Now i am posting this rumour and making sure you understand it is a rumour before i post any more.
PS3HaX member zecoxao posted a link on IRC, containing information on a supposed “Hello World” on the PS Vita by a hacker by the name of teck4 , now the site is Japanese, so translation leaves a garbled mess, but what does seem clear, is that this rumoured hello world, utilizes the PSP Emulator, here is a translated quote(any Japanese readers can give a better translation, please do) :
Added two new clear images, thanks to GraybackPSP
PS Vita PSP at the first place only because it is emulation, emulator running on the fact that just because we can run your own code does not change much. So while hacking into the system are reproduced in an environment that is running on the PSP will own code.
Half-start at the maximum of the PSP Homebrew Byte Loader (reproduction of) is enough.
Some might suspect that I’ll not do FAKE, exploit teck4 his unpublished exploit is genuine.
PSN version save game exploit with other titles, so there are some that may be realized in the start of the PSP Homebrew PS Vita Once you have established how to start the HBL, the saved data is Sony ” Administrative Assistant for PlayStation content “must be transferred to the PS Vita, and further to transfer the state must now transfer the save data folder into the Hello World binaries that only the saved data . Will be transferred into the data folder in the save if the body can then be started with Vita HBL.
And that is a big possibility that such measures are easily crushed to prevent unwanted save game file transfer for applications that work under the control of Sony.
In addition, PS Vita Min Gol exploit so far as such details as if it had been like the PSP PS Vita measures also seem to emulate the PSP.
Via IRC
Thanks to akela and zecoxao
Now as i said, this is a huge rumour and is posted merely for discussion purposes, we have either the first hack, or the first fake.
Update
I found teck4′s blog via his twitter
teck4′s Blog
And if you can read Japanese
teck4′s Twitter
Update 2
wololo from wololo.net a long running PSP development site, has shed some light on the exploit, here is what he says:
Japanese PSP scener Mamosuke announced today on his blog that he was able to confirm a “Hello World” running on the PS Vita through the embedded PSP emulator. The exploit was made by developer teck4, and most likely relies on one of our good buffer overflow friends. and for those who are wondering “is it real?”, my current answer is that I haven’t tried it yet, but knowing Mamosuke fairly well I can tell you it’s true.
Technically, the idea behind the hack is simple but brilliant: the PS Vita has a PSP emulator, and we have plenty of PSP game exploits lying around… can we assume they will work on the emulator? That’s what teck4 tried, and the answer is yes, so he managed to run unsigned code on the PS Vita.
For those who join this blog for the first time, basically how this works is that a special save data file is crafted for a specific game. When the game is asked to load the save data, through a flaw in the game code we manage to re-route the game into executing code that we wrote ourselves. That code is usually very simple, displaying a simple message (typically “hello world”, hence the name).
From there, what happened for the PSP was that we integrated these exploits into our homebrew loading tool, Half-byte Loader, which allows people to load more interesting homebrews such as emulators, etc…
wololo go’s into more detail about this exploit on his blog, linked below:
wololo.net
Thanks to Szossze.NET for the wololo.net tip.
Also a clarification, from what i understand, this method only uses the PSP emulator, so will only have access to PSP elements on the PS Vita, so homebrew native on the PS Vita isn’t yet possible, but via the PSP Emulator it is
12-17-2011
03:56 PM
lol....riiiight
12-17-2011
03:57 PM
maybe we need another console released, since this one already has hacks xD
12-17-2011
03:59 PM
omg ps vita fw 6.31 OMG OMG I want that ps vita. Maybe I can update it to 6.60 and run 6.60 pro with some PS3 iso's OMG OMG OMG
Lol'd at this
12-17-2011
04:09 PM
ps vita runnin 6.60 psp fw ? noice loool
ROFL
12-17-2011
04:11 PM
Why can't I run psp fw on vita? That guy has an exploit runing on it. I want to run Windows 8 in it too, so I can play some cod mw3 online :-)
Edit:
12-17-2011
04:26 PM
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12-17-2011
04:27 PM
Why does it say (or look like it says) "PSP firmware 6.31" at the top? Because its a psp save game exploit and its probably coded to print that.
12-17-2011
04:37 PM
hope this is real
12-17-2011
04:45 PM
Front page updated with hackers Blog and Twitter.
12-17-2011
05:00 PM
I hope this is real. The nickname "zecoxao" sounds so Brazilian xD
12-17-2011
05:01 PM
Lol, i'm portuguese dude xD
12-17-2011
05:20 PM
Looks like an exploit for PSP Mode.
But that doesnt make Vita Mode hacked, just look at the 3DS.
12-17-2011
05:30 PM
Back ontopic, I think a good translation will help. Its hard to understand
12-17-2011
05:53 PM
and here is starts
12-17-2011
05:56 PM
Yeah run to the sony shops and buy this crap thing to support the company who has stolen your possibility to use linux and other stuff who has sued little devs who has fight for YOUR rights and bring your stolen things back and the company who you must agree not to sue them and if not you cant play online the company who gives a **** about their customers and so one and do one i wish all of you good fun with this...
12-17-2011
05:57 PM
12-17-2011
06:04 PM
it was a big f rumour bec japnes are expe. In making nudels chomin but not in JB
12-17-2011
06:09 PM
I wouldnt be surprised if it is real after all sony has already updated the stupid thing already
12-17-2011
06:11 PM
I'm proud of such a people
12-17-2011
06:50 PM
12-17-2011
06:54 PM
the imortant question in this is if the psp emulator allows for full use of the cpu, if so it could give some pretty nice homebrew if not it will just be psp homebrew being ported.
12-17-2011
07:04 PM
It will be limited EXACTLY to the PSP specs, to preserve compatibility with PSP games.
