Everybody's Tennis contains the VHBL flaw

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Everybody's Tennis contains the VHBL flaw

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Automatically translated from French.

Image unavailable (removed by its host) External content (video or audio) hidden: it sets its own cookies. Wololo has just revealed the name of the second game containing the exploit to launch VHBL. It's Everybody's Tennis, the game that contains the exploit. Worth noting, Wololo's very humorous post on the subject.
Quick translation of wololo's post
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Dear Sony, it has come to my attention that one of the PSP games available on the PlayStation Vita has a vulnerability that could lead to the execution of external code by certain malicious users. That's why I'm writing this blog post so that you patch the game or remove it from the PSN store as soon as possible. Preferably, I suggest you take your customers' money first, and then prevent them from downloading the game afterwards, just like you did with Motorstorm Arctic Edge 3 weeks ago. That way, it'll be a win-win situation for you, and you can still blame the pirates later.

As a matter of fact, I discovered that some of the "pirates" (I prefer to call them terrorists) have already developed a tool using this vulnerability. Which could allow people to run software that would be extremely dangerous for your company, such as 20 years of 8-bit games and 154 different versions of Pong.

I think this exposes your company to risks, and I tried to stop these villains by any means necessary, but unfortunately, it seems they are not in violation. Hopefully, by giving you the name of the game, this will help you take effective action. These people are clearly wrong in the head for trying to play crappy open source software, when they could enjoy a great game like Ridge Racer for less than $10 a track, (which is clearly not a rip-off compared to the price it would take in the real world to drive a car that completely defies the laws of physics. Although on that subject I would ask, if you could help me, why my version of the game seems to be stuck in "demo" mode for some reason. All 5 cars have exactly the same characteristics, so there's surely something I'm doing wrong somewhere...)

I'll open a parenthesis. The name of the game is Everybody's Tennis. It's also known as Minna no Tennis in Japan. Fortunately, the game is not available on the US Vita store, which should limit the problems on your side. I did hear though that pirates had prepared a US version of the hack just in case that version got sold somewhere like on the HK store. I also heard that people can buy the British version from Americans, if they buy PSN cards from resellers on ebay and other sites. If I can give some advice, I think that's not safe enough. It's true you've done a good job preventing people from buying games outside the country they live in (and being a Frenchman living in Japan, I can't tell you how much I appreciate the fact that I can't buy any game on the French PSN, that's exactly how globalization should work, and it helps me save a lot of money by not buying any game at all), but I think that to avoid future hacks, you should simply prevent everyone from buying games on the PSN, which guarantees you complete control of the market.

The pirates also announced that they would release their hack a few hours or a few days after they announce the name of the game you're using. They claim this will allow people to run their game "homebrews" and that in no way will it allow people to play pirated PSP or vita games, but I think that's no excuse for piracy.

I know it's Saturday night for your teams in Europe, and Sunday morning in Japan. I hope you won't have to wake up some people in the middle of the night just to take action, I would have chosen a better time, but I have very little time to blog outside of weekends.

Hoping that by working together, we will be able to stop the pirates. I seem to be one of the few people on Earth who understand that the real enemies of the Vita are not your poor marketing techniques, terrible software such as the "back to the 90s" NetFront browser, the poor launch lineup, the delays on playstation suite, the recent downgrade from 5 to 2 authorized copies of any given psn game, and the growing competition from smartphones which all have better processors than the Vita. No, the real enemies are these people who play Lamecraft, who are clearly killing the video game market, so let's destroy them together.

Please pay special attention to the dev known as wth, who is apparently behind all this, as well as Teck4 who apparently helped him with the Japanese version of the hack. I also heard that guys named Mamosuke and msparky83 were involved in the testing. It would be good, if you have the means, maybe, to tap these guys' phones or something. Or maybe you can just sue them, I heard that's something you do very well.

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Re: Everybody's Tennis contains the VHBL flaw

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