HENkaku release 6 adds GPU overclocking (Video) – Beta testers needed
Yifanlu announced a few hours ago that HENkaku release 6 is right around the corner. This new version adds GPU overclocking, and is not publicly released yet.
Yifanlu had asked for proof that GPU overclock would be beneficial. Reddit user Chrisfand published a video showing the Amphetamin plugin in action, which apparently convinced Team molecule that GPU overclocking would be a nice addition to HENkaku (see video below). Users so far are reporting positive feedback on the feature, confirming that GPU Overclocking on the PS Vita improves the experience in some official games that used to have lags. Of course, overclocking your PS Vita will drain Battery life faster, so use at your own risk.
HENkaku itself does not provide a utility to boost the GPU, but will now allow plugins and homebrews to use the functionality directly. Yifanlu’s announce on Reddit:
This new release whitelists a couple of ScePower functions and should allow homebrews and other stuff to set the GPU clock to 222MHz. I believe that setting the CPU clock to 444MHz was always allowed, so this doesn’t change anything in that respect. In order to make sure nothing else is broken (PSN spoofing, dynarec, etc), I’m releasing this as a beta first. Please test and see if the R2 overclocking benefits can be observed in R6.
Again, this does not fix any save issues you see from your dumps. HENkaku R4 fixed one of several save errors that users observed. That save error was experienced by a small minority of users. The majority of save errors are not caused by HENkaku and cannot be fixed by HENkaku.
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No support will be provided for installation. If you can’t get it to work, wait until the official release. If all goes well, I will push the new version in the next couple of days.
As usual, you will need a PS Vita running on Firmware 3.60 to install and use HENKaku. There is no known hacks for firmware 3.61.
The official changelog:
- Whitelisted
scePowerSetGpuClockFrequency
,scePowerRequestColdReset
,scePowerRequestStandby
, andscePowerRegisterCallback
- Fixed rare bug which crashes modded SceShell. There is still no PSN spoofing for modded SceShell
- Removed “welcome” message when triggering exploit (was used for debugging and is no longer needed)
PS Vita Overclocking Proof of Concept Video
Chrisfand’s video showcasing GPU Overclocking benefits on the PS Vita (through Amphetamin) shows that game run much more smoothly on a Vita with its GPU boosted at 222MHz, compared to the PS Vita’s default 166MHz GPU clock. Chrisfand says: “As you can see, the camera pans MUCH smoother on the overclocked Vita compared to the Vita running stock 166 MHz GPU clock.”. Recommended to watch the video at full quality to see the difference better:
Download HENkaku release 6
This release is not on the official url yet. Instead, to get HENkaku release 6, point your browser to (link removed to preserve bandwidth) and click on the link. (Note: this url was officially suggested by Yifanlu so we believe it is safe). Please report feedback in the source below.
Update: HENkaku R6 is now released and available on the official website henkaku.xyz. Point your PS Vita browser to that url and follow the instructions there. We’ve removed the Beta url link to avoid confusion.
Yifanlu is also asking for people wanting to host this beta (for themselves or to share with others) to get the latest source on the official github and follow the instructions in the README.
Source: Yifanlu on reddit
waiting for a post like
ps1 and psp on henkaku
or henkaku on 3.18
“henkaku on 3.18” ah ain’t gonna happen
waiting for PS1 PSP on Henkaku indeed.
My god people, get a PSP ffs. I’m so tired of seeing these posts. A PSP is so much easier to hack and can support much larger cards (2xmicro SD). Sure the screen isn’t as nice, but it’s a solution to all of these posts. I have 256Gb in my PSP and wouldn’t trade it for PSP on Vita, it just doesn’t have the storage.
I’ll still eagerly wait for the PSP PS1 on Henkaku. Thanks for your opinion.
Continue to eagerly await for it, internally.
And externally! don’t get tired for something so trivial.
I’m also so tired of seeing people only thinking about themselves and suggestion such a foolish things as “then get a PSP”. In that case, most of emulators would be useless.
My main reason for wanting a PSP emulator is that I don’t have a second joystick on my PSP and playing a lot of PSP game which couldn’t do better than using the d-pad + joystick (on the same thumbs) is ridiculous.
But there is also the fact that the game looks better too, and that I don’t want to bring 2 consoles with me everytime.
I have a few PSPs but my problem is batteries. Every battery I’ve purchased has eneded up useless within a few weeks – months.
How are you getting 256GB of storage in your PSP? I have tried 64GB cards and with the use of a proprietary adapter, 2 x 64GB cards. My PSPs always fail to read/write after the first 32GBs has been written to the card. Both are 2000 models.
Not only is the screen better but the controls are far superior too. Dual analog sticks (just like a real Dualshock) and the back touch for L2, L3/R2, R3. On top of that we have the awesome TN-X which gives us savestates in PS1 games (maybe it was possible on PSP, I don’t know though). I have a PSP already but I’d much rather play PS1 games on my Vita, it’s just far superior. Oh, and you can scale the screen on Vita much better too (the predefined modes on PSP are not that good for games with black bars). I’m staying on 3.18 until all its features come to 3.60 or HENKaku comes to 3.18, it’s not like HENKaku currently offers anything I’m dying to have anyway (if a Dreamcast emulator comes out maybe I’ll start having second thoughts).
