Parental Controls Bypass and HENkakuSettingsMod released
Small tweaks and utilities are what, in my opinion, make a console’s homebrew scene really complete. Customisability and a utility for every imaginable situation are things that should always be warmly welcomed. Parental Controls Bypass can save you a headache in the right situation and HENkakuSettingsMod lets you change the position of the HENkaku settings in the Settings app.
What’s Parental Control Bypass?
As the name suggests, it lets you get across parental controls on your PSVita. This can be very useful if you buy a Vita with parental controls set up or if you dig up some old Vita that you haven’t used for ages that has parental controls. It would also help you if someone tried to play a prank on you by locking you out of most of your Vita 😉
After you install this utility and open it, you will be asked to enter a new passcode without having to know the old one. It’s that simple! Just put a new passcode in place, turn off parental controls and forget about it. Obviously, avoid using it if the device isn’t yours…
The parental controls screen we probably haven’t thought about much
What’s HENkakuSettingsMod?
This little hack has a name, that in my opinion, is a bit too dramatic. Its purpose is to put the HENkaku settings that have been available since HENkaku/taiHEN R9 at the bottom of settings rather than on top. This makes the settings look better and you’ll avoid accidentally pressing the System Update option in settings (we all know how disastrous that is..). To install this you need to do the following:
- Download the ‘suprx’ file from the link below (it’s a plugin hence the extension)
- Open config.txt on your Vita or an FTP program (or via USB)
- Under *NPX100015 and *NPXS10016, replace henkaku.suprx to where you have placed settingsbottom.suprx. (A typical directory is ux0:/tai/settingsbottom.suprx but your path may be different)
- Reload the configuration file via MolecularShell or reboot
- Close (if it’s open) and re-open the settings app and enjoy!
HENkaku settings in the settings app. MolecularShell may still be used
Conclusion
Both release have been created by ‘SilicaAndPina’. Make sure to report any issues to him on Twitter/GitHub and look at the source code if you think that his stuff is malicious (get over it, already!). Make sure you get the releases from safe links (linked to below) to avoid any malware on your system.
Parental Control Bypass GitHub page (download link + info): https://github.com/SilicaAndPina/ParentalControlBypass/releases/tag/v1.0
HENkakuSettingsMod GitHub page (download link + info): https://github.com/SilicaAndPina/henkakuSettingsMod/releases/tag/r10
Love how you deliberately left out the main reason anyone would use ‘Parental Control Bypass’. If they’re a kid and their parents setup parental controls on their Vita, and they want to get around them.
The other situations you mentioned are so, so niche it’s not even funny.
Love how you deliberately left out the main reason anyone would use the first app. If they’re a kid who had parental controls on their Vita by their guardians, and they want to get around them.
The other situations you mentioned are so, so niche it’s not even funny.
Well, we don’t want any parents blaming us that we’re allowing their children to play FPS games (not that there are many good ones on the Vita anyway). Hmm, odd situations do arise.
Next in the news: mom sends angry letter to sony asking them to patch the hack..
not realizing they did that last year.. >_>
Next in the news, you are a POS that does nothing for the scene. You are so toxic. Turn away from this leaker and shun him from the community. He leaked Enso and who knows what malicious code he put in.
Killzone was actually dang good.
Freedom Wars has some shooter elements as well, and is a really solid game.
There are 2 good examples of great shooter games for the Vita.
You even have PSNow, though I don’t know how parental contols affect it as I don’t have any use for them.
Sadly, with piracy being an easy thing, acessing these games and removing parental controls are childs play (pun intended).
This is a great tool for parents to recover forgotten passwords, but we need some meathod of restricting content or even restricting the control of henkaku for actual kids thats way better than a 4 digit password that could be forgotten.
@Wololo
Isn’t it about time you dumbed down that word filter on your website? I can’t even imagine the amount of work it’d require for you and your staff to manage this ridiculous filter. Every second word seems to be blacklisted.
True, true.
Sigh, just use registry editor by devnoname120 or some1 for bypassing parent control, just another useless bubble on your screen, when there’s app that can do it all.
Please stop giving this guy the attention he so desperately craves.
Why the need for the parental bypass when you can both see and change the code with the Vita Registry Editor? S&P had an “evil” tweet once upon a time about that very thing; unless this is his attempt at creating a safer alternative to not land in that pitfall…
By the way, you can find the password to almost everything in your vita by regeditor.
Parental control bypasser isnt going to be very useful since you can just find out the password using registry editor
I thought the ultimate PS parential bypass-code was/is 0000 ( four times zero )
Sorry to everybody that I’m blowin that whizzle
but I was a little wondering when I saw this release
cause I use this code since years on PSP’s that I bought on fleamarkets for little money. Just 4 hobby modding.
I can’t remember if I done this on my 3 vita’s too.
And to you parents : don’ belive the hype. You should be more afraid of the flourite in the water your family drinks or the chemtrails in the sky , whatever , than this.
My 12 yrs. old has a 5 yrs. older brother. He knows evrything from him since day one.
I can’t separate him from that , because it’s familylife too.
Parents. You should play these games hand to hand with your kids ,
watch the flow ,
if they hyperventilate ,
start the pause , get some drink and food and chill .
Talk about what happend .
You have the control.
They will love you.