Yifan Lu Announces HENKaku - A New Native Vita Homebrew Enabler for 3.60.

Deleted User · Jul 28, 2016

Nice! What I always wished for!
I m quite happy that i left my vita in the shelf.... almost sold it last week!

Time to install the toolkit and get ready after that rejuvenate mess...
it was not fun at all to program for rejuvenate because of its instability
each day...

this one looks easy. just hit install .. maybe there will be a downloadable zip file for local hosting

metroid maniac · Jul 28, 2016

Bortz said:
I do like that we are still getting some stuff from psn. I think it is a REAL shame that we haven't gotten the support of SONY for this beautiful console.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...ny_Interactive_Entertainment#PlayStation_Vita
There might not be a lot of games in here, but there are some real gems in there like Soul Sac Delta and Oreshika which wouldn't exist without Sony's support.

Townsperson · Jul 28, 2016

Bortz said:
I would give quite a lot for cfw on a vita. but I think that ship has almost sailed for me. The only thing that would really interest me is something silly like a Saturn or ps2 emulator but thats not going to happen.

All I want out of any kind of Vita CFW would be for someone to get rid of the crappy bubble home screens. XMB is far better than this bubble crap...

Never going to happen, but a man can dream...

metroid maniac · Jul 28, 2016

Townsperson said:
All I want out of any kind of Vita CFW would be for someone to get rid of the crappy bubble home screens. XMB is far better than this bubble crap...

Never going to happen, but a man can dream...

Custom homescreen and USB mass storage for PSTV are honestly the two things I would like to see most out of CFW.

BORTZ · Jul 28, 2016

metroid maniac said:
Custom homescreen and USB mass storage for PSTV are honestly the two things I would like to see most out of CFW.

If you dont mind me asking, how do you propose we get mass USB storage from CFW

metroid maniac · Jul 28, 2016

Bortz said:
If you dont mind me asking, how do you propose we get mass USB storage from CFW

Well I'm no developer, nor do I know anything about the Vita's firmware... But the PSTV has the hardware for it, and if you have a kernel exploit it might be technically feasible to mount ux0: on a USB drive instead.

VitaType · Jul 28, 2016

I hope that will push the native vita homebrow development (a better N64 emulator thanks to more cpu power as the PSP had, a proper PS1 emulator for games not on PSN and maybe sometimes a PSP-iso loader).
It feels at very least a bit odd to install it from some webpage instand of downloading the webpage from a more trutworthy source a wololo (I know there is a offical blog post http://yifan.lu/2016/07/28/henkaku-vita-homebrew-for-everyone/), but it will feel odd anyway to press this button tomorrow to be honest...

cloudfe · Jul 28, 2016

Guys, what are your opinions regarding HENkaku working on firmwares lower than 3.60? Yifan Lu says it won't support it, but that it should work. I know, hard to say before the release...

Townsperson · Jul 28, 2016

VitaType said:
I hope that will push the native vita homebrow development (a better N64 emulator thanks to more cpu power as the PSP had, a proper PS1 emulator for games not on PSN and maybe sometimes a PSP-iso loader).
It feels at very least a bit odd to install it from some webpage instand of downloading the webpage from a more trutworthy source a wololo (I know there is a offical blog post http://yifan.lu/2016/07/28/henkaku-vita-homebrew-for-everyone/), but it will feel odd anyway to press this button tomorrow to be honest...

You can make PS1 eboots from an ISO file. You don't need the game to exist on PSN.

sj33 · Jul 28, 2016

Difficult decision. I don't intend to update from 3.18 because I use TN-X PS1 loader all the time, as well as TN-V.

However, if homebrew using this method is incompatible with Rejuvenate and the scene actually takes off this time, it might be a good excuse to buy a second machine.

VitaType · Jul 28, 2016

Townsperson said:
You can make PS1 eboots from an ISO file. You don't need the game to exist on PSN.

Ok, but what is on the PSN store are sometimes a games I have played back in the days but never buyed (rented indeed and borrowed from friends ... sure rented and borrowed only :rolleyes:

) feels wrong today to do that

But is it posibble with this hack to start these mysterious eboots? (yeah Breath of Fire III in german! They added only the PSP version which was english only...)

Vappy · Jul 28, 2016

yuyuyup said:
I wonder if this statement implies the possibility of piracy down the road

It already enables "piracy" insofar as has already been enabled through the various tricks with the email client, since it enables reading and writing of the files needed for that.

metroid maniac · Jul 28, 2016

Vappy said:
It already enables "piracy" insofar as has already been enabled through the various tricks with the email client, since it enables reading and writing of the files needed for that.

That's not piracy as much as it is account swapping. Account swapping has been around as long as consoles had digital content downloads.

sj33 · Jul 28, 2016

sj33 said:
Difficult decision. I don't intend to update from 3.18 because I use TN-X PS1 loader all the time, as well as TN-V.

However, if homebrew using this method is incompatible with Rejuvenate and the scene actually takes off this time, it might be a good excuse to buy a second machine.

Well, that lasted long. Vita updated to 3.60 in preparation for Henkaku.

I suppose I do own a CFW PSP anyway, and it's easier to buy bigger memory cards for that.

Slattz · Jul 28, 2016

I believe this will get the PS Vita scene started

But it doesn't support internal memory (Vita Slim) atm

Memory cards are way too expensive and not worth getting just to use a majority of content on PS Vita but maybe I'll consider getting a memory card if this leads somewhere interesting...

sj33 · Jul 28, 2016

Slattz said:
I believe this will get the PS Vita scene started

I really do hope so. The Vita really does have a lot of potential as a homebrew device - just check out the specs! It was a shame that Rejuvenate was as dead as a doornail.

Vappy · Jul 28, 2016

metroid maniac said:
That's not piracy as much as it is account swapping. Account swapping has been around as long as consoles had digital content downloads.

That's why I put it in quotes.

I know it's not actually piracy, but it's the closest anyone, even the piracy device manufacturers, have got, plus with this enabling read/write on the latest firmware, mass sharing of act.dat files is more likely.

sj33 · Jul 28, 2016

I'm not so interested in piracy in of itself, but any steps that take the Vita towards a potential CFW like the 3DS would really help the scene.

metroid maniac · Jul 28, 2016

Vappy said:
That's why I put it in quotes. I know it's not actually piracy, but it's the closest anyone, even the piracy device manufacturers, have got, plus with this enabling read/write on the latest firmware, mass sharing of act.dat files is more likely.

Sharing act.dat files doesn't work. An act.dat is limited to the console it was generated on.

What this does make possible however is unlimited sharing of PSN accounts for as long as the latest firmware remains unpatched.

Supster131 · Jul 28, 2016

My Vita's already on 3.60, so I may as well install this.

Yeah, sucks that not much can be done with it, but as others have stated, hopefully people can get a CFW working on it along with "backups".
I rarely use my vita anyways, so the odds of me updating it are pretty slim.

Deleted User

Guest

An idiot with an opinion

Well-Known Member

An idiot with an opinion

DO NOT SCREENSHOT

An idiot with an opinion

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

An idiot with an opinion

Well-Known Member

Easygoing Fairy

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

An idiot with an opinion

(づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ *:･ﾟ✧

Similar threads

Popular threads in this forum