The day the Vita scene imploded: more than 50 game exploits leaked
(Download links below). If you’ve followed the Vita hacking scene over the past 2 days, you’ve definitely noticed that “stuff” has been going on. Without going into details (mostly because I don’t know them, and I would probably be just adding fuel to the fire), internal issues within the hacking team behind most of the past 2 years’ vita (psp emulator) exploits have led some of it members to “leak” their own work.
This started yesterday with famous developer qwikrazor87 revealing a psp kernel exploit which was supposed to be released much later this year by the team. That kernel exploit works today on the Vita’s latest firmware (3.18) and you should grab it while it works.
Today, the internal conflict escalated, with Acid_Snake releasing more than 50 undisclosed psp usermode exploits, about 35 of which have been ported to VHBL. Now, given the amount of files in that archive, it is difficult for me to instantly tell you if all of these work perfectly, if some of them are just old exploits, or undisclosed exploits that have been patched in recent firmwares by Sony, totally new exploits, or old games that had been exploited in the past and for which a new exploit has been found.
If you missed Gladiator Begins, here’s all of @qwikrazor87‘s exploits, pick one that works with VHBL: https://t.co/nxxXiBR9xq
— Acid_Snake (@AcidSnakeDev) September 13, 2014
I can at least tell that Patapon and Patapon 2 , which you will find in the list below, are a new exploit, because this is the one we intended to release with Qwikrazor87 as a VHBL ninja release for Firmware 3.30 . Gladiator begins is also a new exploit, which was revealed yesterday by Qwikrazor87 , to go with his kernel exploit. I will not have the time to test all of these myself of course, but feel free to comment, if you own the games, on which VHBL ports actually work, and which ones don’t.
The leaked archive contains VHBL ports for the following games:
- Arcade Air Hockey and bowling
- Armored Core 3 Portable
- Armored Core Silent Lines Portable
- Arcade Darts
- Ben 10 Protector of Earth
- Crime Spree
- Cubixx
- Disgaea2
- Gladiator Begins (previously revealed by Qwikrazor87 here)
- Go! Sudoku
- Hero Of Sparta
- International Athletics
- Jikan De Fantasia
- Jikandia: The timeless Land
- Karakuri
- Kazook
- Knight Fortix 2
- Mawaskes
- 101 in 1 Megamix
- Me Monstar: Hear me roar
- Mimana Iyar Chronicle
- MyStylist
- Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Impact
- N.O.V.A
- Robin Hood The Return Of Richard
- Patapon
- Patapon 2
- Persona 2
- Pool Hall Pro
- Puzzle Scape
- Sid Meier’s Pirates!
- Space Invaders Extreme
- Skate Park City
- Talkman Travel Tokyo
- Tokobot
- Ultimate Ghosts ‘n Goblins
- World of Pool
The leaked Archive also contains “Hello world” (vulnerability proof of concept) for the following games:
- Arcade Essentials
- Bashi Blocks
- Block Cascade Fusion
- Duael Invaders
- Field Commander
- FieldRunners (new exploit)
- Fight Night Round 3
- Key of Heaven
- Kingdom of Paradise (Tenchi no mon)
- Manic Monkey Mayhem
- Numblast/Qruton
- Petz Hamsters Bunch
- Spinout
- Sweet Fuse: At your side
- Vertigo
Finally, the leaked archive mentions the following games: God of war – Ghost of sparta and Tiny Hawk. It also contains critical information about PS1 exploits in games such as Tekken 2, which can allegedly be used within the PS1 classic games to run PS1 isos with sound (something that was not possible perfectly on TN-V).
Full working and bugless PSX sound can be achieved by buying either Tekken 2 or Sports Superbike 2, they are exploitable, no need for PEOPS.
— Acid_Snake (@AcidSnakeDev) September 13, 2014
Additionally, the archives leaked by Acid_Snake seem to contain additional psp kernel exploits.