Keep dreaming man. They already said that there will be no port to lower firmware. It is a waste of time.
It wont be release by yifan, but after henkaku sources will be released (the challenge will end or something…) the exploit will be ported to lower versions for sure.
*** you PSP , i buy ps vita play games vita . *** you PSP
Waiting PS1 and PSP on Henkaku indeed.
waiting for the day when guys like you will be slapped on the face with your respective hack
I wonder if the problem where the console stops detecting the memory stick when putting to sleep is fixed in this version.
I have never heard of or experienced this. You mean with the plugin?
Sorry I think I didn’t reply to you directly as I intended. Please read the comment below.
It’s supposedly a Henkaku-related problem. Happened to me while playing Trails of Cold Steel 2. Tried to save and there was no save file anymore, and I couldn’t save anyway. The only way to solve it is closing and opening again the game. I read it doesn’t happen on Henkaku r2, which also was the last version to support GPU overclock to 222 Mhz, so I’ve been using it since. Although I’ve been extra-careful and every time I stop playing I just close the game.
To my knowledge the save bug is now fixed with r4 of henkaku. I never have this issue while playing vpk dumps….
That was a different bug. I’ve read more people complain about this, so I’m certain I’m not the only one.
So is borderlands on the vita still sc***, or did they eventually fix that through patches? Someone should give that a shot to see how much of a difference it makes.
maybe…overclok for retroarch? …waiting…
Waiting for off-topic henkaku in regards of possible continuous of developing homebrew particularly in Emulators! DS, DREAMCAST! and more 😀
boa tarde eu to com um problema dificil eu tenho um cartão d 32gb eu estava jogado plantas vs zumbis e de repente começou mandar msg dizendo [favor colocar o cartão d memoria ]sendo q o cartão já estava no psvita e questão d 20 minutos travou tudo eu desliguei e liguei novamente e a msg agora era outra [c4-10278-8] já tentei resert seguro formatar o reconstruir dados e nada sempre a mesma msg [c4-10278-8] alguém pode mim ajudar
Cara, tenta postar em inglês pq os caras que manjam mesmo só falam inglês… Eu nunca ouvi falar deste bug, pode ser que o seu cartão de memória esteja com problema… isso aconteceu depois de atualizar pra versão 6 (BETA) do HENkaku ou antes disso!?
Tem vários tópicos no Reddit de cartões sendo corrompidos (Geralmente os de 8 GB e 64GB). Mas acredito que seja algum dump ruim, Ou algo do tipo. Da uma pesquisada no reddit sobre cartões corrompidos, alguém já deve ter achado uma solução.
O meus são 1 de 32gb e outros 2 de 4gb… Estão normais!
Man , aconteceu comigo tenho de 64gb só reiniciei e fiz rebuild database e acessei o henkaku e voltou a funcionar.
Is there a list somewhere with the default frequencies of games?
Still it needs a dumped game to use plugins, right? 🙁
yep!
I think a psp emulator fix will be happening sometime in the near future. heck they done everything but that at this point. 🙂
It´s is working great… Tested with Borderlands 2 too
thanks… that’s dope
when you want PS1 and PSP on Henhaku then BUY YOUR PSP AND PSX GAMES -.- vollidioten echt ey
Sure, I’ll buy PSP and PSX games every time Sony wants me to buy them, because I’m an idiot and they didn’t earn enough money from games that are mostly 10+ years old.
go die
wololo: could you comment or make maybe an article about the critical proplem of the psvita cards?
So many 8gbyte cards and so on got broken after the dumping =(
Is Sony really selling us *** cards and is it maybe someday possible to make an micro sd adapter?
Tested with Borderlands 2 and Uncharted Golden Abyss… working great!
Other than for homebrew marked ‘safe’, why is HENkaku whitelisting functions at all? Shouldn’t it just allow everything?
good afternoon I to with a difficult problem I have a card d 32gb I was playing plants vs zombies and suddenly started sending msg saying [ Please put the card d memoria ] q being card was already in psvita and issue d 20 minutes caught everything I I hung up and called again and was now another msg [ c4-10278-8] already tried safe resert format the data rebuild and nothing ever the same msg [ c4-10278-8 ] can someone help me
We waiting for ppsspp port for vita to could play our psp games in hd because now it has dynarec support and GPU overclock as well. So I think this is the right time to get this port. Also pcsx_rearmed core in retroarch. If they did we don’t need to get Henkaku port to lower firmware. Because we got psp and ps1 on 3.60 through Amazing thing which called (Henkaku).
ever since I hacked my Vita there’s this phenomenon “an error has occurred: your Vita will be turned off” . it will just show up occasionally..
Please anyone tell me how To overclock psvita i installed the henkaku app in vita but i don’t know how to overclock or amphetamine plugins ,step by step. Please
please ! add font unicode for psvita. im from vietnam ! ps vita font error