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They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
I suppose Mai could add a check for edited .suprx files to ensure this doesn't ever happen again. I can't believe people would go this low. Yes piracy is bad, but that does not justify bricking people's devices just because they're pirates.
What if it was Sony themselves who did this?Just low life scum bags that do that kinda stuff. Karma will catch up with them.
I can imagine Sony laughing about this, but then again also not, after all they gave up of vita anyway, why should they care?What if it was Sony themselves who did this?
I can imagine Sony laughing about this, but then again also not, after all they gave up of vita anyway, why should they care?
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Yes you can. Oh no, someone pirated, they deserve to have no chance of buying a game because some fuckwit made a bricking VPK? Nice twisted views you have there.1) Nothing justifies piracy neither, when you hack your device to have free shit you should be paying for it instead... Well, let's say you can't cry foul when you been playing dirty yourself...
Use at your own risk I guess.
MAKE THIS A FEATURED POSTA word to the wise. Don't install the old dumps with unsafe headers. Only install .vpk's that DO NOT ask you to confirm installation of an unsafe VPK. "Safe" header vpks cannot make system calls to enable writing to delicate partitions (as far as I know) and have limited writing to ux0: .
What if it was Sony themselves who did this?
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we need Henkaku to block this kind of virus, hmmmm someone did mention something like 'Avita Antivirus' maybe something like that would be good too Dx...
Yifan has said quite a few times that this kind of thing *is* blocked, at the installation stage, if you install things via vitashell (as it ties into henkaku's 'safe homebrew' feature).
You will receive the 'application requests extended permissions' message. You then have the option to stop, or accept the risk if for some reason the homebrew does need the higher level of access (game dumps dont) and you want to proceed.
If the vpk installs without giving this message, it does not have access to cause the harm these bricking releases did.
https://www.reddit.com/r/VitaPiracy..._warning_there_have_been_two_separate/d8a53a3
Molecule have granted homebrew a hell of a lot of access, and provided the safe homebrew feature as a means of mitigating (possibly eliminating) the risk when that access isn't required.
The bricking releases were mai dumps and mai tool did not perform the same check previously. The changelog for version 2z9 mentions they now do perform a check (hopefully the same as vitashell, but I'm unsure).
That's pretty much what vitaorganizer does (as well as deleting duplicate files). It's a lot easier than unpacking/hex'ing/packing every vpk yourself.If for example a virus infected game has the eboot set at "01 00 00 00 00 00 00 2F" at offset "0x80" and I change the "01" to "02" in a hex editor and then save, will that then make the game safe or will that just break the eboot ?
Yes you can. Oh no, someone pirated, they deserve to have no chance of buying a game because some fuckwit made a bricking VPK? Nice twisted views you have there.
I said "use at your own risk", I never said anyone DESERVED it, nice try twisting my words kiddo...