While we have already told you what the new firmware 3.35 officially does, let us take a look ‘under the hood’, and check if they’ve added new security features, patched new exploit games, and so on…

It is well known that Sony patched the WebKit exploit and blocked the Package Installer as of firmware 3.30, but basically every leaked firmware 3.18 exploit game was somewhat usable on firmware 3.30.

This was demonstrated with the game Go! Sudoku, which has now been patched as of firmware 3.35. This makes it the second patched ‘firmware 3.18 exploit game’, next to Z.H.P. – Zettai Hero Project, while most others are technically still usable.

I said technically because some special restrictions apply to these ‘well known exploit games’, which prevent an easy port of the VHBL to these games.

Some of these games were already VHBL compatible on firmware 3.18 (those were never released, since we had something better for you: ARK-2 & TN-V), but now struggle to run anything at all.

The one game we worked on and tried to port VHBL to it, for firmware 3.30, that is, was Go! Sudoku. Sony noticed this and patched the exploit in firmware 3.35.

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Technically one could grab one of the other ‘leaked firmware 3.18 exploit games’ and try the very same we tried with Go! Sudoku, but to be honest, the results weren’t the best, so it might be better to let those restricted exploits rest in peace.

If one uses a new exploit game, one that has not been part of the leaked games for firmware 3.18, one will see that it is much easier to port anything at all to it, since these ‘special restrictions’ do not apply.

As you can see in the embedded video, it is possible to run the Half Byte Loader on a firmware 3.35 PS Vita, as long as you use the right game for this.

In the end I would like to remind you to not ask us about another kernel exploit, because as of now no eCFW, neither TN-V nor ARK-2, has been confirmed to run on firmwares 3.3x, at least publicly.