PS Vita Half Byte Loader for Firmware 3.10 & 3.12 available !
A few days ago, Sony released the firmwares 3.10 and 3.12 which both fixed the vulnerabilities in the previous firmware, that allowed the execution of the TN-V eCFW via various exploit game titles.
Since kernel mode exploits are rare and scarce, it should be obvious that there won’t be a working TN-V eCFW release for said new firmwares anytime soon.
This brings us back to our old Half Byte Loader, which is indeed still working at firmware 3.10 & 3.12, as long as you own the right game from the right PSN store.
Some months ago, we blogged about the PawaPuro exploit (Jikkyu Powerful Pro Yakyu 2012 Ketteiban) for the PS Vita firmware 2.61, which happened to be a rather expensive exploit, which was only available at the japanese PSN store.
Why I am mentioning this specific exploit, you might ask yourself, well, the developer 173210 found yet another way to exploit said game, which enables you to run the PS Vita Half Byte Loader at the new firmwares 3.10 and 3.12. We’ve mentioned this new exploit before here, but we thought you’d love some additional videos and “how to”.
It is a rather long instruction, which tells you how exactly you are able to launch the VHBL, but if you are interested in this, feel free to visit this thread.
After these good news, we still have a bad one for you, which is that the exploit game is not available at the japanese Store anymore, and will never return to it.
It is a special game, that gets a new release every year. If a new version is released, the old one gets removed and you are not able to buy it anymore.
Download and source via 173210
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im first homies!!
Bad news! Actually you suck!
thats not what ur mom said last night
Good for her!
good news!
Pretty Cool, I remember back when PSP firmware was 6.00+ wasn’t hackable and we had to use an exploit and half byte loader :3 till Prometheus Loader came along with Total Noob 🙂
still wait TN-V for 3.12….
Find a damn exploit yourself then. It’s not that hard to read and follow the tutorials.
+1
Took me forever to get it working even with the guides/videos out there. Pretty clear, but not clear enough. Oh well, last night was a relief.
Good luck next year.
I bought a Vita and it came with 1.69, I sc*** up and brought it up to 3.12 cause I thought the game was still available 🙁
that does suck. why not try to get into finding exploits? or at least try to?
Ah well, I waved good bye to TN-V earlier this afternoon, Sony as with other companies such as Apple insist on sc*** us with forced updates which seriously limit the ability of the device. As cool as it is having emulators back on a PS device it’s not worth it to lose complete access to
PSN.
F*** Y** Sony, thanks for restricting my devices capabilities.!
Not true. Vita Update Blocker saved me.
so the only game that can do this is gone…. sad i do wish Sony would at least let us play emulators. I’ve thought this since the PSP, it would truly help to sell more units and keep us old school gamer’s playing till the next worth while game comes along. i would miss my Snes and Nes to much so im staying at 3.01 till at least VHBL is loadable with other games….. if anyone would like to help me to achieve this lets band together and blow Sony away.on a side note i saw that they can dump and play PS4 games and run homebrew yet its still in its early stages it is a glimmer of hope….
I have OS 3.01 on the Vita, my Fifa 11 on it, and the latest and final release of TN-V. Got my pc talking with the Vita (openCMA), and will “install” TN-V next. Too bad nobody has figured out how to root the Vita yet…as was done with the PSP. Might have to buy the next version of the Vita just to still be able to belong to the Plus Club on PSN. Oh well….Borderlands 2 and Walking Dead Second Season will be here soon enough for the Vita. That should distract me for awhile I suppose…Sony still sucks. Closed all their stores on the West Coast of the U.S. except one in British Columbia, Canada. How typical of a self-obsoleting Betamax Braindead Corporation, eh?
I guess I may dl the tools and try to start looking for exploits this year. It’s really not that hard, just takes some intelligence and much patience..the second being the rare one in people of today’s Earth. And since I’m taking computer classes for a major in Information Security & Assurance (who’s knows when I’ll actually finish..Lol), I’m ready for all things Vita bc I made the Psp my bendaho, even made some themes, gameboots and such, so this summer/fall be on the lookout for a possible MMA JEDI exploit.
MTFBWY
i really want just a normal hack like the psp. i hacked my psp in like 5 minutes because i just downloaded this eboot file and it installed the hack. now i have all my homebrew on it. i wish it was like that with the vita
Please , guys , GUIDE me
I have updated it to 3.12,
any way to get TN-V working?? Should I wait?
Part me
Way at the bottom: “After these good news, we still have a bad one for you, which is that the exploit game is not available at the japanese Store anymore, and will never return to it.” Really like to build the suspense before the middle finger, huh? When did the Vita scene become like a YouTube video download link. A whole lot of hype leading up to an ad-supported disappointment. Throw in a survey next time?