Developer Mathieulh promises a surprise for PSP/Vita Developers on April 2nd
Dark_Alex was the king of the PSP scene with his custom firmware M33, on which pretty much all ePSP CFW today on the PS Vita are based. Mathieulh, who was involved in both the PSP and the PS3 scene and was part of Team M33, promised a “surprise” in the days to come.
April 2nd, or “March 33rd” is of course the appropriate date to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the most popular PSP Custom Firmware. The question is, what does Mathieu intend to release?
To PSP (and incidentally PS Vita) developers, a surprise awaits on March 33rd (April 2nd) to celebrate the 10th anniversary of M33! #M33
— Mathieu Hervais (@Mathieulh) March 28, 2017
Some people speculate that he plans to release the source for M33, although honestly the benefits of doing that would mostly be “historical”, as most of M33 CFW has been reverse engineered and can now be found in TN-HEN or ARK (or also on CFW Pro on the PSP).
Other people assume the release could be specific to the PS Vita. Even though the developer has been precise that this is going to be a PSP release, he’s also been following the PS Vita scene from a distance, commenting on the recent Henkaku release (and hinting that team molecule have access to an exploit on firmware 3.63, which is how they got access to the PSN passphrase and restored PSN access on 3.60).
I wonder long it will take to figure out that the new Henkaku uses the psn passphrase from 3.63 and what it actually means…
— Mathieu Hervais (@Mathieulh) March 27, 2017
Back in the PSP days, Dark_Alex and team initially had released M33 “anonymously”, pretending that M33 was a team of russian hackers. Back in the days, this started hilarious (in hindsight) flame wars between the people who would prefer to stick to Dark Alex’s “old” custom Firmware, and those who would say he could not compete against the new M33 team.
What do you think this release will be about?
Update: The release was indeed an open source version of M33 CFW and Despertar Del Cementerio.
last
thanks for early april fools
Let’s just wait and see
my guess is they have now hacked 3.63. where hackers like me can hack psvita again. Games4free h4ckers rule!
Because, as we all know, there’s Henkaku for PSP.
No. Getting the PSN Key only needs a Userland exploit,
for henkaku you need
Userland > Kernal > TrustZone.
Lol not the nub FLOW? oh yea i forgot this guy he’s the legend of PSP days before
Still remembering the 3.03OE-A, one of my first cfws. I’m going nostalgic of the good old days when I read those nicks’ :’)
Its kinda late that they release this thing we have Ark and Adrenaline at PSV then what is this one a better compatibility? i know about the old scene on the PSP days but this one is pretty late isn’t it?
I hope its henkaku for 3.63, if its about the psp then i dont know if im still surprised while there is adrenaline and ark out there…
First of you need more than user land for 3.63 PSN key as you can’t get access to core file and descript on user land…. Kernal exploit 🙂 this is not ready for public but this is why it’s for devs!
it’s for sure launching ps4 backup games via psp connetcted via usb
3.63; M33 – coincidence?
what does that even mean
What else could we need or want for PSP homebrew? We already have a permanent CFW even for “unhackable” models/firmwares with Davee’s Infinity, and the latest CFWs can run ISOs/backups, plugins, unsigned code (emulators), etc. just fine. Unless you really want to develop another homebrew game for the PSP, there’s no point in staying on the scene anymore. Any performance gains in emulators will be minimal these days.
I just hope that this surprise benefits the Vita as well, because it’s one of the few devices still worth hacking these days. 3DS was never worth hacking due to how weaksauce it is, PSP had a good run but it’s time to move on, the Wii U and Switch are gimmick consoles for the sake of being different (and I imagine it’s hard to program homebrew for the Wii U anyways), and other devices like the Nvidia Shield are too niche for anyone to care about hacking them.
Since it specifially states the release is for PSP *Developers*, the source code seems to be a decent guess. I doubt this announcement will mean anything remotely concerning us end-users.
But if it is the source code…would it really benefit even the devs? The CFW we have today like Pro C is already lightyears beyond M33.
im just hoping for a 3.63 henkaku or some sort this website now become only for 3.60 user for the vita and it sucks but i guess i have to stick with my vita running 3.63
nub this site is for hacking only at 3.60 PSV and in your case OFW 3.63 has been given chance only for PSP and VHBL that’s all
unlike 3.60 what we have is We Can play PSV Game called VPK or Maidumps, including PSP and PSX
and your problem is so fcking simple if you can’t afford buying a PSV buy a PSTV instead that cost only 45 dollars then if you dont like and your stick to the PSV you can downgrade that by Swapping board Google is your friend learn how to search if you can’t still afford everything then GET a *** JOB
nub this site is for hacking only at 3.60 PSV and in your case OFW 3.63 has been given chance only for PSP and VHBL that’s all
unlike 3.60 what we have is We Can play PSV Game called VPK or Maidumps, including PSP and PSX
and your problem is so fcking simple if you can’t afford buying a PSV buy a PSTV instead that cost only 45 dollars then if you dont like and your stick to the PSV you can downgrade that by Swapping board Google is your friend learn how to search if you can’t still afford everything then GET a *** JOB
What even made you update to 3.63?
i bought my vita and it was on 3.61 so might aswell update to 3.63
This sounds like an unoriginal April Fools joke. Wasn’t Mathieulh exposed as a fraud who steals code in the PS3 hacking days anyways?
The date is April 2nd. I guess to avoid the mix with a joke. So no I think this news serious.
April Foll LOL
he already said:
“To PSP (and INCIDENTALLY PS Vita) developers, a surprise awaits on March 33rd (April 2nd) to celebrate the 10th anniversary of M33! #M33”
maybe another psp emulator on vita with less ***.
that word “incidentally” is already a proof.
Please note.
For team molocule to get the passcode for 3.63 they DIDN’T NEED A HENKAKU LEVEL EXPLOIT. They used a USERMODE EXPLOIT which is all that is needed to get the passcode. Henkaku however is a far more advanced exploit. JUST BECAUSE A USERMODE EXPLOIT WAS ACHIEVED ON 3.63 TO GET THE PASSCODE DOESN’T MEAN 3.63 IS ANY CLOSER TO BEING HACKED.
usb mo mode on vita i think like in ps tv
il already exists this function.
lol
I guess its henkaku for fw3.63 . or its custom vita firmware
So its M33 source. 🙂
https://twitter.com/Mathieulh/status/848293518917414912
Happy M33 10th anniversary everyone! As of today M33 along with Despertar Del Cementerio are now officially open source! (under GPLv3)