With the Vita launching in Japan, quite a few already got their hands on the device. Sony had said that they would be using more expensive memory cards in order to prevent piracy... Well prevent no more I guess...

"A developer has been able to run a homebrew enabler by using a flaw in the built in psp emulator."

So is the Vita destined to have the same fate as the PSP? This flaw doesn't require any pandora batteries or whatever, it's just using what came with the machine.

Source : HERE

EDIT: This exploit is only applicable towards the PSP platform within the Vita. The Vita hardware is not fully exploited. It'd basically be like having a hacked psp within the vita. (For the moment)

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

Wow, these fucking assholes need to stop. They already ruined the PSP, can't they just fucking drop it already.

That was quick.

In the end, it's just a matter of choice, and I will choose to just buy games.

That was fast!

Wow, these fucking assholes need to stop. They already ruined the PSP, can't they just fucking drop it already.

@ajamafalous said:

@Enigma777 said:

Wow, these fucking assholes need to stop. They already ruined the PSP, can't they just fucking drop it already.

Funny that you single out the PSP as if it's the only platform with piracy.

I think it's more that the PSP got ruined by piracy, while other consoles live with it and have decent selling games.

@Management:

I'd argue that the PSP was DOA because of:

1) Shoddy launch titles

2) Length of time it took to get good exclusives

3) Battery life

4) Overall portability

5) UMD size

6) Ports of games people already had

7) Games that were not made for the portable experience.

@ajamafalous said:

@Enigma777 said:

Wow, these fucking assholes need to stop. They already ruined the PSP, can't they just fucking drop it already.

Funny that you single out the PSP as if it's the only platform with piracy.

I think it's more that the PSP got ruined by piracy, while other consoles live with it and have decent selling games.

@ajamafalous said:

@Enigma777 said:

Wow, these fucking assholes need to stop. They already ruined the PSP, can't they just fucking drop it already.

Funny that you single out the PSP as if it's the only platform with piracy.

pirate? . . . Pirate . . . PIRATE! PIRATE!

@Management: PSP failed because it was a shit console, not because of piracy.

PS: I own a PSP.

@Management: PSP failed because it was a shit console, not because of piracy.

PS: I own a PSP.

If it's real, it's just running in the PSP environment. The "Vita" part of the Vita hasn't been hacked. So if this gets out you could be able to use your Vita to play PSP ISOs/emulators/PSP homebrew. It's all confined to the PSP environment though, so you couldn't take advantage of the Vita's hardware.

@Enigma777 said:

Wow, these fucking assholes need to stop. They already ruined the PSP, can't they just fucking drop it already.

lol, no. Educate yourself, then come back.

@Enigma777: You can sell however many units of a console you like, if you don't sell games as well your console has failed. best selling ds game sold 27 million units, best selling psp game sold 4 mil. By your logic, there is no logic, only straw man arguments.

Wow, these fucking assholes need to stop. They already ruined the PSP, can't they just fucking drop it already.

@Enigma777: You can sell however many units of a console you like, if you don't sell games as well your console has failed. best selling ds game sold 27 million units, best selling psp game sold 4 mil. By your logic, there is no logic, only straw man arguments.

@zels said:

@Enigma777: You can sell however many units of a console you like, if you don't sell games as well your console has failed. best selling ds game sold 27 million units, best selling psp game sold 4 mil. By your logic, there is no logic, only straw man arguments.

@zels said:

@Management: PSP failed because it was a shit console, not because of piracy.

PS: I own a PSP.

So a ton of consoles were sold but not many games . . . Does that mean what I think it means? You seem at odds with yourself when you say it only failed because it didn't sell games. Now it does not prove anything, but it does at the very least raise questions about the impact of piracy.

@Management: PSP failed because it was a shit console, not because of piracy.

PS: I own a PSP.

Of course they did. Anything gets hacked immediately. Did we really expect Sony of all companies to be hack proof?

@goudaj said:

If it's real, it's just running in the PSP environment. The "Vita" part of the Vita hasn't been hacked. So if this gets out you could be able to use your Vita to play PSP ISOs/emulators/PSP homebrew. It's all confined to the PSP environment though, so you couldn't take advantage of the Vita's hardware.

Thank you for the only reply worth reading in this thread so far.

The PSP wasn't ruined by piracy, it had a poor library with very few games per year coming out that were actually worth having the system for.

and need I mention the analog stick? Holy shit that thing is terrible. I've had a PSP since launch and got rid of it this year, I think I played maybe 6 games on it. @_@

Oh wow, that is superb.