It appears most of the exploits in this archive where Qwikrazor87’s work, although some files have been contributed by other members of the Oilix hacking team (of which both Qwikrazor87 and Acid_Snake were founding members)
People on firmware 3.18 should start and test the various VHBL ports or Hello world files disclosed in the archives (download links below). For those of you who don’t want to test or wait, the best option today is to grab gladiator begins, which has been ported to Qwikrazor87’s kexploit and TN-V. Theoretically, all the games above could be used to run TN-V on firmware 3.18, but for each one of these it would take a good soul to actually port the kernel exploit and get TN-V to run. I am not sure how easy that is, but I’m sure we’ll see things showing up in the days to come.
It is very likely that Sony will use this huge archive to strengthen their security within the PSP emulator. I would expect the 50+ games mentioned above to be gone from the PSN stores within a few days, and Sony’s engineers will probably have a look at some of the other material to fix kernel exploits inside the PSP emulator, in time for the next Vita firmware 3.30.
This is the biggest leak ever in all of the PSP/Vita scene’s history. To give you a sense of perspective, this is a waste, in one day, of (give or take) twice the amount of game exploits that have been publicly released in all the 9 years of existence of the PSP/Vita.
Some people on twitter have argued that this could mean positive things for the Vita scene moving forward: this will force the Vita hacking scene to start looking into native hacks rather than being slowed down by psp hacking.
I have in general been strongly opinionated about such leaks, and I personally feel this is the worst leak in the psp/vita scene’s history. But as always, I am sure these devs have reasons to have done what they have done here, so I’ll avoid making any judgement call at this point, at least while I discuss the matter privately with the Oilix team, our mods and other involved parties. What I can guarantee is that this will shake the existing Vita scene to its core.
Download
You can download the archives here: PSP User Mode exploits and VHBL ports, PS1 exploits, psp kernel exploits.
Please report success/failure, etc… in the comments section below, or on the /talk forums.






my Patapon US freezes after load savedata, someone tried?
so skate park city EU will be able to run tn-v on 3.15, too?
do i only have to wait until the files are released or what?
I can confirm, the Space invader Extreme VHBL works on 3.18. To trigger it, you have to go to options>records. I have promised not to Qwik, not to leak this and i have kept my word! The only reason i tell you about it , is because the files are leaked anyway, it will be taken down and fixed, so at least people should be able to use it now! i hope Qwik would/will understand.
I have Space Invaders Extrem but i can’t load the save data, you got your own save data or just found an other exploit ?
It is a new exploit that qwikrazor found. I have nothing to do with it! you can’t use the old exloit’s save but the new files are in the the huge archive of leaked files. It is called “SIE_EU_DISTRIB_v3”
Ho ***… *** leak :/ it’s a very bad day…
And i’v buy Patapon 2 for nothing maybe xd beacause TN-V can be released on SIE now
I can confirm it works on 3.15 but I dont want to risk updating in case you are trolling about it working on 3.18 and it causes problems with the Tn-v port.
understood. Anyone who is on 3.18 and still has SIE from the last exploit can try it and confirm. I think this is the most interesting TN-V trigger, so i hope it gets a TN-V port .
I’m already on 3.18 and i have SIE (and Patapon 2) and i confirm it’s works perfectly, VHBL run but i’v not test any HB beacaus i use now TN-V with Patapon 2
where did you get the patapon 2 files from?. I thought Gladiator Begins is the only exploit that was ported and released by now.
Here 🙂
http://zload.net/v2/archives/file/?id=2417909
Have any files been released for Patapon 1?
Is patapon fo VBHL or ecfw? I keep reading contradicting statements.
every usermode(VHBL) exploit can be used to trigger k-mode exploit (ecfw) unless the game does not implement the function that is used to trigger k-mode exploit.
but given that there are other k-mode exploits reaked, I can assume all of them are capable of triggering ecfw if ported.
I heard that some games can be used to run TN-V very quickly. I own ZHP and Gladiator Begins but those two are somewhat slow to activate TN-V and eat quite some space.
I want to know whether one of the above games has small size and is quick to load TN-V. I am certain that there will be a good soul who makes a TN-V activator for that kind of game.
I think the trigger on Galdiator begins is fast enough. Remember Exploits like numblast are gems that you don’t come accross very often. I agree about the filesize of gladiator begins though.
