Pong for the Vita Native exploit, by Barnabe42
Although we haven’t talked about it recently, progress is still happening on the Native side of the force.
/talk user Barnabe42 played with the Test_Motion sample that was added to Vitasploit back in December, and he posted a screenshot of a working Pong game running through the Vita native exploit.
You might remember that I had promised a $20 PSN code to the first Pong homebrew to work on vitasploit, and it appears we have a winner.
Unfortunately, my 2.60 Vita is on a boat somewhere between Japan and the US right now, so I cannot test the result. Barnabe42 was kind enough to share the source code with me, and you can download it below.
He emphasized that this has only been tested on firmware 3.18.
If you guys can confirm in the comments section that this works fine, I’ll definitely send Barnabe42 his PSN code asap.
And yes, I realize that to the trained dev who has dug a bit into the native hack so far, this is “only” an additional sample showcasing the features of the motion control, but I feel that, from the perspective of the end user, this is the first actual playable native homebrew relying on Vitasploit.
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Source: Barnabe42 on /talk
nice!
Everybody jump around now!
Sweet! More power!
Awesome, will check it out soon! From the screenshot, it appears to only be taking up the left side of the screen, anyone know why? Is it a limitation, or just that it’s a work in progress?
Just tested, and it works nicely 🙂 Though I am on 3.18. Ball moves a bit slow, and motion is a tad over sensitive, but it’s pong all right 😀
just tested: It works
Thanks for confirming!
picture: http://puu.sh/fNUBF.png
Thanks nicolas
lol
This is why I’m still on 3.18. q:
To play pong?
Yep, thanks for asking.
you are kidding right 😕
Yes I will believe that………….
When me $hit turns purple and starts to smell like rainbow sherbet.
why is your vita on a boat? could have just put it in your backpack while moving
Because I already carried a lot of stuff, including an infant and a 3 year old kid. 🙂 Also these:
https://twitter.com/frwololo/status/550124720322908160
Awesome that is cool i thought i was only the crazy one that owned 4 vitas at one time LOL 😀
Awesome Indeed. I shall eagerly wait to see what you guys can come up with next time :P.
Works for me on 3.18 !!! nice
Don’t work ePSP
It’s not for the epsp. Can you not read where it says it’s for the native vita back on 3.18?
I soooo hope someone figures out how to root (jailbreak?) the PS Vita sometime this year. We seem to be going from exploit to exploit and Sony keeps pulling the exploit game down from their network. As has been said many times on this website, it would be great to finally root the Vita as was done with the PSP. Hope I got the verbage correct on this. I have two PS Vitas:
PS Vita 1000 with 3.01 Vita OS
PS Vita 2000 with 3.36 Vita OS
Maybe someone good with the Vita SDK can author with it, a general rooting application that can be downloaded from a Mac or a PC to the PS Vita. Imagine that!
Sorry but you can’t run “official” app without sony acknowledge and signed it.
>Maybe someone good with the Vita SDK can author with it
It’s not easy as you think, i’m sure Vita security system is very good compared to iOS and Android.
How exactly do you run this?
im sorry, i cant figure out how to run this
Follow this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR_pqWwfVKs
Nice work Barnabe42! And thanks for the update wololo.
I think you have to put the files on a http server and from you vita browse to the server.
Sorry. Instructions are in the readme. Download python and then run server.py.
i did that.
Is there a reasonable expectation of this progressing or is it better to get the next(if ever) 3.36 exploit?
You can’t really ever know, who knows that the future might hold… A better question to ask yourself is: Do I really gain anything from updating? And if so, is it worth the risk of not getting the native hack?
i am not sure about this but i thing this is just jquery and html5 a simple webapplication game that can run on the any browser . whay are you guys call this a native hack ?
i dont konw may be its more then jqury html5 game
It takes advantage of a webkit exploit, so yes technically this is the closest to native we’ve been – at least publicly.
The “native” part of it is the use of the motion control, which requires the hack. The rest, yes, is pure javascript/jquery, but at this stage any progress is good in my book
Not work for me on vita 3.36. :-/
“Starting server on 192.168.1.33:8888
192.168.1.18 – – [12/Feb/2015 12:04:47] “GET / HTTP/1.1” 200 –
192.168.1.18 – – [12/Feb/2015 12:04:47] “GET /include/exploit.js HTTP/1.1” 200 –
192.168.1.18 – – [12/Feb/2015 12:04:47] “GET /include/jquery.min.js HTTP/1.1” 200 –
192.168.1.18 – – [12/Feb/2015 12:04:47] “GET /include/lib.js HTTP/1.1” 200 –
192.168.1.18 – – [12/Feb/2015 12:04:47] “GET /include/rop.js HTTP/1.1” 200 –
192.168.1.18 – – [12/Feb/2015 12:04:47] “GET /include/functions.js HTTP/1.1” 200 –
192.168.1.18 – – [12/Feb/2015 12:04:47] “GET /include/shell.js HTTP/1.1” 200 –
192.168.1.18 – – [12/Feb/2015 12:04:47] “GET /include/utils.js HTTP/1.1″ 200 –
[+] DBG: Not Supported !
[+] DBG: Not Supported !
[+] DBG: Not Supported !
(…)
[+] DBG: Initialization failed!”
Maybe i don’t have the good libs?!
Webkit exploits have been patched on 3.36 FW.
thank you.
I analyzed the files after you publish my comment and I found the exploit did not support higher firmware to 3.18 …
no solutions for now?
