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The PS TV can now run every single app/game without restriction (via simple hack)

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Parallax

best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
is there a way to sharpen psp games on the pstv? i tried playing freedom unite and its a damn mess to look at
 
fvng

fvng

Member
StoppedInTracks said:
Aaaaand of course Sony would block this.

smh what a dumb decision.
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It's bad business to block something that will generate more software sale but they have a legal obligation to do so plus this is obviously an exploit that could lead to potential piracy
 
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mattiewheels

And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
StoppedInTracks said:
Aaaaand of course Sony would block this.

smh what a dumb decision.
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I think the fact that there was also a trophy hack on the same day as this one was all it needed to be doomed. I kind of wish they didn't bother with releasing that trophy hack, but don't know if that would have made the whitelist hack safe either way.
 
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foolishoptimist

Member
mattiewheels said:
I think the fact that there was also a trophy hack on the same day as this one was all it needed to be doomed. I kind of wish they didn't bother with releasing that trophy hack, but don't know if that would have made the whitelist hack safe either way.
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What was the trophy hack? Missed that development entirely.
 
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mrklaw

MrArseFace
Do I need to update the FW for remoteplay to work? I use my PSTV these days mainly for remoteplay (partly because the UK whitelist is so shit ironically), so I'm stuck as to what to do. Don't really want to buy another (and don't have enough HDMI inputs anyway)
 
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mattiewheels

And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
foolishoptimist said:
What was the trophy hack? Missed that development entirely.
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The whitelist hack was the big news, but the same guy created a trophy hack that you could completely mess around with your trophies. Truly useless except for completely making sure Sony steps in. Don't understand the mentality of falsifying trophies at all.
 
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Chindogg

Member
mrklaw said:
Do I need to update the FW for remoteplay to work? I use my PSTV these days mainly for remoteplay (partly because the UK whitelist is so shit ironically), so I'm stuck as to what to do. Don't really want to buy another (and don't have enough HDMI inputs anyway)
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Yes remote play won't work unless you update.
 
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Gxgear

Member
Knew it was too good to be true, glad I held off the purchase. The response from Sony was inevitable, but how they're handling PS TV as a product is just fucking stupid.
 
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TheSeks

Blinded by the luminous glory that is David Bowie's physical manifestation.
mattiewheels said:
The whitelist hack was the big news, but the same guy created a trophy hack that you could completely mess around with your trophies. Truly useless except for completely making sure Sony steps in. Don't understand the mentality of falsifying trophies at all.
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Oh please. You couldn't even sync those. It was basically a local database hack.
 
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zephervack

Member
Well I fucked up, not sure what I did wrong...

Ps tv on 3.20, did the hack, it worked, checked that it didn't get lost on shut down.

Did the update to 3.55, made sure to never go to the store or download anything, and it still patched my whitelist and the hack is gone.

I thought the whitelist only got updated when downloading games from the store but nope.

Hack doesn't work anymore, the #0 file says "done" now and it won't even try to open.

I'm super bummed out, oh well, I was expecting it to break.
 
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$h@d0w

Junior Member
mattiewheels said:
The whitelist hack was the big news, but the same guy created a trophy hack that you could completely mess around with your trophies. Truly useless except for completely making sure Sony steps in. Don't understand the mentality of falsifying trophies at all.
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If you synced them you got account banned.

They are watching™
 
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Marty Chinn

Member
zephervack said:
Well I fucked up, not sure what I did wrong...

Ps tv on 3.20, did the hack, it worked, checked that it didn't get lost on shut down.

Did the update to 3.55, made sure to never go to the store or download anything, and it still patched my whitelist and the hack is gone.

I thought the whitelist only got updated when downloading games from the store but nope.

Hack doesn't work anymore, the #0 file says "done" now and it won't even try to open.

I'm super bummed out, oh well, I was expecting it to break.
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Did you block the updated on your router?
 
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Rich!

Member
zephervack said:
Well I fucked up, not sure what I did wrong...

Ps tv on 3.20, did the hack, it worked, checked that it didn't get lost on shut down.

Did the update to 3.55, made sure to never go to the store or download anything, and it still patched my whitelist and the hack is gone.

I thought the whitelist only got updated when downloading games from the store but nope.

Hack doesn't work anymore, the #0 file says "done" now and it won't even try to open.

I'm super bummed out, oh well, I was expecting it to break.
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It says done because you've clicked it.

Send the email again.

Edit: wait, you're on 3.55?! You're fucked. Sorry. Email writer is blocked on 3.55. Not quite sure why you updated.

My advice is deactivate the console, sell it and get a new one. They're cheap enough (£30 here in the UK at CEX boxed as new).
 
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zephervack

Member
Marty Chinn said:
Did you block the updated on your router?
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Well I updated the PS TV on purpose to continue using PS4 remote Play, I was hoping it would preserve the whitelist as stated earlier as long as I didnt download anything from the store :(

I didnt block the Sony's Whitelist URL thought, maybe thats where I failed, my plan was to move all my games from my Vita and never download anything from the actual PS TV.