I wonder if the new Numblast and Fieldrunners exploits according this this article can run VHBL and then TN-V. Since these two games can run TN-V instantly and they are cheap, it will be a perfect loader.
According to The Z, “Fieldrunners and other Minis (without network functions) are unable to run bigger files (24MB+) at firmwares 3.1x, due to internal firmware changes. Most minis exploits are “useless” for firmwares 3.1x.”
For Namblast, all i see is files from december 2013, so i assume that’s the patched exploit.
I guess currently Patapon 1 and Patapon 2 are the best TN-V loader provided that the files are released.
For psx loader, it seems XS Moto is working right now. Hope that this helps people deciding which games to buy.
patapo vhbl is working perfect for me us version
I am able to confirm that Puzzle Scape is already patched 🙁
What a shame, it was a pretty cheap game.
Woah woah woah woah. What’s going on? I mean, yes it’s their choice to release games, but what lead up to people throwing them all out in the open to be shot at? Wha? This is a huge waste, all for what, some silly ego contest? Reeaaaalllly? o___o
@AcidSnakeDev: ePSP is finally dead (thanks @qwikrazor87), hopefully we can now do some native work. First thing I’ll work on is the open vita SDK.
Apparently he seriously believes that he can lie and pretend that this is all qwikrazor87’s fault, when all the evidence points to Acid_Snake overreacting and releasing all the exploits to punish qwikrazor87 for the kernel exploit leak. ePSP is finally dead, thanks Acid_Snake! Hilariously, with ~50 exploits they could have already switched their efforts to a native hack and still had ePSP hacks to release for a long time. Oops.
Acid Snake seems like he is *** that a kernel exploit got leaked, which is why he tweeted “here’s all of @qwikrazor87’s exploits”
He’s only killing the scene. Get rid of him.
It is somewhat hard to understand why qwikrazor87 gets banned (but then reinstated without mod powers) for leaking his own kernel exploit, but Acid_Snake remains a mod after leaking every single remaining VHBL/TN-V exploit (by qwikrazor87) out of spite.
Qwikrazor would have leaked them anyway, Acid_Snake just made it faster.
Plus, afaik, that wasn’t qwikrazor’s work alone.
101in1 Megamix already patched,GO! SUDOKU is working
Although this huge leak doesn’t seem good, sony might not want to take down all these games at once. That gives us a little more of a chance to find an exploit game we can still use. dood
Thats an interesting point if a list of 200 games were said to be exploitable would they all be removed.
Indeed are all the games in this “leak” exploitable or is Sony response being tested.
RIP _PSP_PSN
Ok so I am in need of some help. I’ve never done a vita exploit before. How do i go about doing this? I’m getting patapon 2 on the psn store and cant find the save file exploit.
Will these work on my 3DS? I would like to play bugless PS1 games on my 3DS.
Dang why couldn’t they wait till october so I could put one of these on my vita tv.
Blame Acid Snake.
Is there a new Instant Loader for 3.18? (similar to Fieldrunners, Numblast/Qruton and Sweet Fuste)
*Sweet Fuse
My head just exploded… *** happened?
how do i install the patapon one? .-.
Cubixx, Arcade Darts (again?), International Athletics exploits are not working on 3.18… Or maybe there were some specific way to trigger it..
Ok I was able to put the gladiator demo on my vita . So dose anyone know if it can be exploited ? Could try anyway lol
I’m trying to use this exploit with N.O.V.A., european version, but it doesn’t work… it always says “Load Failed. The data is corrupted”.
What do i have to do?
also im trying to get to work on pataon us but after all steps to load it freezes and thats all nothing else can anyone helpme out?
MyStylist v3 doesn’t seem to work. I can get it to crash, but that’s about it.
What’s the name of “Gladiator Begins”, “Tekken 2” and “Sports Superbike 2” in JP PSN store?
剣闘士 グラディエータービギンズ, 鉄拳2. As far as I can tell, a Japanese version of Sports Superbike 2 doesn’t exist.
Thank you so very much! 🙂
I’ve managed to boot Armored Core 3 Portable’s exploit just fine.
@3.18?
Where is ZHP?
