Adrenaline: TheFlow taunts upcoming PSP eCFW for PS Vita 3.60
Developer TheFloW, of Vitamin and Vitashell fame, has been recently working on a PSP Custom Firmware for the PS vita running on firmware 3.60, nickamed Adrenaline.
TheFloW says this will be a full fledged CFW for the PSP emu. In essence, this upcoming CFW would be the equivalent of ARK or TN-V, on the latest firmware. For people who have been staying on older firmwares such as 3.18, this could be the main reason to finally jump to 3.60 and give HENkaku (the 3.60 native hack) a try. In other words, Adrenaline will be bridging the gap on the 3.60 hack, bringing it full PSP Custom Firmware support (including homebrews, plugins, and, I have to assume, the obligatory PSP “backups”).
Adrenaline would most likely make VHBL on 3.60 obsolete, and bring advanced PSP support on the PS Vita, which would be awesome.
But TheFloW isn’t stopping here, he’s been hinting a lot at features of his eCFW that PSP CFW did not have until then. For example, plugins that would provide dual analog support within the PSP emulator. Until then, Custom firmwares within the PSP emulator on the PS vita were constrained by the PSP environment and limitations. But with HENkaku giving TheFloW a connection between the PSP emu and the Vita system, clever things can be done, such as adding support for the additional PS Vita hardware, including, but not limited to, its additional input.
Dual analog stick support will of course not magically make PSP games better, but for those that were trying to emulate 2 analog sticks with the digital arrows, it could make them much more playable.
TheFlow also showcased an option menu as part of Adrenaline, which clearly brings the PS Vita look and feel to your old PSP interface. This alone, to me, is extremely exciting. Theflow’s video does not disclose much so far, but the menu apparently lets you enable/disable networks within the PSP, among other things.
6.61 Adrenaline will be a full CFW for the pspemu. No release date, as it’s still unfinished. I work on it whenever I find time.
— TheFloW (@theflow0) October 22, 2016
Initially, TheFloW had been in touch with Colbird to port ProCFW/ARK to firmware 3.60. I do not know if Adrenaline is the result of this collaboration, or if TheFloW ended up taking the matter in his own hands. Coldbird, TheFloW, if you happen to be reading this article, shot me an email at the usual address, or a PM on twitter and I’ll clarify :). Update: ThefloW confirmed he’s working on this alone as Coldbird doesn’t have the time.
An important Note: To install and run Adrenaline, you will need a legit PSP game on your PS Vita account. This can for example be the game you’ve been using for VHBL, or a PSP mini, or a Demo. Just make sure you have one available.
Source: TheFloW on Twitter
Awesome, looks like it may be time to finally update my 2.02 uno vita to 3.60..
just went to 3.6 seconds ago
same here lolz
You and me both. I have two Vitas still on 2.02!
Finally Total Noob updates his TN-V. Well under alias anyways… 😉 It’s not that hard to figure out.
What? Total Noob is back? my godness, “All Hail Total Noob”, this news is very Awesome.
Doubt it.
WOW. Now only PSOne Emu is left. After PSP Emu and PSOne Emu on 3.60 release, I’m updating immediately for HENkaku <3
RetroArch PS One works well for me on the Vita.
This.
With perfect sound emu, just like TN-X or The Flow’s PSOne Loader? No, as far as I know.
adrenaline will support PS1-PSP (eboot) games
With perfect sound? Let’s hope so. No just like TN-V with “only” decent sound emu.
Exactly this rocks!!!
There is no such thing as “PSOne Emu”, PSX games run on PSP Emu…
So why on earlier FW’s we needed separate exploited game for both PSP and PSOne hacking? I know, that TN-V could launch PSOne backups, but sound was not perfect. Using exploited PSOne game, sound was flawless, and it was because it used Vita’s build in PSOne emu – as far as I know.
PSOne games ran on a PSOne emu called POPS. You were able to put PSOne games on PSP using POPStation
Yes. Same thing. I need my native PS1 support, otherwise I don’t want to leave 1.18.
how do i get a legit psp game, when i cant access psn?
if youre using henkaku you can use the psn.
Now all we need is L……
I tried logging into PSN and it said I needed to update my software? How do you access PSN with Hekaku?
I’ve been able to get access because I still have a past version of HENkaku that supports PSN bypass I swear they removed it latter in the updates or something cause I can only use it with my offline email backup
Always make sure you’ve installed Henkaku, as rebooting the console stops the trick from working. 🙂
First!
So we have a full blown vita exploit and yet people are still wasting there time on a now classified as a retro handheld console. Cmon people make a vita cfw.
