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.
Kinda sad, I was psyched when I saw the Monster Hunter game because I liked one version, happiness level went down to rock bottom when I learned I actually liked 3 and not this :/
4 gig back up memory card comes in handy for vhbl
excuse me， will you also make a vbhl for mhp2g on PSN asia(HK) server
when its releasing???? wololo answer back !
keeep up the nice workk!!!!
Mhh in Switzerland is only Monster Hunter Freedom 2 Essentials in the store for Swiss Francs 13.90 (about 11 or 12 euros). I don’t know if the other ones are already removed in the meantime, or if they never were in the store. But I download now this version, and hope your untested MHF 2 VBHL files work with this version. Thanks for all, looking forward for the release of the files 🙂
Try to search for the game, it is not necessarily in the alphabetical list.
Oh damn, you’re right! I forgot this. When I search the game, it will appear. (I’m wondering why the alphabetical list doesn’t show all games.) Now I already bought part 2 and I have not enough money on my PSN account to buy also part 1. Mhhh so I hope, the VBHL files for MHF2 also work. (And if not, I still have a real PSP for emulators and homebrew, wanted VBHL more for testing how this stuff works on vita)
hope its still out vita charging waiting anxiously
ok for me thks
when it comes !!!!!!!!?!?!/!?!1!1? wololololololololololo
byeee keep up the nice work WOLOLOLOLOLOololololol…
wololololololololo
soon.
By the way, thanks for posting this information. Hope to see great things from your VHBL! Btw this is the first time ill be using it. 🙂
WOooooooot I bought the game already.
i wonder why wololo never answer questions about asia server,is there anything unpleasant you met in HK?Even you don’t have a VBHL for asia PSN,just say the word no,then i switch to europe,ok?
It’s just thant I’ve never used the HK servers so I can’t answer your questions. Lots of our beta testers are in europe, japan, us, but none of them in HK it seems.
Hope that explains.
thanks for the reply,and what do i need to become a beta tester? very glad to help but i don’t have any knowlage of programming or exploit,only followed this site since i bought a vita 3 months ago
Beta testers are generally chosen among people who are actively helping on the forums. We basically look for people who have a genuine will to help others, are thorough, dedicated, etc…
besides HK server offers mhp2g and mh3p,they seem to be japanese version games,and is it possible to use the vbhl loader for jp server directly on HK monster hunter games?
Yes, if it’s the JP version, it will work
Thx a lot for the Ninja Release! It´s a great game, and it´s on top downloaded for PSP store. If Sony pulls it out, they gonna lose a top seller… I wonder what they will do.
Great news and big thanks to wooloo and neuron for their hard work looking forward to the exploit as I downloaded the game today
dont update the cma? ive already updated it to its newest firmware not long ago but surely you mean future reference in case a new firmware arrives correct?
Correct.
Just to let you know, you typed “remember” instead of “remind” everyone. Not trying to be an ***.
Thanks, fixed
Hey i have a question i live in colombia but i register my vita in the usa so i have the usa store , i want to buy the game but i dont know if they are going to accept my credit card anyone else have this doubt?
My credit card is from colombia also.
Oye Richardo credit cards are universal they are acepted everywhere. As long as you have the funds to buy the game you should be fine chico.
do i need to have Open CMA to do VHBL ?
Yes you need a working open CMA to do VHBL. You may as well but don’t forget to totatly uninstall the official CMA. :O)
No, OpenCMA is recommended, but not compulsory
i cant wait i bought this crappy game at vitas launch. i was sad that im not one who would enjoy this game. i will now lol, downloading from download list. im sacrificing ff9 for this, till i get a 32gb card.
Why doesn’t Sony just let people have the exploit cause if people know about the game with the exploit then a lot of people buy the game and if a lot of people buy the game then that means more money for Sony. So Sony should just leave the game in the the ps store
Having an unchecked vulnerability on your system is dangerous. Now as a consumer you’re looking at the positive aspect. However a developer will look at the negative aspect. The way developers would see it: “Somebody found a vulnerability on a system, the vulnerability runs unsigned software, the company who makes the system is letting it go unchecked, if a vulnerability that allows users to pirate our games is discovered will it still go unchecked? Can we take that chance?”
This.
