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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/

 

[Hicip1956]

Reboot your console, that should fix it

Id did

 

[Deleted member 370671]

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

Apparently, only .vpk works. Devs will need to "convert" their apps to .vpk in order for them to work with HENkaku.

 

[Deleted User]

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

No. It needs to be VPK. Just FTP it over to the ux0: partition, click on it within the shell, press install, and look at the home screen!

 

[hirvimies]

No. It needs to be VPK. Just FTP it over to the ux0: partition, click on it within the shell, press install, and look at the home screen!

Can you still run the homebrew after restarting the Vita or do you have to use the web browser first and then start the hb? I know you have to run the exploit after each restart but just wondering if that goes for installed homebrew as well.

 

[Deleted User]

Can you still run the homebrew after restarting the Vita or do you have to use the web browser first and then start the hb? I know you have to run the exploit after each restart but just wondering if that goes for installed homebrew as well.

You need to still run the browser exploit every time you reboot. And yeah, it goes for installed homebrew as well.

 

[Flirkyn]

Apparently, only .vpk works. Devs will need to "convert" their apps to .vpk in order for them to work with HENkaku.

No. It needs to be VPK. Just FTP it over to the ux0: partition, click on it within the shell, press install, and look at the home screen!

Ahah well I knowed how to install vpk, but it's too bad that all homebrew are not available (though, I guess I can understand why and that's not an easy thing to do ^^")
Well, guess I'll have to wait before having my snes emulator on my vita xD
Thanks for the reply

 

[Hicip1956]

Ok rebuild database and still getting the message

 

[Slattz]

Ok rebuild database and still getting the message

Have you a memory card?

 

[Hicip1956]

Have you a memory card?

4gb

 

[Slattz]

4gb

Dunno whats wrong then

 

[Deleted User]

I took the liberty of shooting an installation video for anyone who's interested in seeing this in action!



I will put this in the OP as well.

 

[jon2491]

Do we have full access to Vita files then? (For modifying firmware files)

 

[zoogie]

Here's the browser exploit if anyone wants to look at it.
http://pastebin.com/EKbUmFsX

 

[Axorve]

Can i creat game with psm dev (c#) and install this on my ps vita with this ?

 

[JFalcon]

Reboot your console, that should fix it

Last question, where do i place the files in the directories?

 

[Deleted member 370671]

Last question, where o i place the files in the directories?

Anywhere inside the ux0 folder.

 

[Hicip1956]

Switched to a 16gb card,no joe.

 

[atlboyz_247]

Can anyone confirm that if you replace the list_launch_vita.dat that the whitelist hack work again?

 

[metroid maniac]

Can anyone confirm that if you replace the list_launch_vita.dat that the whitelist hack work again?

Just use the app.db whitelist hack instead.

 

[atlboyz_247]

Just use the app.db whitelist hack instead.

Is that possible? I believe that was patched in 3.55, no?