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  • Incoming 1.67 VHBL - Game Name Coming Soon!

    Good news for everybody waiting to try out Vita Half-Byte Loader. The latest edition is on it's way to a PS Vita v1.67 firmware near you. More good news, is that this time the exploitable game is available in the US market. Previously, Everybody's Tennis and Motorstorm Arctic Edge where only available in the JP and EU markets.

    Given Son'y/PlayStation's track record of pulling "VHBL games", you can expect for this game to also be pulled from the stores within hours of it's official announcement. In other words, keep an eye out and watch for the next game to be named.


    Hope you didn’t wait too long since our last VHBL release a bit more than 2 weeks ago… This is a new PSP user mode exploit by thecobra (also discovered a while ago by WosRet), which I confirmed runs on a PS Vita with Firmware 1.67. Unlike Motorstorm and Everybody’s Tennis, this game is available in the US store as well as some other countries (details to come). Check the video and details below.

    Thecobra already ported VHBL to this exploit, and we already have something running, that just needs a few tweaks here and there before being released. So far I didn’t see anything that would prevent HBL from running on Vita 1.67, but that will need to be fully confirmed in the days to come.

    The name of the exploited game is obviously kept a secret until the public announcement, and if you don’t want to miss the release, remember that history repeats itself. Sony will most likely remove the game within hours following the announcement, so stay tuned.

    Congrats and thanks to thecobra!


    Source: Wololo
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    Comments 18 Comments
    1. Menace's Avatar
      Menace -
      is it a demo or a full game that u have to buy ?

      looks like a psp game....hope its a demo but i doubt it.
    1. Kragoth26's Avatar
      Kragoth26 -
      I swear to f*cking god if I miss this next title I'll be very pissed. I could've got the last title cause i saw the article in time but they failed to mention that it was HOT SHOTS TENNIS (US) instead they said it was everybody's tennis. Really looking forward to this. Thanks a lot guys for the news. I'm ready this time!
    1. wrathchild's Avatar
      wrathchild -
      It would be funny if the game ended up being Dream Club ZERO. After all it was the reason the 1.67 update was released in the fist place. I will laugh my ass off if it is.
    1. futuretime23's Avatar
      futuretime23 -
      and what about if its uncharted golden abyss? ,i will actually be surprised if the next game after this one to enable vhbl is mortal kombat 9.
    1. soratheultima's Avatar
      soratheultima -
      no ps vita game will work with VHBL. only PSP games that you get from the psn
    1. futuretime23's Avatar
      futuretime23 -
      ah ok,but who knows,one day that could happen...
    1. krytonic's Avatar
      krytonic -
      Quote Originally Posted by futuretime23 View Post
      ah ok,but who knows,one day that could happen...
      Not to hack the PSP emulator it won't happen.
    1. Blueprint88's Avatar
      Blueprint88 -
      Well this time I am ready as well. Just got a $50 PSN card and updated to 1.67. I hope the game is reasonably decent as the PSP PSN tiltles are wayyyyyy overpriced. I mean they want $20-$30 for most of them and you could get them on UMD used for like 10 now. Really mad they didn't allow some type of UMD upload process like originally promised. All PSN PSP should be like 15 and under and then they would sell the stuff, even to us people having to buy it twice. I loved games like NCB and EOJ on PSP and would like to play on vita but won't buy again at full price....Am I wrong here or does this bother others?
    1. Kragoth26's Avatar
      Kragoth26 -
      Quote Originally Posted by Blueprint88 View Post
      ....Am I wrong here or does this bother others?
      I am quite disgruntled about how the vita has been doing business. Good Psp minis don't carry over either. I wasnt very happy about no cross play with dungeon hunter as I have purchased it for ps3. Anyways, I'm just ready to get out of this 'no game selection' launch syndrome. Happends I guess...
    1. 12gage's Avatar
      12gage -
      Quote Originally Posted by Blueprint88 View Post
      Well this time I am ready as well. Just got a $50 PSN card and updated to 1.67. I hope the game is reasonably decent as the PSP PSN tiltles are wayyyyyy overpriced. I mean they want $20-$30 for most of them and you could get them on UMD used for like 10 now. Really mad they didn't allow some type of UMD upload process like originally promised. All PSN PSP should be like 15 and under and then they would sell the stuff, even to us people having to buy it twice. I loved games like NCB and EOJ on PSP and would like to play on vita but won't buy again at full price....Am I wrong here or does this bother others?
      I agree, I wanted to get UFC but I don't want to pay $30 again for something I could play on my old fat psp for free
    1. Goku1992's Avatar
      Goku1992 -
      Not to shit on anyones parade lol but why bother hacking this?

      Psp is like the king of the handhelds (it really is)

      Why play emulators that already exist on the psp we already know that Sony is going to treat the vita like the ps3 but I seriously doubt this thing will be cracked open like the psp

      Speaking about the psp, why didn't Sony take any legal action when the psp god (dark Alex) cracked open the psp like an egg?
    1. tthousand's Avatar
      tthousand -
      Quote Originally Posted by Goku1992 View Post
      Not to shit on anyones parade lol but why bother hacking this?

      Psp is like the king of the handhelds (it really is)

      Why play emulators that already exist on the psp we already know that Sony is going to treat the vita like the ps3 but I seriously doubt this thing will be cracked open like the psp

      Speaking about the psp, why didn't Sony take any legal action when the psp god (dark Alex) cracked open the psp like an egg?
      Perhaps they could not find him.

      As for wanting to exploit your own PS Vita, that is a personal choice. For me, I have no games yet for my PS Vita, so I might as well go and enjoy some homebrew on it while I wait for some quality titles to be released.
    1. futuretime23's Avatar
      futuretime23 -
      for me,even with sony having control of ps vita,ps vita got hacked much faster than the ps3,i still consider the ps3 as the toughest to hack of all the sony systems.
    1. Goku1992's Avatar
      Goku1992 -
      @tthousand

      Ahh okay I see because it's funny because as far as I remember Sony wasn't so tough on the psp firmware updates like they are on the PS3

      @futuretime23

      Yeah honestly I was surprised I hope the vita gets fully hacked one day but not anytime soon or the vita wont produce any quality games since the developers might go cold turkey like they did with the psp.
    1. wrathchild's Avatar
      wrathchild -
      I sure hope they don't announce the game while PSN is doing their maintenance today. That would really suck.
    1. yes159's Avatar
      yes159 -
      Quote Originally Posted by wrathchild View Post
      It would be funny if the game ended up being Dream Club ZERO. After all it was the reason the 1.67 update was released in the fist place. I will laugh my ass off if it is.
      Dream Club Zero is a Vita game, VHBL is only for PSP games.
    1. badsnoopdog's Avatar
      badsnoopdog -
      Quote Originally Posted by yes159 View Post
      Dream Club Zero is a Vita game, VHBL is only for PSP games.
      if i was putting my money on a title it would be a first party title like socom or god of war
    1. asadi300's Avatar
      asadi300 -
      the psp game is Super Collapse 3 for VHBL