Playstation Vita and Playstation TV "jailbreak" has been released - Polidicks

[QUOTE] [IMG]http://i16.kanobu.net/r/9fd1163c5b6926e78ba48bbc66b1d545/1040x-/u.kanobu.ru/editor/images/51/80b8dd71-7ec6-4c80-a7c6-674fbe39e446.jpg[/IMG] What is HENkaku? VitaDoom HENkaku is the first ever homebrew enabler for PS Vita and PSTV. It is akin to jailbreaking your iPhone or rooting your Android device. Homebrew are games and other software not officially approved. For example, VitaDoom is a port of the classic game DOOM and mGBA lets you play Game Boy Advance ROMs. You can find more examples in the showcase. Best of all, HENkaku is 100% free. No cost. No ads. No “donations”.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://henkaku.xyz/"]http://henkaku.xyz/[/URL]

Eh, unless it can run PSV and PSP backups I'm not interested.

[QUOTE=EditOutJ;50797309]Eh, unless it can run PSV and PSP backups I'm not interested.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]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.[/QUOTE]

Ah balls. I updated recently to 3.36. However at this point they've basically killed off the Vita and with it most of my interest. Nowadays I only use the Vita when I'm far from home. The killer app for Vita would've been wider-reaching backwards compatibility for PSP. No such luck though.

[QUOTE=Im Crimson;50797844]Ah balls. I updated recently to 3.36. However at this point they've basically killed off the Vita and with it most of my interest. Nowadays I only use the Vita when I'm far from home. The killer app for Vita would've been wider-reaching backwards compatibility for PSP. No such luck though.[/QUOTE] The jailbreak is for 3.60, that's the latest firmware. I just did it myself.

Time to dust off my Vita

...And there goes all the remaining English releases of games... The PirateStationPortable might have survived for a solid 6 years in the west in spite of a jailbreak, but that was because it sold 80 million. The Vita does not have that advantage.

[QUOTE=certified;50798256]...And there goes all the remaining English releases of games... The PirateStationPortable might have survived for a solid 6 years in the west in spite of a jailbreak, but that was because it sold 80 million. The Vita does not have that advantage.[/QUOTE] At this point the Vita is just a dumping place for Visual Novels anyways and or to cater to the handhold crowd of the Sony fanbase.

[QUOTE=FezianEmperor;50798297]At this point the Vita is just a dumping place for Visual Novels anyways and or to cater to the handhold crowd of the Sony fanbase.[/QUOTE] Yeah well, color me a bit salty after the PSP killed the localization prospects of the once grand Phantasy Star series (Seriously, before Halo 3 and CoD4, Phantasy Star Universe was [B][I]THE[/I][/B] game to get a 360 for, alongside Dead Rising) and Valkyria Chronicles (Literally the only western releases of the series since VC2 have been two ports of VC1 - Meanwhile a new game comes out this year and we have no word on localization yet.)

hey, it's semi-tethered

Maybe there'll actually be games worth buying the device for now.

[QUOTE=Rika-chan;50798080]Time to dust off my Vita[/QUOTE] i haven't touched mine since like a week after it released, i bet it's vulnerable to everything

[QUOTE=Giraffen93;50798757]i haven't touched mine since like a week after it released, i bet it's vulnerable to everything[/QUOTE] I played alot of Binding of Issac Rebirth on mine but I haven't touched it since I platinumed Steins;Gate

Now I just have to find my Vita. Still doesn't sound like there is much interesting stuff for it though.

[I]"We don't want people to use our hack for piracy. We're going to make it as hard as possible to pirate games with our hack. We are better than that. ...So anyway, check out all these emulators you can use to play pirated copies of classic games!"[/I] I don't have anything against emulators, but I always laugh at this kind of statement. You want to take such a righteous and proud stance against piracy, yet one of the first things you show off is emulators that can play pirated games. Same thing happened on 3DS and PS4 when they first got hacked. I get that emulators themselves are not piracy, but how many people do you really believe have actual legal backups of their Sega Genesis library?

[QUOTE=Giraffen93;50798757]i haven't touched mine since like a week after it released, i bet it's vulnerable to everything[/QUOTE] sony actually learned from the psp where it wont do any media transfers between pc and vita when theres a update avalible and other things. this hack gets around all that though

So how long until Debian is ported to it?

