VHBL: name of the new exploited game will be announced soon
A few weeks ago, I released a fully working homebrew loader running in the PSP emulator of the Vita, thanks to the exploit from Teck4 and to the portability of VHBL. Sadly, despite my attempts at letting a high number of people know about the exploit in a minimum amount of time, lots of you missed the opportunity, as Sony removed Motorstorm from their store within hours following my public announcement. But we’re back with a new game and a new version of VHBL, thanks to the work of developer wth. As wth himself announced on /talk, we have been busy getting ready with the release of the next VHBL (he’s done most of the work, with also some help from Teck4 for the JP exploit, I am just announcing the release and was not directly involved in the exploit or the port), using a new game.
I will announce the name of that game soon, here on this blog. Assuming Sony didn’t change their strategy overnight, they will remove the game from their store within hours following the announcement. I cannot announce the exact day/time I will reveal the game, as this would most likely sink my server, but I’m talking hours/days rather than weeks/months.
Some people are already aware of the name, and that could include you if you’ve followed how we do these releases now. Don’t blame it on me afterwards if after what happened with Motorstorm you still don’t know how to get the game before the name becomes massively public, especially since I’ve been fairly explicit this time.
The game is, as far as I can tell, once again, not available on the US store, sorry for that, we don’t really choose. If you decide to buy it from the UK, a 25£ PSN card will cover for the price of the game. Some shops online can sell those cards and send you the code by email within minutes, if you live for example in the US.
Like for the Motorstorm exploit, please remember that all you get with this is VHBL, a PSP homebrew loader with limited compatibility, and that it is also very possible Sony patches the game before you can get to run VHBL. Please remember that last time with Motorstorm, Sony stole money from some of their users by not actually letting them download the game, and not issuing a refund (if that happened to you I strongly suggest you complain to Sony, btw). This could happen this time too. Eventually, buying the game with the exploit is your choice, not mine. It is possible we will port VHBL to other games, but as I write this, I am not aware of any other working implementation of VHBL. There are lots of user mode exploits lying around, but not all of them can lead to a successful HBL port as of now.
Additionally, please note that this release has absolutely nothing to do with Davee’s recent Kernel exploit. As a matter of fact, I contacted Davee and other trusted sources for this exploit, who confirmed to me there is no plan to release that kernel exploit for now.
Stay tuned.
Cool can’t wait for the new Loader. I have the US Vita, hope it works for it.
LOL HE JUST MENTIONED THAT IS NOT FOR THE US DOOD
“The game is, as far as I can tell, once again, not available on the US store, sorry for that, we don’t really choose.”
But it is still possible for US users to buy the game on the UK PSN with a PSN card
Ya saw last second before I posted, damn this sucks I can’t believe I bought the Vita its such *** the only good game for it is Uncharted.
Cool i am waiting
i think Sony may end up by removing all PSP games from the store
I highly doubt it. At least not yet anyway. If sony did that it would leave the vita with only a few games and a lot of irate customers, also vita sales would dry up.
When you make the game “public” will you release HBL with it or wait until sony removes the game and then release it? The latter one I’m guessing.
Yes, we will wait a bit, in order to give people time to buy the game (hopefully).
Cool, I’m ready :). Thanks wololo for being awesome 🙂
Thank wth for this one 🙂
Oh of course :P. Thanks wth for the contribution to the community! (if you can hear me heh)
Does it have any advantages over arctic edge?
no its supposed to be the same thing except the exploit is in another game
ok thanx then Im good!
I have a lot of patience so I’m gonna sit back and see how this one pans out. I won’t be buying the game this time, I’m gonna wait for maybe the next one. The best of luck to you all going ahead with it, the only reason I spent $250+accessories on a vita was for homebrew and I am very excited. Great progress is being made in such a short span of time, so I have no problem waiting for more stability in the scene.
I bet the games developer will be loving the boost in sales for however long it’s kept up. And then a spanking probably for leaving an exploit wide open.
