Sony Removes Motorstorm Arctic Edge from PS Store Following PS Vita Exploit

Sony has yanked PSP title Motorstorm Arctic Edge from the PlayStation Store following an announcement from homebrew developer wololo that said game was vulnerable to a savegame exploit, which allows Vita users to run homebrew code through the built-in PSP emulator. It’s worth noting that this is based on the same exploit showcased by teck4 not long after the Vita launch. To date, it still has not been patched through firmware.

[-Mika-]

Omg yes. Sony found out the game that was a risk to the vita. Good job sony. Now the vita should be safe for now.

[360GamerFG]

Wow. This comment is just plastered with such ass kissery it is actually sad. SONY didn't find out jack, the guy announced which game it was. VITA is by no means safe lol.

[rezzah]

True, but they still found out in the end.

Edit: Forgot to add, if they didn't find out anything then they would have known nothing. Meaning this article wouldn't be here.

So Sony did find out the problem and which game it was, regardless of being told or not.

[THESONYPS3]

Everything is under control here at SONY now ;)

[FriedGoat]

Sony is safe, they can't do anything outside the emu anyway. It's not even a big deal.

[SilentNegotiator]

So, are we supposed to say according to you?

"Screw you, Sony! How dare you remove a game until it can be patched to avoid exploits on your young system that doesn't need to be hit by piracy yet!"

.....Is that better?

Of course they're going to found out about an exploit THROUGH someone. It's an exploit. You don't just FIND exploits. You figure them out.

The Vita is safER with Arctic Edge down for now.

[Arnagrim]

I'm glad Sony is keeping tabs on what's going on in the hacking/homebrew scene so they can mitigate any damage.

[coolasj]

Seriously, how difficult is it make Save Game Exploits not possible? They seem to be very common.

Also, if you guys would read the articles.

"Also keep in mind that VHBL gives you no iso, no special access to the Vita hardware, just a limited PSP homebrew experience on your vita."

Minimal harm done.

[Jobesy]

"Seriously, how difficult is it make Save Game Exploits not possible?"

Coding the save game is probably one of those small things they give to rookie programmers. It's a backdoor that seems to get often overlooked in a lot of games.

[pucpop]

vita would be great for mame, hurry up and deliver

[Nutsack]

Good to know I grabbed Motorstorm Artic Edge before it was pulled and made backup with the content manager of this version with a savegame exploit.

I think its time to buy a 2nd PSVita and keep this one offline...

All homebrew on PSVita, nice. And Sony being safe? They thought that also when they took OtherOS from PS3 fat users, and shortly after they were pwned by hackers.

I couldn't care less, I just want all the emulators of old consoles on my PSVita, no interest for ISO loading of PSP or PSVita.

Wololo ftw, waiting for his HBL release today!

[vega275]

if they can get all the emulator from old consoles working on the vita. then I'll buy the vita for sure then i wouldn't have to carry around my jailbroken Iphone 4

[xAlmostPro]

@Nutsack

You talk like a complete tool.

[SilentNegotiator]

"pwned by hackers"?

You mean those failures that got a hold of code stolen directly from some Sony office?

Yeah, they didn't "pwn" anyone. They stole a key to the front door, they didn't pick the lock....because they couldn't do it.

[Ducky]

Isn't that worse?

A lock being picked is bad... but when someone is actually able to steal the key itself, then that raises an eyebrow about what kind of security is in place.

[gamer7804]

When will they learn that they are only hurting the industry in the long run by doing these things, first if sales go down due to piracy game developers won't make as many games for the device, this is what happened to the psp. With this particular exploit, now a game is unavailable for download.

[Nutsack]

This only runs homebrew, no PSP or PSVita ISO's. It runs inside the PSP emulator of the PSVita.

Thus, no piracy on PSP or PSVita games done.

The choice to pull the game, is Sony's choice. Plus, it'll be up lateron again on store, patched by Sony ofcourse on its vulnerability. Sony can pull it, but there are more games with vulnerability, so it won't do much in the long run.

On your PC, you also like to be able to run other stuff without Microsoft limiting what you can install, even on emulators for older consoles right? Why shouldn't that be possible on a handheld.

Getting an exploit to run homebrew is not hurting the industry. People that try to load illegal downloads of the games of that platform are.

[bunfighterii]

It's a matter of time until Vita gets hacked and Sony know it. You can't beat the hackers. The shame of it all is that if piracy affects the Vita, we won't get good games.

