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Earlier today, Yifan Lu, a well-known member of the Vita hacking scene famous for the Rejuvenate hack for the Dev Assistants, has announced that a new (native!) Vita homebrew enabler for the latest firmware version, as of writing (3.60), will be arriving tomorrow at "9:00AM UTC".

The new hack, known as "HENKaku", will require the following:

• A Vita/PSTV running 3.60
• A memcard with at least 10MB of free space (internal memory is currently not supported!)
• An FTP client
• An internet connection**

**Offline support is now available! Launch the exploit straight from the email app without the need for internet access at all! See the unofficial release thread for more details. (Internet connection still required for installation)


This is a small paragraph of Yifan Lu himself explaining what the properties of this new homebrew enabler does:

HENkaku simply lets you install homebrew as bubbles in LiveArea. It is a native hack that disables the filesystem sandbox. It installs molecularShell, a fork of VitaShell that lets you access the memory card over FTP and install homebrew packages (which we create as VPK files). With vita-toolchain, developers have access to the same system features licensed developers have access to as well as undocumented features that licensed developers cannot use (including overclocking the processors).

The hack has been released at http://henkaku.me ~ Furthermore, the hack is said to be exclusive to 3.60, and there is to be no backports for the time being.

Source: http://yifan.lu/2016/07/28/henkaku-vita-homebrew-for-everyone/

 

[CloudStrife1901]

Has anybody figured out what the special surprise is?

 

[jen171995]

So happy the vita scene is exploding so quickly, I've been waiting for this to happen for so long, as many of us have. We can really see how truly remarkable the Vita is without Sony dumbing it down. Keep up the good work, guys! So excited for this handheld's future! Cheers

 

[hiroakihsu]

Henkaku site seems to be down right now...Too many people trying to access?

 

[CoreMessageInspector]

Henkaku site seems to be down right now...Too many people trying to access?

3 options:
1. sony got angry (i think they might got pissed off but HEY Sony why you bother?
thank you for trying to killing the Vita before, *** you Swallowy)
2. site is down because of maintenance work
3. too many people as you already said

EDIT
website works again !
EDIT 2
Again offline..

 

[laharl22]

i have no access

 

[Deleted User]

I don't have access either.

Luckily, I have an old payload from the 29th July, so I could always attempt to host it on my website, perhaps.
I'll look into this the best I can!

 

[ayy lmao]

Its down on me too. I just wanted to see the new downloads.

 

[alucard_xs]

The surprise is an overclock mode.

 

[ayy lmao]

Did sony already stopped it? Why are they killing the Vita even more?

 

[naughtyotsel]

it works for me...

 

[CoreMessageInspector]

The surprise is an overclock mode.

really?

 

[metroid maniac]

really?

We already can overclock to 444MHz

 

[CoreMessageInspector]

We already can overclock to 444MHz

yeah i know that but sony has underclocked the vita at factory while the cortex is capable up to 2 ghz
is this form of overclock the suprise now?

 

[alucard_xs]

444 is the normal core buddy
The overclock mode will be higher.

 

[CoreMessageInspector]

444 is the normal core buddy
The overclock mode will be higher.

awesome!
good news!

 

[laharl22]

It work for someone henkaku.xyz?

 

[ayy lmao]

It work for someone henkaku.xyz?

Its back now

 

[Deleted User]

Not for me, it isn't... :/

 

[jen171995]

It's not back for me either

 

[ayy lmao]

Nevermind, it crashed again, the servers are probably overloaded