VHBL’s wMenu goes open source
Exactly 3 years ago, I announced the release of wMenu for HBL (Half Byte Loader). The early releases of HBL shipped with an embedded menu that was not nice looking and caused some headaches...
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PS Vita 2.10: Sony’s ‘stability improvements’
PS Vita’s Firmware 2.10 was recently released, and we already know that Sony blocked the Apache Overkill VHBL, but this update comes with quite a few hidden surprises called “stability improvements” 😮
[Tutorial] Finding VHBL exploits without a PSP!
Finding PSP exploits without owning a PSP was considered impossible because of the absence of PSPLink. But now, PSP emulators are finally starting to behave like the real thing. They have become so accurate...
[PSP] Pro Online might become available for Phat models, and why that could be good news for VHBL users
Famous scene hacker Coldbird, one of the core developers of the Pro CFW, announced a few weeks ago on the prometheus forums that the “online” feature of Pro Online might become available to Phat...
ISO Loaders & why they don’t work on HBL
The most requested feature ever for the HBL, is an iso loader: many “developers” promised the release of an iso loader for HBL, but nobody managed to code one so far. To understand what...
Syscalls, NIDs, Imports??
Syscalls, NIDs, Imports?? If you know what HBL is, you have at least heard one of those three terms, especially “syscall”. Most time spent on developing HBL was trying to improve syscall estimation (even...
The exploit factory
I just submitted an update to file “gen_exploit_config.rb” in the HBL svn, you can find the file here. That file is experimental (and also in need of some massive cleanup), but basically it should...
Another PSP Hello world running on the Vita!
Developer Yosh (a.k.a. wth) recently found another savegame exploit on a PSP game, which he confirmed to work on the vita (video below).
HBL confirmed to run fine on Vita’s firmware 1.52
Today developer SKFU was able to confirm that my port of HBL to Teck4’s exploit is still working on 1.52 (this also means that Teck4’s exploit is still here on 1.52, which had been...
Vita firmware 1.52 does *not* patch Teck4’s exploit
Mamosuke confirmed to me today that Teck4’s exploit for the PSP Emulator in the vita is still working on 1.52. Note that it doesn’t guarantee 100% that some of the techniques used to get...
