PS Vita: Doom Playable via HBL

PS Vita hacker Wololo has recently showcased Doom running on the PS Vita via Half-byte Loader. He also mentions the release of the techniques used to exploit the PSP emulator on the Vita but not until the Vita is released in the EU and US stores.

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 hackadays attention this time too? Thats, 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 shouldnt 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 wouldnt 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 Im 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.)

Source: wololo.net

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