First reaction:
*** YES A GAME THAT I OWN OMG heck YES
2nd reaction:
*** MY VITA IS AT HOME AND I RECENTLY DELETED IT TO MAKE ROOM FOR SOME PS1 CLASSICS FML ;-;
So If I’m not mistaken ” Moster Hunter Freedom Unite” is the new game needed to run VHBL 1.80 on the vita.
Am I right?
yes
Hey, Thanks all who worked on VHBL finally I can Get my hands on some Homebrew 😉 Also Just to finalize everything DONT UPDATE CMA TO ANY NEW VERSION EVER. Thanks yet again i bought this game 4 weeks ago alongside the rest of the series 32gb Memory card I got for free off of a subscriber ;).
Open CMA 1.8 works awesome here.
I keep getting error (E-80182014) I can’t connect to CMA. How do you manually update the psp2-updatelist.xml?
Mine says JP in region ID eventhough I have a U.S vita account
http://www.mediafire.com/?gwyky82s2jwlfy5
download yours over here 😉
Thanks for the reply rubenctt
Never mind I got it. Thanks to wololo and Neur0n and everyone else that makes the vita interesting again to play. You guys Rock. Chingon!!! in other words ” Bad Assess”
Wish scummvm was working but we can’t always have our way. Still great to see the devs here continue improving HBL.
Lol, I still remember users asking what the point of HBL was during the era of PSP CFW. Heh, we’ve seen the point of it’s continued existance.
@wololo for those who like telling the usual lines… Direct them over to me, I’ll be glad to tell them who I feel more sc*** by.
Sony or the hackers?… Sony wins bigtime and this comes from a long time supporter.
People need to take the time they put into their horribly worded insults and go educate themselves.
I got the Ninja release on this weeks ago, but I think I’ll pass on this one.
1.80 has way too many bugs, and I want to make sure to keep my system bug free, so I’m going to have to skip on this.
I’ll wait for the full Vita hack that is in the works.
Cool, see you in 5 years 😀
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If you want homebrew so bad then download Playstation Mobile (Suite). You can make your own apps for the Vita with that. So why do you want to hack it when Sony gives you a way to make your own apps? Just admit it, you want ISOs.
Seriously? You have no clue as to what you are talking about do you? You cannot do anything that VHBL does in PSM and psm is so limited it throttles performance and it ends in oct which will make everyone pay $99. This is not heading anywhere to piracy. Not everyone wants it, vhbl is a sound to that testament. Know what you are talking about before flaming.
TBH Sony is doing a Closed open source type of thing like apple. Same thing goes just like the iPhone like what we do on the PSP/Vita. We Jailbreak the iPhone to do more than what we could (pirating is just one detail example Installous). Homebrewing the PSVita will allow more functionality then the given PSMSuite can ever give a developer.
well the game is still on the uk store
I remain sceptical this time it is real and less of a test as to if they will take a major selling game off the sore in fear of Hbl. I would have said disidia or persona 3 personally if this was the case but hopefully it isn’t and you can laugh at me later
No, this is real, I wouldn’t play the reputation of this site just to prank Sony.
I’m very suprised the game hasn’t been removed yet. Oh well. I’m got the game a week before the announcement anyway. Just hope the exploit is released soon :3
i was lucky enough to get the game 😀 Lucky for me i had $5 and my aunt gave me 10 and my uncle gave me 5 😀 anywho cant wait for the save file
wololo release it today plz sony will fund a new update sooner r later plz wololo everybody is waiting i can’t no more you wololo rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So? Its not like you have to? There is a reason for it to be released after they pull the game.
Thanks Wololo and Neuron!
Love this blog!
I am so happy I already have this game, because I was off the community for awhile
Just gotta say i love you wololo but that aside the most amazing thing happened so ive been following this blog relgiously hoping i can get some vhbl action well my ps vita is in the pawn till friday so i was getting sad about the upcoming release then .. BAM Monster hunter one of my favorate psp games is already installed on my psvita in the shop *dances*
so i’ve got the game, now we play…the waiting game
Thanks so much for this! I’m surprised it ain’t down yet though.
i don’t have a vita, so i don’t follow the vhbl posts on this blog to carefully, but it’s only public now? it’s been so long since i got that little thing telling me about it on the forums (i guess i’ve been a member for 2 years, but still…) anyway, nice release.