@Lunar_Aura said:

@goudaj said:

If it's real, it's just running in the PSP environment. The "Vita" part of the Vita hasn't been hacked. So if this gets out you could be able to use your Vita to play PSP ISOs/emulators/PSP homebrew. It's all confined to the PSP environment though, so you couldn't take advantage of the Vita's hardware.

Thank you for the only reply worth reading in this thread so far.

Quoted for truth.

arrrhhg m8y, this ship is sinking before it set sail.. jump ship while you can!

@PixelPrinny said:

@Lunar_Aura said:

@goudaj said:

If it's real, it's just running in the PSP environment. The "Vita" part of the Vita hasn't been hacked. So if this gets out you could be able to use your Vita to play PSP ISOs/emulators/PSP homebrew. It's all confined to the PSP environment though, so you couldn't take advantage of the Vita's hardware.

Thank you for the only reply worth reading in this thread so far.

Quoted for truth.

Quoted again! :D

@Enigma777 said:

@zels

@Enigma777: You can sell however many units of a console you like, if you don't sell games as well your console has failed. best selling ds game sold 27 million units, best selling psp game sold 4 mil. By your logic, there is no logic, only straw man arguments.

Which brings me back to my previous point about piracy and how it ruined the PSP... You think all those people bouhgt PSP's and no games? No, they just went to Pirate Bay and downloaded them...

@Three0neFive No, but opening the floodgates so that everyone can put custom firmware on their PSP in less than 2 mins is. There is no fcking way to justify it. Don't even try.

Hate to completely destroy your first point but...I got a PSP at launch and got no games 'till the Tactics Ogre remake came out, it just gathered dust because there were no games worth playing, I didn't pirate either. The PSP library is shit, thats what ruined it also...UMDs

@Xeiphyer: Sorry about that :P here : http://blog.livedoor.jp/teck4/

:D

@Xeiphyer: Sorry about that :P here : http://blog.livedoor.jp/teck4/

As many have said, piracy didn't kill the PSP. Shitty PS2 ports (or spin-offs to PS2 franchises) that did a bad job of making up for the lack of dual analog sticks ruined the PSP. Game sales weren't bad because everyone stole them, they were bad because most people didn't want to buy them. Pirating DS games is as easy, if not infinitely easier, than PSP and no one seems to have a problem selling games on that platform.

Piracy is an easy red herring that media makers of the world like floating about, but it's actual impact on sales is difficult, if not impossible to measure. You would have to somehow prove that the person that pirated the games had boths means and intent to buy the games they were pirating and that they weren't just downloading it because they could. I have a friend that buys CDs he is excited about usually on day one, but often steals stuff he is uncertain about and then claims "if I hadn't stolen it, I would have bought it" to which I always reply "if you were going to buy it, why didn't you?" There is no real answer to that. You can't prove what you "would have done" when you clearly did the opposite.

My wife owns a PSP and maybe 6 games. I have never pirated anything on it and she owns every game she's gotten an urge to play, much less buy. The few games I might want to play on PSP got ported to PS2, so I really don't feel a strong need to bother with it as a platform.

I sure hope it fails. Anything to make Sony realize that it needs to better things and not abide by the business plan of 2006

@Enigma777 said:

@zels

@Enigma777: You can sell however many units of a console you like, if you don't sell games as well your console has failed. best selling ds game sold 27 million units, best selling psp game sold 4 mil. By your logic, there is no logic, only straw man arguments.

Which brings me back to my previous point about piracy and how it ruined the PSP... You think all those people bouhgt PSP's and no games? No, they just went to Pirate Bay and downloaded them...

The DS was easier to hack and find pirated copies for, not to mention there are countless nearly perfect emulators that exist for it and it still managed to sell a shitton more software and hardware than the PSP. I think you're giving the PSP too much credit.

Of course they did it quickly, since Sony DID NOT change the known AES psp keys that were obtained from ps3

also: apparently new FW update was released for Vita. yes, already. Source isn't super great however. [source]

@Three0neFive said:

@Enigma777 said:

Wow, these fucking assholes need to stop. They already ruined the PSP, can't they just fucking drop it already.

Because hacking is inherently evil. Get some fucking perspective, bro.

He dose have perspective, He just dose not share yours.

The DS was easier to hack than the PSP? What? How is needing third-party hardware easier than copying one file onto a memory card and running it?

The DS sold well because its primary audience -- children -- couldn't usually order sketchy-ass carts off the internet using their parent's credit cards. On the contrary, the PSP's main audience -- teenagers and young adults -- were more than capable of copying over some files to a memory stick and instantly having everything available (or in the early days, buying a magic memory stick/pandora battery or whatever.)

