Release: VHBL for Vita 2.12
Here it is, the long awaited VHBL release for Qwikrazo87’s VHBL port to the Vita Firmware 2.12!
So, before we give you the files, a bit of disclaimer: This VHBL port runs through an exploit in the game Gamocracy one: legend of Robot. We announced that game secretly to our community members over the past few weeks, and publicly a few days ago. Since then, Sony have pulled the game from their stores, and if history repeats itself, the next Vita firmware update will have a patch for the game. Bottom line is, if you read this article and don’t already have the exploited game installed on your Vita, you missed the opportunity.
Most of the development and testing has been done on the US version of the game, which goes with code number NPUZ00259. As is often the case, the EU version of the game (NPEZ00374) is also exploitable, but we discovered late in the game that it was available to some people using a trick involving a PS3, so it was less extensively tested.
Known issues
Not all homebrews will work with VHBL, head over to the gigantic VHBL Homebrew thread for details on what games work or not.
There is a bug with the default menu (wMenu) which might tell you with a red screen, something along the lines of:”Error! Couldn’t find any homebrews in ms0:/PSP/VHBL/ Please check your config file and/or restart VHBL”
If you see this error, don’t freak out, just press LEFT TRIGGER
This is a known issue, and happens only as long as you don’t have any homebrew installed. To get rid of this error message, press the LEFT TRIGGER on your console, this will force wMenu to go to the SAVEDATA subfolder.
The issue is a simple one but I was too lazy to fix that. People with the right coding skills might want to have a look at the source of wMenu here and send me a patch.
alternatively, you can give a try to an other menu such as 138Menu here
Thanks for your support
Qwikrazor87 worked on this exploit on his free time and did not ask for anything in return.
If you want to show appreciation for his work, please consider making a donation below. Even a few bucks help!
Download and installation
Downloads can be found on the vhbl page, as usual
Enjoy, and please report bugs/success/trouble here. Post videos on youtube, I love those 🙂
Awesome!
cheers to wololo & Qwikrazor87, much appreciated……you guys rock!!
worth the wait.
Thanks wololo and qwikrazor87.
Thanks to wololo?? my god, 2 month’s anounced that!! and the only day coldn’t check it, is the day that releases the patch…
THANK YOU FOR NOTHING!! go to other scene dude!
People who got the ninja release got the information up to 1 month before the public announcement. At worst, people got the info about half a day before the public announcement. After the public announcement, it took Sony about 50h to take the game down.
After all is said and done, you had somewhere between 3 days and 5 weeks to get the game, not only one day. Maybe you’ve missed something.
We do our best so that as many people as possible get the exploit, sorry if you didn’t get this one.
Troll alert!!!
Thank’s for all, wololo and qwikrazor, we love u
When VHBL boots it says freezing memory and VHBL fails to load, any help?
Which region are you talking about?
I have to trouble with EU version
can you try to switch your language to English on the vita and see if it helps?
Still doesn’t work :/ It is “Freeing Memory” all the time
it still don’t work
Damn, I didn’t have any EU testers, but it’s working on my PSP.
Maybe the initial port will work.
Let me get it out of my other hard drive, go to the forum.
My bad, some people offered to test in EU but the release had been going for so long already that I didn’t synchronize anything with them. To anyone having an issue with the EU version: I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before this gets fixed. The fact that you see the VHBL loading screen means the exploit works, the rest is only a matter of fixing a (probably tiny) bug.
The EU Version
I see Wololo hasn’t said nothing on using Open CMA here. So is Open CMA not necessary anymore?
It is not necessary, until a new firmware is out. By default you should try and use open CMA as much as possible
I know dude!! but i’m waiting for that one, until uno’s…. and i know it will be a laaaaarge time to get next one… is because of thaat… that im *** off,.. is not your fault i know…
but you have to do something dude!!! u have to get the EMAIL ADRESS from all your “interested users” and the day u want to do that, just send a mail, to all that people,, i think its an easy mode…..
sorry for my english is really bad…
wololo,
while the latest firmware still 2.12, can I use the Sony CMA instead of OpenCMA to backup and apply the vhbl files?
