Vita Firmware 3.73 is out, does not patch h-encore2 exploit but breaks Modoru downgrader, according to early reports
Sony has been rolling out Vita firmware update 3.73 today.
Unsurprisingly, the official changelog touts the usual “performance improvement”, which can mean anything from “fixed something that made a game crash” to “we patched some security vulnerability”.
The previous system update, 3.72, was released back in August. It raised waves of panic across the scene when it was initially reported to patch h-encore2. This turned out to be a false alarm.
This time again, the scene has been frenetically checking right after the release if this latest firmware update patches H-Encore2, or if it’s still possible to hack the Vita on this latest firmware. Early reports seem to indicate that 3.73 is still hackable, but that a few things might have been patched. Scene veteran NanospeedGamer in particular reports that h-encore2 still works, however downgrading tool Modoru is apparently not operational anymore.
Actualización PSVita 3.73 – se confirma que #Hencore2 funcióna perfectamente!!! Pero modoru NO. https://t.co/K5E78n2Zql
— ☢️NanospeedGamer🦎 (@NanospeedGamer) October 16, 2019
Whether Modoru can be fixed to accommodate this latest firmware update, or if Sony patched some critical parts of the tool, remains to be confirmed.
In the meantime, as always, we recommend you don’t update unless you have significant reasons to.
Source: Official Playstation site via literally everyone on twitter
ouch for new vita users….
New Vita users are in the triple digits at most at this point. Not a group that needs concern.
Apparently modoru has been update so everything is fine now
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You thought it was Aurora, but it was I, Wololo!
Epic Fail.
The vita was no longer in production so would this mean you have to want the update and accept the install.??
A big LOL. Sony is relentless…
They gave up on the PSP eventually, and they’re going to give up on the Vita eventually too.
If Skeba’s Moduro fork was not working on 3.73 FW, it was not due to the method it uses but only to a simple condition which checks if FW is strictly 3.71 or 3.72:
“if (*(unsigned int *)(sysroot + 4) == 0x03710000 || *(unsigned int *)(sysroot + 4) == 0x03720000)”
So, no reason to be worried for the moment 🙂
i have tried upgrading to 3.73 and managed to downgrade it back to 3.65 but now when i tried running the ENSO it won’t let me do it, it is giving me an error message: Failed to load kernel module:0x8002d003. Pls help!
When Sony never cared about the Vita yet keeps pushing updates to try and “prevent” people from hacking it. Classy act.
Modoru v2 has already been patched:
https://github.com/SKGleba/modoru/releases/tag/v2.1