(Video) Incoming VHBL exploit for the Vita 2.12, by qwikrazor87
Some of you might have thought that we decided to not be a blog dedicated to hacking, given how slow the hacking news have been recently for the vita. There was of course the hope of a VHBL port from The Z, but that was a while ago, and he is still waiting for a “significant firmware update” from Sony before releasing his work.
But fear not, as developer qwikrazor87 contacted me with his own VHBL port, which will be released as soon as it is fully tested!
Now, this exploit comes with some limitations. First, as is often the case, we are talking here of a usermode exploit running VHBL inside the PSP emulator of the Vita. This means you’ll be able to play a vast majority of PSP homebrews on your vita (including emulators), but this will not let you play PSP isos (which would require a new Kernel exploit, the last public one was in firmware 2.02), let alone Vita isos (no public method exists for this, at all, so don’t ask).
Secondly, and this might annoy many of you, the exploited game is only available in the US. Yes, no luck for our EU or Asia friends…
But I have good news for those of you who are motivated enough: once the port is fully ready, I’ll have a tiny contest to let a few of you win some US PSN codes. I’ll also have a quick tutorial ready on how to switch your console to a US account (Sony did make that fairly difficult, so running VHBL might mean a few sacrifices for some of you).
Qwikrazor87’s VHBL port is more or less ready and I quickly tested it myself, but he hasn’t addressed one of the latest security patches added by Sony, which prevents us from writing anything in the PSP/GAME folder (basically preventing us from installing homebrews). But the solutions for that are known, and it’s just a matter of implementing a fix, either in VHBL itself, or in the various menus running for it. (I believe Qwikrazor87 and his beta testers already had homebrews installed from previous VHBL releases and were able to test compatibility this way)
As soon as this is done, I’ll be testing as much as I can and report on compatibility. The release will not happen overnight, these things take time, so, as usual, please be patient. In the meantime, enjoy this proof of concept video.
First!!!
I cant wait for thisss. LOL
That is some good news! Good luck to those without an exploit
looooooooooooool
Seems there will be a new Vita firmware soon then.. 🙂
yea but we was going to have one wen the ps4 comes out… for remote play n cross play for vita n ps4
Really nice..but I have my own now..Thank you for all your help with the guide’s they are very helpful..thank you again..
Cool story bro.
+1
and vhbl The Z?
No more vhbl, its *** put the effort in ps vita side most still have psp that has better battery life, why would we want this on a bigger screen with 3 hour play.
No more b*tching, do it yourself, no one is going to put the effort in anything at all for someone crying like you. Why don’t you just play the games on your psp, since most of us still have it?
Repeatedly saying something over and over, or rather whining about it, therefore destroying the point you were trying to make and making you look like a complete *** because no one is listening to you.
I was listening to him. VHBL is good. If you don’t want it, simply leave. Its that simple. All of us could just keep it to ourselves.
Maybe we could figure out a supportive user DRM on VHBL, so if you happen to grab the exploit it wont work for you ***
jus to have…
Hope that I can grab one..Thanks!!! 🙂
let alone Vita isos (no public method exists for this, at all, so don’t ask)
PUBLIC is that a hint that there is a know way 😛 just not publicly known haha i hope so i dont condone piracy but if there are vita iso able to be loaded and run on the system that means that theres some major behind the scenes work going on i hope at least
there pkg files or sumthikng u can actuly have vita games if u download them then save them to the pc think the weird way was if u dident update on realese date…
No such thing as PS Vita ISO’s, but there are PS Vita ROM’s. ISO’s are from a discs and ROM’s are from a cartridge’s.
No such thing as PS Vita ISO’s, but there are PS Vita ROM’s. ISO’s are from discs and ROM’s are from cartridge’s.
ROM stands for Read Only Memory, it applies to Disc-based and Cartridge-based media that can’t be written more than once, but does not applies to dumps as they are simply files that can be modified, so they aren’t really “Read Only”. The term, like many other technical terms, is incorrectly used.
thought so cuz i made a cd with gameboy roms
Wololo or anyone plz help! I’m on 2.02 with Uno. I think I de activated my Vita when I was messing with one of my memory cards. Is there a fix! Please say yes! I’m still on 2.02 with uno but now my Vita is deactivated.
Hello just to let you know the way to reactivate your psvita is through opencma with the computer. Then once you transfer uno from ps3 to psvita it will reactivate the system. I did it when i system restored my two Vitas because i was going to sell them. Then i said what am i crazy LOL =D.
Hope this helped bye.
Fear not `Free my Vita`
All you have to do is go on to the forums
and search activate´-deactivated ps vita
i had the same problem, all you need to have
is PS3, Ps vita (duh), Open CMA and your usb cable ofcourse
@Saviour and alpmaster. Thank you both so much. I brushed through the forums briefly but didn’t find anything the first time but now I have a better idea where to look. I didn’t know that it was possible to reactivate my machine. I’m glad I didn’t update. Sad I purged my data though.
NASA just confirmed, PS Vita kernel exploit is not possible in this dimension. In the meantime use VHBL to play Super Mario.
Awesome man!
Enfin !!!!!!!!!!!!’
what’s up with all the adds wololo …. plz dont get auto playing videos man. those are the worst and even more annoying then seeing :free flip men event” ads. great column thought i cant wait till the vita gets cracked
That will be a horrible day. If PSVita games ever become free, that means the end of it. I want Vita to survive. Pay for your games.
well if sony make use of the vita with the ps4 dont think it be much an issue jus hope dev still make games for it… the psp did good after it was cracked…
Your one of the “smart people” who believe playing online on the PC is free cause someone is offsetting the costs of the server right?
We dont have auto playing video ads on this site, I only usee adsense and last time I checked they dont do that. Do you remember what the ad was for? I can block individual ads in my settings, and I dont like auto playing videos either.
*dusts off vita*
YAYYYYYYY ^_^
hey wololo? need I remind you Vita games would be ROMs not ISO’s ;3
PSP ISO? When did he say anything about PS Vita ISO?
Yeah he wrote vita isos! Right after he stated that 2.02 was the last public kernel exploit. And yes its vita ROMS. Wonder when all those scam sites begin to name them selfs like vitar0ms.com or freeromsvita.com…
yea iso is for like cd n dvd roms i guess is for nintendo games but yea psp wise one would be use to iso.. think sometimes on other sites psx backup was called roms…
yet another person that incorrectly uses the terms ROM and ISO.
– ROM: Read Only Memory, applies to the media itself, not the contents, both carts and discs are ROMs.
– ISO: it could refer to the ISO9660 filesystem, standard in CDs and most DVDs, or it could also apply to a 1:1 copy of a media.
So yeah, a dump of a cartridge can be called an ISO, but I would prefer simply the term “dump”.
vHBL – The Gift that keeps giving.
It’s funny, all those old topics that wanted to see work on HBL over with when we were lucky enough to get CFW for our PSPs. Yet still to this day, HBL shows it’s long standing worth.
Also…
ZOMG!! MAC address and stuff!!! 😛
yes… this will be nice keep it up.
Congratulations Qwikrazor87 on your accomplishments and work!
Waiting for another exploit is such a awful thing
its alright .. good if u got to get the older expoit.. i been one 2.06 for awhile n i been fine atleast can play games without needed to log in to psn….
Congrats on your exploit man 🙂
Thing for me is that I am sticking to my apache solely because of that PSP/GAME thing.
What do you guys think? stay on apache or move onto this one? 🙂
Thanks in advance. -The Target
well i would stay on the 2.06 but the 2.12 got video play..
Wheres the problem to install and store your Homebrew in ms0:/PSP/VHBL/.. for example?!
Finally, oh wait im back on my psp lol
i still trying for mod my psp with one hard drive n one psp go for music… i still got to put it together
Umm why are you trying something so difficult if you could just buy a photofast cr5400 and two 64 GB sdxc cards? It works, cause I’m using that for my psp 3000. That amounts to a numerical 128 GB, well in reality it’s a little less > 115 GB.
ooh solid so cr5400.. idk i wanted a psp go to lisen music i had like a 64 GB a dual sd pro duo
Good news for many. I’m still on 2.02 waiting for some news from coolbird. Hoping to have some psx games with sound working on my vita in the near future. Cheers!
Nice work quikrazor 🙂
Glad to see a release soon, good to know this has been private for a long time 😉 greetings qwik and company.
good.
pointless if i cant even play atleast vita isos
i have my ds for the other emulaters so we need a real exploit these recent ones suck so bad and are a waste of time
i hope more people get the vita and start hacking it im trying hard to hold onto it and not sell it but there is nothing to do on it
Thanks for volunteering, please get back to me once your vita iso loader is ready
lol
would think be prety hard since vita game got that install thing…
F*ck…. first I am on the UK region then the worst is this that it wont let us play PSP iso’s…. It can;t even let us play that then who would even imagine it would play PS vita isos… And I was really waiting for a new kernel release.
Possible to port TN-V on this exploit ?
Not unless a kernel exploit is discovered and made public, as I implied in the article
So wait,there is a private way of doing that little “play psvita roms” thingie?
I wouldn’t know. I just tried to word it in a way that I don’t get flamed by elite hackers who would have access to things I don’t. If you prefer, as far as I know, it is not possible to play pirated vita games as of today
u used elite…..iam more hardware i got an ipad…
This sounds better 😛
Could TN-V be ported to this if possible?
No, not without a kernel exploit
Hey wololo, I have got a question, cause you might have much better connections to the hacking scene as I.
Why is it, that we always try to create custom loaders based on scurity escalations inside the system? I mean, the hacking scene is looking for a security whole that might not be there at all.
So I was asking myself why making this effort when there could be another way around the corner.
What if the hacking scene begins putting its efforts in trying to modify the account data stored inside the nand? I mean, they have already access to all the data inside the psp 1000 and 2000 nand, and there are also all the licenses of purchased content. So my thought was if we interupt the communication between the psp and the sony license server, spoofing with a programm that acts like it was the server, shouldn’t we be able to sign our psp’s / vitas to all kinds software? Well that all sounds smart *** now, but it has already been done with steam accounts, spoofing them with injected licenses.
Just a thought.
It was also done on Xbox Live a while back. They caught and banned people who did so with the reason of “Marketplace Theft.”
One more thing: We don’t really know all that much about their server-side business…. Or… Do we?
Well i wouldn’t go that far and go online with a modified account. Rather more I would be happy and never go online again.
that or modify 1.60 guess need to modifiy 2.++ wit 1.80 then install 1.60
good now we can finally get a decent update from sony.
hey amigos tengo un gran problema tengo uno cfw 2.02 6.60tnv2 estaba jugando bien, pero cuando accedo ala memoria para cargar juegos se congela la psvita. help
hey friends I have a big problem I have one cfw 2.02 6.60tnv2 was playing well, but when I access memory to load wing freezes psvita games. help me
i use for taduction traslante.google.com.mx XD lol
hey friends I have a big problem I have one cfw 2.02 6.60tnv2 was playing well, but when I access memory to load wing freezes psvita games. help me
Everybody that wants psvitas Isos do not deserve to own a psvita they are going to kill the system before they make good games out.
and why that is?
Companies are already jumping back from it with the low install base. If that happened, they would have to worry about how their entire install base pirated the game.
On the PSP, I would say that piracy wouldn’t kill it. The Vita isn’t doing well to start. There IS a possibility that piracy would *** it up.
no enough games no real hack in the scene…
come to think of it? a lot of users here hv all the homebrew games being played and psp emulator games… getting bored… hopefully developers could come up with a NEW KERNEL EXPLOIT GAME wherein we can have the chance to play our old psp iso’s. great job do guys but reach for the Greatness guys! short of telling be the “BEST”! peace!lol
so there is nothing to see here…
atleast for people with a psp
i guess ill finally update my psvita from 2.11 to 2.12
I know the name and everything but I didn’t want it to be released since… I can’t tell here. Hopefully you all enjoy it.
@Saviour,alpmaster, wololo, or anyone that can help. I went to the forums and I read everything. I tried open CMA. Its reads my vita as some weird name. When I connect to my ps3 it asks me to update. Is there a way that I can reactivate me vita offline?
think u need to install opean cmma again make sure u close cma then load the files for opeam ccma