PS Vita Half Byte Loader coming to Europe and North America soon?
Even thought we’ve just announced that a new VHBL will be released for the PS Vita firmware 3.15, there might be yet another VHBL release just around the corner.
A small interview with wistine
As far as I know, wistine is living somewhere in Europe, which means that he is most likely using the European PSN store.
Since our already announced VHBL ninja release for firmware 3.15 is just available in the Japanese PSN store, this might be a great chance for PS Vita users in Europe and north America.
It is very likely that wistine’s exploit game is available in the European PSN store, and maybe even in the north American PSN stores, since those share a lot of games.
I have interviewed wistine a few days ago, and he was so kind to answer me some questions.
Do you intend to release your VHBL?
Yes, I will.
Do you have any plans to release it in the near future, or do you think the current firmware changes are not “good enough” to justify an early release?
I thought of releasing this exploit game pretty soon, but Ive heard a rumour, that Sony wants to release yet another small update for the PS4. I will wait and see if the release a compatibility update for the PS Vita too, so this VHBL can be used at said new firmware, if Sony releases it.
How long did it take you to find a usable crash?
Well I would say in one day. I had some free time, knew where to look and of course had a bit of luck…
Did you do such things before (basically, had your prior knowledge of such stuff)?
No, this is my first public exploit. It took me some time (about 1 year) to understand the operation of the PSP (the crashes, the memory management, exploit user, kernel etc), but thanks to many developers (wololo, acid_snake, Zer01ne, etc.) and many sleepless nights of reading documents, coding and programming, I arrived where I am today.
We really need to be passionate, interested and motivated to learn.
How good is the homebrew compatibility, and will/can it be improved?
Basically all the homebrews Ive tested are working fine, here is a small list:
- PSP QUAKE
- Wagic !
- PicoDrive
- PSPDOXMANAGER C1.2
- FTP FOR VITA
- SNES9XTYLCM 0.4.2 MOD REV.26
- MasterBoy V2.10
- NINTENDO 64 (DAEDALUS FOR PSP)
- OPEN BRICKS
- DARK SUPER MARIO BROS
- DOODLE JUMP
- CRAZY GRAVITY PORTABLE
- CHICKENHUNTER
- PSP Filer (works but crashes)
In the end, I want to thank wistine for his work, dedication and time to answer these questions.
Let us anticipate the release of his PS Vita HBL in the near future!
AWESOME!!
Oh, boy. This is so neat. Cheers wistine!
oh heck yeah!
can you give the link of dark super mario hehehe i wanna try that game thanks and good luck to your exploit..
Nice one Wistine, can’t wait to fill up this 64gb
That is a good news, im waitig for the game from japan, let see wich show up first
does it have a upnp dlna network movieplayer ?
like hopefully xbmc in the future
vita already has that.. naspocket app (jp store only ?), recent updates allowed streaming from DLNA server (not only Sony’s NAS)
what about a new psp jigkick for ps3
4.46 4.50 4.55 jig
Genial!!!!
Keep it up wistine!
Nice to know we also have a chance with this game as well, but if the Japanese game is supposed to be difficult to patch I’d much rather get that one personally.
Hopefully CPS1/2PSP and MVSPSP will work as well
Do I understand this is VHBL for native PSVita-Firmware or is this a VHBL for PSP-mode?
I am guessing by VHBL for PSP-mode, you mean TotalNoob’s eCustomFirmware, not Half-Byte Loader. Two different things, my friend. One establishes the PSP environment and the other a Usermode, where you can emulate homebrews. But, this is referring to VHBL not eCFW. An exploit for VHBL has been released in the Japanese PS Store using the game, MyStylist. In fact as of recent, it has been taken off the PS Store. Hopefully when this exploit is released for Europe and US, people will act fast.
Iuys i am a noob when it comes to the vita. m just looking for a way to play super mario 64. will this exploit allow me to do that?
Yes, it will
“This exploit” known as the Vita Half-Byte Loader gives your Vita emulating capabilities so say hello to SNES games and other homebrews.
Will this allow me to play Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity on the Vita? I’m looking at playing a couple of PSP games on my Vita that isn’t on the store. I’m new when it comes to CFW’s and exploits.
Well, sadly no. Only eCFW gives you that feature to emulate the PSP environment. That way you can play as many PSP and/or PS1 isos as your memory card can handle. Hopefully a new eCFW exploit is released. I have so many PSP games to catch up with 😀
I hope your exploid come out soon becuase i know everyone is really look for it espically me becuase i like what all u did to try to help and all the people in us and eu thanks man ur the greastest