First the iOS 9.2 - 9.3 jailbreak and now this :dance:

[QUOTE=Shugo;50804577][I]"We don't want people to use our hack for piracy. We're going to make it as hard as possible to pirate games with our hack. We are better than that. ...So anyway, check out all these emulators you can use to play pirated copies of classic games!"[/I] I don't have anything against emulators, but I always laugh at this kind of statement. You want to take such a righteous and proud stance against piracy, yet one of the first things you show off is emulators that can play pirated games. Same thing happened on 3DS and PS4 when they first got hacked. I get that emulators themselves are not piracy, but how many people do you really believe have actual legal backups of their Sega Genesis library?[/QUOTE] Do you really not see why they are doing this? Piracy on vita would easily finish off an already dying console, which is what they are trying to avoid. This is entierly different from some old consoles and games, all of which arent even sold anymore.

Piracy is usually used as the excuse to close homebrew creating exploits. Not necessarily a bad idea that they're trying to prevent it but it won't work.

Update your vita today before Sony releases a patch if you want this to work. Mine was on 3.55 and hankaku said its not supported.

Yeah, I don't really care about Doom and GBA games on my Vita. I can just do that on my phone.

[QUOTE=MightyLOLZOR;50806200]Yeah, I don't really care about Doom and GBA games on my Vita. I can just do that on my phone.[/QUOTE] To be fair, vita has an advantage of having physical controls, and I cant really stand the touchscreen joysticks for playing gamea

"You must do this every time you reboot the console–that is, every time you turn the console off and on again." Wow guess I'll have to leave it on during road trips

[QUOTE=Shugo;50804577][I]"We don't want people to use our hack for piracy. We're going to make it as hard as possible to pirate games with our hack. We are better than that. ...So anyway, check out all these emulators you can use to play pirated copies of classic games!"[/I] I don't have anything against emulators, but I always laugh at this kind of statement. You want to take such a righteous and proud stance against piracy, yet one of the first things you show off is emulators that can play pirated games. Same thing happened on 3DS and PS4 when they first got hacked. I get that emulators themselves are not piracy, but how many people do you really believe have actual legal backups of their Sega Genesis library?[/QUOTE] There's a pretty fucking huge difference between pirating recently released games and pirating games that are 20 years old that aren't being sold by any real distributors anywhere and no real sales of those games would go to any of the original creators or publishers of those games.

[QUOTE=Tuskin;50806415]"You must do this every time you reboot the console–that is, every time you turn the console off and on again." Wow guess I'll have to leave it on during road trips[/QUOTE] Turning off as if manually rebooting it or having the battery tun out Not when you press the button on top to make the screen go dark, thats putting it to sleep

[QUOTE=Shugo;50804577][I]"We don't want people to use our hack for piracy. We're going to make it as hard as possible to pirate games with our hack. We are better than that. ...So anyway, check out all these emulators you can use to play pirated copies of classic games!"[/I] I don't have anything against emulators, but I always laugh at this kind of statement. You want to take such a righteous and proud stance against piracy, yet one of the first things you show off is emulators that can play pirated games. Same thing happened on 3DS and PS4 when they first got hacked. I get that emulators themselves are not piracy, but how many people do you really believe have actual legal backups of their Sega Genesis library?[/QUOTE] iirc There's already a flashcard for the Vita, except it works with internet

[QUOTE=WhyNott;50806254]To be fair, vita has an advantage of having physical controls, and I cant really stand the touchscreen joysticks for playing gamea[/QUOTE] Apparently the GBA emulator runs like ass though

[QUOTE=WhyNott;50805705]Do you really not see why they are doing this? Piracy on vita would easily finish off an already dying console, which is what they are trying to avoid. This is entierly different from some old consoles and games, all of which arent even sold anymore.[/QUOTE] I'm not so sure, the dreamcast got way better sales after people figures out how to pirate on it.

[QUOTE=Rika-chan;50807994]Apparently the GBA emulator runs like ass though[/QUOTE] Yeah, sometimes the frame rate just halves on GBA games, GBC and GB games seem to be working fine The SNES emulator works great.