It was removed from all stores.
Is the exploit for Patapon 2 EU only? Because I just downloaded the US version for this.
I feel like I checked everywhere and I understand everything is a bit hectic right now, but I seriously can’t find any info on an exploit release for patapon 2 for the US.
Wololo and his staff are a bunch of hypocrites.
Sure, Qwikrazor87 leaked a kernal exploit. Big deal. That doesn’t make it Okay for you to leak over 50 exploits worked on by multiple users because youre all ***.
Tweeted by Acid_Snake
ePSP is finally dead (thanks @qwikrazor87), hopefully we can now do some native work. First thing I’ll work on is the open vita SDK.
We should really be thanking Wololo and Acid_Snake for all the unprofessional coverage on the situation over the past week.
I bet Sony is laughing their *** off.
Did you ever consider that one of these VHBL exploits would lead to an actual Vita Exploit? Didn’t think so.
How am I a hypocrite? This whole stuff happened without me knowing anything about it, and is the result of internal conflicts between qwikrazor and Acid_Snake. I dare you to find a single quote from me where I said that this leak of 50 exploits was ok. I am pretty angry about it and you might have noticed that as a result, Acid_Snake is currently not an admin of my site anymore (although what happens next is under discussion).
dont drag wololo into this idi0t,if theres anyone who cares about the scene its him
acid_snake and his stupid friend should just leave the scene for good and come back when theres a permanent future proof exploit
wololo i have been following your work since the time the psp 3k released and am a big fan
dont listen to these stupid people who want to blame you
I mean I appreciate the download packages. But this could have been done in a much better way if it was to get people as many exploits as possible to play with. Or you know – keep it to yourselves TILL WE NEED THEM! As we already had 2 exploits announced which combined made sure we had VHBL and eCFW. So there was absolutely no need to do this that I can see. Unless of course it was to start work on native vita hacking and hoping Sony would screw up and create holes on the native vita side by rushing firmwares out to fix all these exploits!
black screen after lose in survival mode in tekken 2
excuse me,i am hongkong player,this store doesn’t have patapon 1,2 and gladiator begins,I follow the list,find Cubixx,Robin Hood The Return Of Richard,Puzzle Scape,Karakuri,which game should I choose to run 3.18 tn-v system
haha, you guys are actually complaining that they leaked hacks and they are bad XD i think its good! sony will be able to patch every single one of them! you hacks/pirates suck. unless its for old school emulators tho 😛 but they still sell psp and ps one games on the store.
No developers make money when those games are sold buddy, only the used game store u buy it from…
Also this is the most rediculous leak I have ever seen and this even trumps when geohot and p0sixninja almost burned 2 boot rom exploits over a silly argument, luckily it didn’t go as far as these two buffoons wow, anyways hopefully now the cfw scene is dead because I think maybe its time to focus on opening up the actual psvita,
This backwards compatible stuff is trash everyone can buy a psp for much cheaper anyways it makes no sense to buy a vita for psp games at all
Actually it does. The PSP is *** for most of the games on it. Why? Because of only one Analog nub. So the PSP side of the PS Vita makes PSP games WAY better gameplay wise because of the ability to use the second analog stick/whatever it’s called for games that really needed it. Peace Walker, God Eater Burst, etc. There’s many games that are far more enjoyable on PS Vita because of that extra stick.
Not to mention PSP games run way better on the Vita.
ok which one of these exploits boots to TNV the fastest currently I am running numblast on 3.01, is it even worth updating to 3.18 or am I missing something
No. Unless u want to play newer vita games and access to PSN (I buy physical). I have 1.6x vita fat which load fieldrunner fast, 3.01 vita slim jp and a 3.18 vita slim gladiator exploit.
i tried loading the file with talkman travel tokyo and it loads up and shows loads up and the screen goes black does anyone have tips to help me out?
karakuri doesn’t work save files broken
I got Patapon for free when Sony was having a sale.
International Athletics works . just go to load profile and start multiplayer then single psp then make an event then start it then the vhbl starts 🙂
it’s true. work! olleh
sony maybe laughing now wait till no one buys any more vitas then whos laughing