Release: Half Byte Loader R113 for OFW 6.37 (and below)
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If you’re on a Firmware 6.36 or less, there’s a high chance you already know about the Homebrew enablers available for you, which are as close as you can get to a Custom Firmware nowadays. Homebrews, plugins, Kernel mode, everything you want to do with your PSP is now doable (Sony still hasn’t added youtube support in the official firwmare, while we’ve been enjoying it on CFW for almost 3 years now… but if you’re running one of those Homebrew enablers, you already know that.)
Of course, Official Firmware 6.37 patches the Kernel exploit used by the HEN, as well as the exploit in the Game “minna no sukkiri”.
But this is no news anymore, we can now sign user-mode homebrews for the PSP, and 6.37 doesn’t patch that. This means that if you’re on 6.37, you still have a possibility to run user-mode homebrews (which represent the majority of homebrew games and utils)… as long as they are signed.
Of course, you can look for signed homebrews (there’s a good list here), and run them directly on your machine. Often though, you will run into a homebrew that is not yet signed. Yes, you can sign homebrews yourself on your PSP. But maybe you won’t want to bother. Or maybe the homebrew you want to play has limitations that prevent it to be signed (*cough* scummVM *cough*). Such as homebrews that are too big, or homebrews compiled as static elf. Unless you’re very tech-savvy, don’t try too hard figuring out which ones will work or won’t, the best way is to try…which is frustrating.
What I’m saying is: don’t trash your perfectly fine collection of unsigned homebrews, HBL is still here for you, in a shiny new version that you can run from the XMB. (Thanks to JJS for this new version!)
This new release of Half Byte Loader runs directly from the XMB on any 6.xx firmware, and will allow you to:
- Run your homebrews on 6.37 (or any other 6.XX firmware) without the need to sign them
- Run homebrews that cannot be signed (such as ScummVM), on firmware 6.37 or below
- Put your homebrews in any folder you want, to avoid turning your “Game” XMB into a huge mess
I expect this release to be interesting mostly for 6.37 owners, but this new HBL release is compatible with all 6.XX firmwares for people who are not into the “Hen” stuff ;).
I must say that I’m perfectly happy that for this one time, Sony patches the Kernel exploit (we expect them to) but still lets us enjoy User mode homebrew. I’m sure this is not intentional, but thanks anyways.
Download here and enjoy 🙂
ooh looks interesting
omg thats good news now who are on 6.37 can play homebrews but i wont upgrade as im using 6.35 pro . good work wololo u rock
Good job guys. Stand on;)
Exciting times, thanks Wololo!
One quick question though:
I’m (still!! no more upgrading ;-D) on OFW 6.31.
Is it possible to combine your new and shiny XMB-HBL r113 here with the Pro HEN for 6.31?
That would allow me to start the HEN on my PSP directly from XMB (no more Sukkiri) or am I missing something here?
Thanks,
Bye,
Martin
I’m not Wololo, but I can tell you definitively . . . yes ! !
>> Is it possible to combine your new
>> and shiny XMB-HBL r113 here with
>> the Pro HEN for 6.31?
On January 23, 2011 at 5:27 pm fishy wrote:
> I’m not Wololo, but I can tell you definitively . . . yes ! !
On January 23, 2011 at 4:51 pm Pspguy wrote:
> Works great with and without 6.31 PRO HEN!
That’s great news! X-D
Thanks fishy, thanks Pspguy, and many more thanks to Wololo! 😀
*wooooot* 8-D
Martin
awesome.. =)) wololo is god.. =))
Im gonna delete my HEN now, HBL is much sexyer o.o
I have to admit, I missed that hacky looking text that spills down the screen when HBL starts. HEN is more useful, but it’s not as exciting to watch activate!
Question: does anybody know how to quit to HBL instead of XMB during a game? Curse my noobiness! Thanx.
in older versions of HBL (patapon2-era) you could hold SELECT and START and you would exit to HBL instead of XMB. i dont think wololo removed that feature, so give it a try!
Thanks, man! I found out myself yesterday by just mashing buttons, though! xD (why do we forget these simple, but effective techniques when we get older? Hehe.)
Works great with and without 6.31 PRO HEN!
Great job! Why are people upgrading ,I’ll never know. Hope they’ll figure it out to check for hacks before updating someday…..I hope?
@wololo
Lol, in the darkest times of our lives, HBL is there to shed its heavenly light upon the unfriendly shadows of sony!
would it be possible to add HEN support?
i use HBL for compatibility(GPSPkai 3.4 works with HBL, but not with 6.35 pro)
and it’s a bit annoying having to restart my psp whenever i want to play a GBA game.
great job wololo!
Excelent job wololo is fantastic but please realease something like a psx loader for 6.20 please
Nice….HBL…I just add it to my collection.
Here is the link to a PSX Loader…….for those who need one.
http://www.youtube.com/user/PspTutorialez#p/u/4/xY5pQYZTwwA
Is that signed and working on 6.20 OFW?
HBL is now officially the most resilient homebrew loader around.
I was wondering if Prometheus ISO loader is working in this release.
No, only HEN allows that for 6.xx. And HEN isn’t possible on 6.37 yet. However, there are recent reports of iso’s being signed if that kind of thing interests you.