Rich! said:
It says done because you've clicked it.

Send the email again.

Edit: wait, you're on 3.55?! You're fucked. Sorry. Email writer is blocked on 3.55. Not quite sure why you updated.

My advice is deactivate the console, sell it and get a new one. They're cheap enough (£30 here in the UK at CEX boxed as new).
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When I did the hack I was on 3.20, made sure it didnt get lost on shutdown but it still got lost after update, as above, I really wanted to have both Remote Play and the whitelist, oh well.
 
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mattiewheels

And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
The whitelist would update even when I blocked those specific sites on my router, so I either didn't block them right or it doesn't work. But reenabling the hack is easy enough, works every time too.
 
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vongruetz

Banned
I'm beginning to think that blocking the white list is now more trouble than it's worth at this point (using this hack). Remote play is eliminated. Access to online stuff is eliminated. Netflix no longer works. Yes, I get to play some games on my TV that are also playable on my Vita, but at this point the hack is more pain than gain for me. I think I'm going to bite the bullet and just do the update.
 
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GetDigitized

Member
vongruetz said:
I'm beginning to think that blocking the white list is now more trouble than it's worth at this point (using this hack). Remote play is eliminated. Access to online stuff is eliminated. Netflix no longer works. Yes, I get to play some games on my TV that are also playable on my Vita, but at this point the hack is more pain than gain for me. I think I'm going to bite the bullet and just do the update.
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This is more useful for the people that don't have a Vita tbh or those who want to play the non-whitelist on a big tv and don't care about the online feautres... The homebrew situation is basically PSP or older emulation atm which any newish tablet/phone can do better so yeah, it's not really worth it imo either.
 
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2SeeKU

Member
As someone without a hacked vitatv, can l simply just redirect the vitatv white list to the vita whitelist via a proxy? I'm only after the ability to play a few games that are blocked.
 
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calc84maniac

Member
2SeeKU said:
As someone without a hacked vitatv, can l simply just redirect the vitatv white list to the vita whitelist via a proxy? I'm only after the ability to play a few games that are blocked.
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The Vita doesn't have a whitelist. It just plays everything you can put on it.
 
suikodan

suikodan

Member
I did the trick using Wololo's emails and was able to run an unsupported game (Hot Shots Golf). Of course, I would love to have my PSN games on it but I don't want this PSTV to online. It's already registered to my PSN account so if I use another PSTV to download all my stuff into a memory card and then put it on the offline PSTV, will I need to get online for my games to work?
 
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GreyOcelot

Member
calc84maniac said:
The Vita doesn't have a whitelist. It just plays everything you can put on it.
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it has to have at least some sort of blacklist that prevents you from launching certain ps1 and psp games. as evidenced by the period of a few days last year where everything was playable on vita and now it's not
 
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calc84maniac

Member
GreyOcelot said:
it has to have at least some sort of blacklist that prevents you from launching certain ps1 and psp games. as evidenced by the period of a few days last year where everything was playable on vita and now it's not
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That was an issue with the download list. If you downloaded those games when that happened, you'd still be able to play them now. This is different from PSTV where you can download anything that's downloadable on Vita, but then aren't able to play it.
 
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kunnikuman

Neo Member
calc84maniac said:
That was an issue with the download list. If you downloaded those games when that happened, you'd still be able to play them now. This is different from PSTV where you can download anything that's downloadable on Vita, but then aren't able to play it.
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Yeah, this. Vita doesnt prevent you from launching anything.
 
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Mets9

Member
Got a PS TV for 20 euro (gamestop sale, Italy), I was on the fence but for such a price it's mandatory to get it :p
Should I update it or not?
 
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Mets9

Member
Ok, so I was reading through the thread but I can't find an answer...Is it possible to download games I own on PSN for PsVita/Psone Classics with a "locked" ps tv? Or I would be stuck only with games on cartridges?
 
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Intel_89

Member
Well I got one but apparently it got updated to 3.55, it shall be relegated to PS4 streaming and some other compatible Vita games since I don't own a PS Vita.
 
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Zafir

Member
wrowa said:
"You need to update the system software in order to use this memory card."

Ahahahaha... fuck you Sony.
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Blergh, guess that'll mean I probably won't be able to use my memory card in it anymore. Downloaded some dlc and updates from PSN on my Vita for P4DAN.

No prevention I assume?

Edit: Yeah, can't use it. Blergh. Not the end of the world as I've another memory card, but it's not as big. :|
 
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Josh378

Member
Yea, I just got a playstation Vita with 3.35, and I have a Vita with a much of games on it. Am I screwed since I can't download anymore games due to software encryption on the memory card? At this point, I should bite the bullet and update the device to use key features.
 
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