Hello World On PS Vita, Thanks to Buffer Overflow 123
YokimaSun writes "Mamosuke, a PSP Homebrewer from Japan, has posted the first Hello World on the PS Vita which comes from the PSP Emulator in the console. Using a buffer overflow, he has found a way into the PSVita, and with many PSP Game exploits still around and not published for the whole homebrew and hacking community this means that in the short term homebrew is here on the PSvita. Lets hope this is the start of a true PSVita homebrew scene."
That was fast (Score:5, Interesting)
That console haven't been out more than a day or so...
Re:Advantage of homebrew? (Score:5, Interesting)
A third-party tool that was horrible, to be sure, but again, where's your citation that they blamed the users and ever said what you put in quotes?
Unfortunately, hes NOT lying, and that quote was from a fairly high up executive...
Mr. THOMAS HESSE (President, Sony BMG Global Digital Business): Most people, I think, don't even know what a Rootkit is, so why should they care about it?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4989260 [npr.org]
That quote isnt itself a crime, but it certainly is a poor attempt to defend their actions, and kind of indicates Sony's relationship with its customers.
If you want to know the reasons basically everyone on the internet hates sony, you can start by reading Maddox's take on it [thebestpag...iverse.net] (which is pretty spot on, despite the crudity of it). Long story short,
Not all of those are crimes (blu-ray), but when you add them together you get the impression that Sony doesnt even really pretend to care about its customers, and really is your stereotypical faceless monster of a corporation. They barely even have a cool-factor to offset it, like Nintendo can pull off.
BS.. (Score:4, Interesting)
If the hacks didn't work there would be a big problem running PSP-games on the PS-vita anyway.. But then again, this is good news for original PSP-owners who now can get 'illegal' images of the UMD-games they already own and run them on the PS-vita (where you otherwise had to rebuy them, which ofcourse is ridiculous if you already own the original PSP-game).