Release: PS Vita Firmware 3.51 & 3.52 Half Byte Loader for PoolHall Pro!
While this exploit was quite controversial, we still deliver what we promised: A VHBL for firmware 3.52.
Keep in mind that this VHBL has quite a few limitations, due to Sony’s system stability improvements in Firmware 3.51 & 3.52.
At first I would like to say that we are not joking. Usually we joke about Sony improving their system’s stability, but this time they’ve actually managed to improve it very well.
I am of course talking about the new limitations, in place as of firmware 3.51+, that the PoolHall Pro VHBL currently has.
Like it happened in the past – Firmware 3.18 exploit games and firmware update 3.30 – Sony did it again. They applied universal patches to the Pool games, which limits them to only being able to open 1 Megabyte. Any bigger file will make the game crash to the PS Vita’s Homescreen.
While this is quite a bugger, keep in mind that even with 1 Megabyte you can run some Homebrews, including a few Emulators for older machines.
Developer Qwikrazor did his best to make the VHBL as good as possible, but if the firmware limits the abilities of the exploits, then even Qwikrazor cannot make the impossible possible.
You might have noticed that we’ve only talked about PoolHall Pro, but not about World of Pool. This does have a reason, which happens to be that World of Pool has, despite being pretty much the same game as PoolHall Pro, even less available space, compared to PoolHall Pro, due to how the game was programmed.
This means that a VHBL for World of Pool could be created, but it would be incredibly unstable, would be able to run even less than the already limited PoolHall Pro VHBL, which in the end is not really worth the time to create it.
These exploits have been quite controversal, like we said in the beginning, but we still tried our best to safe this, how a few people would call it, failed exploit release.
We can only apologise to you if you think that this was not worth your time & money, but we would also like to remind you that we are doing this for free, as a hobby, that we have told you multiple times to consider the exploits as a bonus, and to only buy the exploit titles if you are really interested in them (in case something goes wrong with the exploit).
In the end feel free to try out Qwikrazor’s exploit savedata files for PoolHall Pro. They should work on firmware 3.51 and firmware 3.52.
If you want to have a small compatibility chart, feel free to check out the one available over at Hackinformer’s!
Download: Firmware 3.52 VHBL v2 for PoolHall Pro
First….?
good job guys
Nice! I’ve seen The Zett on YouTube running the homebrew I want on 3.52, so I’m a happy camper! 🙂 This time, though, I’m going to be smart enough to not update my Vita. Just incase 3.52 gets something nicer. 🙂
Do the impossible, see the invisible
rough rough FIGHT THE POWER
Touch the untouchable, break the unbreakable
i wasted my many for nothing…very bad work
I feel so bad for you, spending $4 so you couldn’t pirate video games.
Seriously thinking about getting a 3.18 vita and selling my own 3.51 if the rejuvenate hack does not work out well (as in: does not require a pc to run). We’ll see in a couple of weeks.
Doesn’t seem to work for me on 3.52 US Pool Hall Pro. It just loads the game. At first i thought it was because of an update to Pool Hall Pro it looked like my Vita downloaded. So I deleted that, and used OpenCMA to load the copy of the game I downloaded a few weeks ago. No dice. Not sure what i’m doing wrong.
You have to load Pool Hall Pro US, then choose Practice.
almost disappointing that this is good for nothing or play a simple game of Game Boy Color flagpole makes me want to mourn for my lost money. but hey I do not blame them is that everyone makes mistakes and just thank you all for your hard work and dedication time. I have all pro pool PSvita 3.52 US, Gladiator Begins US, Valhalla Knights 1 US, US Monster hunter join. exploid will wait for a new one of these games hopefully leave some. Thank you
Also I would like to remind everyone to donate a little bit of something to qwik as he does an amazing job and really could need a little bit of extra coins for his laptop and internet. http://bit.ly/1PFytvG I did already. Thanks 🙂
Thank you for your hard work, The Zett, Qwikrazor, and everyone involved.
If I understand well, Sony has patched only the Pool Hall Pro and World of Pool, which means that, if someone finds a new ePSP exploit from a game that hasn’t be patched, this new game won’t have this limitation.
So I’ll wait for another game with no limitation, I’m not in a hurry. Thanks again for all your hard work !
