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Earlier today, Yifan Lu, a well-known member of the Vita hacking scene famous for the Rejuvenate hack for the Dev Assistants, has announced that a new (native!) Vita homebrew enabler for the latest firmware version, as of writing (3.60), will be arriving tomorrow at "9:00AM UTC".

The new hack, known as "HENKaku", will require the following:

• A Vita/PSTV running 3.60
• A memcard with at least 10MB of free space (internal memory is currently not supported!)
• An FTP client
• An internet connection**

**Offline support is now available! Launch the exploit straight from the email app without the need for internet access at all! See the unofficial release thread for more details. (Internet connection still required for installation)


This is a small paragraph of Yifan Lu himself explaining what the properties of this new homebrew enabler does:

HENkaku simply lets you install homebrew as bubbles in LiveArea. It is a native hack that disables the filesystem sandbox. It installs molecularShell, a fork of VitaShell that lets you access the memory card over FTP and install homebrew packages (which we create as VPK files). With vita-toolchain, developers have access to the same system features licensed developers have access to as well as undocumented features that licensed developers cannot use (including overclocking the processors).

The hack has been released at http://henkaku.me ~ Furthermore, the hack is said to be exclusive to 3.60, and there is to be no backports for the time being.

Source: http://yifan.lu/2016/07/28/henkaku-vita-homebrew-for-everyone/

 

[hirvimies]

Had to try it out on my 3.55 with no expectations and of course it didn't work.

 

[Deleted User]

Holy crap! You get full write access to all these places!

 

[HtheB]

Installation went fine after a reboot!

 

[JFalcon]

Sorry to ask such a noob question but where can i locate some homebrew.

 

[soratheultima]

Amazing! great and easy installation. Thank you again! will be using this on my Vita TV in the following days when it arrives.

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Sorry to ask such a noob question but where can i locate some homebrew.

on that very website you install henkaku.

 

[djricekcn]

can’t get it to work, keep getting cw-12828-1 error

 

[metroid maniac]

Holy crap! You get full write access to all these places!

No tm0: or vd0: access? Lame.

 

[Deleted User]

No tm0: or vd0: access? Lame.

This could essentially be implemented if you can even get write access to places like ur0:, which you can by the way.

 

[metroid maniac]

This could essentially be implemented if you can even get write access to places like ur0:, which you can by the way.

Could you go into more detail?

 

[Flirkyn]

Worked great (well after a reboot, before I was getting an error on the web browser ). For those who know, is there a snes for PSVita ?

 

[Deleted User]

Could you go into more detail?

Well if you look back to the time of the email exploit, you could write to places on the Vita's NAND, right? This included places such as tm0: vd0: ux0: and ur0: which are some of the places on the Vita's NAND.
Well if we can get write access to ur0: then surely vd0: and tm0: can be supported too!

 

[JFalcon]

I understand where to get homebrew now but how do i go about sending vpks via ftp? I have filezilla on my pc but dont know the host names or antything this thing uses.

 

[jon2491]

So I guess we can easily hack the PS TV whitelist with this FTP thing replacing the list_launch_vita.dat or app.db file right?

 

[Slattz]

To the people using a PS Vita Slim & are getting error C2-12828-1:
You need to have a memory card , Henkaku won't work with the internal memory of the Vita Slim.So you will have to buy a memory card

 

[metroid maniac]

Well if you look back to the time of the email exploit, you could write to places on the Vita's NAND, right? This included places such as tm0: vd0: ux0: and ur0: which are some of the places on the Vita's NAND.
Well if we can get write access to ur0: then surely vd0: and tm0: can be supported too!

Oh I see, so it's purely an implementation problem. I thought it was a privileges problem.

So I guess we can easily hack the PS TV whitelist with this FTP thing replacing the list_launch_vita.dat file right?

Use the app.db v2 whitelist hack.

 

[Deleted member 370671]

I understand where to get homebrew now but how do i go about sending vpks via ftp? I have filezilla on my pc but dont know the host names or antything this thing uses.

Press select in Molecular Shell

 

[JFalcon]

Press select in Molecular Shell

Thanks! Very new to this. Ive done something simular with my original xbox but wasnt sure

 

[Hicip1956]

I have an oled vita but I'm still getting the c2-12828-1 error

 

[Deleted member 370671]

I have an oled vita but I'm still getting the c2-12828-1 error

Reboot your console, that should fix it

 

[Flirkyn]

Mmmh I download an homebrew for the vita, but the file was on velf format. Does it work like vpk or not ?