Sadly, it does not work for me on 3.36 either…
Yeah, that’s no surprise, because the webkit exploit doesn’t work on firmwares above FW 3.20.
Nice work Barnabe42 btw. 🙂
This is only for people on 3.18 (and maybe below), anything above that will not be able to do this.
What’s the Vita Native Exploit? I have the Numblast Exploit on 3.36
The Numblast Exploit is a program that runs in the PSVita’s PSP Emulator (which means it’s limited to the specs of a PSP).
The Native Exploit is a program that runs off the PSVita’s main operating system, which can (potentially) give you access to all the system’s resources.
Currently, the only way to run a Native Exploit is through the webbrowser on a version of PSVita Equal to or below 3.18…
Umm… to be honest the title of this article is a bit misleading.
I took a look at the source code and its simply just javascript leveraging HTML5’s canvas element for the majority of the pong game. The only piece(s) of code that are leveraged outside the scope of the regular javascript stuff is a call to get gyroscrope data from the vita. But nothing about this was really ‘native’.
Have nothing against this tho… cheers to Barnabe42. Its simply that this really isn’t *native* by definition, and I think it may cause some unnecessary hype :/
That is exactly true, I was just trying the EXISTING API.
I mentioned in the talk, this is nothing but playing with the work of great people in order to understand how they have implemented their hack.
This is simply running an existing pong, it was still fun to do it…
It is still amazing to see how much js library you can use.
Yeah. Like I said I think its definitely cool what you did. The only “problem” I had was with the title of the article… nothing that you did.
Cheers again. And nice pong game 🙂 You a JS/Web developer mainly… or are is that just another language in your skillset?
I don’t know java, just learning, I have been doing C++\C# for over 10 years.
Here is a short nooby instalation guide:
1. download and install python 2.6.5 (i had problems with higher versions.)
2. download and install capstone 3.0.1 for python 2.6
3. download the pong archive, open it and place the folder whereever you want to.
4. double click on the server.py
5. enter the address into the webbrowser of the psvita.
6. have fun
the server wont start. it says starting server, but the vita wont load the server address it gives me
try to turn off your Windows firewall 😉
Wow i’ll try this..i Belive this is the New future of vita
Small homebrew game playable from the web browser?
i think that everything begins with small steps….even if is not what you were thinking,maybe in the near future we’ll get better stuff
How can i save the game file permanently into the vita, for this pong and possibly for future aplications???
Web browsers don’t work like that… You’d need to have a HTTP-Host (like Apache2) on your PSVita to serve the files to the browser. Maybe you can get the files from their directory, but some tests I did way back (when I got my Vita in 2012) I couldn’t explore folder hierarchy with the Vita’s browser… I can only contact the web, not its local storage…
I remember that the system allows downloads of images and videos directly, then if the system believe that an image or a video is downloaded, changing the extension of a rom for example, nes, change the extension to .jpg to store it within the vita and then with some emulator upload jpg really are roms games…?
if we change the extension of a rom to .jpg or .mpg, could we download them into the vita. later with homebrew load them to play…?
I’m missing all the action. If only I’d stayed on firmware 3.18.
Good job Barnabe42, if you need more finanacial support tell us where donate bitcoins
The guys that need to be praised are those who created the hack,
https://github.com/Hykem/vitasploit
I have done nothing…..
Will this work with PlayStation TV?
maybe in the near future we may be able to have a launcher that will inject unsigned code via browser exploit and allow running of code like gateway online launcher 😉
Can the psp emulator access the network? If yes, then maybe a tiny http server homebrew can host the files needed for the exploit. And from the vita browse access the localhost to trigger the exploit.
There’s already one. PSP-HTTPD
heck yeah. Hope this opens the door for more Native Homebrew and Emulators.
Any news on new 3ds release for Friday? Will it allow homebrew and is it worth it? Currently have 2 ds lites, one 3ds phat, and one 3ds xl. Also have four psps for homebrew and two vitas, only one for homebrew, the original Oled. Can’t really find specs on new 3ds just claims of better processor and 3d viewing. Anyone got a link to specs please share.
Your perspective is definitely right, Wololo. This is pretty cool. It feels like the first real homebrew. (even though I know the people who actually found the exploit and made vitasploit and such are working much harder)
Nice to see some progress on this :D.
At the folks mentioning 3.36: Really? There was a post here specifically warning everyone NOT to update if you ever wanted to have access to anything that came of the native exploit.
But some people may purchase the PS Vita only after >FW3.30 is out. It’s still great to see progress in other firmwares though!
Not sure if it works.. since I don’t have the right vita version… but I threw the Pong files out my web space for people who aren’t interested in muckin’ round with python. Lemme know if it works – http://vitapong.gq
Just realized that this won’t help you in retrieving the gyro feedback from the vita… but w/e.
I ran to get my vita immediately,
I read the comment again and saw the post below it.
I returned my vita to my drawer.
I act like nothing happened.
Why? Gyro data shouldn’t be that interesting to you.. unless you’re a dev.
This is not NATIVE OMG WHAT A FAKE EXPLOIT!
This is interesting. I don’t want to destroy the party but…. The Vita scene is like 20 % of the 3ds scene. If we look at the 3ds scene things are going rather Ok, very slowly with babysteps. Emulators are not common but there are at least an Ok snes emu. So the vita will perhaps offer a nice n64 emulator in 2017 if I calculated correct! Then I will buy a second vita for sure 🙂
I’ve been surfing online more than 4 hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours.
It’s pretty worth enough for me. Personally, if all site owners and bloggers made good content
as you did, the web will be a lot more useful than ever before.
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