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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/

 

[kiryu1]

If you have a PSP anyway then you may as well update. But you can update to 3.60 offline if it comes to it so you'll never be in a position where you cannot update.

yeah, I have a PSP, I only wanted the ePSP back then for twin stick purposes..


Guess I update then..


Many thanks!

 

[alucard_xs]

is there a tuto for the whitelist on pstv ?

 

[sj33]

yeah, I have a PSP, I only wanted the ePSP back then for twin stick purposes..


Guess I update then..


Many thanks!

I can relate with the decision - my Vita was 3.18 with TN-V and TN-X and I didn't want to give them up. Ultimately however, there's no point in holding our Vita consoles back from a proper native exploit. Henkaku is going to be much bigger than Rejuvenate. Plus, we cannow actually play games newer than September 2014.

Besides, we can get much bigger and cheaper storage capacity by using a regular PSP for such things.

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is there a tuto for the whitelist on pstv ?

Yes.

http://wololo.net/2016/07/29/re-enable-pstv-whitelist-3-60-ps-vita-henkaku/

 

[Hicip1956]

fake mostly

http://hackinformer.com/PlayStation..._install_vhbl_bubble_without_exploitgame.html and rebuild database

 

[Yokimari]

Oh wow, got VHBL running in PSVita 3.60 using Henkaku... Nice..

 

[sj33]

Oh wow, got VHBL running in PSVita 3.60 using Henkaku... Nice..

Link please.

 

[Yokimari]

Link please.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vitahacks/comments/4v62wr/install_vhbl_with_henkaku/

 

[BeatZeps]

https://www.reddit.com/r/vitahacks/comments/4v62wr/install_vhbl_with_henkaku/

 

[sj33]

https://www.reddit.com/r/vitahacks/comments/4v62wr/install_vhbl_with_henkaku/

Fantastic stuff. This needs spreading.

 

[Hicip1956]

You dont even need to use cma just drag and drop the files

 

[MysticRacer]

Dumping a cartridge right now! Thank you @anthrax132

 

[sj33]

So, what's the smallest demo we can use as a base game? Just to save a bit of space.

 

[Yokimari]

Tried running SNES TYL and it crashes..

 

[alucard_xs]

I do not see what bring vhl except psp games

 

[sj33]

So, what's the smallest demo we can use as a base game? Just to save a bit of space.

For anybody who happens to have this game from a previous VHBL install, World of Pool is only 99MB.

 

[alucard_xs]

For anybody who happens to have this game from a previous VHBL install, World of Pool is only 99MB.

I can't find the demo, only the full game at 6,99 ...

 

[Yokimari]

got gpsp running hit "The Saved data is corrupt" working on it. lol

 

[Inaki]

Dumping a cartridge right now! Thank you @anthrax132

Yeah, me too, for the sake of curiosity; I hadn't used my vita for almost a year now. Also, if we have a way to start other processes, be it in the environment of our own process or otherwise, we might be able to load the dumped game from the memory card, maybe by patching paths statically on the dumped files or maybe via some nasty usermode hook in the execve'd process...

 

[VitaType]

Not sure if these question is right here.
Has enyone found a NES emulator supporting these hack? I can't find one atm, but maybe someone other found one.
Then all the old Nintendo consoles (expect N64, but DaedalusX64 dons't runs very well anyway) are there and VHBL is abadonable for emulators [at least for me since I don't want a C64 emulator without a real keyboard] (strange to say that for a Sony console, but there is no PSX or PSP emulator for vhbl...)

 

[sj33]

Not sure if these question is right here.
Has enyone found a NES emulator supporting these hack? I can't find one atm, but maybe someone other found one.
Then all the old Nintendo consoles (expect N64, but DaedalusX64 dons't runs very well anyway) are there and VHBL is abadonable for emulators [at least for me since I don't want a C64 emulator without a real keyboard] (strange to say that for a Sony console, but there is no PSX or PSP emulator for vhbl...)

The exploit has been available for a couple of hours so you'll have to be patient. I'd imagine that Retroarch will be ported to .vpk format soon.