15 Essential Homebrews that run on Half Byte Loader
People keep asking for lists of homebrew games that work with HBL. I believe making a full list is an impossible task, especially since we fix bugs on a daily basis, but today I want to showcase 15 homebrews that work great in HBL. These homebrews are of great quality and will give you hours (if not hundreds of hours) of gameplay. I’ve tested them myself on a 6.20 psp go. These games are presented in no specific order.
Please keep in mind that emulators usually require bios files and/or roms that I cannot legally provide. Don’t ask for those here, thanks.
1. Wagic 0.12.1
Ok, I lied, there is an order… at least for the first game 🙂 . Wagic is an heroic fantasy card game in which you fight against the CPU. As you win battles against your opponent, you earn credits that will allow you to improve your army, unlock sets, and play new game modes. Highly customizable (you can create your own cards, even your own rules and campaigns), Wagic can easily bring you hundreds of hours of gameplay (heck, I’ve been playing it on a daily basis for the past 3 years!), and has already won several homebrew contests.
2. Doom 1.4
Do I need to introduce this game? As mentioned on hackaday.com, Doom is a “prerequisite for any cracked device”. This game is a legend, and you can play the shareware version for free on your PSP through HBL. Works flawlessly once you get used to the controls (triangle+select to show the menu, don’t forget this one!)
3. Picodrive 1.35
With HBL R95, sound is finally available in this great Sega emulator. You’ll love to see Sonic running on your portable device! (Note: version 1.51 has also been reported to work)
4. T.O.M.E. 2.3.5
Tales Of Middle Earth is a PSP port of a famous RPG on the PC. The graphisms are not what you are looking for here, but rather, a deep RPG experience with lots of possible customizations and quests. Think of it as a Diablo… with way more customization. Old school people like me who used to play RPGs with a pen, a piece of paper, and a pair of dice (errr… ok, a pair of cars filled with dice if you were playing the Starwars RPG) will definitely enjoy this game. Historically, T.O.M.E was the first “big” game to run on HBL, so it holds a special place in my heart 🙂
5. CSPSP 1.56
Although this is not the latest release (which requires Kernel access), CS PSP is a nice 2D version of Counter Strike. We still have hopes to enable network on this one (hopefully the programmer of the game will come back from the deads and update the sources of the latest version to be less restrictive with Kernel access), but for now, even the single player mode is very entertaining, and an extremely nice way to spend my time on the train. Excellent for casual gaming. Stupid bots, DIE! DIE! DIE!
6. Gpsp Kai
Newer versions of this emulator might work, I must admit I haven’t tested them. GPSP is a brilliant Game Boy Advance emulator, but so far only this unoficially modification (the “kai” versions) seem to work with HBL. The GBA has some very decent games, and if you’ve never tried Advance Wars I highly suggest it! A known issue with this emulator is that HBL crashes when you exit Gpsp…hopefully we’ll fix that soon.
7.Snes9xTYL
What, another emulator? Yes, but for the Super Nes this time. Some of the best games were made on this console. I can still remember full afternoons playing Street fighter 2…aaah…It was so good to be a kid in the 16bits era!
8. ScummVM 1.1.1
ScummVM feels and tastes like an emulator, but it’s a project specifically aimed at old-school point and click adventure games such as Monkey Island. A great thing about scummVM is that some of the games it allows to play are now freeware. I highly recommend Beneath a Steel sky that you can legally download for free on scummvm.org.
9. Bookr
Bookr is an ebook reader that supports pdf and text files among other formats. A must have if you read a lot and are not lucky enough to own a Kindle… I don’t recommend to read pdf files on a pspgo though, I think the screen of the psp go is way too small for this…
10. Daedalus (R13?)
I have mixed feelings about Daedalus. Sure, the emulator starts, but I can’t say I’ve seen any game running at full speed on this with HBL. Lots of people requested it, so I’m adding it to this list, but if you know of a more recent version (from the deadalusX64 team) that runs on HBL, please let me know and I’ll gladly test it. For Daedalus, you might want to try and set the override_scePeekBufferPositive to 0 in the hbl/hbl_config.txt file.
11. Cave Story
Probably the most famous platform freeware game, cave story is the result of 5 years of work by an independent developer. This is the psp port.
12. Spider Solitaire
The definition of casual gaming! This game has a graphical glitch in HBL, but it doesn’t prevent it from being playable.
13. Geometry wars
By far the most adrenaline-packed homebrew there is. If you can survive more than 5 seconds you probably beat my personal high score. You probably know the original game that inspired it, or its psp clone polygun war.