Just wow. 🙂
@Wololo
Would it be possible to make a dual-boot HBL that lets the user choose to boot into a HEN or the WMenu?
a dual boot hbl is build by PUNKER69.
replace the savegame exploit with wololo´s new exploit and the hbl-, punker69-, folder-, with your version. btw p..@blogspot or www search i hope u get it.
sorry i told u u have to relpace the savegame but we don´t need it anymore 🙂 may if u like to use an old hbl-rev.
U also have 2 replace the eboot.pbp in :\hbl\menu\ eboot.pbp!
If u use punkers mod (dualboot ofw6.20&6.3x) hbl with sukkiri-demo
:\p69\menu\eboot.pbp .. i try to updated and upload punker´s mod. But im on fw6.2 and i don´t update to test a high fw.
Link is @ this side …i upload a punk mod soon …
btw 100 signed homebrew´s.
damn where are all the savegame exploit´s and hbl rev.´s 🙁
ok it is done im uploading but it is a very trashy hbl-hen-mod-mod so do u realy want such a “heavy/difficult”-loader” ask punker69
http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1333
to start his work on this again or edit a 2nd sukkiri savedata to use it as dualboot loader with upper ofw than 6.2 i can not test sukkiri-demo exploit good luck.
“Wololo´s hbl-hen mod punker69 mod” @
http://www.mediafire.com/?vw2j0uqa4q3cqvv
nice job!
Not working on psp 6.35 model 3004. Isos dont start
This is not a HEN……..
Isos are not supported for the HBL those work on the 6.20 TN HEN.
what options do i have for iso loaders with 6.35 Pro? Please help, Is there a better loader than Prometheus?
Sorry my mistake. I wanted to ask if there is another iso loader better than Prometheus for 6.35PRO psp 3004 because Metal gear Acid crashes and I want to play that game, please reply, thank you
Some games just don’t work…whit any ISO loader and that one is one of them…… is not solution for now.
ahahah take care, Wololo, we could almost see you this time through the psp reflex!
Sony agents will bust ya!
lol
oh, greetings again for the great work in HBL.
Kinda it was what really allowed psp to get where it is today IMO.
hbl 4ever … cool but useless…. hen kirk keys r all here… any way graet work guys….
Awesome, thanks to everyone involved in this!.
from Mexico.
WOW thank you so much Wololó, now I can delete that annoying Minna no Sukkiri demo and start the HEN with this new version on 6.31 😛
Exactly the same goes for me – thanks _again_ ! X-D
I think there’s a signed HEN for 6.31 now. You shouldn’t have to use HBL if you don’t want to. (I like hbl, though : )
wait…did you guys have to find an exploit for this???
or once hbl is signed can it just…run homebrew?
if a homebrew is signed it can easily load other signed homebrew?
so i can sign a homebrew organizer and it’ll work?
lol i asked 4 questions cuz i dont know how to word it without sounding like a noob
You sounded like a noob anyways
ok watever
i just dont know all the right technical terms
it took me 2 years to learn all this stuff on my own
oops sorry wololo keep getting my email wrong
this message has the right one lol
im guessing that you see our emails right??
anyways this is the right one
@Frank:
1) No, no exploit, we just signed it
2) Yes, once it’s signed, it can run homebrews. It’s pretty cool actually, we created a signed “homebrew”, and hbl “exploits it” the way it would “exploit” a regular game
3) “If a homebrew is signed, it can easily run other homebrews”: yes and no. HBL required lots of work to load homebrews, it’s not in a snap of a finger. also, HBL can only run unsigned homebrews for now, not signed ones. Signed homebrews can be run from the XMB anyways, so that shouldn’t be a big issue
4) you can sign a homebrew organizer, and it’ll work, yes. But then it’ll work directly from the XMB, you won’t need HBL (and again, rightnow HBL can’t run signed homebrews anyways).
Packers going to the Superbowl
OMG OMG OMG OMG I LOVE YOU WOLOLO. My dumb lil brother updated my psp yesterday and I was hoping to god you would make another hbl for 6.37 but you went beyond that. THANK YOU SOOOOOOO MUCH
Half way to find an explit !!!
Did someone updated ???
I don’t!!!
There is no explit(s) needed becauase the sign is “out”
update: 6.31 and 6.37 signed hen has been release check it on psp king de.com
bro 6.37 hen is not yet released
We are waiting for a HEN on 6.37 hehe
My PSP doesn’t even notice a new upgrade to 6.37… all of you guys, are great!!!
good looking out yellow it works great on my darth psp white with 6.31.
@Wololo: PRO HEN 6.31 signed and working.
http://www.mediafire.com/?44gu91i0vxsq3bo
thankx bro works great with my psp go 6.31…
love u wololo an all the related daves….
Wonder if this is how Sony fighting back….. Sorta….
http://hothardware.com/News/Sony-May-Use-Serial-Keys-To-Secure-NextGeneration-PS3-Games/
Ah-Chai: excellent article. There’s still concern that 5 copies is not so much and will kill the second-hand market, but if this means that Sony will give up DRMs in favor of an online authentication system for games, I’m all for it. Homebrews + official games without piracy is what most of us have been waiting for.
wer can i get the whole lot of signed homebrews????
in the topic Wololo´s wrote here (he has coloured the link)
http://www.wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1879 🙂 new signed hb´s please! Thanks 2 people which posted a link 2 new signed HomeBrew´s (hb´s).
i wud lyk 2 thank u too… 🙂
next time better took the glasses of :p ty to