Do you wanna learn exploit hunting? Now’s your chance!
With the most recent firmware update, Sony patched about 10 games that we were reserving for future releases. With this, the release of a kernel exploit looks much farther away as there’s simply not enough games to go with it.
At this point in time, it is my friend qwikrazor87 who is most active when finding these games, but a one man army here isn’t gonna help us out here. So now it might be your time to join in amongst highly ranked and skilled developers to learn all you have to learn about exploits, get almost 24/7 help and support, and give back to the community in an attempt to make it better.
One thing that made wololo.net so popular is that it opened the doors for newcomers to learn psp hacking and find out its own hacks. Back then, before the release of HBL on firmware 6.20 for the patapon exploit, the trickery and code used to get all of this working was highly classified amongst the highest ranking scene devs. When wololo and others decided to make all the information public and write numerous awesome tutorials, it made it possible for layman people to get it into exploit hunting.
And so we’ve been full of exploits for almost the entirety of the Vita’s life up to this point.
What we wanna do here is bring back those days of sharing knowledge and helping others grow in the scene the way we did back then, and make it even bigger by mentoring those who are willing to learn.
Because knowledge should be open and shared, because there’s no point in beating Sony’s DRM when you’re gonna implement your own and be as secretive and uncooperative as they are, and because we want to see a scene full of people constantly developing it further instead of waiting for other people to do it.
If you are willing to get into exploit hunting, if you are eager to learn the ins and outs of these hacks, if you want to get actively involved in the scene, now it’s the best time. Send me a PM in wololo.net/talk, start reading the countless tutorials around this site, start making questions to satisfy your curiosity and start exploit hunting with the backup and support of professional devs.
Hey does anyone know any links to the BEST tutorials I wanna learn how to find exploits and I have a lot of PSP games to use
http://wololo.net/hacking-portal/
Thanks, and is there any kind of list that shows what games have been tested for an exploit? It would just be a waste of time doing one that’s already been done.
Go to the /talk forums, in the search box write “173210” and go to the “[RELEASE]Black List Maker by 173210 and black lists” topic, on the second page, the user “unknown_error” shared the list of blacklisted games on 3.18. Some games are patched and not on that list! I would recommend you to see The_Z exploit chart. I’m not sure but I think some of the games that aren’t on that list are there.
The list is also on 173210’s github https://gist.github.com/173210/ebcda4b4dcec327e0d81
I feel like I wrote a lot of nothing/nonsense….
Patched games (3.18): https://gist.github.com/173210/ebcda4b4dcec327e0d81
Games previously exploited: http://www.zload.net/bilder/PSVita/VitaExploitChart.png
thank youuu 😀 I’m gonna try my hardest to find an exploit.
o_O You kids still beating the dead horse “PSP Emulator”? When will you start start moving onto actual Vita coding/hacking?
We can’t as of right now, the vita’s security is too strong everyones waiting for someone to find some kind of ‘exploit’ that will let us tap into the vita. lemme know when you can do that
So how far have you got in the Vita scene fella?
If the PSP emulator is the weakest point of the Vita software then thats where the devs have to start. So how about you stop criticizing and either help or ***.
This is the typical comment from leeches that only demand but never give back. Just because we don’t show anything public doesn’t mean there isn’t work being done. The big difference between PSP and vita that prevents us from going too public about it is the fact that we don’t know what information we can give away without Sony patches it all. The last time a native hacker went public with his work was yifanlu’s uvloader and it got patched, and uvloader doesn’t really have much difference from vhbl and it didn’t show the actual exploit to get it working.
What you somehow can magically tell thats DAX or something?
You leecher make it sound so easy how about you try hacking it yourself ohhh wait you can’t so ***.
Based on how he wrote…. he seems to be nasser luffy or however was called that guy from KOALAteam.
Or maybe other f*ucktard form that team, who knows
yeah that’s probably nasser luffy (or abdou, or however the *** he wants to call himself) or that koala guy who is nothing more than a tattoo “artist” wanting 5 minutes of fame on the internet (we actually know koala’s real name and where he works btw).
They have been calling us “kids” and “script kiddies” (as if they even know what that term means) but have provided nothing for the scene other than publicly humiliating themselves and looking like a bunch of ***.
Idiot
“I actually figured out who this person is by the way he typed his comment”
“I can tell by the pixels that this is a shopped image”, yea, sure.
As long as he is neither Dark~AleX, nor Nem or some of the other old dogs of the early 1.xx PSP scene, he is not important enough to be “better than the 6.xx CFW and Vita eCFW scene”.
I will get there soon.lol
i wanna learn how to find a exploits
I wanna know how to find a exploits
Seems interesting, if scientist can use a collective network of gamers to speed up the solving of diseases, no reason we can’t use a collective to speed up home-brew development.
PM sent
Hey… Just wanted to say thanks for the Info… That’s cool… I’m gonna have to give it a go once, whenever I get a chance to…
Hi, i wanted to ask if anyone know why when i use remote play some of the games force me to return to XBM before starting? ^^
if sony already patched the games, can you release the name of the games and maybe the exploits for it, i haven’t updated my ps vita yet
I honestly think that the best the scene can do for now is the psp exploits, which is fine with me. I’m not a dev even though I’d like to try, so I can’t sit here and say y’all ain’t doin ***. Y’all do great work just because. Somewhere along the line something might get “accidentally” leaked by Sony like the Pandora battery and magic memory stick.
I’m not saying it’s the only way, but it’ll definitely give the possibility of a native Vita hack a push in the right direction.
What are the requirements (equipment, previous experience, time, risk of bricking) to become an exploit hunter, Acid_Snake?
Wouldn’t it be easier or at least better in the long run to maybe just walk people through how an old exploit was found and put to use so they could have an example right in front of them to compare what they’re doing with other games
I have a fairly large number of PSP games and a PSP Go with CFW that could be put to use for the cause
See this: http://wololo.net/2014/04/18/pspvita-how-to-find-your-own-exploits/
And this, after seeing the link above: http://wololo.net/2012/11/09/how-to-quickly-make-the-difference-between-a-crash-and-an-exploit-on-the-psp/
Thanks but that’s not what I was talking about. All the tutorials I’ve looked at just seem a little vague and I think it would be better if one was written on a step by step on an older exploit that’s already been released. It would let people use it as a practice one to see if they can duplicate it and see the process first hand before trying to do one on their own
10 games sounds like you have a leak that needs plugged
Or Sony is also checking games for common exploits (like bufferoverflows with strings, those are the easiest ones to find) now.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they were just going through a backlog of crash reports.
Yeah, thats exactly whats happening
We are more carefull now
Is there somewhere a list from those patched games? I remember that The Z has an access to the file which has the list but I don’t know if he already released the list?
well im wonderin. have you taken advantage of the delain bugs or the fact that if you delete a video there is a possibility that with system restore you can have it back in your list.plus that I THINK that the programing of vita defers in the language,which i asumed because it cannot understand the type of some files like photos and videos that psp did.its also a good reason for the very high security.JUST SAYN
it could explain the delay of the system too . i dont think that sony would make a console like this with cheap chipset
So are these 10 games going to be released to us, if any of us have by some chance of luck downloaded them already? I am kind of annoyed that these have been on the back burner and are now gone.
This a pretty good chance actually if you are into exploit hunting
Hello Acid_Snake, I sent an message to you on Wololo Talk, but you haven’t replied yet. It might be that you are busy but I hope that I can get a reply soon.