HENkaku updated, brings PSN Access – Now’s the time to install VHBL if you haven’t already
Yifanlu just announced that HENkaku was updated to revision 3. This version brings, among other things, Firmware spoofing, which gives us back to the PSN, for now.
PSN Support is back – Install VHBL now!
VHBL (PSP Homebrew launcher on the PS Vita) requires you to install a (legit) PSP game to your PS Vita as part of its installation process. Although several techniques have been found to do this on firmware 3.60, the easiest way (and how it was initially described in our installation guide) is to download and install a PSP game or Demo from the PSN. To do this, you’d typically need to be on the latest PS Vita firmware. Update 3.61 technically “broke” this technique (again, other solutions exist), but with this new release of HENkaku, you should be able to access the PSN, download a PSP game, and install VHBL.
Do it now, not later, as it is unknown how long the spoofing technique will work.
This is also the opportunity to buy and download Vita/PSP games you badly want from the PSN, as well as update your PS+ licenses if you renewed your PS+ recently!
As an important note, Yifanlu recommends to not access the PSN on a Henkaku-enabled PS Vita. I’ll second this recommendation. Although this is now technically doable, keep in mind that this would give ground for Sony to ban your account or your console from the PSN. Nobody’s been banned for using a hacked PS Vita in the history of the console, but HENkaku opens way more doors than ever before, so Sony might decide to take action if they fear hacked PS Vitas put their network at risk.
HENkaku revision 3 – what else is new?
The latest HENkaku update does not only bring PSN access, but also update blocking (to avoid update your console by mistake), Vitashell 0.8 (which was released a few hours ago by TheFloW), and Safe homebrew support.
Safe homebrew is a great way to categorize homebrews as “safe” and “unsafe”, unsafe homebrews being the ones that could potentially access critical parts of your system. This is Team molecule’s response to the recent releases of dangerous homebrews that formatted people’s memory sticks. HENkaku users will now know at install time if a homebrew was compiled with options that lets it access critical parts of the system (unsafe) or not. Disclaimer: all homebrews that have been released so far for HENkaku are categorized as unsafe, as the option to restrict them did not exist until now.
Yifanlu’s article on this release covers much more details in depth, so I suggest you give it a read. In particular, he has some details about the ongoing KOTH challenge and some recent controversy about his stance on piracy.
Download HENkaku revision 3
To get the latest version of HENkaku, just reboot your PS Vita and point your browser to the official site henkaku.xyz
Source: Yifanlu on twitter
Thanks
i have one question wololo
when i go to your page with my surface pro then i cant see this news until some hours
but with my computer i can see this news
Try to delete history
same here also sometimes I’m not able to see all comments .. and sometimes I can.. 🙁
Trigger a cache refresh (Ctrl+F5 or its equivalent).
From experience… If you transfer a PSPlus game from one PSVita/TV to another with the same account, the license info transfers as well (mainly: the new expiration date). Good for if you have both and only one has the capacity to get that new date.
I’m conflicted… “download and install a PSP game or Demo from the PSN”… “Yifanlu recommends to not access the PSN on a Henkaku-enabled PS Vita”
If you have no other option you can, but there is a small risk.Choice is yours.
just a ? why can’t VHBL be installed like everything else on henkaku?
and also what can we do with vhbl that we cant do with henkaku?
There are lots of emulators that exist on the PSP that they aren’t acailable on HENkaku, a prominent one is Daedalus64
VHBL runs psp homebrews, so it gives you a bigger library of homebrews, in general
11770 isn’t asking why to install VHBL, but why can’t VHBL be installed through Henkaku – instead of risking it and getting a PSP game.
From what I understand we only have the ability to install vita homebrew through vitashell. VHBL is not a vita homebrew, and as such cannot be installed the same way as yet.
