PS3HEN along with an offline loader released: You can finally use Homebrew and some CFW features on SuperSlim and Late Slim PlayStation 3 Consoles!
Ever since day one, PS3 consoles whose minimum firmware version was 3.60 were seen second-class citizens and couldn’t make use of all the hacks the PS3 scene had to offer. However, that has now changed because PS3HEN has been released which gives these consoles the ability to run homebrew and other CFW features!
What is PS3HEN?
If your PS3 is too modern to install CFW, PS3HEN will finally give you the ability to install homebrew and do other CFW-esque stuff! (Image from the PSX-Place link below)
PS3HEN, released a few hours ago by an anonymous developer, is a hack for nonCFW PlayStation 3 consoles (i.e late Slim models and SuperSlim models whose minimum FW is 3.60+); these are the consoles that are not compatible with the PS3Xploit NAND/NOR flasher which lets you install a CFW, such as Rebug, on your PS3. This hack is compatible with HFW 4.84.2, an exploitable firmware that’s installable on any PlayStation 3 console through the regular PS3 firmware installation mechanism.
Among the features that PS3HEN includes, we find:
- Support for homebrew and boot plugins so that you can install emulators, like RetroArch cores, and numerous utilities like MultiMan and ManaGunZ
- Support for PSXISO, BDISO and BD/DVD region patches
- Numerous Syscalls, a Debug PKG installer and PS3MAPI support among other more technical stuff
- A couple of CFW patches including support for installing retail PKGs, remote play with PCs, Rebug themed RCO and XML among other others
How do I install it?
NOTE: THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THIS ARTICLE ARE ONLY VALID FOR PS3HEN 1.X, THE INSTALLATION PROCESS CHANGED WITH PS3HEN 2.0 SO PLEASE FOLLOW THE UPDATED INSTRUCTIONS FOUND HERE.
Installation is pretty simple and doesn’t require any prior knowledge of PS3 hacking if you follow these few easy steps by PSX Place Member @Louay:
- First of all, install HFW 4.84.2 if you haven’t already
You can now use popular tools like MultiMan on your PS3 console although some features might not work, for now at least
- Afterwards, use HAN installer to get Package Manager in the XMB Game column
- Copy the 2 BIN files (PS3HEN.bin and stackframe.bin) and PS3HENTAI.PKG from the PS3HEN.ZIP file (download link below) to the root of a FAT32-formatted pen drive
- Install the PS3HENTAI.PKG file on your PS3 console through XMB from your pen drive (yes, apparently using childish names is not a thing in the PSVita community only but it’s spread to the PS3 community as well)
- Run HEN Enabler through ps3xploit.com
- Alternatively, you can use Jason Borowski’s (@esc0rtd3w) offline HEN loader
- HEN Enabler is now running on your PS3 and you can run homebrew and enjoy more freedom on your nonCFW PS3!
- If you encounter error 80010017 when trying to run homebrew, re-run HEN Enabler as this means that it didn’t run the exploit properly
- It is important to note that some things must not be done with PS3HEN and these are:
- Installing Enable FSM (Source)
- Installing CCAPI (Control Console API)
- Connecting to PSN for the time being as your chance of being banned might be higher since different spoofing techniques may need to be employed
Conclusion
To read more about PS3HEN and learn more about how you can free your nonCFW PlayStation 3 further, check out PSX-Place’s thread below which includes a lot of information about the hack. You should also check out @esc0rtd3w’s Twitter as he’s been releasing PS3HEN-related stuff along with an updated PS3HEN ZIP file (version 1.0.2 as of this article).
PSX-Place’s PS3HEN Thread (Source for this article and has download links for version 1.0.0): https://www.psx-place.com/threads/ps3hen-a-homebrew-enabler-more-for-superslim-all-noncfw-ps3-consoles.23817/
@esc0rtd3w’s Twitter (recent updates regarding PS3HEN): https://twitter.com/esc0rtd3w
PS3HEN’s Source Code: https://github.com/PS3Xploit/PS3HEN
If your PS3 has a minimum FW version of 3.56 or below, you shouldn’t use PS3HEN but instead, you should use PS3Xploit’s NAND/NOR flasher (linked above) to install a full CFW like Rebug!
1. and why childish he saw the oppertunity and used it well hahaha
I find it silly that PS3HEN’s GitHub has a directory called SRC.
why is that silly? that’s the source code
So if CCAPI doesn’t work with PS3HAN, does that mean WebMAN’s server feature won’t work?
Awesome news!!!!
Well i guess “FSM” stands for “F☆ck System Mode” now lulz
So being new to this, does this mean I can actually use my ps3 superslim for games instead of having to buy a Fat/slim PS3? There are a lot of issues with getting some games to work with the super slim.
I wonder If Cobra works so we can play PS2 and PSP games. this wasnt mentioned anywhere in the article or the linked article.
you already can play psp and ps2 via han
Is there any way to check if HFW 4.84.2 is installed properly? My PS3 keeps crashing if I try to enable han (Initializing works) …
Multiman does not support peek/poke i think. so you cant use external hdd’s for games i think and cobra features too.
i’m freezing after i installed the offline package and restarted i enable han and then go to enable hen and the console freezes, i can hard shut down and try again however this has failed twice now
After installing hen on my ps3, some han features stopped working, like soft reset and han stuff browser just dissapeared from the xmb, if I reinstall han it appears again but I lost the hen enabler, so, it seems that you cant have hen and han at the same time and hen brokes some han features.
To be fair “HEN” basically just means “Weird”, even “Hentai” usually translates to “Weirdo” more than “Pervert” depending on context. So the names aren’t quite as childish as they might first appear. It’s pretty much PS3 WEIRD MODE….which well, it is. Just a very good sort of weird 😉
Can you run back ups with this or only homebrew?
Can you run back ups or only homebrew?
You can run homebrew that plays backups
Woooow barely caught on to the hen”tai” lol and the tai folder on Vita after all this time. That’s hilarious
my ps3 slim says “no update data found”, do i need to do it in the recovery menu? i cannot access recovery because i do not have original controller. USB stick is FAT32 and folder structure is the right one.
i had that same problem, but i found out my usb stick had a extra partition that stopped it working.
So i used a pc partition tool and deleted the partition that had been previously created on the usb stick.
i giveaway is your usb showing less free space that it should have.
hope this helped.