@walala: yes
@walolo: thanks.
@walola: no problem
THANK YOU !!!!THANK YOU !!!!THANK YOU !!!!THANK YOU !!!!THANK YOU !!!!THANK YOU !!!!THANK YOU !!!!THANK YOU !!!!THANK YOU !!!!THANK YOU !!!!THANK YOU !!!!THANK YOU !!!!THANK YOU !!!!THANK YOU !!!!THANK YOU !!!!THANK YOU !!!!THANK YOU !!!!
everything is working great! wololo delivers! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Thank you wololo and Qwikrazor87
Got a problem here. I copied the data into the save folder for my copy of the game, but when I go to load the save file, the vita freezes on a black screen for a while before telling me “An error has occurred. (C1-2858-3)” Note, this is the US version.
Any help?
– First of all, try to reboot your vita and run the exploit again. Sometimes, this happens.
– If that doesn’t work, try to copy the exploit again. I’ve seen CMA fail to copy stuff. Reboot, and try again
– Try to switch your Vita language to English if that isn’t the case already. Some exploits don’t work correctly if your language is not the same as the one the hacker used, we only tested in English
Please report if you still have issues
No luck, even after removing and replacing everything related to it. Still getting the same error.
Nvm. Didn’t know you had to go to the highscores. Saw that in someone else’s comment.
I just got into bed as I checked to see if vhbl was out and I literally said to myself ,”don’t worry, vhbl won’t be out until tomorrow”. I now have to get up and fetch my laptop in my freezing cold house! All *** complaints aside, thank you so much quikrazor87 and wololo for doing all of this ***, vhbl should keep me alive and running on my ps vita until more anticipated titles come out!
wolol,
The release does not work! I do not understand 🙁
Please give more details:
– version of the game (EU or US)
– your Vita language
– What error you get
These good it works but the problem in that when I but
138menu in the root and then I run VHBL nothing but what always happens in the old style menu ….
You have to copy the contents of the 138 Menu folder and paste it in the VHBL folder
These I did it: (
Psvita battery died on me last night 🙂 no power cord for charging, and them te VHBL files are released lol oh well. I’ll have to get these tonight and do some testing and installing :). Thanks to QR, wololo and all the testers involved to make this happen.
Its not working, when I copy it to my device, it doesn’t up on my device home screen. PLEASE SOMEONE MAKE A VIDEO! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!
its a gamesave
just start Gamocracy one and load the save
im trying to run gPSP and Dragonball Z game and both gives me errors after installing.. idk why
A fix for the EU port has been posted in the forum.
I fear that Sony may take drastic steps to patch this, such as remove the PSP emulator entirely…
If Sony were going to remove the emulator, they would have done it a long time ago. VHBL aren’t very damaging to the PSP or Vita ecosystem because they don’t allow piracy. We’ve had one kernel exploit for the Vita’s PSP emulator since launch and they patched it. Kernel exploits are needed for playing backups which is Sony’s main worry. But, as has been explained before, kernel exploits are like gold dust these days. There’re very few of them left undiscovered.
I dont know if im doin it wrong but im having some compatability issues on mine. Iv tried the snes nes and the filer manager. The only one I got to work was the nes emulator. The file manager makes the game auto quit as soon as i run it and the snes emulator says loading then flashes some words for 1/10th of a second and goes back to the menu. Has anyone else had this problem.
Ask on the forums, people might send you links to versions of the homebrews that work.
Excellent work, Qwikrazor87! I’ll be installing this on my Vita when I’m home. Managed to get a friend in on this VHBL goodness too! He’s a VHBLV (Vita Half Byte Loader Virgin)! Haha!
Great Job!!! Qwikrazor87 and Wololo!
daedalus dont work on my vita 🙁 please help°!!!!!!!
i just dont have psp or ps one games, how can i have savedatas? i just download one saveda of dbz and install daedalus but didnt works…
I am SOOOconfused right now. I don’t quite understand the tutorial about the installation of homebrew! In the part where it says “use any savedata, just not the one used by hb;” what exactly does that mean? Do I download some savedata off of the internet and place the INSTALL.ZIP inside that? I am really confused.
Yes, that will work. Or try some of the prepackaged ones from the forum, and just replace the INSTALL.ZIP from there
when i try to use gPSP and Dragonball z after installing them they both give different error, is there any fix for that?
Try to ask on the forums, you’ll probably get more answers than here
gpsp requires the GBA bios file to be added to the INSTALL.ZIP. The bios file is illegal to distribute so you will have to find it and properly place it yourself.
Thanks wololo and qwikrazor87, great job, I was expecting this, I don´t have the ninja release, (but not baned or warned), so, I visit every time I can, the works have rewards, now I have the exploitable game and can´t wait for booker one´s again in mi vita, quake and doom too, tnx to you my friends, am so glad and so gratefull, vita games suck for the big one actualy, except for ninja gaiden 1 and 2 my vita is dead allready, now is time to take it away the dust and used the way I spected the day I buy it.
I haved the kernel exploit from MHU, but have to take it down becouse my little one I´m not regreat that, now, back to the scene tnx to wololo and qwikrazor87, you are the best tnx again
cheers and respects
Je ces pas comment installer un Homebrew, vous pouvez m’aider ?
I no how to install the Homebrew you can help me?
Unlocking a “healthy” for sony because sony games not being” the pirateing. “It would be nice if there were only destraventos so only with emulators and some applications.
Why you deleted my post, I asked for help, 🙁
My question is “How to install homebrew?
ha no it’s good 🙂
Hello,
I seem to be getting error (C1-2858-3)… I have tried all of the following methods to fix it:
-Reboot your vita and run the exploit again. Sometimes, this happens.
-Copy the exploit again. Reboot, and try again
-Switch your Vita language to English if that isn’t the case already.
Not sure what else could be the problem. Please help if you can :-).
Unfortunately I’m getting the same error message. I have a US vita, a US psn account, a US copy of the game and have transferred the exploit several times
I’ve tried loading all 4 slots of the save game and all give the same error message
Interesting… well maybe there is a simple fix that I’m not seeing :-/. Oh well, I’ll wait and see if anyone else has found the fix.
Can someone tell me how to install homebrew please!
got BUG here..
my gpSP wont save at all..
even with save state :\
how to fix that ?
Which save file are you guys loading up? I see normal mode and lunatic mode and 4 slots for each and all that I’ve tried just give me error C1-2858-3. I’ve transferred exploit several times with no luck
try all games GBA working , BUT
save not working…
can you help me.. ?
someone knows why vhbl install games on the vhbl folder and not anymore on the game folder?
Recent vita firmwares prevent us from writing in the GAME folder. There are ways around this, qwikrazor decided to use a different folder.
Sorry guys – I found out why I was getting that error message. I was trying to load the save game. I didn’t realize you have to go into the high scores menu on the title screen. Everything is working as it should. Thank you so much for your work on this
OMG Thanks man! I thought I had to load the save file… LOL. That’ll teach me to read things.
@ Wololo
Please Update this one that i fixed it
gpSp FOR PS VITA ( VHBL )
http://www.4shared.com/archive/4gGtguIj/gpSp_FOR_PS_VITA___VHBL__.html
Working Save / Load
Working SaveState / LoadState
Thankss
Thank you I will try this when I get home!
ok jus remember rename to INSTALL.ZIP
and add any GBA ROM you want to ROM folder ( Iside GBA Folder )
and don’t forget
have fun… ^,^
can you re upload the gpSp FOR PS VITA ( VHBL ) please?
The 4shared had banned the download link…
im having a problem @wololo everything installs fine i installed gba emulator and snes they installed fine but when i go to load up rom the screen stays black i tried with several different roms please help
I would really like someone to help me, I do not how to install there homebrew, I try all 🙁