PS Vita 3.15 and next VHBL release: the good and the bad
We released a VHBL port for firmware 3.15 a few days ago thanks to the great work of Japanese developer 173210. Unfortunately, the game used for the exploit, MyStylist, was only available on the Japanese PSN.
Recently, developer Wistine hinted that he would be releasing his own port of VHBL for firmware 3.15 soon (check Wistine’s interview by The Z here). I’m happy to confirm that this release will happen very soon.
That’s it for the good news. The bad news is… the exploited game is not available in several locales, including the US. Overall, I have checked a few stores, and it seems the game is available in Europe (confirmed to be available at least in The UK, France, and Germany, most likely available in other EU countries as well) and Australia. It is , however, not available in the US, Canada, Hong-Kong, Japan, Brazil (and probably other countries too but those are the ones I checked).
The other piece of bad news, but probably less of a problem, is that since I have permanently switched to a US account, I wasn’t able to test the exploit myself. Not a big deal, but just a heads up.
We will proceed with the release anyway, an exploit is an exploit, and Wistine has confirmed good homebrew compatibility with his port 🙂
Stay tuned, as usual, for a ninja release.
I have no information about a potential US release of VHBL for firmware 3.15, for now. We’ll of course let you know if something shows up!
Another reason to switch to a US account.
Oh wait… xD.
Well played 🙂
#rekt
what would happen if you could exploit the psvita with every psp game available and is non patchable no matter Sony do.. Will the PSN shutdown?
they’ll give up on fixing the exploits within current games.
a similarly “devastating” exploit was found on the psp, and they just gave up on patching stuff.(“signed” homebrew, capable of running on ofw)
Dude, I hope you wake up soon. Though your body was epic last week.
naruto reference?
Boy, and here I was thinking that EU was being shafted all the time.
Well we are, with game prices 30% higher than most other regions, but at least we have exploitable games!
And our exploitable games won’t get blacklisted for the PS Vita.
I am looking at you, US-Store.
Because all the US PS Store cares about is “security”.
so my vita purchases are on japanese psn, and i feel that vhbl and the hacked psp emulator brings nothing to the table that you cant get elswhere. i own a surface pro so i play ppsspp on that there is my perfect psp emulation. i hold out in hopes that the vita will be hacked but it looks like no. so i avoided the 3.15 exploit because i wasnt sure if it was kernal or user mode. what where the down sides.3.xx seemed to come with less ram for the psp emulator and TNRV or whatever didnt work on the newer ones. i am stuck at a lower version with PSN downloaded vita games (just a hand full) and a inablity to buy more vita games because of this exploit. becuase of hope.
my phantasy star portable subscription ended. i stoped giving money to sega.
at least i bought the psn copy of djmax technika before the arcade game got pulled from evory japanese arcade i see… and dj max died…
at least i have lumines.
and other games dled on my vita.
but only 4 games. sure i have *evory psp game and a full psp os emualtor* but i wont get to enjoy metal gear hd stuffs or final fantasy X remakes. i am feeling out of touch with the vita all to gether.
i did buy a ps4 and dumped probably 1k on games for it. but i cant enjoy new games like freedom wars…
… i feel like i hate my vita now.
DIMax isn’t dead -neowiz said
And from most of the same producers there is a new game being developed
Pentavision is dead, so is djmax trilogy 🙁
DJmax Trilogy servers and Technika servers are dead, that’s true.
But it doesn’t mean the game died, Pentavision is part of Neowiz and they’re supposedly developing a new version of the game.
Meanwhile… old Pentavision members that are not with Neowiz made a new company called “Nurijoy”, and they’re already teasing some songs of their game “Beatcraft Cyclon”. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=695981257130143
they released the global version of DjMax technika Q just over 2 months ago.
so they’re definitely still active with djmax.
OMFG!! This is the exploit I was waiting for and now it’s not available in the US? OMG like damn, someone should’ve released a private exploit or something. This is the only exploit I would’ve gotten, last one i had was UNO
So you were waiting for an exploit that never existed in the US and now your mad because it doesn’t exist in the US? Oh lawd. This is the ONLY exploit you would have gotten. Not like we see a different exploit every month or something. Nope you gone done missed out forever kiddo.
also implying that publicly releasing a private exploit would still make it private.
Uno 2.02 fo’ life, yo.
