Hacker toont video met MegaDrive Emulator op de PSVita

RDJ134 28 december 2011 om 18:03 uur

Hackers zijn al druk bezig met het vinden van exploits in de PlayStation Vita, en deze zijn er ook gevonden. Want zo kon je vorige week hier al lezen en een video bekijken van de eerste 'Hello World'. Via dezelfde exploit (die ook werkt met de laatste firmware update) in de PSP Emulator is het mogelijk om homebrew te draaien, en ter demonstratie heeft Wololo nu een video online gezet waar in hij de PicoDrive (SEGA MegaDrive Emulator) draaiende laat zien. Dus het kat en muis spel tussen de hackers en Sony is begonnen.







Update: one important clarification: this video shows HBL running on the latest firmware 1.510. The firmware update that happened today does not patch the exploit, unlike what some sites are saying.

A few days ago Japanese developer Teck4 posted a picture of a "hello world" running on the PS Vita through the PSP emulator. I contacted him immediately with some help from Mamosuke, and I soon got enough information to start working on porting Half Byte Loader to this exploit (note that Teck4 is also working on exploiting this vulnerability further, but I don't know how far he's been).

What you see in the video below is the game "Sonic & Knuckles" running in picodrive, a Megadrive emulator for the PSP.

Yes, I'm running an emulator inside a hacked emulator on the Vita, that's kind of cool. There's lots to say about this on
going work, but first let me state that, for once, this HBL port is entirely my work, except for the underlying PSP exploit which is initially from Teck4. I've been testing other people's work for a while, so it was about time I got back to coding myself.

Now that my ego is satisfied, let's move on to the details of the video below. I have good news, bad news, and ugly news. But first check the video below, the first usable hack on the PS vita, 10 days after the console is released.

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