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It didn’t take long for Yifan Lu’s investigations to become useful for other hardware hackers! Our community member katsu, guided by Yifan’s precise description of the Vita’s NAND pinouts, was able to hack his PS Vita in order to boot from a previous firmware, technically performing something very similar to a downgrade. Check the video below, it’s cool and full of “electronics porn”, like your favorite cyberpunk movie.
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The Xbox 360 was Microsoft’s second home console, and the first one to be widely acceptable, but there’s probably nothing about its background story that you don’t already know, so lets cut to the point.
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After Sega’s strong competition in the 16-bit era of gaming and later Sony overshadowing Nintendo with the PS1, Nintendo had been struggling to regain dominance in the gaming industry, but all that ended with the huge popularity and momentum Nintendo’s Wii got, but I’m not here to discuss console history, there’s another 8 Days feature for that, I’m here to discuss why some of the design choices for the Wii led to an early full blown hack of the system.
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If you own a 3DS you might have heard of the “Gateway 3DS” card. It is basically a flashcart for the Nintendo 3DS that will let people run roms (read: pirated 3DS games). That device was recently in the middle of a storm for embedding code that intentionally bricks some users 3DS, if used on competitors’ hardware.
Lets dive directly into what I consider some of the best hacks in the modern Scene of the PSP.
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We all know this machine, we have been studying its interior for years now, but I am here to disclose the early hacks and mistakes that gave us initial access to all we have today.
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The PS2 still remains as the best selling console of all times, only almost surpassed by the DS, almost. With the PS2 we get to see once again modchips and disc swap, only more advanced, and the introduction of software-based hacks.
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The PS1 was not only a very successful console, it also marked the the first mainstream hacked console that led to the creation of hombrews and downloadable pirated games. But how did the security work and which methods were used to hack it?
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Over the Christmas holiday I had the opportunity to watch fail0verflow’s presentation on how they hacked the Wii U in 30 days (I didn’t have a working internet connection while I was away, but had managed to download a copy of their video before leaving). The video of their presentation (below) is interesting in itself, and I strongly recommend you watch it (and the accompanying blog post) if you have an interest in hacking in general, and console hacking in particular.
But you’ve probably read everything there is to know about Fail0verflow’s presentation by now, especially if you’re in the Wii U scene. After all, their presentation was 2 weeks ago, that’s aeons ago in the hacking community. But I’d like to discuss some of the points they made, that I think can easily relate to Vita hacking.
We all know how much the NES revolutionized the market and even saved it from the crash generated from all the shovelware titles in the Atari 2600, but what most of us don’t know is that it was also the first console to be hacked if we rely on the modern term of console hacking: bypassing the security inflicted on games to prevent unauthorized game copies to be played.
You did it again! December 2012′s best selling PSP game was UNO, a game which had been used as a vector to Total_Noob’s TNV (more known as CEF at the time) through Frostegater’s exploit. And this year, you’ve beaten that record with not only one, but two exploited games in Sony’s best sellers for December 2013.
I’ve mentioned a few weeks ago Yifan Lu’s ongoing experiment/attempt at looking at the vita’s hardware. Yifan’s been busy over the Christmas period, looking at the bowels of our favorite portable console. Earlier today he announced he was able to dump the Vita’s NAND.
Due to the popularity of my 7 Days of Metal Gear, I decided to make two more of these features: 8 Days of Gaming and 10 Days of Hacking.
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After giving us more than 4 days of lead time, Sony finally decided it was time to end the fun, and removed the King Of Pool game from most of their locales today. King of Pool was the last of a series of exploitable games we announced, that let you run Total_Noob’s TN-V on your PS Vita running the latest firmware 3.01. In total, and depending on how closely you have been following this site, this gave members of our community almost 4 weeks to grab one of the 4 exploitable games: 101-in-1 megamix, Hitman Reborn 2, Ben 10 Alien Force, and King of Pool.
The PS Vita (well, ePSP) hacking scene is not the only scene that got an early christmas present.
Total_Noob gave us a new kernel mode exploit and several updated TN-V revisions for this years christmas, and if you own an iDevice, you can now jailbreak your iDevice if it is running iOS 7.0 – 7.0.4!
Let’s have a closer look at it…
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