12-17-2011
07:27 PM
12-17-2011
07:32 PM
lol PSP games are **** why would anyboyd wanna play PSP games on Vita hack that fukin thing to play Games made for it PSP grpx are like nintendo 64 so lame also looking for android/windows port
12-17-2011
07:35 PM
12-17-2011
07:35 PM
Lol watch at the end its gonna be a bastard like math saying I wont release this ****
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12-17-2011
08:34 PM
So we have another rumoured exploit revealed so that $ony can patch it before too many units are sold...
I thought most hackers were against capitalism and corporations, these hackers are actually helping $ony instead!
12-17-2011
09:01 PM
12-17-2011
09:08 PM
Also, anytime a hack is released, Sony patched it on the PSP/PS3. You cannot keep something from them and release it to the hacking community at the same time.
12-17-2011
10:45 PM
Using my SDK? Cute. I hope it is real; it'd be a nice foot in the door, even if it is only in PSP mode. I just hope there's more sharing in the Vita community...
12-17-2011
11:10 PM
12-18-2011
05:56 AM
Accoring to wololo, this could be real. At least he's quite sure about it right the moment.
However expoliting the psp emulator on vita does not give hardware access.
http://wololo.net/wagic/2011/12/18/d...lready-hacked/
12-18-2011
06:03 AM
There is a nice article posted about this on Wololo's site. Mamasuke is a trusted psp scener acording to Wololo of HBL fame. As pointed out on that site this is interesting but not even a start when it comes to hacking the Vita. It's fun news to read and props to Mamasuke for already making progress.
Oops I see that I was beat to the punch.
12-18-2011
06:25 AM
12-18-2011
06:45 AM
It wouldn't surprise me if the Vita uses the same keys as the PS3 V4 firmware. If so cracking the Vita could lead to us PS3 owners being able to play games released in the last 6 months finally.
12-18-2011
06:50 AM
I guess it is a ray of light... Hopefully Sony does not update the console or patch the game before it gets out to the rest of the world.
[MENTION=193273]Buggerlugz[/MENTION]
I doubt it. At least if they have the brain of a chimp, they would not do that. Last time they left the keys in the PS3, the PSP community got themselves signed homebrew that works on all firmwares (non-kernel level homebrew, but homebrew nonetheless).
12-18-2011
08:08 AM
You guys, I didn't see anyone post much here, so I thought I should just reply regarding what the guy said in Japanese since some people here may not speak Japanese.
"I just used a PSP exploit on PS Vita's Hello World that uses PSP emulation. This isn't a PS Vita vulnerability(exploit). At most this can just use Half Byte Loader."
"Everyone is getting excited about this, but I don't think it is going to really lead us anywhere."
These are the two main things I saw on his twitter this morning before I went to work. Just giving heads up just in case this hasn't been made clear yet.
12-18-2011
09:03 AM
Update 2 added to front page
12-18-2011
09:31 AM
sony removes psp compatibility from psvita 1 week after release lol
12-18-2011
09:57 AM
Maybe, A Better image,
http://yfrog.com/mnie0p
12-18-2011
10:15 AM
12-18-2011
10:41 AM
So guess what....Update 1.51 : REMOVAL OF THE BC. NO PSP GAMES ON VITA ANYMORE! :-)
And the war starts again like taking away other os or the BC Chip on PS3 ;-)
But I would have loved to see this exploid when the vita is out in europe too....so I wont have any chance to put my fingers on a 1.5 Vita here in Germany....
Mine will have 1.51 or even 2.0....who knows :-/
12-18-2011
10:57 AM
Think they will (should) wait untill vita gets released worldwide.
12-18-2011
01:06 PM
i bet the ****ing sony will now remove the psp emulator like they did with otheros and ps2 games
12-18-2011
01:10 PM
12-18-2011
01:23 PM
maybe, i'm lolling
12-18-2011
10:36 PM
Sony's made mistakes before... i'd sure be happy playing psp isos on my Vita. But time will tell...
12-18-2011
10:59 PM
hahahah i love it
bum phuck the giant crab
12-19-2011
02:18 AM
12-19-2011
07:45 AM
Version Text is Out. 6.60 Compatible
http://blog.livedoor.jp/teck4/archives/3204833.html
pastebin here > http://pastebin.com/kh31Uwzz
HBL On Vita is On The Way. If Some1 and Teck4 is now communicating, but sure is work in progress, :D > http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?p=117654#p117654
12-19-2011
04:41 PM
[MENTION=7773]GregoryRasputin[/MENTION]
http://translate.google.com/translat...p.jp%2Fblog%2F
a little bird supplied me with this link
12-19-2011
05:27 PM
Well reading all this and knowing how psp failed at security it wont be long untill Vita is hacked for homebrew and playing games from memory stick.
And i actually like Vita very much with dual analog stick and lovely OLED touchscreen.
Poor Sony
12-19-2011
10:01 PM
Well, dunno if anybody thought of that but, did anyone with Cobra USB tried any PSP savegame hacks on PS3? Sounds like a plan...!
If you don't know any of them I can help you...
12-20-2011
07:13 AM
Video : First Hello World (by teck4) on PlayStation Vita
First Hello World (by teck4) on PlayStation Vita - YouTube
12-22-2011
01:14 PM
I really hope this progress' more and moe, many thanks to the fella involved and to skfu for his work on the firmware and package utilities, I guess only time will tell how much they can unlock :D exciting times!
12-24-2011
10:49 AM
who wanna psp exploit for testing this?
i have some psp sploits, but no vita
12-27-2011
09:46 AM
Its Officiall!! HBL Running On Vita
http://wololo.net/wagic/2011/12/27/h...sonic-says-hi/