PS Vita: Piracy getting closer, or just another dev leak?
Rumors are surfacing from the Chinese side of the PS Vita scene. Someone allegedly released a .vpk file of official game Tokyo Xanadu, decrypted. A download link for the Japanese version of the game appeared on Chinese forums a few hours ago, and apparently the game runs on Hacked Vitas through HENkaku.
The file is big (more than 2GB), and according to the author of the release, VitaShell is not able to install it. However, manually unzipping the vpk file and copying the files at the right location on the memory card allows people to run the game, DRM free.
A similar release happened a few weeks ago, with game Adventure Time. It was later confirmed that that specific release was a leak from a development console, of the DRM-free version of the game. In the case of game Tokyo Xanadu, at this point, it is too early to say if this release is also a developer leak, or if someone found a way to decrypt PS Vita game binaries. However the author claims he/she is able to dump any cartridge requiring firmware 3.60 or below.
We at wololo.net have not verified that this release is actually real and that the game indeed runs. Comments from trusted Chinese scene sites however seem to indicate that the release is real and the game does runs on HENkaku enabled Vitas. This would make it the first decrypted PS Vita game release, but for now this needs to be taken with a pinch of salt.
For obvious reasons I cannot link to the source here. Thanks to the people who contacted me about this though, and thanks for the screenshots.
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First, you deserve to be banned.
You deserve a punch in your nuts!
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Wow amazing 😀
I wonder how thus will turn out?
This is wonderful! Talk about progress. Would be great to see a CFW starting to happen. Or a more of a permanent Henkaku.
i think sony paid people to make henkaku
Don’t be stupid.
but it did boost vita (ps tv also) sales a lot (at least in my country) , more than 1000 vitas were sold!
after the d.ay henkaku was released
Stop right there.
That is nowhere near possible.
xErwin have theoretically thrue 😀 Vita is in the near of end. This hack is very attractive for new buyers 😀 No … Sony didn’t paid people for hack his devices 😀 5 years of developing, reverse engineering, study of webkit and other brings “some fruits” for us … Nothing more (no Sony money, but people’s interesting in hacking).
my first comment was a joke
In all reality, due to the lack of Vita sales, it would almost make sense for Sony to “unlock” the Vita from ANY copy protection. It would sell a lot more units and they’d still make a HUGE profit off the outrageous memory card prices :)…I know this would never happen, but once people found out they could run pirated games on the Vita, they’d buy one to try it out…then they’d learn how much the memory cards cost and either buy the memory cards and deal with the costs or they’d just let the Vita collect dust, either way it would boost system sales and popularity
my father who owns a chain of console shops sold over 1000 vitas and 100 vita cards after henkaku was released (almost all of them asked if device is on 3.60 or lower(we offer console test before someone buy’s them)
Free knowledge like this doesn’t just help, it promote deoacrmcy. Thank you.
any thing can happend
I wouldn’t say they paid anyone it’s more likely it was someone who handles the updates for Sony who got their hands a bit dirty because HENkaku isn’t capable on any version before 3.60 meaning it’s something from the 3.60 update that made it capable whether that’s the case, or just the right timing HENkaku definitely knows more then their telling us, and that’s both alarming, and interesting all at he sametime
my idea is that exploit used by henkaku was just a test by sony to see how would it do in the scene.
This is utter ***. Sony is a known and established company, they won’t risk their reputation for a console that they abandonned several years ago.
This is false. Henkaku could run on older firmware but nobody bothered to make it work, as there is not much benefit in doing so.
Older firmwares can be used for Henkaku, it’s just that no one wants to mess with that, it doesn’t worth the time to port it.
Time to find source 😀 Who now will really “first” ? 😀
Twitter is always first.
Good point. I hadn’t thhougt about it quite that way. 🙂
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We will have to wait and see if they can do this for other games. I don’t think $ony can mess with Chinese hackers.
why not?
The Chinese are many and, while their swords are poor grade plastic, the shards stick well.
Your ps4 and vita are made in china with cheap plastic as well. Flow them in bin.
Because they’re chinese.
Japan vs China
Man that’s hard it’s like quality vs quantity….
Well, of course, I’m not a trusted source as I just run other people’s codes, but I did manage to get past the main screen at least. Got bored after though.
