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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/

 

[Yokimari]

Seems to be going smoother for me now....

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

You should be able to follow the whitelist patch v2 tutorial. I linked to it earlier in the thread.

Thanks! I'll go find it right now!

 

[pikpol]

So it's just a pure zip file? Well I never knew that! It's a bit hard to try and find the info you're looking for sometimes, so I apologize... -_-"

@Voxel Studios @yifan_lu I got an out of memory error when installing a vpk package
Any idea what's the problem?

 

[Yokimari]

I wonder if something changed in the backend because it's working each time I try it now without error.

 

[CoreMessageInspector]

Sweet, just what I was waiting for It seem's to work fine (except for somme bug in sound). Just Super Mario RPG and Shin Megami Tensei I have problems for the rom I tested

Yeah but just remember the HENkaku was released only 4 hours ago and we have working not optimized ports of emulators, DOOM and the Ps Tv Solution so it is a damn good start
there is so much potential right now for vita
imagine Retroarch, Ps1, Psp, N64! and etc

 

[Flirkyn]

Yeah but just remember the HENkaku was released only 4 hours ago and we have working not optimized ports of emulators, DOOM and the Ps Tv Solution so it is a damn good start
there is so much potential right now for vita
imagine Retroarch, Ps1, Psp, N64! and etc

Ahah that was not a critic That's indeed a good start ^^

 

[tom2199]

Yeah but just remember the HENkaku was released only 4 hours ago and we have working not optimized ports of emulators, DOOM and the Ps Tv Solution so it is a damn good start
there is so much potential right now for vita
imagine Retroarch, Ps1, Psp, N64! and etc

We only have these homebrew games and apps because Rejuvenate was a thing before henkaku

 

[CoreMessageInspector]

Ahah that was not a critic That's indeed a good start ^^

i know haha, i just say that generally

 

[4gionz]

This is great @yifan_lu is a damn genius I tell you, I thought he had given up on this sweet ass console but thankfully not.

Also @Voxel Studios i see everyone talking about the whitelist patch, but is that only useful for pstv owners? Or should I be finding a way to use it on my vita? I thought all it did was allow certain restricted psvita games for playing on pstv

 

[Deleted User]

Also @Voxel Studios i see everyone talking about the whitelist patch, but is that only useful for pstv owners? Or should I be finding a way to use it on my vita? I thought all it did was allow certain restricted psvita games for playing on pstv

Yeah, it's not gonna be useful for the actual PS Vita because it supports every single Vita game anyway.

 

[CoreMessageInspector]

We only have these homebrew games and apps because Rejuvenate was a thing before henkaku

i know but maybe there are devs now that can start developing or help others because they dont had a vita system with the lower software before and have updated to 3.57 or 3.60
overall the vita is now breathing the homebrew smoke lol

 

[DutchyDutch]

So in terms of emulation and homebrew possibilities compared to 3DS, isn't the vita much better now?

 

[ut2k4master]

So in terms of emulation and homebrew possibilities compared to 3DS, isn't the vita much better now?

potentially yes, currently no

 

[xy2_]

Actually it is.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

For some reason, i keep getting a error code when trying this on my PSTV.... Is dumb cause i get error codes when trying to play some games as well, and i can't even play them anymore. I don't know how to fix it.

 

[sj33]

So in terms of emulation and homebrew possibilities compared to 3DS, isn't the vita much better now?

The actual hardware destroys the New 3DS. But a consoles homebrew scene is only as good as its software, and the 3DS scene is the most active scene right now by a huge margin. Here's hoping the Vita scene takes off.

Installed this today, sacrificed my 3.18 for it (I can use my PSP for that stuff anyway). Much easier to use than Rejuvenate. The existing homebrew doesn't seem to perform any differently to my Rejuvenate setup in 333MHz mode, but early days yet.

 

[Yokimari]

Great, didn't realize this, but when you run MolecularShell it will report it on PSN, so sign out of PSN before using it, especially when you have some money invested into PSN, bans could be issued.

 

[cloudfe]

Any chance Total_Noob will return now on the scene?

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

I managed to install it on the vita once, but now i can't install it again, get same error code as on PSTV (C2-12828-1)

 

[hirvimies]

Supposedly we can reach vd0 and tm0 via FTP but I can't test it by myself.