Team FreeK’s Vitamin leaked, opening the valves of piracy on the PS Vita
Well, I assumed it wouldn’t be long before tools to enable piracy on the PS Vita were made available, but I surely wasn’t expecting it to happen so soon.
Somebody leaked Team FreeK‘s Vitamin tool, and the number of PS Vita warez releases went up exponentially over the past few hours, with several people confirming this is the real thing.
In the wake of the release, famous hacker TheFloW stated he, Mr Gas, and Major_Tom are behind the tool, which got apparently leaked by one of their testers. If I may give my opinion here, I’ll state that it was a bad move to admit being the people who wrote this tool, as this could bring legal attention to them moving forward.
@theflow0 Major Tom shared with a group of people and one of them leaked it.
— TheFloW (@theflow0) August 29, 2016
One thing that’s clear based on the screenshots that people have been sharing is that the leaked version is not a final version of Vitamin. It’s at least lacking the version number and progress bar that was shown in some of Team FreeK’s youtube videos.
A screenshot from Team FreeK’s youtube video, showing clear differences in the tool.
TheFloW has stated he will not be working on Vitamin anymore given the circumstances of the leak, and will not make a proper release.
People are reporting mitigated success using the tool. Although many people have been releasing VPKs on typical Warez channels, not so many of the releases have been reported working so far. Some people are also having issues dumping some specific games. The tool that got leaked certainly has some limitations, and might not ever get an update after TheFloW’s statement.
Source: sadly, it appears the leak happened on our forums. We have removed links to Vitamin, and we ask people to not share this tool here on wololo.net, given that the goal of Vitamin is clearly to bypass DRM protections and has nothing to do with homebrew. We’ll take appropriate action with people who share links to Vitamin moving forward.
Link gone, no fun allowed.
Thanks.
The link is not gone, visit reddit and the common vita places and you will find it. i wont post it.
Fun? This just cost us a properly finished tool because some idiot couldn’t hold their gob and wanted notoriety no one is giving or cares about.
This hurts us in the long run. I’d love to dump my carts to keep my collection all together digitally but now all we have is an incomplete tool that doesn’t get the job done like it could have.
Congrats to the loser that leaked it and those that spread it. You cost us dearly.
I have no idea how people can pick such terrible testers. Regardless, it isn’t enough to get me off TN-V. Hopefully Flow re-assesses his friendships instead of punishing everyone in the scene, but we’ve seen how this goes before many times. Oh well…
“Vitamin is clearly to bypass DRM protections” and the psp cfw’s you currently host don’t? you may as well remove them too.
Thanks, this is a good point, and I think I need to answer that.
There two major differences here which is where I draw the line:
1) PSP CFWs do not have for only goal to bypass DRMs. As a matter of fact, one of theeir main goals is to enable homebrews, just like HENkaku
2) Piracy was available on the PSP way before my site existed. Although this is no excuse, there is clearly a difference in impact when we published CFWs on the PSP in 2010, 5 years after piracy had been made available on the device, versus here, a mere day after the release. In 5 years, I might feel it will ok to share links to Vitamin, who knows.
When the storm had passed my dear friend…
smoke has also left the scene for a while
Now you have to learn Mandarin to get an updated version
found the path “ux0:plugins/game.txt” in vitamine.
plugins are real !!!
Don’t think so. It looks like it hooks into the PSPEMU for some stuff, and then loads a plugin in the PSPEMU that does some decryption work.
Our day has finally come! Sad that it was leaked but holy *** I called it that major tom was working on vitamin ! I freaking called it yesterday, hopefully we will see an update or at very least another tool will be released once they figure out how this one works
Are you from TiZ?
sure am, sup man! haha
Lol, enjoying the release, albeit not happy how it went down.
Same here man, Im annoyed that people couldnt wait a little while longer and get a full release, ive been all over the Reddit pages and it looks like some people are getting corrupted memory cards and like 12 games are confirmed working, I would have happily waited a while longer and got a proper release, ah well, maybe other tools will spawn cus of this one
I sure hope the China dumpers had their own tools for dumping and weren’t part of the Vitamin testing group. At least then we can get a proper release from them.
Sigh… Leaks. Why is it that people leak stuff before proper releases. It sucks, because now because of this *** we arent gonna get proper dumping tools for months until some random chinese guy decides to release their tool probably. We dont even know if those dumps out there are correct/verified or not.
I love the work that these guys put on the scene, and its amazing how people can be this selffish. Nothing was gonna change after all, playing a game you dont own before or a few days after.
“TheFloW has stated he will not be working on Vitamin anymore given the circumstances of the leak, and will not make a proper release.”
How pathetic. The scene is full of drama babies, it’s almost embarrassing. He’s throwing the work in the toilet because he didn’t get the glorious release he’d hoped for?