@ajamafalous said:

@Enigma777 said:

Wow, these fucking assholes need to stop. They already ruined the PSP, can't they just fucking drop it already.

Funny that you single out the PSP as if it's the only platform with piracy.

Of all the actual console out there today, it's definitely the one that's feeling the effects of piracy the most. Games sell like shit on that thing, despite there being 70 Million of them out there.

@Enigma777 said:

@zels

@Enigma777: You can sell however many units of a console you like, if you don't sell games as well your console has failed. best selling ds game sold 27 million units, best selling psp game sold 4 mil. By your logic, there is no logic, only straw man arguments.

Which brings me back to my previous point about piracy and how it ruined the PSP... You think all those people bouhgt PSP's and no games? No, they just went to Pirate Bay and downloaded them...

The DS was easier to hack and find pirated copies for, not to mention there are countless nearly perfect emulators that exist for it and it still managed to sell a shitton more software and hardware than the PSP. I think you're giving the PSP too much credit.

@zels said:

@Management: PSP failed...

It did?

@Enigma777 said:

Wow, these fucking assholes need to stop. They already ruined the PSP, can't they just fucking drop it already.

Yes, hacking into something you bought and to use as you please should be a crime. No wait, stfu.

@Enigma777 said:

Wow, these fucking assholes need to stop. They already ruined the PSP, can't they just fucking drop it already.

Yes, hacking into something you bought and to use as you please should be a crime. No wait, stfu.

@Ghost_Cat said:

In the end, it's just a matter of choice, and I will choose to just buy games.

@BionicRadd: I don't know man I think the DS sells well because people who do not know how to pirate the games are buying them. I doubt the same people who are pirating from the PSP are like DHur these games are better on the DS I'm buying that one dhur. It's just a different audience in itself.

@Enigma777 said:

@ninjakiller

@Enigma777 said:

Wow, these fucking assholes need to stop. They already ruined the PSP, can't they just fucking drop it already.

Yes, hacking into something you bought and to use as you please should be a crime. No wait, stfu.

You can do whatever you want with it but once you post that shit on the internet for everyone to use, you're crossing the line, and yes that should (and is) illegal. Just look at how Sony took Geohot to school.

Wow. So in your world fixing a flat tire on your own should also be a crime. If you get a flat you should only be allowed to call a certified Ford or GM service technician to fix it for you. I mean if we're going to go to a completely corporate controlled utopia where no one is allowed to use and share with others their knowledge on how to use devices as they see fit. I'm sorry that you love turning your money over to a corporation who doesn't give a shit about you.

Secondly, oh boo hoo. Hackers are so evil. It took them what two weeks to get a crack already? Maybe if Sony was more concerned about security and controlling their proprietary devices they could spend a little money and bring these "evil" scum in as consultants to try to crack the damn things before they're released, instead of threatening and suing them after they so easily do it. Fuck Sony. They're obviously fucking incompetent, first with the hack earlier this year and now this debacle.

all right, pack it up guys. the psvita is over, and with it, the handheld platform. we had a good run guys, but it's time to move on.

@Enigma777 said:

@ninjakiller

@Enigma777 said:

Wow, these fucking assholes need to stop. They already ruined the PSP, can't they just fucking drop it already.

Yes, hacking into something you bought and to use as you please should be a crime. No wait, stfu.

You can do whatever you want with it but once you post that shit on the internet for everyone to use, you're crossing the line, and yes that should (and is) illegal. Just look at how Sony took Geohot to school.

Wow. So in your world fixing a flat tire on your own should also be a crime. If you get a flat you should only be allowed to call a certified Ford or GM service technician to fix it for you. I mean if we're going to go to a completely corporate controlled utopia where no one is allowed to use and share with others their knowledge on how to use devices as they see fit. I'm sorry that you love turning your money over to a corporation who doesn't give a shit about you.

Secondly, oh boo hoo. Hackers are so evil. It took them what two weeks to get a crack already? Maybe if Sony was more concerned about security and controlling their proprietary devices they could spend a little money and bring these "evil" scum in as consultants to try to crack the damn things before they're released, instead of threatening and suing them after they so easily do it. Fuck Sony. They're obviously fucking incompetent, first with the hack earlier this year and now this debacle.

@Enigma777 said:

@ninjakiller

@Enigma777 said:

Wow, these fucking assholes need to stop. They already ruined the PSP, can't they just fucking drop it already.

Yes, hacking into something you bought and to use as you please should be a crime. No wait, stfu.

You can do whatever you want with it but once you post that shit on the internet for everyone to use, you're crossing the line, and yes that should (and is) illegal. Just look at how Sony took Geohot to school.

They settled out of court and as such the legality was not established.

Ha!