Vita "hacked," (PSP) homebrew on the way (not piracy)
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What does this mean exactly?
PSP piracy, similar to the flashcard situation on the 3DS I guess.
Phife Dawg
Member
Runs homebrew and PSP ISOs, no trace-back and no bricking they claim.
clay_ghost
Member
Still psp mode only err? Not doing till full speed snes and n64 emulators, dc will be bound.....
StevePharma
Member
Also Urbanix sales skyrocket up 10.000% and becomes the best selling mini ever.
Jawmuncher
Member
I thought the flashcard shit was squashed on 3DS?
Nope, some DS flash arts are being updated constantly and work on the 3DS. DS mode only though.
clay_ghost
Member
its free, Sony give it out with anoher mini to EU account. 10000 new EU account more like lol
Castor Krieg
Banned
PSP ISOs, useless.
Wasn't this squashed pretty hard with last weeks firmware update?
clay_ghost
Member
its patched. They are fast.
Box of Bunnies
Banned
SCEUK were giving it away earlier this year as a Playstation Access Facebook promo. Unwittingly handed people the keys.
Jawmuncher
Member
Oh ok.
But still that and this are kind of pointless then.
You can use the same homebrew you were using on the systems prior!
Why not just keep using those older systems then?
Impeccable
Member
Hooray now everyone can play their backed-up PSP ISOs because Sony didn't make a conversion program!~!
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Birth By Sleep.
clay_ghost
Member
now priates will buy vita instead of new psp to play the latest psp game! Hardware sales increase!
Sony can finally kill psp!
Sony hope.
test_account
XP-39C²
I dont see the problem with this. It will most likely be patched in the next firmware update and it is for PSP games only.
Melhisedek
Member
Can you still get Urbanix or is it patched/removed?
GhostTrick
Banned
entremet
Member
Good for those who bought UMDs, tho.
Nope, with the last "stealth" (not announced) update they killed 95% of the flashcarts with no chance of making them work ever again even with updates because the update blocked them at a hardware level. Only 2 models survived.
Yep. It's not on the Store, and I can't find it with the search function, but it's still on my download list (I downloaded it some months ago)
First thought I had, too. Which is maybe not so bad for Sony?
drkOne
Member
The screen is nice but meh. Good first step. Get back to me when you can play backup vita games.
It's good though. It being open now means people will work and collaberate on projects
Wait, why do you care about Vita Backups?
You can already buy all the games digitally on PSN.
Don't bother answering.
Not when you've brought retail copies.
I have some, and id love to back them up for use on the go rather than carrying around the tiny carts.
Holy Order Sol
Member
I thought you were attacking people's motives with your posts, my bad.
So anyone can sell the cart and keep the backup. Ok.
Yeah? I do that for movies too. Or music. They still have my money so who gives a fuck on a consumer level?
yeah, people are saying they've successfully loaded psp isos on wololo's forums.
damn.
you can get all the info you need here atm
looks to be only euro urbanix for now, have to port it to us vers.
http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=15593
damn.
you can get all the info you need here atm
looks to be only euro urbanix for now, have to port it to us vers.
http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=15593
jimmythepage
Member
That's the reason the hackers used Urbanix, there are vulnerable sectors in almost every digital product, that's why they focused all the first PSP hacks with demos and popular titles
test_account
XP-39C²
It is still up in the EU store, i just checked 10 seconds ago
I dont think that many people will rush out and buy a PS Vita because of this. Paying ~$250 to play PSP games, even if the screen and support for a 2nd analog stick is nice. It will likely be patched in a few weeks tops as well.
I dont think that this will spure much new activity in the PSP scene. It is just an old PSP hack so to speak, now working in the Vita's PSP emulator. The kernel exploit is about the PSP kernel, not the Vita kernel.The screen is nice but meh. Good first step. Get back to me when you can play backup vita games.
It's good though. It being open now means people will work and collaberate on projects
OneMoreQuestion
Member
So you can't even spare the BANDWIDTH to pirate... Nice one.
By selling that item you have also sold your right to use said item, in case you didn't know.
jimmythepage
Member
The only good thing about this so far, is that we may actually be able to take screenshots or even direct feed video out of the PSV even when the developers blocked it.
Parallax
best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
No way. Is there video of this?
Sometimes there's a big price difference between the retail and PSN version.
You should take a look in to the other homebrew/hacking threads to see what these kinds of statements get you.
This is cool for buying PSP games in retail (dirt cheap compared to psn most of the time) and making iso's yourself to put on the Vita, but I doubt I'll get around to it since PS+ is coming next month and I have subscription to it for a year. Does Vita have a way to access PSN Store on older firmware like the CFW on PS3 does?
Yeesh, you'd think that someone who's been on GAF for as long as you was familiar with the forum rules...
That's straight up admitting to piracy
test_account
XP-39C²
It is PSP CFW, running on the PSP emulator on Vita.
Yes, but no.
It's a custom PSP emulator, for loading PSP ISOs, not Vita games or anything.
Seriously folks, you're getting all up in arms about *nothing*.
I for one love this, because it means I'll be able to play the UMD games I want to play most (my PSP imports, basically - Super Robot Wars Z2.1 and 2.2) on my Vita, which I couldn't before.
Hmm... probably you are right, I just noticed I searched for "uRbanix" by mistake and didn't find anything. I didn't know the search function was case-sensitive ._.It is still up in the EU store, i just checked 10 seconds ago
test_account
XP-39C²
Another rule that i think always apply is that if the game/content is in your download list, then it is also available in the store
When Sony temporary removed some PSP games, then those games disappeared from the download list as well. And when they added the games back, then they appeared in the download list again. I'm pretty sure that the download list just redirect you to the store content.Completely depends on how secure the sandbox for the PSP emulator is. For comparison, the DS-mode on 3DS has been open since launch, yet no one has been able to break out of that sandbox and into 3DS mode.
drkOne
Member
I told you to not bother answering. Now look at you've done.
Yeah, and? Just commenting on the fast pace that the scene is moving.
if someone could make a tutorial, keep a close eye on this, how to get everything working, etc, i would really appreciate it.
i have no idea how psp CFW works, etc as i havent followed it at all, but id really like to play birth by sleep on the vita.
ill purchase urbanix soon enough, i'm in usa but i'm sure it will be ported over soon i think.
i have no idea how psp CFW works, etc as i havent followed it at all, but id really like to play birth by sleep on the vita.
ill purchase urbanix soon enough, i'm in usa but i'm sure it will be ported over soon i think.