"As I said above, it's a matter of image," he added.
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HBL, on the other hand, does not significantly endanger Sony's business on the PSP or the Vita.
In a court, it could have been fairly easy for Sony to prove that this was impacting their business significantly (in a negative way). Eventually, this could have led to massive piracy, and the loss of all security on the PS3.
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"What Geohot did with the PS3 was give people the keys to the system. " several critical flaws in the early models, which allowed hackers to know a lot about it very quickly." Erwan In particular, we are not bypassing any DRM, and are not giving people any possibility to do so. "My work is not illegal (at least not in my country, France). "I have never been contacted by Sony in the past four years since I started my blog," he told us. But Erwan isn't worried about the legal repercussions, about being the next Geohot in Sony's crosshairs. Given that, you can understand Sony's stern stance on piracy or technology closely related to it. Sony had a torrid time with hackers in 2011 - first with George "Geohot" Hotz, then with hacker collective Anonymous and the PSN Hack. Therefore, even if a game can run "hello world", it still may never run Half-Byte Loader - not if "critical" pieces/functions are absent. This wild fluctuation is born of different games using different functions of the SDK, or "different pieces of the PSP", if you like. The final step is porting Half-Byte Loader to the game, which can take anywhere between five and 30 hours. For anyone with "a bit" of experience, this takes less than an hour, apparently.
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"This is usually done by running a small piece of code that displays a message or an animation on the screen, called a 'hello world'," he explained. With a vulnerable game found, Erwan can then test unsigned code. "I am now aware of about a dozen games with an undisclosed vulnerability, in the PSP library," he whispered, and some were discovered by "unknown" or "novice" hackers. Luckily, he gets help from the community surrounding his blog. "It can take hours, weeks or months because many games need to be tested," he told us. Then, Erwan makes a special kind of saved game and tests it to see if it crashes the console. Getting it working involves finding a vulnerable game, and that takes "lots of time and some luck". Half-Byte Loader allows homebrewed applications and games to run, as well as emulators. On Vita, "this is even more impossible", as the PSP emulator runs in an even more restricted mode. Many hackers have tried and "failed" to run pirated games using Half-Byte Loader on PSP, Erwan revealed. "I believe Sony fights against Half Byte Loader mostly to keep their image - it would be bad for them to 'give up' against hackers in the very first months of the Vita." Erwan aka Wololo "So advanced that whoever would want to do that would have better luck trying to find more advanced exploits on the console than programming all the code required to load a pirated PSP game through HBL.
"Loading pirated PSP games from user mode is, if not impossible, extremely difficult, and would require advanced knowledge of the PSP system," explained Erwan. Half-Byte Loader runs in the restricted mode. The PSP has a security model that uses two layers: a restricted user mode and unrestricted kernel mode. "I believe Sony fights against Half-Byte Loader mostly to keep their image - it would be bad for them to 'give up' against hackers in the very first months of the Vita, they have to show to their partners (especially video game editors) that the platform is secure, and that they plan to keep it this way for as long as possible."Įrwan stressed that "it is not possible to run pirated PSP or Vita games with HBL, not only for ethical reasons, but because it is not technically possible".
"The argument that Half-Byte Loader enables piracy usually comes from gamers who are not correctly informed, as HBL does not enable piracy. "They actually never made any official statement about Half-Byte Loader. "This has never been Sony's argument," Erwan answered. What's Sony's problem - the threat of piracy? Intrigued, Eurogamer tracked down Half-Byte Loader's French author Erwan - also known as Wololo - to find out more. PSP games MotorStorm: Arctic Edge, Everybody's Tennis and Super Collapse were all temporarily removed from the PlayStation Store because they were vulnerable to an exploit that allowed a homebrew-enabling program called Half-Byte Loader to run on Vita.
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