VHBL upcoming release: more homebrew test results
Many of you are wondering if the upcoming release of VHBL will be worth your attention. Should you stay on 1.61 or 1.67 if you are running one of the previous exploits? Should you not even bother buy the exploited game if your favorite homebrew is not running? Our beta tester (thanks for your help!) came back to me with a few results that I’m sharing here.
Please note that the version he is testing with is not the final one, although from what I could see, the compatibility results are quite definitive. HBL has been very stable for a few months now, and improving compatibility would be difficult without some major breakthrough regarding syscalls.
Anyways, sorry for the boring technical details, below is the report from our tester. Remember that my own tests of this upcoming version of VHBL can also be found here, with additional homebrews. Our tester is using the US version, but we believe compatibility should be the same across all versions.
Homebrews/Apps that work
- Quake 1 Arena (from time to time framedrops but very enjoyable on the Vita)
Quake 1 Arena
- Lamecraft
- Tetriabetes (strangely it recognizes the music I have put on my Vita?)
- Blobby Volley
- Jelly car
Jelly car
- Pipeline (with save/load)
- Spider Solitaire
Spider solitaire
- MVS (a little bit slower than the CFW version but still pleasant to play)
- uo_SNES9x 0.02y32(kinda of slow from time to time)
- Picodrive (As always picodrive runs with sound and savestates)
Picodrive
- CPS1 (Perfect but the menu combo is a Start+Select+R which is hard to hit on the Vita
) - gpsp (works with savestates)
- NesterJ (works with savestates)
- Final Burn Alpha v12p1ALL (works with savestates)
Final burn alpha
Homebrews/Apps that don’t work
- Thing Thing (Most probably would work but for some reason it does not find its files )
- pspkvm (Not sure what is the right version for VHBL but I tried several with no luck)
- SNES9xTYL 0.4.2 (As I already mentioned in my previous tests)
- Ragdoll Cannon
- PSPLBreakout
- Lua games in general
Not bad, hu? Snes9xTYL not working is a let down, but uo_snes9x is a very good alternative that will satisfy your emulation needs, from what I could see. Thanks again to our beta tester. Remember, for more results you can also check my previous tests.
Wololo, do you tried to use the version of PSP Filer 6.6 which ive offered as one which should be able to work with the Vita HBL? I am talking about this version:
http://zload.net/v2/archives/file/?id=241741
Well, I guess there is a little chance that some other version of SNES9xTYL will work.
Anyway, definitely I will use this release if I won’t miss it.
Regarding the comment on Tetriabetes, to clarify, that is a homebrew running in vhbl, but it detects music saved in the Vita space? That sounds very interesting.
Yeah I tried it on SC3 VHBL and it was playing my music. You can even change songs while playing by pressing R.
It’s nothing special; the Vita’s music/pictures folders are just available to the PSP emulator as the PSP music/pictures folders. I saved a screenshot of Cladun with its own ingame screenshot function and it showed up in the Vita photos area.
But this means that we can use the PSP sandbox for at least reading files that are stored outside the sandbox itself which is rather interesting
wololo, nice work always. A question, what emu MAME works in the new VHBL?
Thanks
You don’t really need MAME emulator on VHBL
the FBA supports (on my opinion) more MAME games than the exsisting PSP mame emulators and also the MVS and CPS1 support many of the most played mame games ever(though they support small amount of games they are all high quality)
I’ll suggest to find the games you want from mame and check the compatibility list of the 3 already mentioned
Thank you, I will test your suggestion.
And now we’re still waiting on Sony to get that update out @_@ I want to play Sonic on my Vita so freaking bad . . .
What about Skullgrog ? 🙂
hopefully atari 2600 and vectrex work 🙁
so should i stay on 1.61 and enjoy SNES9xTYL?
I want to be a tester of kurok or other homebrews 😀
Hey, can you PLEASE test a app called “PSPDisp”? I can do a whole bunch of this with that, as i have videos on yt about how to play pokemon black on a psp, with pspdisp, if i had it on a ps vita, it would also create awe in people!
for now theres melfices/digitalarts001’s Remote desktop app you can use without vhbl, but if im not mistaken pspdisp uses kernel
So, my PSVITA has a 1.69 fw, there’s any hackeable game for 1.69 ?