I think that a major reason we have such good software on the PS3 is that it hasn't been successfully exploited yet in a way that allows piracy to flourish on the system. Hopefully the Vita holds up the same way.

[Nutsack]

Uh... PS3 hasn't been successfully exploited yet?

You have heard about the 3.55 Custom Firmware right? That plays PS3 game ISO's from external HDD, or internal, runs all homebrew, and runs every PSN game downloaded illegally. Right?

There are some issues with newer games that need newer firmware, but still the CFW on PS3 is pretty much a 'successfull' exploit in every way thinkable, the system is wide open for anything the homebrew community or hackers want to do with it. Even systems that updated can be downgraded and the Custom Firmware can be put on it.

Last thing I've read is that they even have some loopholes to play online, although that is the major thing to block massive piracy, that PSN (or XBL on 360 for all that matters) is unavailable for hacked systems. That prevents the majority of people to mod their console as they want to keep the online access above being able to run ISO's.

Although referring to PSP that wasn't as successful because of piracy, well the DS also had massive piracy with the R4 cards but still managed to get a lot of game releases the PSP never had in 3rd party support. The 360 has been hacked on its DVD drive like 2 months after the system got released, but still has the same, if not more support than the PS3. So seen in that way, maybe it wasn't the piracy thatgot it in trouble.

Actually, the piracy problem can force the industry to find new, good ways to sell their games instead of the too expensive disc based formats that give away too much money to transport, gross traders, retail, packaging etc etc, like how when Napster forced the music business to change business models from expensive CD's to downloadable separate songs like iTunes did well and jumped in. The game business should rethink their business models and make it interesting enough to buy legal.

For example: put out a new game on PSN/XBL 2 or 3 weeks before its retail release, downloadable. Maybe even full price. Game die hards won't be trying to get the game illegally through downloads a few weeks before release if they have a legal alternative. That's free advice Microsoft and Sony, pay attention...

[tiffac008]

Edit: Just to be clear, I'm not disagreeing with you on anything, I just wanted to explain what happened on the PSP to some extent. ^^

Actually the PSP pretty much got in trouble with piracy (software wise), before it became widespread there where a couple of games that sold over a million copies on the PSP and there where 3rd party developers making games for it.

After piracy became widespread the 3rd party devs abandoned the PSP (especially the western devs) and this was before the boom of the smartphones.

There are also a couple of reasons to why the PSP seems to be hit harder by piracy:

On the PSP, there was nothing really holding you back. There was no trophies/achievement for instance.

You don't need to mod your console, you just download it and presto it works, No extra R4 cards to buy or fear that those R4 cards may get corrupted and such.

Also a large majority PSP users are tech savvy (probably the same ones that uses R4 on their NDS) and it doesn't have a huge group of child or old gamers who probably doesn't know how to pirate.

And the biggest thing of all, Sony's strongest market is in Asia and a lot of Asian countries are rampant with piracy to the point that some local industries (like music, textile and movies) are struggling.

[PirateThom]

"Successful" and "widespread" are very different things though and that's why there's still the idea than the PS3 hasn't been hacked. For whatever reason, no one cares enough about the PS3 hack to do it.

I think it's worth noting, even the 3DS hasn't been hacked, (the R4 cards not withstanding as it will run DS games in emulation and doesn't touch the software on the 3DS).

[bunfighterii]

I get your point and agree to some extent. But the PS3 hack is not widespread and accessible enough for it to flourish like it did on PS3. For example, I know 15, maybe 20 friends who own a PS3 and not one of them has hacked it- because one of the the reasons I'm sure is they don't know how (although even if you could not everyone would).

But on the PSP I know like 4-5 people who own one, and 3 of them for sure have hacked it.

[Young_ART]

here we go again..

[PJF_Josh]

I don't think Motorstorm is going to be patched and put back up on the store. I actually didn't know anything about this and went to download a bunch of my PSP games tonight including Motorstorm. When I couldn't find it, I looked for the email from when I purchased it, back in October 2009, called Sony and they refunded my $42.

[Krakn3Dfx]

Hopefully they get it patched up and drop it on the U.S. Vita store, because I really want to play Arctic Edge on my Vita.

People that defend this kind of shit only need to look as far as the PSP and how what ended up pretty much killing the platform started as, "Just wanna run some homebrew yo!"

Give me a break, you give people a crack in the wall, and they'll tear the entire thing down.