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HENKaku -- Vita Homebrew and more comes to all 3.60 Vitas
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Unknown Soldier
Member
Are you going to it from a fresh boot? Turn the Vita off, then turn it on again. Have no app or game tabs open. You may have to remove any game cartridge you have inserted. Make sure your memory card has free space on it beyond like the minimum 40 MB that triggers the low space warning. Launch the browser and close all other browser tabs you might have open before you trigger the exploit.
Thanks, I had a game inside but it installed anyway because the vita was frozen on the web page and it kept looping the error until it finally worked.
Greatest Ever
Member
Bought a cheap secondhand Vita for $30, had Henkaku, Vitamin, the offline thingy, a few homebrew apps (Vita Doom), and Snes9x on it. What popular systems work for emulating on this? What's the best way to increase FPS on SNES emulation?
FantasticMrSnake
Member
Do you have a memory card? I think it's mandatory to have one.
Did you restart your console/? try rebuilding the database.
In my experience sometimes it just doesn't want to take without a reboot as others have suggested.
NormalFish
Banned
So is the retroarch psx emulator working well? Might try it out tonight with some of my shmups and more obscure titles that haven't been tried.
TheFloW doing good work again.
Also, there's some more drama in the scene, since Acid_Snake asked for a Vita or donations to buy one in order to help Coldbird work on the port of ARK for 3.60, but Yifan and others are still mad at him for releasing all those exploits without permission back then. You know, drama.
But the ARK port is being worked on, and it seems that it will have a few nice improvements over the vanilla ePSP
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
What kind of upscaling are they planning on doing? Anything other than actually running the games at higher resolution seems counter-intuitive since the games already scale perfectly with nearest neighbor scaling.
Running games at native res on Vita would be neat. Wonder how much benefit that would have on PSTV though.
Running games at native res on Vita would be neat. Wonder how much benefit that would have on PSTV though.
Unknown Soldier
Member
Native Vita games look way better than PSP games do using the official ePSP on PSTV.
I played through Fate/Extra on a PSTV. Each upscaled native PSP resolution 480x272 pixel was literally an inch wide on my 65" 4K TV. It turns out that scaling 480x272 to 3840x2160 has, uh, certain limitations on how good it can look.
Necromanti
Member
Overclocking made Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time totally smooth where the framerate was previously very inconsistent. It is so much more playable now.
I...I think I finally like my Vita. I can't believe this.
(Now I just need a way to fix the load times in Gravity Rush.)
I...I think I finally like my Vita. I can't believe this.
(Now I just need a way to fix the load times in Gravity Rush.)
How would you edit them?
How do you overclock?
Depends on if they're doing scaling and filtering or they're actually rendering 3D at higher resolutions.
I just want to play Outrun C2C without slowdown! Actually quite happy if they didn't upscale at all, I still think PSP games look pretty good regardless.
Yup, I tried it with Sonic Racing Transformed.
Only thing, I can't seem to get my saves to work with the dumped game. I used vita save manager, but maybe I did something wrong. It's making me hold off on dumping more games for the moment.
But i'd like to try these games with OC:
Unit 13 (bad framerate in shootouts)
NFS Most Wanted (bad framerate in general)
Metal Gear 2/3 (Some areas ran at 60fps, some at 30fps)
Uncharted (Not terrible, but could use some speedup)
Wish all games had the option to unlock the framerate, would be cool to see if resogun could run 60fps.
Killzone mercenery might be cool too. There were times the framerate took a hit, or the resolution dynamically dropped. Videos on youtube show that the resolution is more solid.
Also, the Wipeout 2048 HD/Fury DLC. The PS3 levels weren't as optimized and ran worse.
You have to dump your game with Vitamin and re-install with Vitashell. then install the Amphetamine? If done correctly, press select when you boot a dumped/decrypted game and you can up the clockrate.
Is there any chance of that bricking the Vita or something? Corpse Party ran like shit so I'd be tempted to play that again with Amphetamine, but I'm cautious about using stuff like that.
Muskieratboi
Member
Not by itself.
Unknown Soldier
Member
The solution for that is Gravity Rush Remastered on PS4.
Necromanti
Member
I did it slightly differently in that I dumped all my games using the MaiDump tool, but it should work with games installed with either that or Vitamin.
(I got BetterAmphetamine from here.)
I think the worst thing that could happen is that the game wouldn't run any differently and that the battery will drain more. And if it crashed, it wouldn't matter since the settings aren't saved the next time you launch the game.