With time, we will be able to install it through Henkaku, but just like how we can’t install psp iso’s and regular psp homebrew through henkaku yet, we can’t install VHBL.
because the Vhbl needs a bootable PSP Game and with henkaku we can only create bootable vita games.
Link to some demo PSP?
PSN STORE US server.?
https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/games/split-second-psp-demo/cid=UP1082-NPUH90093_00-SSPSPNETWORKDEMO?smcid=nav:ps-store:home
this game can not be downloaded on the psvita.
Just search Echochrome and download the PSP demo. It’s only like 80mb and it does work as a base game for vhbl.
don’t have de demo anymore on the ps store.
so Henkaku 3 can give you access to psn but we recommend nor to accessing psn with Henkaku enabled psv… the what?
I’ll stick to qmca & ps3 method.
How about the offline henkaku thru email. How do we update it? Thanks
just uninstall and install it again.
Just enable internet and run offlineinstaller. It wil update the mail to the last HENkaku.
I just hope that there be a homebrew where we can just copy and paste to vita.
Now that will be awesome
I’ll have to buy a replacement Vita, as mine broke recently. How do I update it specifically to 3.60, and how do I register it to my account when 3.60 is installed? (I also plan to get me a PSP for ISO support and whatnot)
If its 3.60 or less you just format it and connect acciunt at startup sequence. Then you need licence – the best way would be downloading game to PS3 and transfering it through qcma trick to vita.
How to manually install 3.60:
http://wololo.net/2016/08/09/manually-update-ps-vita-firmware-3-60/
When setting up the vita, you can login a pen account without updating.
If you need to activate your new vita, to use psn games:
http://wololo.net/2016/08/20/release-vita-activator-activate-3-60-ps-vita-without-ps3/
If you need to deactivate your old vita without access to it, use the “deactivate all devices” button in your sen account. It’s only for emergency and you can only use it once every six months.
Firstly, you should deactivate your old broken vita. Ich it’s not possible on the vita itself, the only way to deactivate it from the outside is with a “deactivate all devices” button on the sen account page. That button is only for emergencies and can only be used once in six months.
When you setup your new vita for the first time or after restoring all settings, you can set your account in the welcome screen without updating.
To update to 3.60 manually use this tutorial:
http://wololo.net/2016/08/09/manually-update-ps-vita-firmware-3-60/
Now you can use henkaku. Be careful with using psn with your original account. You might want to use this before logging in:
https://mobile.twitter.com/KanadeEngel/status/761329400373710848
When you’ll need to activate your account to access psn games, use this:
http://wololo.net/2016/08/20/release-vita-activator-activate-3-60-ps-vita-without-ps3/
Does Henkaku work on lower firmwares? I don’t want to lose my TN-V
No, HENKaku only works on 3.60. So you have 2 options now, either choose TN-V or HENKaku.
3 options. 1. Ark 2. Henkaku 3. Update to 3.61
No
OMG this is so good now hackers wont be able to access anymore on another vita and format memory stick hahaha Good job guys now im feel more safe using this ty
Any recommendations for a PSP game (for the EU Store)?
Cheapest (or a demo)/Low File Size?
Ape QuestTM Starter Pack [PSP] (Playable) that’s what its called its free.
232 MB
doesn’t work
The problem is: the EUR PSN store removed EVERY PSP demo from their store… 🙁
Paid Ones: Space Invaders (36mb), A Space Shooter for 2 bucks (53mb), Gamocracy One: Legend of Robot (9248kb), Flying Hamster (101mb), 5in1 Arcade Hits (17mb),
tried 5in1 arcade Hits … mini won’t works ???
Are those minis? Because they are limited to 1MB when loading homebrew 🙁
locoroco 188mb
The only demo i found is locoroco midnight carnival
Echochrome…cost omly 1,99€ ANF habe only 52mb!!! I just bought it and installed vhbl.
It’s there a way to unstall Henkaku on 3.61?
lol
No
No
You already uninstalled it by updating to 3.61. 😛
Please, if I update will my exploit game still let me use the vpsp?
