4th time’s the charm?
A vulnerability has been found by Neur0n a few months ago in a PSP game, and this vulnerability has been leveraged to port VHBL in order for us to run PSP homebrews on the Vita. Following the request of many Vita owners, this announcement was postponed to wait for the release of Vita firmware 1.80, a firmware that brings PS1 compatibility.
As usual, we’ve let the members of our forums know about the vulnerability a few weeks in advance, in order to let them buy and download the game before Sony pulls it from their store. Protip: If you’re a member of our community and haven’t seen the announcement by now, you probably need your eyes checked (unless you joined in the past 24h).
Hmm, this one might hurt a little bit, given how successful this game is on the PSP…
Disclaimer: This announcement comes with absolutely no guarantee of you successfully running VHBL on your machine. We’ve been testing this for a while now, but there’s always the possibility something gets patched between this announcement and the release.
The game used for Neur0n’s VHBL port is Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, also known as Monster Hunter Portable 2ndG in Japan. Similar vulnerabilities exist in Monster Hunter Freedom 2 and in Monster hunter Portable 3rd, for which we also have VHBL ports (although I haven’t personally tested these ones).
We expect Sony to pull the game from their stores within the next 48h, so if you are interested in homebrews, you might want to buy that game asap before it is out. For those who worry that we are sacrificing one of the best titles of the PSP in the name of homebrews, please keep in mind that so far the PSP games used in VHBL exploits have always returned to the PSN after a patch has been pushed by Sony.
I don’t expect brainless gamers to read that far, so I assume this blog will, once again, be filled with comments in the form of “you guys are killing the vita”, “this will lead to piracy”, “why would you guys prefer to play pong over Uncharted?”, “hackers should die”, “OMFG leave Sony alone they already have so much trouble with the bad Vita sales” or, my favorite one “wait until Sony removes psp support from the Vita because of you”. But in case you read that far, I just want to remind everyone that VHBL has never led to PSP or Vita piracy in its 2 years and a half of existence.
Well, that’s it, hurry up and buy the game. It also happens to be a very popular franchise, so if only for the game itself, it’s probably worth it.
Oh, by the way, some people mentioned that the game only supports one save slot. This is true. If you actually want to play the game, you will have to regularly swap your own save and the VHBL save.
Once you have downloaded and installed the game, it is recommended that you do not update your console. In particular, do not update the CMA client. The VHBL files will be released, as usual, after the game gets pulled from the store.
This may be a dumb question, but is there any way to buy (and load) this without first updating to 1.8? Since updating to 1.8 cuts off the existing SC3 exploit, I would be VHBL-less until VHBL for the new exploit is released.
Buy it on a ps3
I don’t have a PS3, but thanks for the suggestion.
How would i copy my homebrew to my psvita using my mac?
***! Need to grab 20 bucks in the next few hours. BTW its like 2 am when i saw this. Need to get to the nearest Game Stop and buy a card.
Also im not rushing cause of the VHBL, but because i wanted to buy this game since i got my vita but decided to wait, i need to grab it before it gets removed FAST!
Funny thing is something in me was like, MH is gonna be the game with the exploits, Buy it before it gets removed, just in case.
Thanks for making VBHL possible guys. Greatly appreciated.
But… why didn’t you save the other two games for later? 🙁
Or are you worried about Sony pulling and patching the other games, too?
I wonder if Wololo could emulate playstation 1 titles with VHBL, because sony is not releasing a lot of titles for America. They promised all these titles and didn’t deliver, we only have like 26 games on the psn store and most of them suck with the exception of Final Fantasy VII.
Sony is saying they will keep it up till the exploit is released
Thanks for release!!! I bought 2 months ago 🙂
Everybody be thankful of wololo and his team to share this with us. I appreciate everything u guys do.
Will this work on the Japanese version of the game or will it only work on the English? I had already bought the Japanese version so I’m going to redownload it now just in case. Even if it doesn’t work for my version, thank you to everyone who made this possible and keep up the great work!!
I bought that game over a year ago and it’s still $20…
Wow, thats quite alot for an old PSP game. Anyway, in the UK the game is only £7.99 so i’ll be getting it hopefully!
In europe its 9.99€
in australia it was $15.99, pretty expensive, but i really didnt want to miss out on this VHBL release, since i missed all the others 🙁
Europe and UK (Euros and Poundsj), converted to Dollars:
This game = $10
Australia (Dollar) converted to US Dollars:
This game = $16
American price – US Dollar –
This game = 20.00
Terry, Sim sk, dsshrimper, You lot have it lucky! LOL
freaking metal gear peace walker is 30$ is a good game but c’mon
In before public release.
Graciasssssssssssss Arigatouuuuuuu
Downloading now! cannot wait. thank you so much for the good news wololo. and thanks to neuron as well. Anyone who has put time into this, you all rule!
