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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/

 

[Scarlet]

Homebrew were ?

Homebrew here !
https://henkaku.xyz/showcase/

 

[Nkekev]

I was about to backup my Caligula themes from my japanese Vita slim collector from my japanese account to use them on my European one, using Red Squirrel's DB Theme Installer but it seems even the themes are encrypted, infinite sadness...

 

[Duo8]

I was about to backup my Caligula themes from my japanese Vita slim collector from my japanese account to use them on my European one, using Red Squirrel's DB Theme Installer but it seems even the themes are encrypted, infinite sadness...

Dump the cached theme, see if that works.

 

[Nkekev]

WOW I'm idiot, I didn't remembered about that, it should work I'm seeing finally the decrypted data through Filezilla. I will compile the theme so, thanks !

 

[Sabishinbo]

Save data decryption is now possible. We're on the brink of blowing this console completely open.

 

[Binebina87]

On the topic of official Vita themes. Is there a site where I can download them?

 

[Lord M]

Someone can upload the xml of psv fw? Because zload is offline...

 

[TioBrazMii]

That's basically what molecularShell is. And yes, it's a bubble.

But can´t load velf files..., why not?

 

[Firion Hope]

I'm freaking out right now

 

[metroid maniac]

I'm freaking out right now

I'd be amazed if this is is really possible.
Surely translation patches and other mods wouldn't work.
Surely swapping game files out with modded files breaks a signature somewhere.
I'm kind of in disbelief.

 

[retrofan_k]

Relax, this is only the beginning. The Vita has very tight security hoops to break through before any DRM free Warez is going to be available to Joe Public.

 

[Deleted member 370671]

I'd be amazed if this is is really possible.
Surely translation patches and other mods wouldn't work.
Surely swapping game files out with modded files breaks a signature somewhere.
I'm kind of in disbelief.

It worked with the 3DS, so maybe it will with the Vita?

 

[Shinigami Kiba]

I installed the hack, only reason I did this was to play SNES games on the go since they don't run well on my PSP
So, where can I get the best SNES emulator that runs games smoothly for this new hack? I know it released I can't find it

 

[Firion Hope]

I'd be amazed if this is is really possible.
Surely translation patches and other mods wouldn't work.
Surely swapping game files out with modded files breaks a signature somewhere.
I'm kind of in disbelief.

I'm not expecting to wake up to it all being figured out tomorrow or anything, but the fact we're making this much progress this fast and that it's feasibly possible is more than enough to get me excited, been hoping for something like this for years now

EDIT

 

[alucard_xs]

Juste swapping files nothing really spécial

 

[CoreMessageInspector]

I'm not expecting to wake up to it all being figured out tomorrow or anything, but the fact we're making this much progress this fast and that it's feasibly possible is more than enough to get me excited, been hoping for something like this for years now

EDIT

vita finally got rickrolled LOL

 

[Duo8]

I'd be amazed if this is is really possible.
Surely translation patches and other mods wouldn't work.
Surely swapping game files out with modded files breaks a signature somewhere.
I'm kind of in disbelief.

That's why trickery is required

 

[naughtyotsel]

so they modded the game to make a video in it?

 

[CloudStrife1901]

Somebody over at wololo suggested could we delete the PSP kernel exploited games blacklist to re enable the exploit? So we could run tnv etc

Is this possible?

 

[Deleted User]

That's why trickery is required

Do you by any chance know what this 'trickery' could be at all?