Soon to be released: HENkaku – Vita homebrew for everyone
It seems that in the last few months a group called molecule (which consists of yifan Lu, Davee, Proxima and xyz) has worked on a way to easily use Homebrew on your PS Vita.
They decided to call their project HENkaku (変革), which is the first HEN for the Playstation Vita. HENkaku will of course support the most recent system software 3.60.
courtesy of Davee
Some of you might remember Rejuvenate, a hack that required the PSMobile application, a computer and it did only work on selected firmwares and devices.
Developers have created a lot of cool homebrews for Rejuvenate, but it was unfortunally too hard to use and therefore not that great for the average person.
Any Rejuvenate compatible Homebrew will be HENkaku compatible as well (with minor adjustments), as long as the Rejuvenate Homebrew was created as initially recommended (binary compatible with the Vita’s native loader).
What can you do with HENkaku?
HENkaku enables you to install PS Vita Homebrew as bubbles on your PS Vita’s Homescreen by disabling the filesystem sandbox.
It is a native hack that lets you access the Vita’s memory card (via FTP), install .vpk homebrew packages (Vita packages?) and even a bit more.
Just think of it as jailbreaking your iOS device (e.g. iPhone) or rooting your Android device (e.g. Tablet).
HENkaku won’t allow you to run any kind of PS Vita warez, piracy or “backups”, how people like to call them, at least not out of the box.
Encrypted game data cannot be decrypted via HENkaku and it won’t disable any kind of DRM.
HENkaku is designed to let you run Homebrews on your PS Vita, it is not for piracy, and that’s it.
Which firmwares & devices are supported?
HENkaku supports all current Playstation Vita devices (fat, slim, TV), but only supports the PS Vita system software 3.60. It does not and will not support any higher firmware in the future.
Be sure to update to 3.60 if you want to use HENkaku and never update to a higher firmware if you intend to keep using HENkaku on your device.
What else is required? Any games as exploit?
HENkaku does not require any game software as entry-point for the exploit, it only requires your FW 3.60 PS Vita’s Web browser, a memory card with available space (at least 10MB), an internet connection and an FTP client on your Computer (we recommend FileZilla).
Thats it. No games or any fancy stuff required. Just your device, default accessories, an internet connection and a Computer.
How do I install HENkaku?
HENkaku can easily be installed via your PS Vita itself. You dont need any fancy PC programms (like a Jailbreak/Root does), just your PS Vita’s Web browser.
Simply visit https://henkaku.xyz via your PS Vita and click on the “Install” button (keep in mind that this does not work until it has been officially released).
If you happen to fully reboot your PS Vita (or if it runs out of juice), you have to re-do the procedure of installing HENkaku via the Web browser.
If HENkaku is running, though, you are free to use it and switch between Homebrew apps as often as you want, as long as you dont (fully) power off your device.
When will HENkaku be released?
HENkaku’s official release is going to be this Friday, the 29th July 2016, at 09:00 (UTC+0).
Source via Yifan.Lu.
Ok, but i don’t see how this is so great in the end. Running homebrew and making custom bubbles were already possible on lower firmware.
I would have been more interested if I could launch my PSP isos in 3.60, because right now, I’m facing the dilemma about wether or not I should upgrade to 3.60 to play Odin Sphere (and probably Toukiden 2 in a few weeks), or stick to 3.56 and be adulte to play somme of my PSP games (tacticals).
It says on hankaku’s site:
A Note on Piracy We are all developers by trade and we understand the problem of piracy that usually arises from breaking the security features of a device. The usual response from hackers is “not our problem” but we believe we can do better. We carefully designed HENkaku to be as permissive as possible for developers to write homebrew supporting private APIs and the option to bypass sandboxes. However, we also made sure to make it as difficult as possible to repurpose our tools to enable piracy. While piracy is always inevitable, we will not make it easy.
All I wanna say is that 你这是想当了婊子还想立牌坊吗？
So did this work for anyone, didn’t work for me.
Worked for me, had to keep refreshing and going through the install loop until the site finally kicked off the exploit.
.vpk is not the best idea to use. We already used this extension on old Sony Ericsson mobile phones for firmware patches.
Is their way to install Game.psv through VitaShell ??
Hi, I’ve been on holiday in Japan wit no way of getting my Vita online. Is t possible to update to 3.60 without going to 3.61?
It’s not a big issue if not, I hardly play my vita but it’d be nice to have.
Thanks