“Join us now and share the software;
You’ll be free, hackers, you’ll be free.”
I am actually quite surprised no one here or anywhere on the forums asked for the source. I understand it is a leak and a proper release would’ve contain source code, but I’m kinda curious in how it is done. It’d be real awesome if venerable team would do at least a partial (in whatever state it was at the time of leak) source release instead of just leaving the scene.
There was no source and some of us were too pi***d off to think about it
Now it makes sense why Major_Tom suddenly left the scene…
Hmmm so is this the reason major tom left the scene?
Leakers ruin everything
This is very interesting from Wololo, I follow this blog from a long time and it is funny that Wololo says that he do not condone with “illegal backups” whilst he has access to the tool that can dump the games and confirmed also that is the real thing. My question is why not allowing people to share the tool and use it the same way that someone shared with you? I do not want to be critical just thinking why I cannot use the tool also.
Wololo won’t host Vitamin because he doesn’t want his website taken down. It’s still available (and easy to find.) A big site like Reddit can afford an army of lawyers, and I’m guessing Wololo can’t.
Yep, you got a point. Thanks for that.
WOLOLO LEAKED THE SOURCE THAT HE WAS GIVEN ACCESS TO , ON HIS OWN SITE UNDER A DIFFERENT HANDLE , TO TAKE ALL THE CREDIT IN TRUE WOLOLO FASHION
Lol.
Its kinda sad i was full of excitement for the past few days and now he abandoned us T_T
What’s the best way to get a vita on 3.60? Or is it possible to get one below 3.60 and update it to 3.60?
Many Vitas are on Craigslist that haven’t been online for a while. Also new in box *cheap* PSTVs are still all over.
get a vita slim still inside box
aaaaaa : < delay
I had chance to test the dumper from somewhere else. I backuped my Need For Speed Most Wanted cartridge with success and resinstalled it with success. I intend to use this only for my personnal backups so I don’t have to keep my cartridges with me everytime. The programmers did a very good job. It’s sad that it must have ended like this.
i tried the same game and had errors what did you do? 1.30gb?
This is depressing. Why is it that someone always has to mess things up and the people that respect, wait, and don’t complain about things always end up suffering for it? Now because of you (the leaker) we have lost one of the best devs the vita scene has ever seen. Yeah, vitamin is a big deal, but it’s not the “bigger picture here” be patient and wait like everyone else or make your own damn programs. The flow, Tom , my gas, thank you guys. For everything. I respect your work and your choices, but I hope you guys don’t let this *** discourage you from your interests and passions of exploring the unknown. There are people that appreciate what you do and I hope you guys will finish this thing and make a proper release as I won’t be using it otherwise. Thank you guys.
Dude did I just post with your account?*** happened?
Meh, the psvita games were not that great anyway.
You can also buy psvita games for a fraction of their original price because no one wants them ha ha
ITS HAPPENING
I just want to be able to dump my purchased PSP and PSOne Games so I can play them on the Vita. The ones that Sony for some reason won’t let you play.
This tool would kill Cobra Blackfin’s profits.
Is there any way to take my purchased PSP/PSOne games from TN-V and have them load from the PS Vita Menu?
I’ve been told somewhere that support for PSP/PS1 games were planned, but they aren’t in the leaked version.
Why do people have to ruin it for the rest of us?
who’s that idiot who leaked this.. curse him
I guess know we know the “real” reason why Major_Tom left the scene. Thank you for your and Team Freek’s hard work.
finally free ps vita games naw gotta fined website where the share pirate games
i just wanna play some psp backups
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The Chinese hacker was a little bit unhappy about the leak of the game “htoL#NiQ”. Initially, the game was only supposed to share with a bunch of people in a chat room. The hacker himself/herself stated very clearly “no release please”. Well you all know that this game was made public again by someone. Of course the hacker shouldn’t have released it to a chat room in the first place. Now it is unclear whether he/she would continue the work given the crazy situation after vitamin release.
Cool. Thks for the work devs.
https://twitter.com/theflow0/status/770493405948481536
TheFlow announces he will make an official release!
Praise the gods.
And name and shame “ohhh$1t4brains” for the leak.
Good to hear they will release a good copy. They dont want to leave us with a beta release. Might as well release it like they would’ve anyway.
Eventually it is bound to happen.
You can’t open the door expecting only the sunshine to come in, dust and rain will to
https://mobile.twitter.com/ScarredTroll/status/770495133859078144
Looks like we arw going to see an official release
It sems theflow changed his mind: https://mobile.twitter.com/theflow0/status/770493405948481536
Luckly just got my hands on a 3.60 yesterday. These are gonna be great times.
Me 2 man Hi5
The FloW postet hour ago on twitter that he will release officilay Vitamin tonight … ( i see a new page on torrent sites )
https://mobile.twitter.com/ScarredTroll/status/770495133859078144
Is this real