No! 🙁
No!
Are we getting closer to vita CFW?
maybe a mile
Let the Ban wave begin…
if henkaku use vita shell so why I need vita shell app for i like having to vita shells…
I can confirm that the PSN is working for now. just enterd the store and begun downloading all my favorite games and then I will stay away from it
Am I the only person who made an alt account the moment Henkaku was released.
i dont need this but its good idea people you have to buy another pstv i have 3 pstvs and 1 psvita 1 in the box another one for vhbl on 3.32 and the 3rd one is for henkaku and psvita for henkaku too every thing that come out on 3.60 first i use my psvita after that i use the psvita is cool people you must do like this, this is my advice
i dont need this but its good idea people you have to buy another pstv i have 3 pstvs and 1 psvita 1 in the box another one for vhbl on 3.32 and the 3rd one is for henkaku and psvita for henkaku too every thing that come out on 3.60 first i use my psvita after that i use the pstv is cool people you must do like this, this is my advice
2 Noob Question:
1) There is any real PSVITA emulator for PC? coz i find more than 200 website but is all scam\fake for now.
2) PSVITA games work on PSP ?
p.s. OT: before you buy\go live in a home,please check if it is anti-hearquake 🙁 no place,no confort or beautiful or price is important than your life 🙁
1) No there isn’t a PC emulator for the vita
2) Not sure what you mean exactly, the PSP itself cannot run Vita games and the ePSP inside the vita also won’t run vita games
***?
just buy a vita…
I feel ya Gino. I’m Italian too. Spero che laggiù la situazione stia migliorando. Per il momento mi trovo negli Stati Uniti. Lontano da casa : /. Proprio il Lazio poi. La mia regione. Interi paesi antichi rasi al suolo : (
Waiting for the offline installer to be updated
Just run the offlineinstaller bubble. It will patch/update the email.
What’s the main purpose of downloading these demos ? Previously i had purchased uno and that sparta game . Which would be useful and for what purpose ? For running psp isos later with tnv using vhbl ?
What exactly can we do with VHBL, other than custom bubbles? Also, what about the offline installer/email trick for when you restart the vita? Will that be updated too?
Finally installed VHBL today. I don’t understand the long speech in the video given so I search another one ->http://hackinformer.com/2016/07/29/psvita-pstv-how-to-install-vhbl-bubble-on-fw3-60-with-henkaku-%E5%A4%89%E9%9D%A9/<-
This one is noob friendly (I really meant noob friendly cause its easy to understand for me.)
Well need a new video. When trying to connect to my PC, it demands that I update. I of course don’t want to do this, and I’ve updated to the latest version of Henkaku.
So, even if I did have a PSP game, I can’t get past that part to do the VBHL stuff on the PC.
The VBHL video says it would be redundant withing week. That doesn’t seem to be true?!
*with in weeks
Go to airplane mode and download qcma. that should work.
Nope, it’s still demanding I upgrade.
If we can access the pkg installer via henkaku, why do we need to access psn/ps store to download a psp demo when we can just download a demo as pkg file and install it thru pkg installer. but then again, i love the new psn access feature.
FINALLY I can watch twitch.tv on PS Vita 😀
YAY <3
how?
Via the official app. It requires PSN access.
Great! Thanks
can i use now remote play`?
Download wave is comming
Hi can i play the “modded” psp game after the vhbl process?
Is it possible to play psp isos with vhbl?
no
Ok
Well, I’ll be using this for enabling content manager. Maybe there was other way to do so already, but it doesn’t get easier than this.
I got VHBL on 3.61 D:
just bought god eater 2 hope i’ll be able to play it and get resurection on psn without updating, thank you xyz and all the team for your efforts <3
Liberation The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth for Henkaku 3.60.
not looking good ,one of MVP contributor Major_Tom just announced he is leaving the Vita scene D: