Frostegater’s Firmware 2.61 VHBL Exploit revealed ! – Get is as soon as possible !
Earlier today was the firmware 3.00 released, and this demonic firmware fixed one of the greatest PS Vita Half Byte Loader exploits, that is was available. I am speaking of Frostegater’s FieldRunners exploit, which supports firmware 2.61 and below!
The game should have never been released, since it is just too awesome. This was the statement of myself, frostegater and my friend Kanade Engel, the 3 people who used this exploit frequently.
Sony surprised us a bit with their firmware 3.00, which fixes the awesome exploit. The exploit literally just takes ~10 seconds to boot into the wMenu, and is then ready to launch homebrews. You do not have to press a button, you just have to start the game and lean back.
This usermode exploit supports the super nintendo emulator, SnesTyl 0.4.2 (HBL Version), PSPFiler 6.6 (HBL), Gpsp and Masterboy. It also supports a lot of other homebrews, which I do not want to list right now. This game has a pretty high compatibility, and it is even possible to exit all these homebrews without crashing the VHBL itself! (PSPFiler is the exception, quiting it crashes the VHBL. It is recommended to close the exploit game, and relaunch it, if you intend to close PSPFiler.)
The game is available in the European PSN Store for mere 5€, takes ~30MB of space, and takes LESS than 10 seconds to boot into wMenu.
The game is also available in the US PSN Store, for 5-7$. Also available in the UK, AU and other stores. It seems to be missing in asian stores.
This video is pretty old, made around firmware 2.02, but it shows the FieldRunners exploit in action. It does not show the game itself, but I will deliver a video which shows the exploit in action.
You can see that the exploit is pretty fast, accurate and damn awesome. It is a shame that such a good piece of work got fixed.
Frostegater stated at his twitter account, that if you own the US Version of FieldRunners, that you should contact him, so he can create exploit files for the US version.
At the moment there are just exploit files for the EU Version, since those were tested (by me) since firmware 1.80.
Download: FieldRunners VHBL for Firmware 2.61 (EU Version)
(US Version will be ready soon)
Be also sure to donate to Frostegater, if you like the work he did. He will definitely appreciate it. 🙂
First! All I had to do was refresh page 😛
Sadly there’s absolutely no PS3less way to upgrade up to 2.61 nor buy the game Now, so I’m definitely waiting for version 3.00 ^.^
Was this video posted before? If it was, then Sony might have used that to filter find the games that would load save files directly at startup.
But if the video was not posted before, never mind my post.
The video was “not listed” and then private.
I just put it back on “public”.
I made it private, cause one leaked it.
The video did not show the game itself.
How to download it?? PlayStation Store asks me to update!!
with a ps3
the vita ask for update when trying to connect to ps3, any help
The Z this doesn’t help us at all! most of us are still on lower firmware waiting for total_noob. wouldn’t it be better if you guys /gals worked together on this?
This exploit won’t help anyone at all. I hope you guys first tell us to update our devices, give it a few days then release an exploit.
Hope this will help alot of other people also.
Lol i sold my vita 2 bad now im mad to myself 😀
Sadly until someone makes open cma for Android i won’t be able to get in on these vhbl thingies.
u dont need cma for android
Just updated last night and I have this game already 🙁
So I downloaded the game from my ps3 expecting that I would be able to transfer it over as per usual… YOU CANT! as soon as I try and connect to the ps3 with my vita the vita says you need to update the system software…. so note to everone
**YOU CANT CONNECT CONTENT MANAGER TO PS3 W/O UPDATING!**
I may have just wasted 7$…lame
You have The Z to thank for that.
Lmao! It is a very fun game though.
please read before commenting, you are supposed to follow a few steps to be able to transfer the game, being a whinny little *** won’t get you anywhere.
Yes, there is a way, search for OpenCMA trick.
Use the OpenCMA r5 + PS3 trick.
As long your Vita is not at 3.00, this (and FR will) work(s)!
can you link to a guide or something?? that would be awesome! 🙂
We love you Z, but seriously, be more specific. What is the OpenCMA r5 + PS3 trick you mention? I have a PS3 and my Vita is on 2.61, and I already bought the game.
Hey i found out how to do the open cma ps3 trick
1. download and install the open cma
2. try connecting to comp but make sure u have wifi off on Vita and no internet access on the comp
3. if it tells you to update restart your vita then try connecting it should work cuz i just tried it.
4. then connect to your ps3 and you won’t get the update message.
hey i used the open cma trick but when i try to find the game on my ps3 through my vita it says no content items? anyone know why?
Same problem , need help
Clap clap clap…nice you greedy bastards
Why tell us after the update. We can’t use it now.
I Google translated this back in forth 50 times and still have no idea what you’re taking about
Do you think sony will remove fieldrunners from psn?
what’s the point of releasing it after it gets patched
Because it was probably never supposted to be public, it got fixed so at least if somebody is still at 2.61 he/she can get it and use it. It’s not like every exploit which has been found is going to be public
That was the point.
It was not intended to be public, because it IS too good for the public.
Since it got patched, we can release it, since we have no use for it anymore.
Too good for the public? lol
Most insulting thing I’ve ever heard on here. Damn..
What they give us is enough, it’s greedy to expect a DEV to release an awesome exploit like this.