You obviously haven’t been paying attention. No VHBL will be released until 1.80.
No need to be rude about it. It’s a fair question if you don’t read every single post on this site.
I had VHBL on 1.67 and updated my FW for the remote desktop app. I hate myself more and more each day for that stupid decision. Hoping this new version is better!
Gamescom is coming very soon so VHBL release is coming closer as the 1.80 is expected few days after it. I guess that now is the right time for testing the compatibility.
Wololo will Final Burn Alpha v12p1All work with WWF Wrestlefest?
Saw an youtube video of that game running on FBA so I don’t see why not
That’s very cool and all but can it play battletoads?
Platform(s) Nintendo Entertainment System, Commodore Amiga, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega Game Gear, Game Boy, Amiga CD32
At least one of Picodrive,Nester and the GB emulators should run it
Would be nice, if this whole list will be supported in the next VHBL.
http://www.psvsource.de/forum/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=31
cheers fenomeno
Do you guys think that Sony will skip 1.7x firmware version?
Its funny how Sony said the update will be around summer and its now fall? Anybody else notice that?
it’s not fall-ok maybe in UK but the other north part of the world call August a summer
I am in Arizona where it is always summer, lol. It just how long is it until Sony’s version of summer is over?
Well as I said it’s expected in time for Gamescom
^When have you ever trusted a Company about keeping “promises”?
Always have trusted Nintendo. People use emulators just to play Nintendo games. I wonder if Sony hates VHBL cause its a shot to the *** for every time a kid plays Mario Bro on the Vita.
Well, it’s not quite fall yet. But yeah, we’re getting MIGHTY impatient waiting for the 1.80 update 😀
Why do I get an error message on content manager whenever I want to transfer pico drive to my ps vita? What version of pico drive works on the vita? If anyone knows please let me know. Thanks in advance
I don’t know if this will help or not but…
https://rapidshare.com/#!download|92p11|407473808|snes9xTYL-0.4.2_2010-07-17.rar|2167|0|0
It’s a mod of snes9xtyl that was made in the old advancedpsp day by a user named thorwak specifically to overcome an issue with hbl. If it doesn’t work maybe you can contact him for help compiling since he was able to do it before. He is on /talk but not online since june, but that’s not all that long ago so maybe you can drop him an email or something.
When do we expect the release date ?
soon or it will take time ?!
and thanks 🙂
BTW
I never tried VHBL before .
We are waiting for the vita firmware 1.80. More news will come after 1.80 is released.
Has the psp dos emulator been tested with this before yet?
tony… tony.. tony.. any news about tony’s miraculous cfw?? 😀
what’s so miraculous about ToNy?
Wololo is there any way too force the vita resolution in quake to 960×544, and how about half life u guys get that running too?
wololo, una pregunta? has podido desbloquear la psvita 3G. para ingresarle cualquier sim de cualquier compañia. yo compre un psvita, pero esta bloqueada por att%t algo que no deberia tener la consola. soy de guatemala y aki no se puede usar el 3G por el bloqueo de att&t, te agradeceria una respuesta.
saludos.
wololo, una pregunta? has podido desbloquear la psvita 3G. para ingresarle cualquier sim de cualquier compañia. yo compre un psvita, pero esta bloqueada por att&t algo que no deberia tener la consola. soy de guatemala y aqui no se puede usar el 3G por el bloqueo de att&t, te agradeceria una respuesta.
saludos.
No se ha podido, la única forma sería llamar a at&t y pedirles que lo hagan, tal vez explicándoles tu problema te lo desbloqueen. Otra forma sería decirles que no conoces la marca del móvil (le dices que es un móvil viejo y no conoces la marca).
wololo a question? psvita you could unlock the 3G. to admit you any Sim from any company. I buy a psvita, but is blocked by att & t something that should not have the console. I am from Guatemala and here you can use the 3G lock att & t, I would appreciate a response.
sorry for sending so many times.
greetings
Do you think The Vita will ever be Jailbroken properly? I’ll probably sell mine if there is no breakthrough soon, its such a waste of fine hardware.
Same here I might rebuy it in a year or so, right now its pretty much useless 🙂
Yeahhh I was thinking about the same thing but, I will wait a week or two…to see if the rumors from Sony about 1.80 are true and consequently if VHBL happens on 1.80
🙂