Great job wololo, keep it up for the CFW community
Great job guys.. lots of props to wth.. i know you spent alot of time and effort on this.. although im in the us i wont be able to get the game but keep up the good work guys..
somebodys gonna spill the beans… i know it.
Is there any difference to the Game Motorstorm? I bought this and the VHBL works fine. So do I need the new game for something that is not possible with my Version?
I think the difference would be minimal. I would not recommend to buy that other game for vhbl if you already have the motorstorm version.
Wololo can you email me the country to be able to prepare ,i can send you proof that i am not with sony if you need.
Hey wololo i still have motorstorn psn version on my psp,that i brought of the psn store could i transfer it to the vita, sign in with my psn and transfer it via pc and run on vita for the hbl?
I don’t think it’s doable
If you bought it from psn, it should be in your download list. If the game was made vita compatible for your region, you can just redownload it and install it. If it wasn’t made vita compatible for your region, I’m afraid you’re boned.
I’m assuming this game can’t be bought from the PS3 and transferred via cable to the vita for US users?
If not, can I simply switch to a UK account by changing the memory card or does my system need to be reformatted and thus losing all of my settings each time I switch from US to UK?
I believe the switch is a bit painful, although your account is tied to the memory card, so it’s less of a problem if you have 2 memory cards.
I have been told the us version of the game is not transferable from the ps3 to the vita.
bman, you can switch accounts by doing this:
settings -> PSN -> activation -> game -> deactivate
then sign out of the PSN
Format -> reset vita (first option) -> click no to format memory card
the vita will reset, you will wath the 70 second startup animation and can put in another PSN account
then sign into PSN -> activation -> game -> activate
I switch frequently. Feel free to PM me if you have questions.
But if you switch more than 10 times a day U gat banned for few days from PSN……………And also it’s quite time consuming process
thanks dark.
Any advantage of having two memory cards though? If so, can you explain how to do this with the extra memory card and what the benefits are?
wololo – that’s too bad to hear. Second hack and still US is locked out. No complaints though b/c it’s guys like you that provide someone like me with an opp to even have old school games on my vita. I’m hoping the snes is full speed…..
two memory cards is usually used by US ppl so they have 1 US account and a EU or some other region account for vhbl from a game not on US psn
I say release a fake game name after everyone already knows the real one then Sony will remove the false game before they notice massive downloads for the real one. Or, just fake having an exploit and publicly name the game so Sony will remove it and then all the devs will have a great laugh. But it has to be built up like it is real. Something to that effect to throw them off so more people can enjoy vhbl.
A Decoy !
The issue with this is that if you release a fake game name, we’ll have countless people wasting their money on the fake game, thinking it was the real one. It won’t be only Sony that will get hurt.
Good stuff, you guys keep up the good work. The vita will flourish with homebrew one day.
Thanks wololo; and yosh/wth/teck4
announce it on a sunday. hopefully is sony less alert on ruining all the fun that day.
I’m neither from EU nor from US, however i was able to buy the motorstorm
I just used my cc and bought it.
So WHY
WHY everybody is talking about those ‘cards’? What are they? What’s the point?
When I tried to buy something from the US store, it refused both my French and my Japanese credit card. I also confirmed that the French store refused my Japanese credit card and vice versa. Several people have seen that the store refuses credit cards if they are not from the “correct” country… maybe you’re lucky?
There are also people who refuse to give their credit card number to a company like Sony… given what happened to them a year ago.
The inevitable patch that SONY will issue for this game – can that be manually denied or will it update automatically? Or is it something that we need to update in order to use PSN, etc (not for the game but just PSN in general)?
I got the Mottor storm exploit from day 1, and have been online since then.
vhbl still runs like it should!
also – does vhbl’s snes and new emulators run full speed for the majority of the games? It seems this will cost 40 USD to do so I want to make sure it’s worth it before jumping in.
thanks!