I absolutely love this scene!!!
Can’t wait to play my psp backups again with this. Been meaning to finish type 0 finally. Thanks TheFloW(and I assume coldbird as well) for all your hard work on this! Us end users really appreciate it!!
Luckily I still have numb blast
I got *** while reading this article. A huge progress in my opinion : )
Gonna be seventh this time around.
3.18 still has the perfect PS1 Loader.
TN-X is by no means perfect but it does have perfect sound in PS1 games (as do TheFlow’s bubbles) and supports native Vita overlay menu (which is exclusive to TN-X and legit PSone games) in addition to save states and fast forward/speed-up (which are exclusive to TN-X).
Seeing eCFW with XMB does make it very tempting for me to update when it’s released, but I still doubt I’ll be able to abandon my PS1 games.
Hopefully someone will port PSP and PS1 emulators from 3.18 to 3.60, bringing TN-X and old eCFWs to 3.60 and making that a new golden firmware.
Its all good psp games with dual joystick but people come oooon!!! It’s VR timeeee. Forget all this old generation *** lets jump to the future. Where is ps4 hacks?
Old generations still rules.. They are what started it all. IMO, It got real good around the ’90’s, 2000’s.. Heck, people are still playing SNES games, N64 games, classic Capcom, old KOF SNK games, etc and also speedrunning some of them on the internet..online matches are still going nicely.
Iunno about the VR and ps4 hacks. VR seems like a fad.. no offense..and the ps4, well, it’s hard as heck to crack since security is super tight this day and age.. gonna have to wait it out like how we waited for like what seemed for-friggin’-ever for a PSVita native hack haha. It’s been a good four years and like six months now or something after the PSVita was released in 2012. Times flies.
In your crotch
3.60 here i come
If it doesn’t need to be an exploit game I’m set. Medievil resurrection
Happiness!!!!! Finally my Vita will be perfect!!! Simply inspiring
Is real?? fake?? Said the people that is a lie the theflow. Sorry bad english!
Is real. 😛
Does it have full psx emu support?
Super excited for it
Wooooowwww. it’s very good news. at last, the flow do it. Thank you very much. When the release date? Please.
Awesome! This is what I have been waiting for! 😀
Thank you for this article. But you forgot the most important feature on Adrenaline is upscaling graphics which is make psp games on vita more clear (I mean to become as a native vita resolution)
This feature will bringing the life to psp games on vita (like ppsspp).
got 2 extra demo game bubble to use and still have a ark bubble and have a vhbl bubble =D. axing one of those demo soon!
Your ark bubble works? What firmware are you using?
Well I never tried to open my 3.52 ark bubble but Im leaving it there for “My hard work to put it on there” but im on henkaku
Sounds like its still going to be a while. I’m staying on 3.36 until the built in PSP and PS1 are working.
Yaaay!!
Does this mean PSP bubbles will be possible?
PSP bubbles are already possible with TN-V, as long as the firmware supports it (so at least 3.18-3.51).
3.60 can also create PSP bubbles from legit PSN PKGs with DEX Package Installer, but they won’t work without legit .rif license for your PSN account. You can still download the game YOU OWN from PSN to your PSP, copy its .rif to the Vita and make the bubble work. Going further than that requires patching Vita kernel and HENkaku hasn’t been reversed to that point yet as far as I know.
What about TN-V games i.e. 101 in 1 Megamix?
WOO HOO!!
This is so freakin’ awesome! TheFloW, you are DA MAN, BRO!! Can’t wait for the release. Man, the scene is really hot right now. Glad things are going so well for PSVita hacks; finally. I’m thinking an emulator w/ SFIII3S happening one day?? 😀 Kick @$$ imagining about the possibilities.
As soon as this is released I will be updating
The part where you need a legit PSP game is where i’m gonna be stuck lol!
Demo games work, and so do PlayStation minis.
SfIII3 strike yes possible in henkaku.Youtube video.
OH NO ! THIS IS A PRANK! DELETE THIS NEWS.
It seems the prank was a prank.
So to install and run adrenaline, you need to have a psp game downloaded from PS store?any game?
TheFlow you are the best. Please Gods help him!
Will installing this cause the legit game to disappear, or will I be able to just duplicate the bubble, and keep my PSP game?
Or better: Will my legit PSP game be loadable from the eCFW?
Okay perhaps we should all take a moment to check TheFloW’s Twitter…
“yeah I can theoretically enable ps1emu in pspemu mode”
Thus making 3.60 the holy grail firmware… so there’s that.
I can’t wait 😀 PSP/PSX games and XMB interaface on my Vita!!