9/07/2012
Husnain
A young group of hackers have hacked the PS Vita, and enabled homebrew content, more details inside.........
In an interview with Crave, hacker Yifanlu talked at length about the discovery his team made, which will not allow pirated games to be played. Rather, the exploit is described as "userland", which means that will only open the door for home-developed software and not bootleg Vita games that a kernel exploit would welcome.
In fact, Yifanlu is 100-percent against piracy, if his statement to Crave is to be believed. "As a developer, I am completely against piracy. My tools, when released, cannot be used for that purpose."Instead, homebrew users can look forward to the most popular use for this kind of exploit: emulation.
Much like the early days of the PSP, the PS Vita would presumably be opened up to playing classic games from the Nintendo 64, Super Nintendo, Game Boy, and more. Even PlayStation games are fair territory, if the Vita's hardware can prove to handle the stresses of emulation.
There's no official release yet for this installation, but we'll update you as the project unfolds. For now, it seems that Vita is safe from piracy, though Sony would certainly frown up on the work of Yifanlu and his cohorts.
Let us know what you think of hacking in the comments below!
Source:
http://www.itechpost.com/articles/4223/20120907/ps-vita-hack-provides-access-illegal-apps.htm
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All I'd like on Vita from this point of view would be themes, emulators and other applications that officially would never be released. But if this deprives me of PSN and near then forget it.
Yeah I agree with Sabaki. I love emulators but I have a PSP and a GP2x for that. I wouldnt risk my PSN for it.
This is b$. if one exploit comes out then it will lead to others. Then if will kill the vita
I think possibly the opposite if it becomes as simple as the PSP was to mod. You can hardly say the PSP is dead. However as far as innovation , which Is what the VITA is all about , you may have a point.
I hope this doesn't go too far to the point of piracy. Piracy will be an excuse for Sony to stop trying to get support.
I just want to play the N64 games i own on my PS Vita and play fan made games. I don't want to pirate Sony's games or anything, just want to play some old school mario so i can not regret my 250 dollar purchase with this thing.
Listed just go buy a GCW Zero when it comes out...pre ordered a GCW Zero SE if you want homebrew and emulators
http://game-consoles-worldwide.com/
its the shit
ruffnutts from dingoonity :-)
WOHHO!
So glad most people think the same. I used to think hacking was cool, now I just think it's stupid.
If it allows me to play PS2 games and PS3 games I'm all for it!
And hopefully we'll be able to download a better web browser! Don't act as if I'm the only one that thinks our web browser sucks! And I will continue to buy new games for my Vita and PS3, but the thought of a portable gaming system with the ability to play thousands of games from different systems is very good news to me!
Flash support would be good on the browser. But to be honest, until more games come out, I only want Instant Messaging for Skype, doubt there's going to be a hacked skype app any time soon, so I'll wait.
Man I was thinking the samething ps2 games . I would have taken that instead of ps1 dam sony .
gamecube emulation would be the sex, but i'm pretty sure that the vita wouldn't be able to handle that :( and ps2 even less
wait....what about Nintendo?...... ok being anti piracy is dandy n all but how do you settle copyright issues with the n64 emulators etc, not to mention that most people DOWNLOAD the roms for free without having the actual game at home, isn't that piracy.
And so the end of the vita begins... This hack will only lead to someone hacking his exploit and pirating games. Piracy will come to vita just like it does to every software running machine in recent history.
:\ piracy killed the psp, do you know how easy it is to get a brand new psp game free?! psvita is already having game and console sales issues and piracy will only make it worse. i swear if vita dies cause some prick makes piracy on vita possible cause he was too cheap to pay $40 a game, i'll personally hunt him down murder his loved ones and send their limbs to him through mail and then i'll rape him until he can breathe no more.
FUCK YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD NEWSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
u need stop playing manhunt
hacking ( semi CFW) my psp 3000 fucked it up, it did not "brick" it but it was clearly fucked up, i'd have to wait 10 min for it to turn on and when i'd try to launch umds it'd crash time to time, screen would go black on "turn on" etc ..... if ur gonna hack your vita i hope for you the hack will be STABLE.
lol ^^
The funny thing is - without any proof, people just state that "piracy kills the xy device". Yet in case of the Vita, it has been out for many months and piracy is still completely impossible, yet the game sales are not all that great. Well, well. If the Vita had been able to run pirated games for months, everyone would have said that the low game sales is the pirates fault, because we all know that everyone who plays a pirated game would have BOUGHT it if he couldn't have pirated it, right? Sure.
I tell you something. I bought a Vita months ago. I still don't own a single game for it, just because there is no game that I am really interested in. If someday it can play pirated games, I will play the old PSP games that I *bought* on UMD and that Sony will not allow me to transfer to my new hardware. I am never going to pay TWICE for a game just because I want to play it on another machine that I bought. Or would you be ok with buying your PC games again if you upgrade your CPU or buy a bigger monitor?
Yes, it technically is, but very few
companies will actually do anything about it- mainly because those are old
games which are much harder to obtain than new games. Also, it doesn't hurt
their sales much- maybe on games that are re-released on the Virtual Console,
etc.
