Sony PS Vita was cracked on the same day

The latest handheld PlayStation Vita, which was not sold for a whole day in SONY, was unexpectedly cracked by developers and the results came out immediately. With the built-in PSP simulator, developers can already execute home-made code on the PSV. Using an undisclosed vulnerability on the PSP.

SONY released its new handheld PlayStation Vita on December 17th, but it took less than a day from the release date to make a slight progress. Developer teck4 tried to apply one of the PSP's unpublished vulnerabilities on PSV and the result was unexpectedly feasible. He successfully ran the Hello Wold homemade code on PSV.

One of PSV's features is that it can run some PSP games (correctly there is a PSN download version), so there must be a PSP emulator inside. What makes people laugh and cry is that the perfectness of this simulator even reaches the point where even the PSP loopholes are fully introduced.

Although there are ways to run home-made code on PSVs, this is not even the first step in PSV cracking. Because this is just a simulator environment, it does not mean that everyone's restless tentacles can get out of the PSV. In other words, at this stage, the most optimistic is that you can only execute homebrew software through the Half-Byte Loader. However, the basis of the PSP is not always easy to do.

In order to prevent piracy, SONY has adopted a unique memory card and game cartridges for storage media. The memory card cannot be accessed directly and must be accessed through dedicated management software. In the first stage, putting the HBL program into the PSV can only go through this software, and it is only for the archive itself. Even if the vulnerabilities are archived in PSV, the HBL program cannot. Or there is now a way to put the HBL in the archive, but the program can easily filter out non-archived files to block this practice.

Expected players of this Hello World may be disappointed. Now it is clear that the PSP simulator on PSV completely reproduces the vulnerability of the PSP system, but that is it. To get into the PSV system from here, the possibility is almost zero. However, optimistic thinking may also be a time-slip. You can use PSP to play PSP games.