SNES9xTYL is reported to not be full speed in VHBL unfortunately. If you are short on cash or like to complain a lot you may want to hold off and wait for a future kernel hack release (Like Davee’s HEN, or something similar).
Everyone who Sony get sc*** over by removing the game from PSN should immediately complain to Sony customer support about it – it’s what is customer support about right. They at least must refund your money.
Btw I still don’t see the point in releasing another HBL on vita
The point is that some people want it (ME) and it will make them happy and wololo and wth are cool people that like to make other people happy.
Yes,but there is too little to get from this exploit for now and it would be patched in hours-it’s like shooting with old gun from 500m distance-you just waste bullets
Those exploits are useless on the PSP itself which is fully cracked, and VHBL is for now the best use we have of them. If at some point Davee reveals his kernel exploit, there is a reasonable chance that those vulnerable games can run the exploit.
But mostly, vhbl is the “apetizer” for the vita scene… we’re just waiting, playing emulators, until hardware hackers come up to rescue us 🙂
So, to some extent, I agree with you, but to continue with your analogy, imagine that old gun is taking space in your appartment and you have the choice between throwing it away, or take it to a last ride by firing all its remaning bullets, just for the fun of it…
i bet the game is Little Big Planet
I just wish the memory cards weren’t so expesive. 100$ for a 32GB? I can buy a 1TB external for that price. Imagine carrying around a WD Mybook along with your Vita, lol.
@Wololo, don’t release the name directly. Maybe place ads here on your site advertising that game. For those with ad blockers well, too bad. They complain about your ads anyways.
Pls send by mail the name of the game. sorry for my english
good luck on the release, hope all goes smoth as the 1st one…
Best of luck!
what is the “ninja” method to release the name of the game TT i cant understand
Look here: http://wololo.net/talk/viewtpic.php?f=52&t=10766&start=500
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Excuse me. The link doesn’t work. Here: http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=10766&start=500
(And sorry for my english)
Ok i just setup my PS3 to PSN UK now about adding funds can i just add 2x 20 US PSN card ?. would i be enable to buy the game with it or do i need UK PSN card ?. Also when i finish downloading the “game” do i just install it to PS VITA ?.
You need to switch your Vita to a UK PSN account by doing a factory reset and then buy the game though it. This has been said several time already both in comments here and on /talk. You will need a UK PSN card.
Yeah. I bought a 25 one and a 10 one because the game is actually 29 and not 25 like wololo mentioned.
Actually. I was confused. I thought we had to convert it into dollars. Nevermind. Wololo is right it is 25. lol I’m a ***. But anyway, why buy 2 20 cards. I went to ebay.co.uk and theres a company that sends you a PSN code for UK PSN through your email within 10 mins. BTW, I have a 10 PSN card if anyone wants it. I didnt end up needing it. It cost me $20 (good grief).
Ugh I wish you would create a vhbl that didn’t require buying a game to use it… to many problems with that… putting it on the vita through a pc would be soooo muuuucchhhhh easier XD
Hopefully the game is under 15 pounds then that would be worth paying for homebrew , anything higher then 15 pounds i’ll have second thoughts about getting it.
DAMN 25 pound card required.
Before you release the exploit, tell us the name of that game so we can download the game and after that release the exploit, so sony can’t patch the exploit
sorry for my bad english *_*
is there any chance that this new vhbl could go further that the artic storm vhbl, with the psp go we started with papaton then everybody’s golf but then papaton was the game used for CFW.
could this be the case on the vita, in other words we need to buy both games to be sure?
hopefully its a good game so its a win win.
Pls release the name of this damn game
You and others who think this should read the /talk forum thread referenced in the blog post, all of it, and hopefully you will see why the release is being done as it is.
I don’t understand 🙁
I think of it is all a bluff Davee does not work and what appears in the video is as if the remote play from the ps3, is what you see if you really look at the video.