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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/

 

[driverdis]

I had some fun and edited the BG image to be something other than white, a screenshot of itself.

I was not sure how to replace the image (other methods I tried failed) so I uninstalled Molecular Shell and used Charles Proxy to redirect bg.png to my local modified one when reinstalling it as it grabs the bg from the website before installing the package.

 

[Redirr]

Hello guys.

I downloaded the .pup 3.60 from sony website.

My question is. If sony releases a 3.6X to fix.

Can i update a psvita with this file?

One of my vita its 3.60 alredy. But my other psvita its not.

So resuming. Can i just do a offline update to any console with this pup file? Like we do with ps3

 

[driverdis]

Hello guys.

I downloaded the .pup 3.60 from sony website.

My question is. If sony releases a 3.6X to fix.

Can i update a psvita with this file?

One of my vita its 3.60 alredy. But my other psvita its not.

So resuming. Can i just do a offline update to any console with this pup file? Like we do with ps3

you can do this
http://www.guidingtech.com/42173/offline-update-ps-vita-firmware/

 

[Deleted User]

54fps isnt good though...

Well it's acceptable enough in my books...

My god, some people are so unappreciative of things sometimes...

 

[SuperYoshi93]

I have a question. For now i have two psvita, the handled one and the vita tv. But my problem is that i have only one memory stick. Can i switch consoles without worrying about or for this exploit there must be one personal memory for console?

 

[driverdis]

I'm not sure if it's considered a mini, but I'm re-using Talkman Travel Tokyo as my VHBL. (20MB)

I did this also, as I was a 3.18 user with TN-V and TN-X (XS Moto) then upgraded to 3.60.

 

[jhonnypolak]

I have a question. For now i have two psvita, the handled one and the vita tv. But my problem is that i have only one memory stick. Can i switch consoles without worrying about or for this exploit there must be one personal memory for console?

You can move the one memory card between PSVITA and PSTV. Just make sure both devices are on 3.60 (same firmware) and both are registered with your PSN account.

 

[Inaki]

For me, having a write access to ux0:/license/ is giving me some ideas to keep my cart games on the go, but mostly assured that it will fail (trying atm)

hmmmm... can you elaborate on that ? thank you.

 

[invaderyoyo]

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This really works? I thought Minis didn't work?

Yeah, minis really work.

 

[Deleted member 333767]

if the software is terrible why do you want to play it?

I still go to work everyday, despite not liking it :-P

 

[anthrax132]

hmmmm... can you elaborate on that ? thank you.

Given the fact i lost once a full cart box during a day out, i was hoping tho extract files from my physical cartridges, and find a way to make them run on my psv.
But as for now, well, it's not working; even if i can make the game bubble to show up without the cart inside, it just throws an error when you try to launch (some "bla bla bla...redownload...bla bla bla ). Thinking about my PS3 tinkering times, i think it may just be a minor issue, but with all the files being still encrypted...well...it's kinda on hold :/

Digital copies, on the other hands, works really well this way (which is...well...completely useless as you can totally achieve the same result with qcma, but was done for science ).

The way the licence is handled makes me strongly feel that one digital copy could only work with the system (or psn account?) it's "paired" with (which would be fine for me on the cartridges side, as my only goal was backups), but i lack the knowledge to totally confirm that (maybe someone more into it could confirm it by the way).

PS: sorry if my english's not up to the point; not my main one, kinda early, not enough coffee and a night waaay too short

 

[Deleted User]

Sorry to be an annoyance to some people again, but I have been having trouble trying to compile the Molecular Shell source.

In order to compile VitaShell you'll need

• vitasdk: https://github.com/vitasdk / https://bintray.com/package/files/v...esc&sort=fileLastModified&basePath=&tab=files
• vita2dlib: https://github.com/xerpi/vita2dlib
• ftpvitalib https://github.com/xerpi/ftpvitalib
• debugnet: https://github.com/psxdev/debugnet
• psp2link: https://github.com/psxdev/psp2link
• psp2client: https://github.com/psxdev/psp2client

I have successfully managed to install all of these requirements into my build environment, and I also installed CMake since all I see in the source is a CMakeLists.txt.

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make -j8
# VitaShell.bin is your FSELF

Now here's the trouble... I have managed to successfully do the two above bold/underlined commands, and now I am stuck on the "make -j8" part. Whenever I try to run that command within my 'build' folder, I just get the following:

"make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop."

I suppose I should not be doing this? Should I try to compile in Visual Studio instead? (Since I have a few .vcxproj files and an .sln file from the cmake build).

Thanks!

 

[Inaki]

Given the fact i lost once a full cart box during a day out, i was hoping tho extract files from my physical cartridges, and find a way to make them run on my psv.
But as for now, well, it's not working; even if i can make the game bubble to show up without the cart inside, it just throws an error when you try to launch (some "bla bla bla...redownload...bla bla bla ). Thinking about my PS3 tinkering times, i think it may just be a minor issue, but with all the files being still encrypted...well...it's kinda on hold :/

Digital copies, on the other hands, works really well this way (which is...well...completely useless as you can totally achieve the same result with qcma, but was done for science ).

The way the licence is handled makes me strongly feel that one digital copy could only work with the system (or psn account?) it's "paired" with (which would be fine for me on the cartridges side, as my only goal was backups), but i lack the knowledge to totally confirm that (maybe someone more into it could confirm it by the way).

PS: sorry if my english's not up to the point; not my main one, kinda early, not enough coffee and a night waaay too short

Your english is fine, quite good actually. Thank you for the explanation.

Also, another research path could be writing to the writable partition of a cartridge that has it and making a malformed file trigger some buffer overflow or so...

 

[Lord M]

Download these now: https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/system-updates/ps-vita/ (its 3.60 you can manuelly install it later, so you don't have to decide now)

This is what i want to know! I need to download on pc or psv?

 

[Slattz]

This is what i want to know! I need to download on pc or psv?

On PC

 

[retrofan_k]

you can do this
http://www.guidingtech.com/42173/offline-update-ps-vita-firmware/

Some of the links like XML file are 404 dead.

 

[Lord M]

On PC

Ah ok, but the guide report that your pc must connected to internet to checks firmwares; in this case, psv will check the highter fw and install it, not?

 

[Slattz]

Some of the links like XML file are 404 dead.

https://github.com/codestation/qcma/blob/master/common/resources/xml/psp2-updatelist.xml

 

[Deleted-355425]

Well ive tested the SNES emu on this alot on the vita handheld and most games sit at 59.x to 60FPS and play amazingly well although some have audio issues, Ive also played Super mario world on the PSTV on the SNES emulator and you get horrible input delay (as if you were playing your real snes on a new tv) like when you hit the jump button it lags the movement so that blows.

edit: for those of you with a IDU/kiosk make sure you disable wifi before you switch it off. The unit will try and update when you turn it back on as this is teh first thing it does and no doubt sony will push a FW update after this lol.

 

[cearp]

I still go to work everyday, despite not liking it :-P

that's because you get paid... lol
not the best analogy!
you don't get paid to pay vita games that you don't enjoy... yes?