14. EmuMaster/Masterboy
It seems we broke compatibility with the Game Boy emulator “Homer’s Rin” in a recent update. But fear not, Emumaster is here for you. This is a great emulator for both the Sega Master System and the Game Boy color. So, technically, while we try to understand what happened to Homer’s rin, you can still play your favorite GBC games! (emumaster seems to crash on me when I exit the game).
15. Zombie Crisis
A gore FPS based on the Duke Nukem 3D port for the PSP. If you like 3D and zombies, you’ll like this game 🙂
There are of course many other good homebrews available for the PSP that run on HBL. The ones above are a mix of “often mentioned”, “personal favorites”, and “I tried this one randomly, it works and I like it”. If you know other cool homebrews that work with HBL, don’t hesitate to share links!
does anyone know if there is a higher revision of daedalusx64 that works for the psp? because the one wololo has up is really old.(no offense wololo)
Hi Wlolo,
I really thank you for the big work…I appreciated a lot to replay my SNES classics on my PSP OS 6.31…
Many thanks
first … I apologize for my english.
Well, I would ask if there is any Play1 emulator, like any of these (Daedalus, snes9xTYL, etc), but to “play1”, not occupying the iso format because my psp3000 is 6.20… and I’m still testing with the eploit in patapon2, thanks.
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the daedalus emulator doesnt work. when i select roms it shuts off. can someone help me?
i know how to fix psp 3000 series which get error when loading hen. just do this and it will work. i tried on 3 psp and it worked.
1. open patapon and load hen, which will reset your psp.
2. check HEN is enabled by pressing select and you should see the vsh menu.
3. remove your mem card.
4. press select u see the vsh menu and choose restart vsh menu
5. after psp ram restarts, insert your mem card then go to ur homebrew and click on it and everything should load and it doesent crash and so far works perfectly !!
6. follow steps 3 & 4 evertime u start a new homebrew.
for me the hen is working but its getting slow any suggestions pls help me
yeah!!! this will fix the safe fuction on gpsp kai.
never mind: closing gpsp doesn’t crash HBL but you cant run any homebrew after running gpsp. to fix this remove your memory stick in the HBL menu and put it back in.
@wololo can you try this out on your psp(‘s) and if it works can you place it here?
if you run gpsp kai and go back to the HBL menu it doesn’t crash but if you launch an other game the psp will turn off. to fix this remove the memory stick in the HBL menu and put it back in. now you can run everything again without crashes.
GEOMETRY WARS is fun as heck! 3,200 is my high score 🙂
Mines 2200 I LOVE THAT GAME!!
I nearly made it to 2 million once… yeah, I was really bored. 🙂
lol, no you didn’t. nice try though
I just got 99000!!!!! I was goin ham on dem little square biotches!!
Hi, I´ve been looking a round for a Nintendo DS emulator that works with hbl but with no luck, can anyone help me plz! Im using a PSP 3000 that came with 6.30 fw 🙁
Hope to hear from anyone soon
Thanks
kal
I forgot to Thank you all guys for your help, ive been reading this page for like a week and I have almost everithing running!
So Big THANKS!!!
Also I think I know what my problem is for the DS!
Kal
when i open geometry wars with the minna no sukkiri exploit, it starts runing, but then tells “Fatal error: Unable to load audio codec.”. plz help i really love this game and want to play thnx
also, my SNES9X runs slowly i dont know why, cuz i have it with default values
Silly question here (I’m just getting started in this homebrew stuff):
Are this the only games you can play in the hacked-HEN 6.20 PSP?
I mean, right now can’t I play games like Assasin’s Creed or God of War?
@MirroRMimi: you can get Assasin’s Creed here and God Of War here.
The beauty of it is that you don’t even need the HEN to run these games.
o yeah WOLOLO :p
Is it just me or does Zombie Crisis only have one level? Because I beat the first one and the second one loaded and just went back to a zombie-less first level with no way out…? Am I missing something?
hola probe el daedlus no funciona mario kart, ni mario el snes funciona el el emulador de sega tambien, cambie lo que recomiendas de
override_scePeekBufferPositive to 0 in the hbl/hbl_config.txt file pero tampoco da. de todos modos estoy muy agradecido conel hbl
sólo tiene que descargar esta versión de Dedalus
http://www.psp-hacks.com/file/2016
carga de gallina tn y funciona
yo no lo siento hablar español
google translate
hola wololo quisiera saber cuando sacaran la 6.31 hen yo tenia la 5.55 pero le empreste la psp a un amigo y el buen idiota me lo atualizo a la 6.31
hello wololo want to know when I take out the 6.31 hen had the 5.55 but you borrow a friend’s psp and good fool me put it to 6.31
Hello. I need an ISO loader for PSP ISOs in my PSPGo 6.35, since Prometheus doesn’t run the game, jumps to HBL and doesn’t open tha games ;| Which ISO loader can work for my psp?