I really wish you wouldn’t report on piracy here. I feel you’re just incredibly hypocritical. Claiming to not support piracy, but then pouncing on any chance to report on it. This really shows the dark, click baity side of wololo.net – if you really don’t support piracy, can you not put your morals over your ad revenue and view counters?
It’s a news site. Let’s say piracy is ‘bad news’ – you don’t think it’s important too?
Get the *** out of here. Piracy will be the only thing that keeps the Vita alive in the end.
heck yes
i mean heck yes
way he*ll will be replace with heck 😮
This isn’t your safe place.
Yet you clicked on the title to read and see. I second u/All news. Wololo.net has always been reporting whats happening in the scene and this is a big thing right now to write about. Everybody is interested.
Anonanon, we report on relevant and important news of the scene, while staying within legal boundaries. This is important news for the scene. Just because we talk about it doesn’t mean we condone it in any way. Read my article “piracy doesn’t make sense anymore” if you want a clear understanding of where I personally stand on this topic.
piracy is good news, just pucking accept it or i will smash that teeth out of your pretty face 🙂
“TheRealSlimShady”
My, my what would your mother say if she knew that you’re flinging around such aggressive threats in her basement?
Fully agreed.
I never understood the point of informing everyone there is piracy, when you’re not supporting it
Piracy is news, but by your logic that means if someone gets shot then tv news companies shouldn’t broadcast news about it?
If wololo supported piracy he would of linked to the source, but nope he is just telling people what is happening on the scene.
Groups of people complaining he never posts news about vita hacking and then another group of people complaining he’s posting news about hacking, hahaha he can’t win!
News is news they have to report on it to keep the interest of their viewers, and keep everyone informed on what’s happening good, or bad to know what to stay away from, and go towards if you censor the news, and information as a whole we’ll eventually as a people forget the fine line between what is, and isn’t accepted it generally not a good idea trust me while it may seem like their promoting it by mentioning it they aren’t because they aren’t only saying how bad it is for the console, but not giving the resources to preform it, and most of the avg readers out there won’t put the time into finding it as it’s too much of a chore it’s psychology baby understand it, and you can go far
Note though I gave about half a *** on this paragraph so if you don’t like it don’t worry I didn’t even give it a second read
I believe it’s called ‘freedom of information’.
You can search for “Tokyo Xanadu vpk chinese” on google, then go for a twitter link 😉
FORBIDDEN TO POST HERE 😀 !
Lol, well they are avoiding a Law Suit from Sony ATM they are still well in the rights to talk about the Piracy/Leak, but by posting a way to download it through links, and sources on the thread that would cross that very fine line of legality that most of these Twitter posters are lucky to get away with
WOW!! Amazing!!! I really wish can Release the game “Superbeat Xonic”, is the only game i want to play and i can’t buy at my country 🙁
Getting Closer and closer!
Ooo exciting, at very least its another free game to play with haha, trying to find a copy but its proving more difficult than it was to gind adventure time, Im sure ill find it soon
whats your email and I will send you the link
Thanks man but all good, found it haha
Hey man, please send me the link
loverali94@gmail.com
Thanks
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IT’S HAPPENING!
Oh my god I’m so happy!
I know, I’ve been waiting since 3.52 finally it’s here lol hopefully we get CFW with all these PUP dumps so we can spoof our FW version, and also have some awesome CFW exclusive apps ; )
i think that is , we done , piracy is avalible
Vita has been done for years already, pls.
How do I install it? where i’m supposed to put the unzipped files?
We don’t know if it’s the same as Adventure time. So we’ll have to wait to see how this goes.
I got C2-12828-1 when trying to launch the game. I extracted xanadu.vpk to ux0:app/PCSG00608 then installed xanadu0.vpk. Anyone had this issue?
No. just install it through Vita Shell. Then play it.
If you’re running it on a Vita TV you have to run a whitelisting app first to make it playable
The sequence is wrong. You need to install xanadu0 first, then extract xanadu.And you must not install any upgrade.
Working for me.
1. You must have Henkaku installed on your PSVITA (Currently
only supports fw 3.60).
2. You are required to have an ftp client installed on your PC, I
recommend Filezilla.
