that file to my vita?
Also it’s still up in the US.
Glad I already own the game. Unexpected surprise.
Kinda *** up how this keeps happening, though. All this is doing is hurting the people creating these exploits who put so much work into finding them.
At some point, the people who find the exploits are gonna stop releasing them, and blame will rest on *** like these.
Thanks, everyone, for your hard work.
And thank you, Matthew_Wi for making your files public. I know you didn’t have to, so on behalf of all the non-*** here, let me express my sincerest thanks.
Awesome! I love the persona series and have been wanting to get this for awhile 🙂
il n y est plus trop triste