This is probably how you resuscitate a scene: HENKaku – Native Homebrew announced for PS Vita 3.60, release tomorrow
Update: HENkaku is now out and the hack is confirmed to work on PS Vita 3.60. Users are already sharing tips such as how to whitelist more vita games on the PS TV, and more on our forums.
YifanLU announced a few hours ago the upcoming release of HENKaku, a Homebrew enabler for the PS Vita, running on the latest firmware 3.60. HENKaku will be released tomorrow. It was developed by team molecule, comprised of scene veterans Davee, Proxima, xyz, and Yifanlu himself. People who also helped beta testing the project are well known names of the PSP/Vita scene.
This is, by far, the biggest announcement for the PS Vita scene since the PS Vita launched in 2011. So, um, yeah, that’s big news. And yes, I’m a good half a day late on the announce here, I’ll blame life and my IRL work (as a matter of fact I’m typing this between two meetings…)
This is different from your typical VHBL/TN-V/ARK exploit: those run within the PSP emulator of the PS Vita. HENKaku will leverage the full power of the PS Vita. This will also be much, much easier to use and run than Rejuvenate. Rejuvenate was formerly the only known native hack on the PS Vita, and required the console to be connected to a PC in order to run homebrews. Let’s just say it was not user friendly, and Rejuvenate will practically be deprecated as soon as HENKaku is out.
Bottom line, this is native homebrew, will work on PS Vita 3.60 (latest firmware at the time of this writing), and is pretty much the biggest announced released for the Vita scene so far.
HENKaku will be released in a few hours at https://henkaku.xyz. In the meantime, Yifanlu recommends that you update your Vita to firmware 3.60 if you want to get the hack (keep in mind that by doing so you will lose other hacks such as Rejuvenate – which HENKaku will replace anyway -, mail “tricks”, and currently known ePSP hacks). He also advises to not update to future firmwares, as Sony will undoubtedly patch this.
HENKaku will be compatible with existing Rejuvenate homebrews. This includes for example this list of emulators. Also, Vitadoom.
For those who are interested, “Henkaku” means “change” or “revolution” in Japanese. Seeing a pattern in the naming here? 😉
More on this as soon as I get more than 10 minutes of free time 🙂
Source: Yifanlu
Finally, this can be said – “IT’S HAPPENING!” Wololo is spreading the word, I received an email update from them. They probably want to get the word out so people don’t update their firmware (like always happens).
I will waiting someone port it for firmware 3.18.
While I check almost every day, I don’t log in much, and I rarely speak up very often. I’m crawling out of the woodwork however to give you a thanks for the email about this. I’m sure to you it’s nothing special, and makes sense, but even though I check all the time, I still felt like thanking you for it, Wololo and co.
Even tho I do not really support piracy anymore since I earn my own money I’d still be happy if we could play PSP games on it too. Or even Vita games, but that’s probably something the future will tell.
So I’m just going to go ahead and assume (I apologize in advance if this was already stated and I’m just dumb and didn’t notice) that if we choose to install this exploit and then eventually would like to update, the only consequence of doing so would be that the exploit will not work on the Vita anymore, correct? If I updated after installing the update, I would still be able to sign into PSN and play online without worrying about bricking or getting banned, yes?
This is not an exploit inside a PSP game. You have to be on the latest version of your Vita software to use this hack.
Im really looking forward for psone emulation on ps vita
BOOYA!
I just get the webpage restarting, I finally get a message saying Welcome to HENKaku, then the browser errors and it just loops. Any advice?
Update: It finally worked. Just had to keep looping through until it installed the application. I’m up and running and ready to play with this.
I’ve been out of the loop on Vita hacking for a long while. My Vita is on 3.52. All I really care about is being able to launch PSP and PS1 games using the easiest method possible, preferably through custom bubbles. Will upgrading to 3.60 for this exploit be in my best interest? Thanks a lot!
useless
no one cares about homebrew
megaKoe
finaly mutch apreciated psvita webkit native hack comes around XDDD
So, should I update my 3.18 PSVita to 3.60?
Is there a way of using a wired connection rather than FTP or wireless?