Doom est désormais fonctionnel sur la PS Vita

C'est hier que le célèbre développeur Wololo a publié une vidéo sur son blog pour confirmer qu'un HBL (Half Byte Loader) pour la Vita  verra le jour prochainement. La vidéo postée montre que l'homebrew Doom est désormais fonctionnel sur la Vita et c'est plutôt bon signe... Car depuis la sortie de la nouvelle console de Sony, deux exploits ont été découverts au niveau de l'émulateur PSP.

Wololo a aussi précisé que certains développeurs sont déjà en train de bosser pour trouver une solution aux mises à jour de Sony. Comme ça, les joueurs auront la possibilité de rester sur le firmware désiré, ce qui n'est pas plus mal puisque Sony a la possibilité de bloquer la faille très facilement.

Je vous laisse avec les paroles de Wololo et la vidéo bien-sûr

A year and a half ago when I got Doom for PSP to run on the PSP Go, website hackaday noticed it and said “[being able to run Doom is] a prerequisite for any cracked device”. Some people try to run Linux on their hardware at all cost, I prefer Doom. Today I was able to tweak HBL a bit on the PS Vita to get Doom to run on it. Will I get hackaday’s attention this time too? That’s, hands down, the best fps available on the vita so far, check the video below!

We are aware that this hack will be easily patched by Sony, but we still plan to publicly release it some time soon after the US/EU release of the Vita (we still have to port HBL to the EU/US versions of the game but that shouldn’t have any difficulty). I also know that some devs are already working on solutions to make it “easier” for people who would want to stay on a low firmware. I wouldn’t be surprised to see unofficial patches to the CMA, to prevent it from connecting to the net.

Let me use the opportunity to remind that HBL is a collective work, it is open source (anybody with a PSVita, a PSP, and a game exploit in their possession could do what I’m doing here!), and I want to especially thank the major work of m0skit0 (the creator of HBL) and JJS (who brought it to the level it is today). I also want to remind pirates around us that HBL does not technically allow people to run backups, PSP or Vita. (My opinion on the subject does not matter, it is a technical limitation of the tool, and has nothing to do with ethics.)

Happy New Year