PSVita 3.52 exploit (ePSP – Pool Hall Pro) confirmed real, no release date
The Pool Hall Pro/World of Pool PSP games are notorious for being full of vulnerabilities. This series of games has been used 3 times already to run Vita exploits through its PSP emulator.
So nobody was really surprised when The Z announced a few days ago, that a new exploit had been found in the Pool Hall Pro game, and that the exploit was probably coming for firmware 3.52.
The information had initially come from Freakler over at hackinformer, and he had intentionally not made a big deal of his reveal, partly to see if the scene was paying attention, partly because his work was not complete yet.
Now we once again have all the main regions, EU (via PuzzleScape), US (via Pool Games) and finally the JP region covered for 3.52 and below
The Z was indeed paying attention, and published a news about it. Everything was fine, until the entry for the exploit got grayed out on hackinformer’s site (after having been displayed in green for weeks). This was an intentional move from them, to not mislead people into believing the hack had already been released. But this triggered the wrong reactions, with people freaking out and running all over the place like headless chickens. Was it a hoax from the Z? A conspiracy from the guys over at Hackinformer?
None of that, but this escalated quickly, with The Z and myself receiving personalized insults in our mail boxes for lying to people.
We rarely lie on wololo.net. We sometimes, however, make mistakes. But this wasn’t one of those times. Freakler has now confirmed that the exploit is real (and hackinformer told me the exploit has also been confirmed to be real by Qwikrazor87).
There is indeed a new exploit in Hall Pool Pro (and probably its EU counterpart, World of Pool), and Freakler is working on a VHBL port for it. He has not given a release date, and there might, or might not, be an eCFW release for this exploit (which is, possibly, up to Qwikrazor).
The Z has already published an article clarifying the situation earlier today, but that was published before Freakler’s confirmation, so I needed to set the record straight.
Source: hackinformer
great news, thanks
thanks for the update.i am not worried all we have to do is wait.
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what great news!!! THANK GOD I BOUGHT MY COPY BEFORE IT WAS REMOVED FROM PLAY STORE
Hopefully the game is confirmed for eCFW exploit. I’m not interested on VHBL but rather TN-V or ARK, but need a real confirmation before the game is pulled out of PSN..
I have been waiting to play some PSP games on PSTV, like Silent Hill Shattered Memories coz this game is not available to purchase on PSN.
This exploit is for only VHBL and shattered memories wasn’t even made for the PSP, so I guess you are waiting for nothing lol.
Dude your DEAD wrong LOL they have it on PSP I own the UMD. A simple Google search would show you just how wrong you are.
Check your facts, I played shattered memories to death on psp
@Wololo – When you say that you rarely lie, does that mean you’ve lied before in the past (Not saying anything bad about it or about anyone. Was simply curious on what you said when you ‘rarely’ lie.)
You know, April fools and s#!t.
who doesnt lie ??? no one (except me) is there in this world who has never lied …….
all thos who insulted u (wololo or the z), just gimme there email id to me, i wil show them how perfect they are………Those sneaky lil !diots
While I certainly think it’s ridiculous that anyone would harass you guys about an announcement that specifically said “not confirmed,” I sort of agree with yifanlu’s comment in the thread that The Z should have updated his original post to acknowledge the fact that his source had greyed out the game title, perhaps implying that the exploit was less likely to be real. Keeping news articles unaltered even as the facts change isn’t a great idea, though thankfully in this case the exploit was real. You might also consider using a more tentative title – being THE trustworthy site for this news might encourage people to jump the gun on secondhand news like this, and therefore cause more ire.
I know that there’s a lot of scene drama, but the Z and Apollo have ALWAYS been trustworthy.
Full sucks is only sucks!!
No … YOU SUCK !!!!!
sucks sucks all around, lets have a sucking orgy!
i just hope you guys could keep the good work
So sorry to heard that vita community can be douches sometime
best regard anyway
Oh mennnnnnn its HAS to work on a eCFW for PSP! God please, if you’re there, hear our prayers.
@JAMX SH: SM works great on PSTV and your wait is over. Ignore the guy below you that has no idea what he’s talking about. I just played my UMD I dumped last week on my 3.20 PSTV.
I don’t know who can insult you Wololo and you to TheZ, but without Wololo.net, my Vita was a piece of s..t but now I have Unity and PSM+ and maybe an eCfw with world of pool so thanks a lot guys for your hard work on this site and don’t listen this fuc*ing hater, I mean they don’t deserve your attention…
Quick question if I was to buy pall hall pro would the exploit still work
Yes
Good news, but I have one question – “and probably its EU counterpart, World of Pool” – how probably? Should I wait or buy it in case Sony remove it?
IN THE FACE!!!! thanks guys
Hello, i come to seek help. I am interested in trying to discover a way to produce eggs much like a chicken does. i have tested inserting the egg into myself and hoping it will act like a seed and grow like a tree in my belly but so far it has not been successful. Please help i struggle to sleep at night without an answer.
Take it easy guys. Im still enjoying my 3.18vita and waiting for this one for my 3.51vita
One thing I would like to say is please one thing to take away people take from this whole escapade is this response shows (“and this goes for Zett, Freaklier, and the rest of us in the Vita community”) The Vita is far from dead and there are still a huge number of us stuck on firmwares with no current hacks we need this and more! the demand is there!!! keep it alive its a fantastic platform with massive potential long after the AAA titles have gone!! It obliterates the 3ds in terms of power and should do in its homebrew potential longl after Sony drops it completely!!
