6.61 Adrenaline-4.2 released – ISO sorting with Game Categories Lite
Like Adrenaline v4.1, this is yet another minor update. That means that ‘TheFlow’ is still looking how to improve our user experience and since you can update via the network update, there’s really no reason not to update.
What’s Adrenaline?
Adrenaline is probably the most popular hack that runs in taiHEN 3.60. Thanks to Adrenaline you may do the following on your hacked PSVita/PSTV:
- Play PSP games and homebrew
- Run homebrew that needs 64MB of RAM
- Use PSP plugins and the recovery menu
- Use the original PSP XMB with all the features
- Do savestates
- Apply screen filters to your games
- Use the right analogue stick if your the game you wish to play has a patch (Camera Patch Lite has a lot of patches)
- A lot of other features that make the Vita superior over the PSP.. at being a PSP
What’s changed/got updated in 6.61 Adrenaline-4.2?
The following bug fixes have been implemented:
- Support for sorting PSP ISO/CSO games with the ‘Game Categories Lite’ plugin. If you use this plugin, you can sort your PSP games into sections because before the only way to get ISOs to show up was the use the Uncategorised section.
- The English Patch for Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep now works properly
This, obviously, is a relatively minor update but I suggest you update to get the latest bug fixes!
How do I get it?
You can use the Network system update function via XMB (like normal PSP updates). If you use this, you must do a new access point as dummy access points like Adrenaline 4.1 required don’t work anymore (for me at least). When you do a new access point, it works as it would normally on a PSP. If you’re installing it for the first time, I suggest using Adrenaline Easy Installer 1.13 which is updated for 6.61 Adrenaline-4.2. The image of this article has the CXMB plugin with the Ika Musume (Squid Girl) theme that is not included in Adrenaline!
Changelog + download link (for manual installation): https://github.com/TheOfficialFloW/Adrenaline/releases/tag/v4.2
Adrenaline Easy Installer (requires system permissions so get it from a trusted source like this one): https://github.com/Freakler/vita-AdrenalineEasyInstaller/releases/tag/v1.13
N.B: If you use savestates, they’ll disappear when you update! You can fix this by installing Adrenaline States Manager (covered a few hours ago on Wololo) and changing the save state version. It should work well as it’s okay with Chrono Trigger.

F1rst!!
Adrenaline was acting pretty funky for me moments ago. It must’ve been the update.
like v4.1 this gives me error 20000006 on PS TV, on Vita it works fine when using update via XMB
“there’s really no reason to update” *** the zett. LOL.
“…since you can update via the network update, there’s really no reason to update.” Maybe you want to have a look at that sentence again 😀
Yas yas, I know. Had a mistake ;p If one knows what they’re reading, they should get the context 🙂
I was about to comment on that. :p
@bigbow “like v4.1 this gives me error 20000006 on PS TV”
I use 4.1 on PSTV and did not see that error. I will try this update soon. I’m kicked right back in to playing PSP- born again. Castlevania and Ultimate Ghost & Goblins. Love em’.
Thank You Flow and everyone else involved!
Now this is what I like KHBBS now working
great update! thanks to TheFlow for doing this! my main issue with v4.1 and v4 were that they caused CXMB to stop working and categories lite to not recognize iso files.. but now even categories lite fully works, and so does CXMB. plus kingdom hearts works now? an even sweeter reason to update. pretty sick.
I love Adrenaline.
But I think it’s quite sad that, at least for me, the best thing on the Vita is an Emulator for the PSP…
Btw.: Is Tonbo away?
That’s cool ^^
Howdy y’all! I am ***.
What? Who let you of your chains? xD
Trolls shouldn’t run wild 😉
Henkaku is way better than the PSP emulator, what are you even talking about?
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Henkaku is the enabler, Adrenaline is the Homebrew. It’s like saying “Microsoft is better than Office”. It makes no real sense. Yea, Henkaku IS the greatest thing on the Vita. But it “only” allows unsigned Homebrew to run, like Adrenaline. I didn’t count it in. (if i would, i could say that Sony’s OFW is better than Henkaku)
we need ark-3 *** it!!
Ha! Aurora is actually The_Zett lol! The weeb uses the same anime girl in his articles just like before! Busteed!
Do I need to have a psp game on my psVita in order to install this?
Not really. There’s a “Bubble Installer” by CelesteBlue. And I think the Adrenaline EasyInstaller could make the Bubble to, if you have one. 😉
I owned a psp game from the psn, but i’m using a bubble by one of these two to install.
Of course I mean “if you have NONE” not “one” xD
Thanks for the article, Aurora. Looking forward to future updates.
Haha xD
Looks like v5 is out.
Yeah. it is out now…
Looks like Aurora, oops I mean The_Zett forgot to post about it.
Thanks for the info.
I trust wololo.net so much, that i sometimes think “if it’s not written here, it does not exist”.. that, of course, is naive.
“Minor update”?? Fixing the gclite plugin was a big deal for many of us.