How to: VHBL on PS Vita for unhackable firmware
Important Update: With the release of the HENkaku hack, you can now easily install VHBL yourself on a PS Vita firmware 3.60, without following the guide below. The guide below however, works for people who are now on firmware 3.61 or above.
Note: The following post was initially published by user xy2_ on GBATemp. We reproduce it below with the author’s permission, to spread the word.
So apparently this isn’t common knowledge and quite a lot people are still getting frauded by some of these “VHBL ON LATEST FIRMWARE!!” people without knowing how to do it. [Note from wololo: see our article on that topic here]
In particular, instead of contributing to useful efforts to advance the vita scene (shoutouts to #vitasdk on freenode) these specific people have for their interest instead to sell methods that are known by the experienced vita hackers, but not known by many end users, for the sole objective of profit; basically abusing obscurity. As someone who is currently trying to contribute to the Vita via documentation, this is a little unacceptable for me. Some examples would be HackInformer (the most known) and F3bruary, and I’m pretty sure some other people will do this as well as time passes.
So without further ado, here are three methods to install VHBL on latest firmware. They ALL require a person with a hackable Vita to do the work for you beforehand. If you don’t have anyone, read the end of this post. For the VHBL bubble, use Ape Escape demo as a basegame.
PS Vita 3.61 VHBL through Account sharing
Requires your PSN login creds: the quickest but most unsafe option. The exploitable Vita makes a VHBL bubble via the method of their choice, makes a CM backup, and sends it to the latest firmware Vita.
Pros: easiest and fastest method.
Cons: requires psn login.
PS Vita 3.61 VHBL with Backup hacking
Requires a backup and physical access to the latest firmware Vita. The hackable Vita owner gets a backup from the latest firmware Vita, follows http://gbatemp.net/threads/coldswap-run-fully-unencrypted-playable-games-without-owning-them.427511/ to hack the backup, then gets the VHBL bubble to make a CM backup of the bubble and send it to the latest firmware vita.
Pros: does not require giving account or swapping it.
Cons: hardest method for hacker, requires physical access to the PS3 to activate (as act.dat, the file to activate a Vita, is console unique).
PS Vita 3.61 VHBL: Account swapping
The hackable firmware Vita creates a new account, creates the VHBL bubble there, then sends a CM backup of the bubble to the latest firmware VIta. The latest firmware Vita either formats his vita or get a separate memory card for the new account and transfers the CM backup.
Pros: does not require end user input from the latest firmware vita.
Cons: have to switch accounts, memory cards aren’t cheap.
For those who have no friends with a Vita: I am unfortunately not able to offer accounts anymore, due to lack of access to a PS3 for a long time. Sorry 
Note: I do **not** recommend giving away your PSN login creds unless you have absolute trust in the other party!
Source: xy2_ on GBATemp
i need help with this lol
Probably a dumb question: If one has a hackable PS TV, could that work in place of the hackable PS Vita?
It won’t work. Backups made on PSTV aren’t readable on Vita & vice versa.
Really? Cuz that’s how I got Rejuvenate on my 3.18 Vita… I downloaded the assistant on an up-to-date PSTV linked to the same account as my PSVita, backed it up through QCMA and restored the backup onto my PSVita, and it worked just fine.
You can share a VHBL bubble via QMCA though.
I heard there was a scumbag site that was selling this as a service, dirty fake scene scumbags O.o
Unless the site is using the person’s information for reasons other then helping them with VHBL then they are not scumbag. It’s no different than someone charging to help downgrade a PS3. You’re paying for the person’s time and effort.
yeah some guy on youtube is selling this -.-
There is a scene website selling this, probably the owner needs the money for crack or something, maybe toys for his butt…
To create a one backup takes an hour and a half time.
Show me the altruist who will be it for free, for all who wish to do backups
wish i had a 3.52 vita or knew someone who’d do it free :\
No one would do it for free, wouldn’t do it for free for my friends. Too time consuming. Still don’t really get the issue behind it personally. People are selling a service, not mods. You’re paid for your time. That’s my opinion.
probably you don’t have friends then
also works ecfw?
Vita 3.51 with Rejuvenate and TN-V, how can i help?
making vhbl bubbles lol
Sold my vita year ago. Look at new for vita…. Still VHBL
Finally some news about it. I was used to use cfw on my psp 2k and 3k a lot. this is easier as it? What exactly is this VHBL? I can play psp, emulators and ps1 games with it? how it works? i feel this is tutorial is so vague for people who never did the hack on a vita. my vita is a 1k its on firmware 3.60 and is in plane mode and the wifi is off.
