PS vita: more pirated games surface
A couple more PS Vita warez releases surfaced on the intertubes over the weekend. One (the binding of Isaac), allegedly a leak from one of the Team FreeK members, and the other one (htoL#NiQ) which apparently originated from the same person who had previously released two other PS Vita warez games last week.
The release of the Binding of Isaac happened on 4chan, by someone nicknamed “~~FreeK”. Given the anonymity of users on 4chan, there is no easy way to tell if this was Team FreeK’s official release or a leak of their work. In any case, some of the prx files in that release seem to indicate that Team FreeK’s tool “Vitamin” was used to perform the dump. Team FreeK have made no special announcement on their twitter account
The other game was Japanese game htoL#NiQ, allegedly released on Chinese forums, apparently by the same person who released Tokyo Xanadu and Odin Sphere last week. Fans have been fast at providing English-translated versions of the game, a few hours after the Japanese version was released.
Full fledged piracy now appears inevitable on the PS Vita, with two distinct groups apparently willing to make those warez releases, plus an undisclosed additional number of people with the technique to do it.
According to my sources, the warez release of the game does not ship with all the goodies of the Yomawari/htol#NiQ Collector’s edition. The choice is yours to support the developers or not
As usual for piracy related talks, I apologize but will not provide any link to the sources.
A side note: there was some minor controversy over the weekend on how I show skepticism about the “Chinese hacker” and his/her ability to dump vita games, while I seem to give way more credit to other groups. The reason is simple: Team FreeK (and other groups) have been in direct contact with me for a while and have provided me proof beyond reasonable doubt that their tool is real and works as advertised. The Chinese hacker, however, has never been in contact with me so I have no way to verify the extent of their work, besides what’s made publicly available so far. If that person is willing to provide me with proof of their work (not warez releases, but an explanation, in English, of how the dumping process is happening, and what securities they have to overcome in the OS), they can reach me on twitter, in a PM on /talk, or by email. I know it sucks that I don’t read Chinese, but that’s how it is right now. Also, for people who want to complain about the supremacy of English and the USA, I’m not American and English is not my mother language either. I had to learn it at school. You should too, it’s an important language. (So is Mandarin, don’t get me wrong)
First
great Job!
Btw: is your username referring to this flappy jesus?
You will always be last in our hearts
So?
Second
English is the supreme language. Mandarin is trash compared to English in the business world.
At least for now.
congratz, everyone know what you talk , but you dont understand orthers (Y)
Yup..agree in that
English and the USA? Not UK? I’m pretty sure no one dreamed of America when english was in use in at least 4 countries (Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England).
Except that people were speaking a version of Gaelic in Scotland and Ireland way before English became more common.
English is also not my mother language, though I think Japanese is the most important language, ahehe.
But here I am, learned English in school instead.
While I would agree that Japanese is the better language, it is not the more important one. Japanese won’t get you nearly as far in the business world compared to English. It’s just not a useful language, unless you just like to import from Japan a lot, which is something only serious gamers do.
I’m happy to have English as my mother language it’s such a complicated thing to get into from another language, and so is Japanese something I’ve been trying to get into more
English is your “mother language”? I’ve only heard you and Wololo refer to it as such because it’s either “mother tongue” or “first language”.
2nd, and really does it matter to be 1st or 2nd?
Oh so maybe French is your language 🙂
In anyway it’s great thing that we have Henkaku but games piracy is not good.
I hope that remote play could work with any game of my unpirated PS3 on the vita side but it’s only server side on the PS3.
oh come on, they don’t contact with you just because it’s not necessary…no related to language
I’m sure that even you know Chinese you’ll still read nothing about the detail of their work,because they didn’t say that.
Wololo is try to creat his own value. He think all hackers must go through his web site to proof their work. The game you talk about was released at last night. Tonight I Just Check their forum. They just released hatsune miku project diva x already.
No, what wololo is saying is that he cannot say for sure whether or not they really do have a method or not, because he does not know them, and they have not gone into depth as to how their tool works.
The value of this website is implicit. It has been at the forefront of sony handheld hacking since before China got internet ffs.
It’s fine if they don’t contact me. But then people shouldn’t start complaining to me when I say that I haven’t been given any proof. It’s one or the other, guys, people can’t have both an entitlement attitude of “we won’t explain anything to Wololo, he has to figure out by himself where to find information about our secret process” and then “Wololo said he can’t verify our work, what a ***” . Am I making sense here?
Well I guess the vita’s pircry is more then a reality now. When team freek release’s their tools, its gonna be more then just few games. Big titles as well. Looking forward.
Just throw some pots and pans down the stairs then you will have learned the skills of talking Mandarin. To the chinese hackers…*** and keep leaking. Who cares about e-peen fame??? Just be happy that you are able to get out to the internet and upload.
i can confirm they all work 🙂 and may piracy live on arrrr arrr arrr
Wololo, I discovered your blog just recently and I want to congratulate with you for all the hard work and the passion you put on this website. Your side note and the decision to not post any piracy link it’s just another proof of how great is what you’re doing. I will keep following your daily update about the Vita scene, thanks again.
very good
time to buy a PS Vita.
Excited!
Not first
I think they can’t decrypt games larger than 1gb due to the vita’s limited memory,it would take too long.Team freeks should make a pc tool for a faster decryption.If they can’t,prepeare for a few hours of game decryption
No love for Cobra fin,who said game sharing on vita is only possible through their hardware’s monetary gimmicks
Some1 claims to have released vitamin on the game backup reddit for the vita is it legit? (16 minutes ago)
Screw you, bastards, seriously. You should all just die.
also b/c of it team freek mr.gas major tom and the flow have quit. a sad day indeed, humanities greed has outshined the hunt for knowledge.
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