Incoming VHBL port for Firmware 3.30?
It was easy to miss a VHBL announcement in the sea of “Native exploit” updates we received over the past few days.
Sony has put some additional security on firmware 3.30, that made hackers initially think that a VHBL port (or any other ePSP hack on the Vita) would be much more difficult to achieve moving forward. But hope appeared when Japanese developer 173210 showed a running hello world on Vita firmware 3.30, 2 weeks ago.
In a follow up to this progress, the Z, who seems to always know the exact right people, showcased last week a VHBL port running on a PS Vita with firmware 3.30.
In the video below, The Z is testing his traditional list of homebrews: Masterboy (a.k.a EmuMaster) to run a Gameboy color game (yes, you’ve guessed it, a Pokémon game, of course!), GPSP (gameboy advance emulator) where he runs another Pokémon game, Snes9xTYL to test Zelda on the popular Super Nes emulator, and finally Wagic.
As the Z states in his video description, it is not recommended at this point to update your PS Vita to firmware 3.30, if you are running on lower firmwares such as 3.18 or 3.20. These firmwares, at this point, offer a much more advanced support in terms of hacking, through the use of a kernel exploit that was patched in firmware 3.30, and that allows to run TN-V, a “custom firmware” which allows much more than VHBL, which is “only” able to load homebrews.
Additionally, firmwares 3.18 and 3.20 are compatible with the recently released, promising, webkit exploit; while firmware 3.30 is not.
No word on a release for this 3.30 exploit yet. In other news, a VHBL port has been confirmed by KanadeEngel as well, and it might, or might not be the same port (I’m sure they will confirm).
yet another 3.30 VHBL port pic.twitter.com/rG5kvZrEIb
— 天使のかなで (@KanadeEngel) October 22, 2014
As usual, stay tuned. If something needs to be released, we will most likely have a ninja release, as usual!
And yes, waiting for more than a week to mention this is like an eternity for this scene, but I honestly thought The Z would have written this article himself :p
Source: The Z
nice, you need to edit ‘Additionally, firmwares 3.18 and 3.30 are compatible with the recently released, promising, webkit exploit; while firmware 3.30 is not.’ —– to 3.18 and 3.20.
just seen it too but you were faster 😀
Additionally, firmwares 3.18 and 3.30 are compatible with the recently released, promising, webkit exploit; while firmware 3.30 is not…im tired of that screeenshot lol
sweet i can’t wait
lol
Keeping this secret until 3.35, seems a good idea, imo.
Releasing something for 3.30, that is working on 3.35 is a waste, so no release for 3.30 🙂
Can’t promise anything, though :/
makes sense
http://i.imgur.com/ns0Z4mW.gif
@TheZ do you think it would be possible to run android on the vita if some kind of native hack gets released? I mean like a dual boot or something? I know it would be hard without source code, but it could be possible don’t you think?
Not without a bootloader hack.
And if we have one of these, why an inferior OS like Android?
Why not a heavily modified PS Vita OS? A simple Vita CFW.
That’s most likely not going to happen haha
Well, Idk, in my opinion android is a great OS, I mean we could get the best of both OS’s.
And you think with a heavily modified PS vita OS we could remove all those restrictions like get easy access to the vita storage? Add support for more video and image formats? That may sound stupid but I never had a cfw on a ps3, so I don’t know what it looks like in terms of features
It might be a great OS (if you mean Stock Android, and not the raped version by samsung), but not for the PS Vita.
Oh, I’m not the only one who hates touchwizz then, you might be right, there’s not enough RAM to run android on it, at least without lags, thank you for answering :b
Well that’s not totally true, you can load linux post boot. Not sure how well the hardware would run android. BSD which the vita uses is a good foundation already and could easily run Xwindows if needed.
Your move
awesome no i can old school game on my PS TV im happy again
wish there is a method on webkit exploit to bypass firmware update on accessing psn or updated games
hi The Z can you help me? im on 3.18 right but missed the game exploits so should i just update to 3.30 or stay with 3.18 even if i can’t download the game exploits to it’s forcing me update
Stay on 3.18 there is a way to download the games.webkit exploit doesnt work on 3.30
ooh ok so does download queue trick still works on 3.18?
I’ve tried it, it doesn’t seem to work anymore. I got it to work around October the 18th for the PSN Minecraft glitch, but when I tried to use the trick to get Urban Trial Freestyle onto the Vita it didn’t work, I tried this about 3 days ago.
so is there another way to download games at psn without the need of an update.? cause i want to download some exploited game and run a hack on my 3.18 ? any suggestions?
“unnamed” you need to use the opencma and ps3 trick to download games from psn and put them on your vita theres plenty of info out there on how to do that 🙂 just buy a xploit game from psn on a ps3 using your psn account that you use on your vita
hi, I’m noob and I have version 3.30, as I can run those emulators Video
Is there any homebrew for 3.30??
Hey guys, im new to all this emulating on the PSV. When I found out you could do this, I already updated my psv to 3.30. So is it impossible for me to run some gameboy games off my psv now? If there is a way, could someone show me the steps to do so? Thank you so much!