You can’t do *** about 3.60 except do one of the things from above (but it’s rather pointless if you don’t have somebody with hacked Vita already). VHBL is used to play homebrews (emulators and stuff), while TN-V can play old PSP games. You need Vita 3.51/2 in order to hack it properly.
Via VHBL (Vita Half Byte Loader) You can’t play anything, besides PSP emulators, and use some programs. It’s something like PSP environment lite. To play PSP backups (or PS1, but with sound emulation) You will need eCFW, which means kernel exploit, which means no chance on 3.60 – so far.
PSP emulator likes snes or gba emulators would be enough for me. Its too hard to do it? How do i do it?
any news on tn-v for 3.60?
hello !!! i Have 2 PSvitas 1 with 3.6 and 1 with 3.5 with fifa 11 ! How can i make my 3.6 run Emulators like 3.5 ?
Somehow I was able to get the VHBL bubble due to the fact that used the email hack on 3.52, all I had to do was copy over the basegame I used as an exploit for VHBL via CMA, but that only gave me the bubble on my homescreen.. After that I had to get into the ps savedata folder where i had VHBL, ARK and all my other homebrew, and transfer over the folder named “vhbl01234” and the vhbl was working correctly!
Well, I paid the guy and got the VHBL running. How can I pass it to you guys? My vita is on 3.60. It seems the backup file is linked with the PSN Account…
I’d really appreciate it if the author would define these abbreviations, I have know idea what CM Backup means.
I have a jaikbroken Ps3 cfw and a non jailbreak ps vita is their any way to mod the ps vita using my cfw Ps3 if so could you please link me to the thread
who’s has a jailbroken vita / a vita with VHBL on it, knows how to do the first method and is trustworthy and not looking out to steal accounts. please a i’m complete noob with vita jailbreaking and i really wanna play emu’s on my vita. If you’re interested please DM me @NickFrizzy97 on instagram. Thank You in Advanced. 🙂
Pessoal gostaria de instalar emulador de NES no meu ps 3.60 .. alguem indica. Vídeo ou tutorial detalhando. Pois o tutorial acima é muitíssimo vago.. e só comprei o psvita para por o nes
Hi everyone, i was wondering after somes tests on my own.
I got two pstv one is 3.20 the other 3.60.
The 3.20 got whitelist and is activate (thanks to transfer bought game from ps3 and transfer on pst 3.20)
I try to transfer my whitelist (with backup from QCMA) from 3.20 to 3.60. But when i try on my 3.60 i cant lunch game from whitelist like Wipeout 2048.
Did i miss a step?
Thanks in advance
Thats great to see the truth is not outher, but here 🙂
Maybe it will help someone, but the answer is,
install the V2 of whitelist in the pstv 3.20 or (3.52 max to use trixmail) backup this with qcma and install this on your device 3.57 or 3.60 it works great.
But (in my case) the update of wipeout 2048 doesnt want to be install… like the pass online 🙁 Pretty much useless without online gaming.
But V2 works wish is great.
So I’m new to vita and learned that it’s possible to hack mine, i don’t know anyone thought that could help me . Please help me if possible, yes my vita is on firmware 3.60.
So I have a ps Vita slim running 3.60 is there anyway for me to get vhbl? If I don’t have a ps Vita with older fw
People should just go to a pawn shop, or call around, find one that has 3.5 firmware, buy it, do your thing with your 3.6 version, and just returned. It the next day, no harm done.
Can anyone help me back my vita on 3.60? Email me jayantone92@gmail.com
Well, this entry would not exist if it couldn t, right? The thing is, since the PSP was able to be hacked on a native level, Sony learned its lesson and made the Vita a lot more secure.
Hi, could anyone help me with one of the mentioned methods? I’m on PS Vita 3.61, my email is benmotraore@gmail.com
Especially the third method is welcomed
Someone help me, i’m really hopeless, i have 3.63 vita, and at least i want to play PSP game, so can anyone help me?
PLEASE can someone make a dummy account and do the account share with me? I would REALLY appreciate it, and (if you have steam) I can give CSGO skins. Thanks a bunch to any good Samaritan out there that may help me
Hi! dumb question: i have a ps vita with 3.63 and vhbl instaled. when i go to bubble information, he says “expires in 1/8/2017”. my question: when date ends can i still acess the vhbl? if no, whow could i install or update my vhbl bubble? 🙁 sorry for my bad english.