Dispo’ en France…
Dommage pour toi wololo 😀
More or less of 27 € ?
Still on 3.01 eCFW! Great to know this exploit will be in the EU store! Time to upgrade! Well that is if I want to sacrifice the eCFW? :O
IT’S ABOUT TIME! *Sorry, I’m not angry, just over the moon!* I can’t wait!! I just HOPE it’s under the 20 euro mark
Long live Europe… long live……
I wish there was a way to upvote this
Me too
I’m not really interested in all this PSP emulator stuff. I have a PSP for that. I just want people to start focussing on a “Native Vita Hack”, rather than a PSP exploit, while the PSP is actually permanently hacked already.
If you want to play PSP, buy a PSP. For now I beg people to get interested in Vita Homebrew, because Homebrew is the best brew I know.
That what i wished
But Sony make sure that PS Vita will never ever get hacked
The hardware hack : No nothing
The software hack : No nothing at all too (not counting PSP emu)
You can check http://yifan.lu/ out for some interesting information
But of course still nothing
The worse is
West vita games : Nothing
Yeah I’m in the west as well. AND I checked http://yifan.lu but it does not seem like he’s making much progress, since he’s trying to hack the Vita for like 2 years already.
There is not even a game extracted or anything, a DS-like game card developed or even a Native hack/leak.
I guess Sony did just do really well this time. And if we want to hack the Vita, a team has to be put on this. Not just a few stand-alone people working or trying on Hacking the Vita.
Last time I checked – dual analog sticks only exist on the PS Vita. WHICH IS WHY ALOT OF US LIKE PSP EXPLOITS INCLUDING ECFW. DUH! A good 80%- 90% of the PSP library instantly plays 100X better with the inclusion of dual analog sticks.
Wololo, Can I have your opinion on something?
I’m in the UK and I’ve bought roughly 10 games on my PSN account… Do you think, in the long run, its better to just move to a US account and re-buy the games to save swapping cards and resetting my device all the time?
Thanks
We have a US only exploit, I’ll check with qwik if we can release it.
ok we can release it, so US users are saved. For now at least, we are yet to extensively test compatibility.
Thank you, like I really appreciate it.
You guys rock thanks man i bit the bullet and got rid of persona to play Borderlands 2 on 3.15. over all beacuse of my backwards PS3 is still broken
so actually i am having a lot of fun but mind you i have not gotten to Sanctuary yet =D I Love Wololo <3.
Surely we’ll see a 3.15 US vhbl soon, probably this Summer
Hi guys, first of all, Thank very much for all the work you guys do, to bring those exploit’s for us! I’m from Brazil, and i’ve been waiting for decades, to get some emulator runing on my PSVita, but everytime u guys release a exploit ( THX ALOT FOR DOING THAT ), i can’t never get the game on my PSStore. ( i don’t wanna switch to US or another PS Store, because i alredy bought some games… I’m probably asking much, and i’m sorry, but, it’s worth a try. Thanks guys, and keep up the excelente work. Sorry for my bad grammar :(((.
But wheres the ugly? Oh no . . .
will the europe files work if i download the game using my KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) account?
depends, does your country fall under the asian, european, or american gaming region?
i suspect european, in which case it should work just fine.
Yes! Acid Snake and Quickrazor swoop in to save us from the Empire..hopefully it’s a cheap one, I really only want it for Bookr.
Yo, I know that TN has now left the scene, but is it possible for all of these exploits to load TN CEF at some point in the future?
It should. Either that or ARK, for which we have the source so we can maintain it on higher firmwares.
why dont you port ARK to higher firmwares then ? sry if i sound rude.
Because VHVL exploited games aren’t an entire hack, think of it as a partial hack and further exploitation is needed to be discovered to run eCFW.
Nice!
Hi
Cant wait to hear which game it is. Also good news for me that its going to be on the Aussie PSN store!
I can’t find the game in UK store? Is it available yet? Or am I being stupid, searching with the incorrect spelling etc.? Help please!
Actually, ignore me! Just realised the game hasn’t been identified yet. I thought we were taking about MyStylist still. Oops! :/
From the information about the exploit game I have now, the probability that it is a game, I would want to buy anyway lies at 5,36%. (3 games I would buy out of 56 possible PSP games that were released on the EU PSN store but not the US Store)
Yo, is it nearly time to reveal the game?
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