VHBL 1mb 🙁 limited 3.52 eu?
bubble vhbl 3.52 who say that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDU7M30AAtQ
how can i create the bubble and how I can install gpSP ? a tutorial would be nice. please
Not me That The zett final bubble 3.52 🙂
I know is The Zett, i just don´t know how he could install gpSP with ROMs, it suppose that the xploit is 1MB limited, am just saying would be nice The Zett will explain us how to do it
Could someone say how to get that game itself with out updating. Tried ps3 method, playing with router, update blocker, charles so far no luck getting game. on 3.51 atm, actually ps3 was the easiest onefor previous uses. If anyone could say or drop a link (how to)for a working method, would be really nice. Btw sorry for giving this kinda question seen others asking same thing but didn’t see or simply somehow missed answer. Thanx
So what you’re saying is that Sony patched the EU World of Pool in the PSN? I still have the first version on my Vita from the 3.50 exploit, would it work without the restriction or is the problem firmware-based?
woah, that’d be awesome I downloaded my Pool Hall Pro, on 3.50, I really hope that it is the game updated as a problem so we could still use it.
They don’t patch the games. They just pull them until they patch the firmware.
I only wish they could improve that godawful excuse for a browser.
RIN should work since the Eboot for it is well under 1MB. Latest should be 662KB. But does this mean the Emu and whatever you LOAD has to be under 1MB?
The drama surrounding the supposed “lie” was both uncalled for and unnecessary. What on earth would Wololo.net gain? Happy to see it released.
any install guide i dont know if i did it right. cuz its crashing and getting an error
nevermind found instructions on hackinformer
Ah well slightly disappointing, I bought Pool Hall Pro when it was first announced months ago but updated, to 3.51. Kinda sad it won’t work for PSP games, but hey beggars can’t be choosers, plus I got my money out of it playing older PSP games.
Plus I am sure Rejuvenate will continue to bring more great things. 🙂
Also my condolences for you guys having to deal with the people upset over this.
I’m using the provided SavedData…I can load VHCL successfully (no emulators) and after a couple minutes I get the typical error message “c1-2858-3”.
Also the posts says that 3.52 exploit only works with 138menu….but I saw a video of “TheZett” running VHBL using other video and loading (what it seem to me) games bigger than 1 MB….how big can Pokemon Emerald be?
I have got a couple emulators installed and working in vhbl. The rom I included in the install zip does not show up anywhere within the emulator or the vhbl explorer. Why?
Anonymous. How in the heck did u get anything working. All I get is error. Please explain as for your rom try unzip it. A video or detailed tutorial would be awesome
This whole situation suxs. Is their a way to downgrade from this nightmare of a firmware 3.52
BOOO i have world of pool this makes me sad 🙁
Visit hackinformer, there’s a few kind guys that threw together a few complete pre packaged saves.
I see y the price had been reduced for the game…….4 bucks……worth it!
Is there no HBL for the EU version of World of Pool?
Eu Paixhei Os ArquivoS Pro King Of Pool Mas Não Deu CertoPreciso Dos Arquivos Pra Minha Região Europa Esses Não Deu Certo
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Agradeço Desde Já.
“These exploits have been quite controversal, like… ” You missed an “i” in “controversal” 😉
I got game gear and sms working(, any other tiny emulators, with links?
Just want to play PSP games……
Thanks for your work !!!
What if i have a 3.36 world of pool, but no hacked psp and no ps3? possibility to run a cfw and psp iso?
Can we like run backupz of psp gamez that are like more than 700mb or so, hehe??????????
They are legal………purchased…..before….lost em 7 years ago lol
How many years still buying games for vhbl? ps vita hackers are lazy
I’m inexperienced in the subject, the a way I see that could add more than 1 mb is to create a new false game.
Let me explain, that jump protection will be on writing the game (at the end the 85 megs game or used half of the to load the exploit, only the save menu, background music, menu and I think already) or creating another but this does not work.
only serious new game memory space to add roms and emulators.
I say no, because not is how works the vita with psp games
Eu Paixhei Os Arquivos Pro King Of Piscina Mas Não Deu CertoPreciso Dos Arquivos Pra Minha Região Europa ESSES de: Não Deu Certo
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Agradeço desde já.
Minha Versâo Nâo é Compativel
Eu Paixhei Os Arquivos Pro King Of Piscina Mas Não Deu CertoPreciso Dos Arquivos Pra Minha Região Europa ESSES de: Não Deu Certo
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Agradeço desde já.minha versão não é compativel é europeia
Can anyone “confirm” if this game’s still up and running for purchasable exploitation as of Sept.17th/3.52?
And what emulators are confirmed running? (There’s a strong possibility its been removed/updated by now..)
Really wanting to get my other Vita going with some emulators now that I’ve “upgraded”.. So I’m heavily considering this if anyone can confirm good things with actual sources.. 3.52’s my stop!
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