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



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.

:arrow: Source: http://yifan.lu/2016/07/28/henkaku-vita-homebrew-for-everyone/
 
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This is very cool! People have asked for this à long time.

Personally, I dont care that much. Why?

1. PSViTA games are often for sale, very cheap and reasonable prices.
2. I already have the N3DSXL fully hacked. The PSViTA Will not offer much more. Perhaps the PSViTA could do crappy N64 emulation, at best.
3. I prefer The N3DSXLs controls over the PSViTAs by 100 times.
4. The PSViTA scene Will be very small. Dont expect much activity in there.

Perhaps Im wrong, lets see in 2 years IF there are any functional N64 emulator for example.
 
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1. PSViTA games are often for sale, very cheap and reasonable prices.
This doesn't enable piracy (for now). And actually, the same can be said for 3DS games.
2. I already have the N3DSXL fully hacked. The PSViTA Will not offer much more. Perhaps the PSViTA could do crappy N64 emulation, at best.
The PS Vita is much, much more powerful than the N3DS. If devs fully use its potential, the emulators will run much better on the Vita.
4. The PSViTA scene Will be very small. Dont expect much activity in there.
iirc, that's what most people said when TubeHax came out :P
 
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With the latest qcma i have an error code when i launch the content manager on my 3.30 vita 2000 how to fix?i want henkaku on this vita .my first have already thid hack
 

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The game must be not decrypted

So first the game should be decrypted and then suddenly not?
I think the eboot should be decrypted, but it probably isn't and that's why it isn't working.
Otherwise we could just copy gamecards via Vitashell and load it in any Vita we want? Without having to use those decryption tricks from here: http://pastebin.com/pz9FbTet

Decrypting a game is different from decrypting its EBOOT.
A game is cake to decrypt: Shell in patch dir, open Manual as <other system app>, open "game", start FTP and download.
The EBOOT, however, has its own layer of encryption which hasn't been broken; that's what one would need to actually boot it.
 

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Is it worth downloading the offline henkaku installer or do I just keep using the online version?
I downloaded the offline installer.
It's years since last time a power outage or problems with the internet appeared here or that I just wanted to use my Vita outside.
But it's very fast installed. After the installation you still can use the online installer.
You just should install it.
 
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Hello people i've recently stumbled across a dumped version of dead or alive xtreme 3 (Free To Play Version) how would one make that into a vpk file?
 

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