Playstation Vita Discussion Thread

[ChrisL]

I believe it's that Wololo thing that he mentioned a few pages back. Unfortunately, I believe that all the PSP games with the exploit have been removed from the PS Store.

[x999x]

Yeah, I originally looked in to the homebrew avenue when I first got my vita and the exploits were still available. Unfortunately it put me in a predicament I've never had to deal with as a non-sony user for so long: needing to connect to PSN on a "current" firmware.

For some reason Ridge Racer hits up PSN a lot when you check your team's global standings, and unless you're current, it just won't connect at all... Definitely not a fan of putting up gates to prevent access to your game data, but I guess sony wants to play tough and make users decide whats more important to them, homebrew/emulators, or access to obscure facets of PSN.

Sigh

[tygamr]

Yeah, I mentioned it a while ago. It's called the Half Byte Loader or HBL. It doesn't change or modify anything on your system, unlike a jailbreak or custom firmware. It just takes advantage of vulnerabilities in games and allows homebrew software to run.

Motorstorm: Artic Edge and Everyone's Tennis were the first games used for the VHBL, but only worked on firmware 1.61 or lower, and have since been patched. Super Collapse 3 is the latest game, and it works on the latest firmware (1.67). It has already been pulled from PSN though. So you'll either have to have the game downloaded already, or wait until they find another game with exploits.

It should be noted that they release the name of the game privately to community members a week before they publicly release it- so that people can get it before Sony pulls it down.

[x999x]

Originally Posted by tygamr

Yeah, I mentioned it a while ago. It's called the Half Byte Loader or HBL. It doesn't change or modify anything on your system, unlike a jailbreak or custom firmware. It just takes advantage of vulnerabilities in games and allows homebrew software to run.

Motorstorm: Artic Edge and Everyone's Tennis were the first games used for the VHBL, but only worked on firmware 1.61 or lower, and have since been patched. Super Collapse 3 is the latest game, and it works on the latest firmware (1.67). It has already been pulled from PSN though. So you'll either have to have the game downloaded already, or wait until they find another game with exploits.

It should be noted that they release the name of the game privately to community members a week before they publicly release it- so that people can get it before Sony pulls it down.

/palmface

Leave it to me to stop checking the scene news on vita the one time I should have :\

[Haruhi]

According to a post on reddit, a PS1 game is showing up on the EU Vita PSN Store. It's most likely a glitch but interesting regardless.

[x999x]

that psone in the background is a nice touch

[S.I.D. CrAzY]

Originally Posted by tygamr

Yeah, I mentioned it a while ago. It's called the Half Byte Loader or HBL. It doesn't change or modify anything on your system, unlike a jailbreak or custom firmware. It just takes advantage of vulnerabilities in games and allows homebrew software to run.

Motorstorm: Artic Edge and Everyone's Tennis were the first games used for the VHBL, but only worked on firmware 1.61 or lower, and have since been patched. Super Collapse 3 is the latest game, and it works on the latest firmware (1.67). It has already been pulled from PSN though. So you'll either have to have the game downloaded already, or wait until they find another game with exploits.

It should be noted that they release the name of the game privately to community members a week before they publicly release it- so that people can get it before Sony pulls it down.

@Fireball and LucianOrb, pretty much this. Summed up exactly what I would've said to you guys.

If you have Super Collapse 3 already, just google Wololo for help on getting homebrew on your Vita, if you need any help let me know

[Teknikal]

Originally Posted by x999x

that psone in the background is a nice touch

I never even noticed that, until you pointed it out I was thinking yuck no background.


Still think it's looks plain even now though.

[x999x]

I had a little time to kill this morning after finding a ps3 script for downloading youtube and dailymotion mp4 files. With a little retooling they work just fine on the Vita

Have at the link below on your vita, I've put some instructions up on how to install the bookmarklet and save the video to your Vita.

I'll post a video how-to a little later.

http://dezign999.com/vita

[tygamr]

Originally Posted by x999x

I had a little time to kill this morning after finding a ps3 script for downloading youtube and dailymotion mp4 files. With a little retooling they work just fine on the Vita

Have at the link below on your vita, I've put some instructions up on how to install the bookmarklet and save the video to your Vita.

I'll post a video how-to a little later.

http://dezign999.com/vita

That is awesome! Thanks. Hopefully Sony adds HTML video support soon. Really annoys me that they gimped the browser like they did (it has HTML5, but lacks the bits required for audio and video support).