I already knew that would be the answer, haha. I was in denial.
It definitely should work if they're in the right folders and that the save files match the dump version/region/etc.
Lunarwhale
Member
I'm curious - how much worse is the battery life with the Amphetamine overclocks? I don't have access to my Vita right now (lending it to someone), but I'm thinking of using it with an Atelier game when I get it back to try to get the framerate to be a bit less garbage.
As of today, all of the cores of RetroArch Vita can be accessed by a single bubble, just like on PC:
https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/playstation/vita/
It's still being implemented, so things may break, but still, the option is there.
https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/playstation/vita/
It's still being implemented, so things may break, but still, the option is there.
Damn! Things are going well for this. There are also some commits that reflect changes from vitasdk which seems to be run by yifanlu. This is really exciting stuff.
Ok thanks. Perfect time to try out Blood Drive again with Halloween just around the corner.
It works really well! Cores take a couple of seconds to load, but haven't run into any issues so far.
Does the retroark.vpk contain all the emulators? Are the other vpks still standalone? Man the archive is starting to become big and there's still no amiga emulator
Thanks for the info. So it is a gateway to piracy, I gather.
Does the retroark.vpk contain all the emulators? Are the other vpks still standalone? Man the archive is starting to become big and there's still no amiga emulator
Yeah it should have all the cores in there.
Installing any of the others would just make them a standalone bubble as usual.
Melkezadek
Member
Freaking sweet. It was my main gripe about the program. This frees up so much space on my screen.
AuthenticM
Member
Has this been made into a custom firmware yet?
No, and won't probably be for a very long time. Progress on reverse-engineering the HENkaku code has been halted, or so it seems.
Necromanti
Member
I've never done a direct comparison and I'm plugged in half the time. But it doesn't seem noticeably worse. Maybe I'm losing an hour there. But it's still worth it.
AuthenticM
Member
Has been halted by Sony?
NeOak
Member
No. Lack of interest.
NormalFish
Banned
how would sony go about stopping people from trying to reverse engineer a legal and functioning exploit?
I think he said that if the whole "King of the Hill" challenge didn't go anywhere for a while, he would release the source code anyway. He just wanted to show people how good Sony engineers were at securing the system. He seemed to admire those guys' work quite a bit.
I guess people just has more interest in releasing their own stuff that reverse engineering the hack.
NormalFish
Banned
I think really it's just that the additionally functionality that a CFW (or whatever else might be gained by better understanding of henkaku) would offer isn't that important at the moment. interest might increase once other major projects (retroarch, ePSP, dumping/editting/etc. games, custom themes, overclocking plugins, etc. etc.) begin to be limited by the lack of CFW, or reach a point of "good enough" where devs move on to other things.
I dumped my UMVC3 game to my vita then deleted it because the savefile doesn't work and the game can't get updated so it got currupted, and now the actual physical game doesn't work when I insert it, the game shows up with the name morphine and gets a error when ever it launches. Anyone have a clue? Also doesn't my cloud savefile and game update work with dumps? I used Vitaman 2.0.
Also you can dump your save with SaveGameMgr and it should work with the dumped game. I would also try dumping with MaiTool.
EDIT: Sorry about that.
I didn't realise this was one of the potential outcomes of HENKaku. Nice.
Yeah, but did also say that, if he ever released the source code, it would be a year or so from now. He really wants people with the skills and knowledge to step up and reverse-engineer the exploit by themselves. Making it public is his last resort, so I wouldn't hold my breath for any CFW until then.
It could be, it could not. No one knows at the moment. Molecule has been taking a break since release (and it's been weeks since HENkaku was last updated), so they are not actively working on a CFW, at least publicly. As long as they are the only ones to have the source code, nobody will be able to take advantage of any possible CFW implementation (at least not without a lot of reverse engineering that has already been done by HENkaku!).
Dude, delete that link ASAP. You can't link to that subreddit here!
Unknown Soldier
Member
Looks like the fear of a mad rush to 3.61 was unfounded.
Dragon Quest Builders only requires 3.60. I don't care about that game but anyone who does can now rest easy.
Hopefully Steins;Gate 0 won't be a problem either, as I want to buy that on Vita and not PS4 if possible.
Dragon Quest Builders only requires 3.60. I don't care about that game but anyone who does can now rest easy.
Hopefully Steins;Gate 0 won't be a problem either, as I want to buy that on Vita and not PS4 if possible.