The Vita Homebrew Bounty
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 8:47 pm
THIS BOUNTY HAS ENDED WITH SUCCESS
As most of you probably know, Yifan Lu made it possible to run native homebrews on PS Vita with Rejuvenate. http://yifan.lu/2015/06/14/rejuvenate-n ... or-psvita/
Thanks to Yifan Lu, we can finally give PS Vita the chance to live. Rejuvenate works with the help of PSM Dev Application and it works on firmwares up to 3.51. If you have PSM Dev Application installed but you don't have publisher license, PSM+ release (which is coming soon) will take care of it.
PSM Unity application has the same vulnerability too so you can install it too. viewtopic.php?f=54&t=43243. Though it will probably take some time to make Rejuvenate fully work with PSM Unity.
If you don't have any of these two apps installed, or you didn't fully understand the process, just don't update your Vita to 3.52. 3.51 is the latest safe Vita firmware for Native Vita Homebrews.
Now, to the important part. You can donate the pledged amounts to Yifan Lu via Paypal with the mail address "bounty@yifanlu.com". We appreciate it if you send the money as "send money to friends/family". Also please include your /talk forum usernames as a message. If you already donated, please PM me or Wololo your paypal donation transactions. Of course you are free to donate any amount you wish even if you didn't pledge before.
Big thanks to Yifan Lu and i thank everybody for taking part in this bounty.
See ya.
DISCLAIMER:
This has nothing to do with Wololo site management and staff. It is my personal effort.
As we all know, Vita doesn't get enough love from game developers. I really want to be able to run homebrews/emulators on Vita. I know money doesn't simply solve the problem, but it might be a small incentive. Think of this as a small appreciation to the succeeding dev for enabling homebrew. We are not buying the exploit, we have no right over it. I just wanted to make this clear.
RULES:
The exploit must be released and it should be able to run homebrew/native ARM code. No ePSP stuff or any other fancy thing. It shouldn't depend on a third party hardware (game exploits are fine). A simple way of coding homebrew should be provided. A full SDK isn't needed though. Also it shouldn't allow game piracy.
Unfortunately i can't host a PayPal account dedicated to this for a lot of reasons. This is how it will go: anyone who wants to donate any amount of money to a dev who accomplishes this, will write under this thread and i will add it to the main list here. After a dev releases a possible way to run homebrew in Vita, i will announce it here and you can donate the pledged amounts to the dev. I will not collect the money. All donations will be done to the dev. It would be great if the dev provides a PayPal account for donations. Remember i have no control over if people will donate the promised amount of money or not. I will just announce it here, nothing more.
Please read these articles for more info on the bounty. http://wololo.net/2015/04/12/the-vita-homebrew-bounty/ and http://wololo.net/2015/04/16/some-clari ... ew-bounty/
I would strongly suggest to apply for PSM publisher license if you pledged. http://wololo.net/2015/05/08/register-p ... -yifan-lu/
Total Donation pledges: $3078.69
reprep: $20
ss4gogeta069: $10
NANDZer0: $30
wololo: $200
Wolfmade: $20
Ruben_Wolfe: $15.63
mr.gas: $100
Tchacker: $10
boughtavita: $50
ordi: $25
awalsh053: $50
X-death: $10
ANU815: $50
AlexTwolf: $100
Blu3Power: $10
egamevn: $30
wehzeh: $10
bodega: $10
GenericHero: $20
The Z: $13.37
dockotis: $10
FREERIDGELOVESVHBL: $50
Hakaze: $20
shinrukuszero: $1000
darkzark: $100
jeerum: $20
Total-Noob: $16
jensma: $10
senas8: $311
ove_p: $50
artmaze7: $15
Zektra: $1.69
viperfan91: $20
ViRGE: $100
scythe: $100
ElLuna00: $50
rashidsonic: $6
animax: $100
Paradox: $15
ldeveraux: $25
ZgamerR: $15
hjkyu: $5
Dan__Hall: $20
wheezyNoiZe: $30
netharion: $100
benjustforyou: $30
GamingNova: $50
orochi-sumedh: $5
Ralph1611: $20
As most of you probably know, Yifan Lu made it possible to run native homebrews on PS Vita with Rejuvenate. http://yifan.lu/2015/06/14/rejuvenate-n ... or-psvita/
Thanks to Yifan Lu, we can finally give PS Vita the chance to live. Rejuvenate works with the help of PSM Dev Application and it works on firmwares up to 3.51. If you have PSM Dev Application installed but you don't have publisher license, PSM+ release (which is coming soon) will take care of it.