PS2 was weaker than the Gamecube, so it would
probably be more likely to pull off PS2 emulation- though the PS3 seems to have
a hard time emulating the PS2 (judging by the way Sony has treated PS2 games on
the PS3). But the Vita might have an easier time, considering that the PS3 has
a funky architecture. The PSP had a Dreamcast emulator on it (though it only
ran like 5 games at like 5 fps), so it may be possible if the developer was
skilled enough.
meh, pretty much emulates what a psp with CFW can emulate....
i see, however it might effect sales of some n64 games that were remade on 3ds like loz ocarina of time, starfox64 and paper mario. hell i prefer my vita way more than my 3ds that i bought JUST FOR zelda oot, see if i knew about the hack earlier i might not have bought my 3ds to play zelda oot on the go....
piracy would make the sales issue worse than it is now because some people actually buy the games cause there isn't the alternative of piracy :o .....
Why Skype at all if away can be found to use our Vita's as cellphones with their sim cards? And I fully agree we either need FlashPlayer or full Html5 support like yesterday.
i think the vitas would sell a lot more, and more vitas out there means more people buying games, other that the ones you can emulate.
Such people exist, and piracy can hurt sales to a certain degree. But most claims about how big that effect is, are greatly exaggerated in my opinion. The majority of people playing pirated games would not have bought them in the first place. Plus, there are people that buy a console BECAUSE it can play pirated games, but despite that they still do buy some games they really like. I know there are such people because I am one of them and I don't believe I am the only one.
I played a ton of games on my PSP briefly, and I loved and bought few of them. If the PSP could not have played pirated games I would not have bought it back then, and neither would I have bought any of the games that I ended up buying. So in my case, piracy led to a plus of games sold and not to a minus.
In case of the Vita, it sits in a drawer waiting for a hack so I can play Advance Wars (which I *bought* for my GBA) and my favorite PSP games on the new shiny bigger screen (like Jeanne d'Arc which I even had to order abroad because for some reason the UMD was just NOT AVAILABLE FOR SALE in germany. You know, all the whining about piracy and then they go and just do not sell some games in some countries...)
Remakes are different though. Anyone that would take the original over the remake probably just wants to play the original game in the first place- or the remake just sucks.
I too bought a 3DS just to play the Zelda OoT remake (and some other games that were coming out way later- Kingdom Hearts, Cave Story, Resident Evil). I had a PSP with an N64 emulator at the time and could play Zelda OoT on it just fine- however, I really wanted to play the remake.
nope, i'd rather keep supporting psvita and it's games. you know so i can get more games in the future?
Remote play unlock for ps2 and ps3 games for me, so many ps3 and ps2 games i'd buy on my ps3, to remote play on my vita!
I know what you mean, but it depends on what type of hacks people can do, if it just allows custom themes for example then everything should be all good, pirated vita games means its all bad :/ very bad
I bought my 3ds mainly for pokemon games, played pokemon white once through, then a bit of ghost recon shadow wars, and now its been sat in the draw unused for weeks. (waiting for pkmn B&W 2)
The Vita however, im almost on every day, ive bought 25+ games for it and will continue doing so :) much better device with more games suited to my taste (imo)
I bought a VITA and I'm against software piracy, especially with VITA games, because piracy will most likely discourage developers to create high quality games for the VITA.
On the other hand, if this hack or emulator will make VITA run free phone apps such as notes, pdf reader, etc, then by all means, go ahead.
The ps2, Vita and Ps3 are all coded completely differently, thats why its been hard to get them all working together. :/
However im sure some code junkie sat in his mums basement would be able to get it al working if he had the resources. If sony are struggling they need to go out and hire these "hackers' and 'modders' as they at times seem to understand what users want more so than what the companies do
Your right 100% right Stephen! There are a lot of possibilities that are good that this hack has opened the door for.
This is only one step closer to piracy on the Vita, and when piracy does come to the vita, it's completely doomed.
Luka magnotta is that you?! I thought you were in jail...
ocarina of time on psp ran at a poor rate of fps and if you wanted to have a somewhat playable fps you'd have to turn off the sound which is one of the best things about the game.. that being said the more nostalgic people who want to play the original "ON THE GO" could just get it free on vita. i got loz oot 3D not for the fact that it was a remake but because i could play it on the go, since it is a really nostalgic game to me i'd prefer to have the original on the go thus on my vita meaning i wouldn't have needed to buy a 3ds nor the 3ds game in the first place which would make Nintendo lose moneyz
I just wished the Vita did what I wanted it to do.
Stream YouTube. Download YouTube.
Browse the internet and have easy access to games with good controls.
Sadly it dose none of that without pain.
Want the YT app? You must live in X country or cheat and not be able to buy games.
Download from YT? Nope they "fixed" that in 1.80.
Play games? Not if you bought the device for multimedia AND games because you are on the US store now...
I think I am gonna go for a medium sized tablet next time.
Good apps, decent tech, dose the multi media I want and can play decent games without ripping me off or gimping the user at every update. I find myself seeing more and more games on Steam "Ipad" games I have told myself. Man, I wished I had that on the Vita.
I can not believe the dumb comments, what just because there is homebrew on Vita we can experience PS2, PS3 and Flash..... That will never ever happen, keep dreaming guys.... At best aside from full speed Genesis, SNES and hopeefully N64 and PS1, is an android emulator where you can run android apps and games
IM on skype is free. And I use skype more than my phone.
But this is truely opensource console none of that CFW shit and its much more pwerful than a psp
ruffnutts
like i said: meh
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