Hacking Vita Homebrew Bounty

[Tom Bombadildo]

Over at Wololo, a member has decided to open up a native Vita homebrew bounty, accepting the promise of donations to any dev who manages to get homebrew running in Vita mode. At this time, the current total of the bounty is +$2000.

The bounty was opened by a GBATemp member, reprep and the way the bounty works is users will promise a set amount of money to donate to a dev who manages to get Vita homebrew running. Instead of having users donate their money into a Paypal account that could be fraud or shut down, or any other system, the bounty will only give donations directly to the coder who manages to run Homebrew on the Vita.

More details below:

As we all know, Vita doesn't get enough love from game developers. I really want to be able to run homebrews/emulators on Vita. I know money doesn't simply solve the problem, but it might be a small incentive. Think of this as a small appreciation to the succeeding dev for enabling homebrew. We are not buying the exploit, we have no right over it. I just wanted to make this clear.

RULES:

The exploit must be released and it should be able to run homebrew/native ARM code. No ePSP stuff or any other fancy thing. It shouldn't depend on a third party hardware (game exploits are fine). A simple way of coding homebrew should be provided. A full SDK isn't needed though. Also it shouldn't allow game piracy.

Unfortunately i can't host a PayPal account dedicated to this for a lot of reasons. This is how it will go: anyone who wants to donate any amount of money to a dev who accomplishes this, will write under this thread and i will add it to the main list here. After a dev releases a possible way to run homebrew in Vita, i will announce it here and you can donate the pledged amounts to the dev. I will not collect the money. All donations will be done to the dev. It would be great if the dev provides a PayPal account for donations. Remember i have no control over if people will donate the promised amount of money or not. I will just announce it here, nothing more.

You can check out the Wololo thread here if you'd like, and promise a donation if you're feeling generous.
http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=41980

 

[Purple_Shyguy]

I promise to donate a gorillion dollars! I swear!


How would this ever work?

 

[2Hack]

I promise to donate a gorillion dollars! I swear!


How would this ever work?

One guy is pledging $1000. A bit hard to believe, no?

 

[Margen67]

>shouldn't allow game piracy

ew

 

[VashTS]

this happened with the galaxy s5 for ATT and Verizon. It was like $13k approximately for a root method.

Geohot did it and of course we don't know if he got paid but some people pledged $100s.

 

[ldeveraux]

I promise to donate a gorillion dollars! I swear!


How would this ever work?

With dullards like you, it doesn't. It works with people who actually pay it forward once the exploit is found.