PSVita games dumped, dual boot firmware possible via hardware mod

[Qtis]

Guys over at wololo.net have been quite active the passed few days. Booting to older firmware from the latest (3.XX) firmware seems to be possible, though not for the average user. POC nevertheless.

The second interesting part is actually PSVita cartridges being dumped.

From wololo.net:

After Yifan Lu’s great hardware reports about the PS Vita, its motherboard and its nand, our user Katsu found a way for dual booting the PS Vita, which can kind of be seen as a downgrade solution.
But that is not everything that he was able to do. Katsu is on fire and also looked at the Vita cartridges… see below for some more electronics joy!

Source (wololo.net)
Source for downgrade (wololo.net)

So far I wouldn't go as far as pointing out piracy is possible, but at least the media can be dumped and possible the console downgraded.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

I'll just say what I said in the shitbox a while ago...

This is extremely impractical for the end-user, so don't go expecting anything for a long while yet guys.

But this is cool nonetheless, Yifan's documentation will definitely be helpful for hardware modders.

 

[angela18]

It's a beggining at least.

 

[Hop2089]

This is going to sell Vitas 2 years down the line. It's the PSP all over again, now if someone 2 years from now brings out a PS2 emulator for Vita, I'd be happy.

 

[razielleonhart]

the vita is nice idea but sony really dropped the ball on it. hell i would be happy if a hack like this leads to homebrew and beable to play PSN games on it

 

[VLinh]

What's the roadblock so far in terms of the PSVITA hacking scene? I'm guessing the encryption of the Vita itself is the problem?

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

What's the roadblock so far in terms of the PSVITA hacking scene? I'm guessing the encryption of the Vita itself is the problem?

Well Sony didn't mess around with their security this time around. Yifan expands on this and more in his blog, read this post for more information: http://yifan.lu/2013/09/10/why-hacking-the-vita-is-hard-or-a-history-of-first-hacks/

 

[Gahars]

First the 3DS gets the Gateway goofballs, and now this. Looks like Vita owners are getting their moment of triumph after all.

Closest approximation of that triumph.

 

[BvanBart]

So... this means at this point there is NO public way for home-brew... (at least not for the latest FW). And in the future there will be a Wii-key-ish idea for a mod to enable Homebrew? Well... always nice to see the progress of this

 

[BORTZ]

This is super cool. Im glad there is some progress. I don't really like the idea of the Vita being totally wide open like the PSP was, but i do like the possibility of emulators and other home-brew though...

 

[Parasite X]

This is very exciting now all we need is a fake psvita memory card with an sd card slot similar to ds/3ds flash cards to go

 

[Parasite X]

This is super cool. Im glad there is some progress. I don't really like the idea of the Vita being totally wide open like the PSP was, but i do like the possibility of emulators and other home-brew though...

I agree a ds/3ds emulator would be awesome

 

[JackSakamoto]

I agree a ds/3ds emulator would be awesome

But unfortunately impossible for a long good time.
There's no way to emulate 3DS for now,and .. Tell me how you can get a dual screen on 5 inches screen.
Really,there's no need to ask for more atm.

 

[SLiV3R]

Yifan Lu Said that a gamecube emulator would be possible on the vita. He never Said anything about fullspeed however.. But a dreamcast emulator Will probably reach fullspeed if the vita ever gets hacked

 

[Joe88]

Tell me how you can get a dual screen on 5 inches screen.

Spoiler

 

[SuperSVGA]

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For those of you who can't see it due to hotlinking protection

Spoiler

 

[SLiV3R]

Why ds or 3ds emulator??? Would just be dumb

 

[Deleted member 194275]

If they find a user friendly way to put android on PS Vita, I'll say "good bye samsung" for good. With android we already have tons of emulators.

 

[Deleted User]

I find it funny that wololo takes a positive stance at dumping of PS Vita games for piracy but when GW does piracy oh noes it's all bad. Hypocrits...

 

[Deleted User]

Also the PS Vita games are stored on standard NAND flash. Why is this only dumped now? It is piss easy to dump