Ok Z, maybe it’s useless, but I was able to connect and download FieldRunners while available, but now what?, VHBL 2.61 w/yMenu doesn’t works at all, if you try to use FTPvita shows “[no” on the screen, and if you use CMAr5 you can only copy savefiles with no INSTALL.ZIP contents. So… What’s the point on releasing a exploit that doesn’t works, or you have no interest on still developing for ??? First I decided to donate by PayPal expecting some support, now i’ve wasted 17 USD at this moment, with no results. Yes your advice was: “You’re buying the game, not a guarantee that the exploit will work” I’m sad for the scene, not for Sony
Charles proxy or open cma on computer to ps3 should still work to download I think
actually, FieldRunners is psp kernel exploit
can you confirm this is kernel? through a video or some thing because the post states its user mode. if its only user mode i may not be interested in it.
i downloaded this with charles proxy
and now i have the game
i have 2.61
What about the source code?
Should we wait for TN-V4 instead of picking this exploit up, will that be any quicker
What happened to “ninja release”? Too late for me anyway, updated to 3.00 last night.
ha they found a little way to patch it already you have to have ps+ inorder to get it but its free talking about fieldrunners for people who don’t know I just missed it lmao coulda bought but left psn store came back and said ps+ forget ps+ hope tnv4 get 3.00 compatability
YEAH, didn’t miss this one 😀
i have 2.61
Three questions:
Can you buy the game on the PSN store on the PC, but then transfer via PS3?
Will this be compatible with the upcoming TN-V4?
IF the game was added back to the PSN store after it was taken down would it still work on 2.61?
1- Yes, check out OpenCMA trick for more info how to do it without updating
2- Not sure about that, nothing official has been said, but probably yes
3- Yes, they never patch games, only FWs
Thanks hossain for your tip on using Charles Proxy to bypass the 3.0 update and be able to download fieldrunners :0)saw a youtube video titled “Using Charles Proxy for PSN” from jeoway. just replaced all 03.000.000 with 01.600.000 and it worked
This game also available in HK PSN Store (MY) for RM29.00
html5 test : 252p for 2.61 , 292p for 3.0 ( internet explorer 11 has 355p )
I downloaded the game on PS3 and connected to it using the open cma trick, but Fieldrunners isn’t showing up in the list of games to transfer (other psp games on my ps3 did, however). Even after a little testing, like “installing” to PS3 (this made a PSP version of the icon appear on my ps3, but install bubble was still there) and opening the game on my PS3 after that, I found I could only transfer the save data but not the game. Apparently there’s some kind of restriction on transferring minis that aren’t also on the vita store, any way to get past that?
What version is your Vita on? It’s possible that you have a firmware version from before Fieldrunners was listed as compatible.
2.61 (US psn)
Well, I notice now that it doesn’t say it’s Vita compatible. So perhaps they changed the listing? I have no clue.
Managed to get the game onto my Vita through Charles. Interesting how it doesn’t appear under the Vita section on ps3 (which includes other minis), but you can freely navigate to it on the vita store.
Also, I’m using the USA version. If I have to wait for a “fixed” version to appear on the vita store again before transferring, would it let me still transfer the “old” version?
There won’t be any fixed version, it will always be same
tnx for the exploit, but useless, why liberate it when you can´t use it? becouse is “TO GOOD FOR USERS?” IT´S THE STUPIDEST THING i EVER EAR, the scene has it´s roots on the users, the scene is missing the way, I think so, is there no more the ideal of DarkAlex, Fanjita, even Wololo, the users are the first.
for me, I wait for the K exploit becouse I love plugins, love pmp player, quake (full vertion-full speed), like doom f@ck id software who´s dosn´t want to port doom to vita,
I love the freedom to play what I want to play in my expensive console, I hope modern warfare 4 in ps vita be ported if not, for that is the hombrew, for the users, not a pseudo elite wich think a sploit is to good for users
f@ck this kind of ideas
This exploit was kept in the hope it would be useful for something bigger than VHBL. There are countless usermode exploits, and we have consistently released VHBL exploits over the past 2 years. There was no obvious need to release this one, and in the end it was up to the hackers who found it to release it or keep it.
Keep in mind that it’s those undisclosed exploits that let hackers investigate the latest firmwares as fast as they can, in order to give the users more hacks.
I 100% agree with you that a scene is nothing without the users, but sometimes it’s better to not disclose a specific hack, for greater good.
In hindsight, it’s easy to say “this one should have been released earlier, now it’s wasted”, but nobody could predict Sony would patch it, it’s a very rare event in their history, to patch something that wasn’t publicly revealed.
And now? I await the TN-V4 in version 2.61 or version 3.0?
2.61, you can use charles proxy to get the k-exploit game
How use charles proxy? I dont have ps3.
Is it better to stay with 2.02 UNO with high compatibility or update to 2.61 using Fieldrunners?
Hey z dude! I f it is useless and has been patched for 6.21 conclusion wud be dt this is a kernlexploit that is patched and cnt be used nw? Im on the 6.20 wd arcdarts. Help me what to do? Waiting for the kernel exp.thank you very much!
Or Since it is too good for being a usermode exploit can this be useless to use for 6.21? Needa clafication..too confusing!
its patch in the vita 3.00 should still work on lower firmwares
i got all those old exp.oi.ts games up to apachie
So… does this only run homebrews or can I run psp games aswell? Sorry but with the amount of comments here it’s getting confusing xD
Only homebrew, games need kernel mode exploit.
Ah ok so I can pass on this then 🙂
It work !!! I’ve download it by Charles proxy http://www.psvita-scene.net/psvita/bypass-forced-firmware-update-on-ps-vita/ Just follow step by step and replace 01610000 by 03000000 ! Thanks to wololo and Frostegater !
Thanks downloaded the game yesterday through the PC and installed it through the opencma tutorial using Charles. Thank goodness I waited to update for situations like these.
game not showing up when trying to transfer, ill check that Charles Proxy thing
will pass this one then..waitin for the k-exp. yaaaawooooollllloolooooo! lol
The game is not available for ps vita in psn plus us. Damn, too held the exploit.