(can’t wait to play some mega man x on my vita lol)
E DESCARGADO EL PRIMERO FUNCIONA Y GUAL QUE LOS OTROS ¡? REESPONDAME EL QUE SEA POR FAVOR TENGO EL 1 FUNCUIONA OM COM´PRO EL 2 Y EL 3 ES QUE SON CARILLOS AYUDEN ME POIR FAVOR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tiene que ser el de la foto. Osea el Monster Hunter Freedom 2
Descarga Monster hunter freedom unite PSP.
btw,the game is MUCH cheaper in the EU store, it is part of the essentials collection
Thanks guys, you are awesome =) Can’t wait till this thing gets cracked wide open.
Can’t wait to see a good OS running on this hardware.
The scene is getting closer and closer!
how come your saying about the vulnerabilaties in the other 2 games as well? won’t Sony pull them from the store and patch them too now? would it not have been better to keep them to yourself to use at a later date or have you got plenty more user mode exploits stockpiled away??
sony has a habit of pulling all titles, so no harm.
or did you expect them to pull the other 2 games anyway to check them for vulnerabilitys cos they were made by the same people?
When comes the vhbl??????
Hold your horses. It will be out eventually. Be patient.
Plzz wololo release the vhbl files.I cant wait. We all of us cant wait.Hurry up wololo.
Dude. Chill. You’re not privileged to this. He’s being very generous and releasing this. You do realize that Neuron could had kept it a secret, kept it to himself and held onto it, so it would most-likely never be patched (unless someone else finds the same exact exploit…)
He’s giving away HIS exploit for your greedy gratification.
You’re going to wait. Don’t be greedy/Selfish
I have freedom unite 1 it works also????!!!
Um. There’s only one. “Monster Hunter Freedom Unite!”. That’s the USA one.
And… what happens with my real save game. I’ll have to choose between VHBL and play with my real game or it’s compatible with my save game??
IF it only holds one gamesave:
1) Backup your gamesave to the pc, and restore to your vita when you want to play your game again (Remember to backup your vhbl save to your computer before you re-copy your real save back – you’ll want a copy of both on your pc)
If it holds more than one save:
1)Self-Explanatory. Just copy.
mmm yes, i imagine it… that bad if you’re on the bus and you want to change From the Super Mario Bros. to Monster Hunter… :-s. Anyway, I stopped complaining, really it’s a good new 🙂
I hadn’t thought of that, that’s true o.o
It can be tedious, that’s for sure!!
why do you use in expansive game
1) Please learn English (I mean this, not as an insult, by the way) – I may be the only one who understands you, friend.
2) It’s not up to him. They find a game that has an exploit! ^^
I’m not speak english Usually its not my Default language
Dear Wololo, may i buy this game from (sic) Russian store, and will be the saves for it. Or only EU,US,JP will be fine?
Dude Russian is in Europe EU lol,
i meant russia
Actually Russia’s in Asia, technically.
About 50/50. I asked one who involved in this and he said – will be fine (RU=EU). So thx for help. But I still want more than one answer =)
I got MHU now I just need to wait for vhbl 🙂
Wololo they are dont remove the game from the store anymore… So can you put the files for the vhbl today on our site?
Bye and keep up the nice work!!!
Just be patient. It usually takes anywhere from (I’d guess…) 2hrs-48hrs.
sony doesn’t work at weekends.
I have monster hunt unite the first mh it also works on that game???
read the article carefully 🙂
Wouldnt it be funny if Sony didnt remove the game…
I’d Laugh my *** off.
by now they probly trying to figure out the expoit n patch da game wihle dealing wit the fact they was said to have been have like twice in two weeks..
Tnx a lot
Huh..I um..I mean, i didn’t check til just now because i figured i was in trouble..but..er..I’m kinda turning myself in here, but Sir Wololo, i made a thread that got closed cause..i kinda didn’t think it through..Isn’t that grounds to not be told what the game is? I’m grateful, of course, albeit i don’t have (and won’t have til P4 The Golden) a vita, but..i uhm..Er.. o.o
will i have to update to this 4th release of VHBL or is it the same thing as the previous ones?
i am on the 3rd release of VHBL
new exploit, new compatibility, new release
so means probly
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quit flooding every page asking when/where/why and ignoring people asking you nicely to be patient.
chill out and take an aderol
@ über mir….
Alter, raff dich mal Mann!!
monster hunter 3 included ? i read on ninja release it’s not ? did i missread ?
We only have a port for the JP version of Monster hunter 3. I didn’t mention it in the ninja release because I thought it would be good to keep it for later, but Neur0n told me Sony would probably patch all of them anyway, so I added it in the public announcement.
Ok, just one question…
How i can update my cma? Cause i dont see any possibility to update cma.. Pleas help guys..
I know, there is no need to update.. I only want to know about..
would be funny if they wouldnt remove the games, but let them stay for about a week… for 99$ 😉
Is funny if sony put the game free because of “vulnerabilities” in games (troll)