I think i speak for the community here!
SORRY GUYS WE FREAKED OUT!!
I’m sorry for my noobness. I looked into hacks for my PSTV a couple of months ago, then randomly checked today and saw this news. I remember from back then that Sony removed some of the apps that were needed for the potential exploit.
I don’t mind doing my own research, but are there any quick steps I need to do now to make sure I can use this after I get up to speed? Should I purchase and download Pool Hall Pro if/when it gets yanked off PSN? Are there things I needed to do before and it is already too late? Thanks for any help.
It would be nice if Qwikrazor somehow managed to make a working eCFW for this. Of course I understand there is no release date. Although my only concern is Sony doing something like releasing a hot fix in the form of a stopgap update just plug the possible vulnerability by pushing out a 3.5.3, of course this would a worst case example and it’s not something I foresee Sony actually doing.
So should I buy this game? It is still available on PSN right now
It wirks on 3.51?
OK, so when it says for 3.52 and Below, that means if you are on 3.51 and you have said Game, you will be able to run it, when the Files come out correct?
Yes that is right!
OK cool. With VHBL, does CPS1, CPS2 or MVSPSP work at all or is it just the basic Emulators like SNES, the GBA, GB/GBC Emus?
and exploit files for 3.52 pro pool hall or other things BusyNoAns
Files havent been released yet, and a port of VHBL is still in the works!
Hopefully we can use the un-patched kexploit too for some TN-V or ARK goodness =D
when Qwikrazor87 confirmd the hack than its true 😉 i think wololo does not lie. and tho this assh**** the buy this game and wrote this SHAME ON YOU !!!!
At first, I thought I didn’t want to use the PSP emulator for CFW, but then I found quite a few PSOne games I wanna back up and play on my Vita, and maybe even some emulators for cartridge games I have. I’m new to Vita Homebrew, but I’m glad this is coming for 3.52, I regretted updating but I also had games to download from PSN so I had no choice.. 😛
How about 3.51 tokkiden kiwami?
Just a quick question:
Does this exploit require the “2 Vita’s” like the older exploits? or can we just use a single Vita (as thats all most of us on here would have, I gather lol). And if it DOES require 2 Vita’s, would Qwikrazor’s un-patched kexploit fix that in terms of TN-V or ARK? or would it be the same?
Im praying it isnt a 2 vita exploit, after the letdown with Puzzle Scape not being able to use 99% of homebrew due to its 1mb limit (including all emulator’s) we need something lol
If it does use the 2 vita method, then we know who to blame. Right Zett?
It was confirmed by Freakler that is does NOT require 2 consoles, that was only required for an ad-hoc exploit (which is now patched).
The news never said the exploit requires 2 devices, but it also never said that it can be done with only one device.
You cant blame people for stuff they dont know. Before freakler said something, no one knew if this requires 1 or 2 devices, therefore we cannot tell you, because we dont know.
But go ahead, blame the guy that tried to inform the masses…
“The Z and myself receiving personalized insults in our mail boxes”
Over free stuff? god this world is going to heck with snotty brats thinking they are entitled to everything.
Stupid americans…
Yeah, it’s not like anyone else on the internet makes stupid comments. It’s always some dumb American…*sigh*
But hey, at least I’m not the one making a stupid f*cking generalization.
Here’s a tip: Behind the anonymity of the internet, ANYONE can be ***. It has nothing to do with where you’re from, but of course I don’t expect you read or reply to this. After all you have to keep up the pretense of your silly agenda.
In any case, I look forward to seeing what Freaker and if it happens what Qwikrazor manage to make out of this.
It’s always interesting to see the results of a new exploit.
Monday is the scheduled maintenance for psn. So hopefully the vita community will know something by the end of next week. I’m looking forward to the exploit whether it vhbl or full epsp. Either way I’ll be a happy camper
How big is this game? I wanna snag it off PSN before its gone for my PSTV on 3.52 but would have to tether so I don’t wanna kill all my data plan
84MB 🙂
Listen to me. This exploit is fake and no such thing for this game exists anymore. Everything is already patched at 3.52. So don’t trust Zett or Wololo as they are frauds.
Stop spreading mis-information and lies, the exploits have been confirmed real!
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One thing is for sure, whoever made Pool Hall Pro and World of Pool made some serious cash from all these exploits.
The same guys that made these 2 games, also made our good friends Arcade Darts, Arcade Airhockey & Bowling & Arcade Pool (& Snooker).
(*@ο@*)
‘(*>﹏<*)′
There is no loss for us
ummmm…….question plz…..:/
the exploits are found in faulty games right?
games which are not coded very securely, no?
so why not make a small game yourself for a buck or two and make it faulty which cannot be noticed by anyone easily and get the game approved for the console, then do the exploit yourself..?
hehe…..just wondering……while wandering…..i don’t know how those $raps work……was just thinking?
answer plz 😀
is there a way to buy this game in a cfw ps3 an then transfer it to my 3.51 vita? if tjis can be posible can anybody give me a tuto how to do that? i really want to have this game if tnv or ark is posible.
thank you
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