PSM Unity application has the same vulnerability too so you can install it too. viewtopic.php?f=54&t=43243. Though it will probably take some time to make Rejuvenate fully work with PSM Unity.
If you don't have any of these two apps installed, or you didn't fully understand the process, just don't update your Vita to 3.52. 3.51 is the latest safe Vita firmware for Native Vita Homebrews.
Now, to the important part. You can donate the pledged amounts to Yifan Lu via Paypal with the mail address "bounty@yifanlu.com". We appreciate it if you send the money as "send money to friends/family". Also please include your /talk forum usernames as a message. If you already donated, please PM me or Wololo your paypal donation transactions. Of course you are free to donate any amount you wish even if you didn't pledge before.
Big thanks to Yifan Lu and i thank everybody for taking part in this bounty.
See ya.
DISCLAIMER:
This has nothing to do with Wololo site management and staff. It is my personal effort.
As we all know, Vita doesn't get enough love from game developers. I really want to be able to run homebrews/emulators on Vita. I know money doesn't simply solve the problem, but it might be a small incentive. Think of this as a small appreciation to the succeeding dev for enabling homebrew. We are not buying the exploit, we have no right over it. I just wanted to make this clear.
RULES:
The exploit must be released and it should be able to run homebrew/native ARM code. No ePSP stuff or any other fancy thing. It shouldn't depend on a third party hardware (game exploits are fine). A simple way of coding homebrew should be provided. A full SDK isn't needed though. Also it shouldn't allow game piracy.
Unfortunately i can't host a PayPal account dedicated to this for a lot of reasons. This is how it will go: anyone who wants to donate any amount of money to a dev who accomplishes this, will write under this thread and i will add it to the main list here. After a dev releases a possible way to run homebrew in Vita, i will announce it here and you can donate the pledged amounts to the dev. I will not collect the money. All donations will be done to the dev. It would be great if the dev provides a PayPal account for donations. Remember i have no control over if people will donate the promised amount of money or not. I will just announce it here, nothing more.
Please read these articles for more info on the bounty. http://wololo.net/2015/04/12/the-vita-homebrew-bounty/ and http://wololo.net/2015/04/16/some-clari ... ew-bounty/
I would strongly suggest to apply for PSM publisher license if you pledged. http://wololo.net/2015/05/08/register-p ... -yifan-lu/
Total Donation pledges: $3078.69
reprep: $20
ss4gogeta069: $10
NANDZer0: $30
wololo: $200
Wolfmade: $20
Ruben_Wolfe: $15.63
mr.gas: $100
Tchacker: $10
boughtavita: $50
ordi: $25
awalsh053: $50
X-death: $10
ANU815: $50
AlexTwolf: $100
Blu3Power: $10
egamevn: $30
wehzeh: $10
bodega: $10
GenericHero: $20
The Z: $13.37
dockotis: $10
FREERIDGELOVESVHBL: $50
Hakaze: $20
shinrukuszero: $1000
darkzark: $100
jeerum: $20
Total-Noob: $16
jensma: $10
senas8: $311
ove_p: $50
artmaze7: $15
Zektra: $1.69
viperfan91: $20
ViRGE: $100
scythe: $100
ElLuna00: $50
rashidsonic: $6
animax: $100
Paradox: $15
ldeveraux: $25
ZgamerR: $15
hjkyu: $5
Dan__Hall: $20
wheezyNoiZe: $30
netharion: $100
benjustforyou: $30
GamingNova: $50
orochi-sumedh: $5
Ralph1611: $20