3. Open up Vitashell and press SELECT, note the server address
prompted on your screen.
4. Open your ftp client and connect to the address shown on
screen.
5. Create a directory in /ux0: (Example: /ux0:/VPK)
6. Copy the vpk to that directory.
7. Disconnect the FTP server by pressing CIRCLE and navigate to
your VPK directory on your Vita.
8. Install xanadu0.vpk
9. Once finished installing, press SELECT again and reconnect to
the server via your FTP client.
10. Navigate to /ux0:/app/PCSG00608
11. Extract data files to the directory via your FTP client.
12. Launch the game.
You could use the File Explorer built into every Windows OS it’s as simple as typing in “ftp://192.168.X.XX:1337” without quotes, and replacing x with what your HENkaku ftp says, and hitting enter once, so no extra downloads, etc
windows is not THE os… you can use better os you know….
“better” is an opinion, don’t be a damn hypocrite.
lol stay on your windaube you right lol
It’s Whom? under a different name (Once I make a new name it doesn’t change till I wipe my cookies so yeah ( -_- ) )
Anyway I use Windows, and Manjaro Linux as my two Dual Boot Options I just use Windows primarily to handle my files because it’s more intuitive to me as I have a better understanding of the OS inside, and out including all the ways to keep Microsoft from dumping any data from my PC
also I just want to put this out there whoever uses Ubuntu it’s total garbage IDK how you guys can tell me that’s a favorable Linux OS Manjaro is much more refined, and it doesn’t get half the respect it deserves I swear ID get it at all
I’m gonna seed this until sony comes to my house to arrest me 🙂
Good news but the only piracy I want to see in the vita are the *** memory cards. If they finally crack that stupid encryption on the card and the vita, we will be able to use other methods to have capacity. I won’t care to have a brick stuck on the back side of the Vita as long as I can have more than 16 gigs without paying for a second console for it.
Not really interested in pirating new vita games. I hope henkaku gets good emulator support for older games.
OH LET”S BREAK IT DOWN!
It works great 😀
https://gbatemp.net/threads/potential-vita-backup-loading-breakthrough.438668/page-2#post-6617374
You guy might be interested in the translation.
Can confirm it works. Now we wait to see if it’s a dev console leak or the real deal.
can I have the link? can I test the game? 🙂
*** actually works lol.
Ingtshis like this liven things up around here.
it’s true, and easy to install.
OMG hope this isn’t true… This would totally kill development on PS Vita if ever… I just want piracy on PSP/PS1 as this would attract userbase and at the same time promote vita games and regain upward trend on sales. But piracy on Vita games is another thing.
Damn…. Hack won’t kill something already dead ! Except in Japan…
I should told “Piracy won’t kill something already dead”.
good point
So many happy kids there that is going to come back here all nasty and butthurt if this leak turns out to be the same as Adventure Time leak lol
The theory is he had a DRM free dev copy and didn’t actually break the decryption and reinject the header into the eboot, but rather he leaked the dev version their company was translating and is just saying that for attention or to cover the fact it was a dev copy to shift blame from the translation company.
He was asking if Ys was using the same company as a way to figure out if this was indeed the case.
I see… thanks for the clarification, as i do not know of the theory beforehand hence was confused by frogboy reply.
But IMO, i think this theory make alot of sense, considering both Y8 and tokyo xandu are publish and produce by nihon falcon, it isnt too surprising that both game rights of translation is given to a single company.
thank you to the chinese programmer decrypter for that news, psvita hack full some day.
Can someone help me? I have a ps vita and a 4gb memory with my account signed in and a bunch of games backups in my pc. I want to buy a new 16 gb memory. Can I use a new memory and play my backups without connecting to psn and updating to 3.61?
Yes, you can, changing memory cards doesn’t make you connect to internet or anything like that :O
Yes. Use QCMA when you get your new memory card.
Hi Comrades! I successfully installed this game on my vita and now I don’t know how it delete. I’m delete folder with this game in ux0:/app, but shortcut on desctop not deleted and now I can see error on press it. Please tell me how right deleting installed .vpk apps. THX!
UPDATE: I’m f*cking idiot. Long press on shortcut solve my problem )))