Just downgrade your 6.31-6.35 Go to 6.20 with downgrader for 6.31/6.35 for go by Davee
Is anybody else having trouble running the homebrew game. Cause i installed HBL on my PSP 3000 with OFW 6.35, the games wont run. HBL opens successfully but wheen i click a game it wont run it freezes and the PSP turns off by it self. Plz help me.
Yeah, mine too ! :/ Please HELP us.. It just freezes and the turn off !
these 15 homebrew were recently updated right?
Gud Day Mr. wololo .. i really really love your HBL it works for my pspgo just wondering if I can play a neo geo emulator in this HBL? i wish you can help me thank you sir and god bless
Whats the most current version cps2 psp that work? Thanks
Hey it really works… thanks.
My highest score in geometry war: 80,775. I intend to break it again 😀
Has anyone been able to get mvc clash of the superheroes working?
Wololo, thank you for hbl, but how about iso loader for 6.35? is there anything that I can use? another question, if I have an Iso loader in my 6.35, will all versions of ISO and CSO games will work on my psp?
@nien
You would have to wait for the Hen(6.20 only now, dridri said he would port it to 6.35 if the HEN became available), and if you had a iso loader you could play all ISO’s and CSO’s, up ’till firmware 6.35(or whatever your firmware is), you can solve this with the m33 driver but i don’t know how :P.
Counter Strike Portable runs OK with Half Byte Loader: PSP 3010 firmware 6.31.
PSPseq and PSP Rhythm work fine as well. PSP Kick and Liveplay crashed on start. HBL(testing version)/Minna No Sukkiri 6.35 PSP Go
Pliz, help me!!!!!!!!!! When I start some PDF’s in Bookr it says:”Error in page {page number}: syntaxerror: Page missing MediaBox”. I don’t know why this happens coz it woks with other PDF’s. Pliz help me as fast as anyone can. U can email me to sebas.way@hotmail.com. Thanx
bookr has not been updated for a long time, so it does not have the codecs to decode certain image types commonly used in latter day pdf, such as jpeg2000. thus there is no way to make it work. if you must view them, convert the pages to image files, then you can view them on your psp. you will have to use some software and experiment to see which resolution works best
I did everything in the readme but when I launch the demo and click continue on my PSP 2000 OFW 6.35, it sends me back to the XMB instead of launching the loader. Help?
can NDS EMULATOR work in Minna no Sukkiri Demo exploit?
I have just come to this site after a long time
So, i am confused is Minna no Sukkiri Demo an HEN for 6.31 or just an expliot
snes9xTYL is REALLLY SLOOOOWWW!! I tried fiddling with the settings but no luck, can someone please halp?
frameskip up or an other snes emu 🙂
@kenshin
the Minna No Sukkiri demo is just an exploit, but with it u can run the HEN.
@lawliet
if you are using the sukkiri exploit to run the HEN, it is supposed to return you to the XMB. just check your firmware in the system settings and it should read 6.35 PRO.
disculpa no tengo patapon dos lo q pasa esq formatee a mi psp go y se me ha borrado el juego q hago
I downloaded Snes9xTYL and work very good. But i cannot enter in Super Mario World completed castles, because when i press L + R the menu of the emulator appears… Any solution? D:
Sorry for my english.
super mario it is possibel to set the contoller buttons configuration in the game.
can som eplzz help me
i downloaded SNES9XTYL
when i start the game it asks to choose a file
help plzzz………
dave u should put your X.smc-file (SNESgame) in this floder(psp/game/uo_snes9 for PSP 0032/save/x.smc). i´m not sure if u use the same ver. but something like that.
Hi, does anyone know any neo geo or mame emus that would work on my psp ofw 6.35 using hbl? I tried Mame4all v4.9r2 but seems to just freeze up when it gets to the main menu screen. I have tried the snes9xtyl which seems ok but a little laggy on some games, is there a better snes emu that would work for me? If not could someone suggest the optimum video settings for the games that do lag? Thanks.
i installed the half byte loader ver 6.35 and the exploit on my psp 3000 but when i hit continue game it freezes my psp and then my psp shuts off. Is there anything I did wrong? i followed the read me exactly.
hi wololo can you make ttutorial for t-o-m-e for the psp
does anyone know another gbc emulator that works on PRO HEN psp go 6.35? because homer’s rin doesn’t work and masterboy/emumaster crashes a lot..
btw thx for the amazing work