TheFlow reveals what he’s been up to with FW 3.65/3.67! – taiHEN (HENkaku) will eventually find its way on FW 3.65/3.67
After about a day and a half after his cryptic ‘It took me exactly one year.’ tweet, TheFlow has finally revealed what he’s been up to on the Vita. It seems that he’s finally going to give us the missing piece of the puzzle that the Vita scene has been missing for quite a while and that is a hack for FW 3.61+.
What TheFlow has revealed
Through a series of tweets, TheFlow has told us the following:
- Exactly a year ago, he found a user entry point that he could further exploit to run unsigned code on the Vita by chainloading a kernel exploit.
- Then, in the last two weeks, TheFlow worked 8 hours a day on exploiting firmware 3.67 as he had University holidays. Now, he has a full chain exploit for firmware 3.67 which could be used to port taiHEN to it! He also mentioned that he achieved this without a devkit which shows that he pulled off an even greater feat!
- Now, the part that some of you will automatically balk at. He doesn’t plan to release his work right now but don’t worry, it will eventually be released! TheFlow stated a rough ETA which puts the release of a public hack for FW 3.67 either at the end of this year or sometime next year.
- On the bright side, he said that he could port Enso to firmware 3.65 (but you’ll still need to be on firmware 3.60 to install it) sooner than he could release his hack for FW 3.67.
As you can see, this is awesome news for the PSVita scene since you will, in the foreseeable future, be able to play games that require firmware 3.61+.
Perhaps the extra wait won’t be such a bad thing since there will be less titles that will require a firmware higher than 3.67 since Sony will undoubtedly patch TheFlow’s hack for FW 3.67!
Quite obviously, don’t update to FW 3.65/3.67 just yet if you’re on a lower FW. Don’t update past FW 3.67 either if Sony releases a new version!
Conclusion
In light of this awesome news, TheFlow asks everybody not to push him to release his hack sooner or give more narrower ETAs.
Remember, this man has a life to attend to and a University course to finish. As you can see, hacking consoles is something that takes an awful lot of time so developers must be allowed to take how long they want especially since they’re doing it for FREE.
As for now, you can only check TheFlow’s Twitter for further updates on the matter and not bug him!
TheFlow’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/theflow0
TheFlow’s PayPal donation link (directly from his Twitter account – the man deserves a few bucks for his excellent work): https://www.paypal.me/PSVitaTheFloW
“…developers must be allowed to take how long they want especially since they’re doing it for FREE.”
Sorry, but that doesn’t mean a damn thing. We can still criticize people as much as we want whether we’re paying them or they’re doing it for free. A prime example of this is how the nutters running Luma3DS thought that was a SMART IDEA to switch the required software because of the CHANCE (Not any actually proven data) that it will improve FW efficiency, and so you have dozens of people refusing to update Luma because it requires users to unneededly go in change their system for no other reason than a wish on a star. And, then, you also have the folks running CEMU who are leaching off of the $14K of Patreon money and taking their sweet-sweet time to develop the damn thing because (As EVERYONE on Patreon realizes) once the product is 99% finished they’re going to have to find another way to bring in money.
I’m not saying that we should be unreasonable with the folks developing homebrew and hacks (Due to some of them doing it out of passion and the love for it), but that doesn’t exempt them from being called out whenever they pull stupid ***.
Personally, I bought Danganronpa v3 for the ps4 while it was on sale so I could remote play it on the PS Vita (since it was unplayable on a hacked vita). Although I won’t be playing this game when the FW is released directly on the vita, the are countless of games released and being released that will be playable from there on.
Great job TheFloW! You made the whole world better!
For a single person to crack the system without the need of a devkit, is beyond me. Much respect .
Not a paid service but donations much deserved.
TheFlow is a God!
Take all the time you need TheFlow, I knew takin’ a break from constantly browsing the vita scene can bear a fruit.
If it takes even 2 more years, I’ll gladly wait…
Holy god this dude is beyond amazing…..no words can describe him…damn do you open a donation….j flow for life …j flow for sony
Good to see that someone cares about pushing CFW to anything above 3.60.
Thank you for the post!
Should I update my 3.65 vita to 3.67 as well?
IMHO, if you are going to wait for the possible unlock that TheFlow is working, I would not update.
How do I pay this guy? I really appreciate his work and am very grateful of his work and many modders helping me save money 🙂 I am enrolled in college and am a heavy gamer so having these on the go is great and the lady loves it as well! I wish I knew how to do this stuff better Im going to college for CNET. Is there anyway I coud get a hold of you to tak about some school stuff if you are doing the same stuff or something related to it?
Yay! Good thing I didn’t update past 3.68! I knew someone in the awesome ps vita community would make a hack for it, I cant wait!
Yay! This is why I didn’t update past 3.67. I knew someone in the community would make it so we could hack it. Love you theflow!