More test results for VHBL on 2.12

Qwikrazor87 has sent me and his beta testers an updated version of his upcoming VHBL port, which slightly increases compatibility. In parallel, one of the beta testers sent me an updated compatibility list, which I reproduce below.

Qwikrazor87’s VHBL port works on the latest PS Vita firmware (currently 2.12). As all VHBL ports so far, it will require to purchase a yet undisclosed game from the PSN, in which an exploit was found which is triggered to run PSP homebrews on the Vita.

A reminder for those of you who are too excited to read: VHBL only runs PSP homebrews, it does not run PSP Isos, let alone Vita isos. We will not be sending the name of the game by email or any other way than the ninja release, followed by a public announcement on this blog. In general, Sony remove the exploited game within 48h of the announcement on this blog.

The exploited game is not available on the JP or EU stores (note: I haven’t tried ALL EU stores), but it is available in the US store (and yes, that probably means the CA store as well). I have been discussing with another hacker about a VHBL release for a game which is available in the EU, but for various reasons this will not be released, at least for now.

It is possible to create a US account on your vita, and to buy US PSN credit even if you do not live in the US. I am also giving away a $20 US PSN Card here

Most of the homebrews below can be downloaded from the VHBL homebrew thread.

Updated Homebrew compatibility list

Working Emulators

•     Atari 800
•     CPS1
•     CPS2
•     ColEmPSP
•     EmuMaster
•     FBAPSP
•     FCEUltra-PSP
•     fMSX PSP
•     GPSP
•     MVSPSP adhoc
•     NeoGeoPSP
•     Nester AoEx R3 (confirmed by 2 testers)
•     PCEPSP
•     PLYNX
•     PSPMame r0.6
•     PicoDrive (confirmed by 2 testers)
•     SMS+
•     SNES9XTYL

Working Homebrew

•     Ballon Invasion
•     Blabberbot
•     BlackJack
•     Blobby Volley
•     Block Dude
•     Blox
•     Bookr
•     BrainBoxerBeta
•     Breakout
•     Cave Story
•     CrashCar!
•     Crazy Snake
•     Cube Runner
•     Cubic Zombies
•     Cubynergy
•     Deadalus r13
•     Doodle Jump
•     Doom
•     Dragon Ball Z
•     Evil Teddy
•     Flyer
•     GPSP
•     Gems
•     Guitar Star
•     HandyPSP
•     Hexen 2
•     How
•     Jelly Car
•     Kingdom Of War
•     Kitten Cannon
•     Kurok
•     Lamecraft r56 (confirmed by 2 testers)
•     Left For quake 0.8
•     LightWayPSP
•     Lightning
•     Mancala
•     Mario Fusion V2
•     Mario Gold Rush
•     Mario Masochism
•     Mario’s Road v2
•     NZPortable
•     Newton Powered
•     Newton War
•     Ninja Sudoku
•     Open Bricks
•     OpenTTD
•     P-Tester
•     PSPBillards
•     PSPDoxManager
•     PSPLorer
•     PSPMinesweeper
•     PSPReversi
•     PSPrank
•     PSRacer
•     Penguin Snowboarding
•     Pipeline
•     Powernoid
•     Project 3
•     Purple Motion
•     Quake
•     Quake Areana
•     Really Annoying Level Game
•     RobotWarriorDC
•     Rubik’s Cube
•     ScreenDefender
•     Silveredge
•     SnakeSP
•     SonicTheHedgehog
•     Sonymon
•     Spider Solitare
•     Squarez
•     Stickman Jump (sometimes freezes when you die)
•     SuperMarioToy
•     Tetrabetes
•     TropasAreas
•     VIce
•     Wagic
•     Whack A Mole
•     fuse
•     iDaft
•     vDrum

Not working

•     Alex The Aligator
•     Amoebax
•     AnotherExplorer
•     Ascii Attackers From heck
•     Atari 5200
•     Attack of The Mutants
•     BattleShip
•     Beatbox
•     Bumper Harvest
•     Bunny Tetris
•     Chicken Invaders
•     Chocobo
•     Chuckie Egg
•     Cosmos Lunar
•     Crash Bandicoot
•     Crazy Gravity Portable
•     Daedalus X64
•     Dodge The Squarez
•     Doodle Jump 1.3
•     Duck Hunt
•     Duke 3D
•     emu mame4all v49r2
•     Feeling
•     Galactic Breakout
•     Geometry Wars
•     gpSP mod
•     Kill The Cat
•     Laser Survivor
•     learnjp09
•     LightCycle3D
•     Mame4All
•     Mario Kart 64 v3
•     MarioLand
•     MazeEffects
•     MedPSP
•     MobileAssault
•     Multi Quiz
•     NeoGeo CD
•     Nuke The Whales
•     OpenTyrian
•     Ozone
•     Polyon Hockey
•     PongPSP
•     Powder
•     psp2600
•     PSPaint
•     PSPCannon
•     PSPClawExplorer
•     PSPComic
•     PSPCopter
•     PSPEvasion
•     PSPFiler
•     PSPixel
•     PSPkvm
•     PspManiaV4
•     PSPPDA
•     PSPRevolution v0.4
•     PSPTI 99
•     Ragdoll Cannon
•     S4inexcraft
•     s9xTYLmecm_mod
•     scummvm-0.13.0-psp (confirmed by 2 testers)
•     Simon Says
•     Simple Shoot
•     Space Combat
•     SQRXZ3
•     SuperMethaneBros
•     SuperMiniMario
•     SuperTux
•     Syobon
•     Uplink
•     Winnie The Pooh
•     Xonergy

A few key points here are that a huge majority of emulators seem to run fine, PSPFiler doesn’t work, and Nazi Zombies Portable, which was initially announced as not supported, actually seems to work.

Stay tuned for the release.