Manual Update to Firmware 3.60 Ps Vita

The PS Vita iii.60 is now widely hacked thanks to the HENkaku hack. There’due south lots of things you tin do with y’all PS vita 3.60 but it tin easily go confusing. Here’s a full guide with details on all features and functionality, ranging from the nuts of installing the hack, to the most precise customization features.

This page will exist kept up to engagement as new methods become revealed to get the almost out of your hacked PS Vita

What if my PS Vita is not running firmware iii.60?

The original HENkaku hack required a PS Vita running firmware 3.sixty. However, h-encore was released for firmwares 3.65/3.67/3.68 which are now hackable every bit well. We explain beneath what to practice if your console is non running on firmware 3.threescore.

• If your PS Vita is running on firmware 3.57 or lower, you can manually update it to firmware iii.60 in guild to run the HENkaku hack. Beware to not utilise Sony’southward automatic update system, as information technology volition update your PS Vita to the latest official firmware, which is non compatible with HENkaku.
  How to update your PS Vita manually to firmware 3.sixty.

• If y’all are running on firmware iii.61, three.63, 3.65, 3.67, or iii.68, you can now
  install h-encore to run native hacks.

Basics: Hacking your PS Vita three.60

(this section is specific to firmware 3.lx)

• To hack your PS Vita on firmware three.lx you need to go on the official HENkaku site
  http://henkaku.xyz
  
  on your PS Vita Browser. From there you can press the install button and the hack will be installed on your PS Vita, along with a utility (VitaShell).
  VitaShell lets y’all install PS Vita homebrews in the .vpk format, and too runs as an FTP Server (with the “Select” push button) and and then that you tin re-create files from and to your PS Vita (you’ll demand an FTP client such as Filezila installed on your PC).
  Our
  HENkaku FAQ
  
  gives more details on the installation and troubleshooting

  • If y’all see consequence C2-12828-one while trying to install HENkaku, effort this article:
    how to set mistake C2-12828-1

  • Other details for troubleshooting HENkaku can exist establish on our
    HENkaku FAQ

• If y’all’re not happy with having to re-launch Henkaku every fourth dimension you reboot your panel, yous can install Henkaku as a permanent Custom Firmware on your PS Vita. Information engineering will persist through reboots and shutdowns of your console. In order to install Henkaku Enso (a procedure yous simply demand to practise once), only become to the
  official Enso folio
  
  and follow the process. (It basically involves installing and running some homebrew once)

• Although nobody has been banned for using a PS Vita hack and so far, there are concerns that this
  might happen eventually. Some people recommend
  “disguising” your homebrew files
  
  (in item VitaShell) to avoid raising suspicions. Other recommendations include using a unlike account than your normal PSN business relationship, on the console where you are running HENkaku.

PS Vita homebrews and Emulators

• PlaystationHax have a great video tutorial showing you lot how to install your homebrews:

  
  
  
  
  

• Yous can play your PC Games on your PS Vita Screen thanks to homebrew moonlight:
  Guide: How to Become Moonlight working on your Vita
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

ePSP Homebrews and emulators

• The PS Vita, cheers to its embedded PSP emulator, gives y’all out of the box admission to a wide diversity of PSP homebrews and indie games, via PSP homebrew loader VHBL.

• • Upwardly to appointment
    listing of emulator downloads for PSP
    
    (compatible with PS Vita)
  • Our extensive
    PSP Homebrew database
    
    should fulfill about your needs for PSP Homebrews on the PS Vita

• Adrenaline
  
  volition let you lot run PSP homebrews and PSP plugins on the PS Vita iii.lx.

• VHBL is a required tool to run PSP homebrews on the PS Vita iii.sixty. We explain
  how to install VHBL hither.

• It can be disruptive to know where to download PSP homebrews for the PS Vita, due to how VHBL has evolved. Check our tutorial on
  PSP Homebrews for VHBL here.

Hacks and Customization

• SD2Vita is a commuter that lets you use a micro SD Card with your Vita. This gives yous nifty storage for a cheaper price than the expensive proprietary retentiveness cards. In lodge to employ SD2Vita, yous lot need a
  micro SD adapter which can can exist bought for inexpensive.

  

  Backside of the adapter

• Utility
  VitaToolBox
  
  lets you lot do a agglomeration of absurd things with your PS Vita: update registry settings (e.g. to bandy the O/10 buttons), delete your PS Vita’s history (to avert sending unwanted logs to Sony’due south servers), swap your memory stick to another account, dump your IDPS, or switch to IDU style

• Utility
  memcardswap
  
  lets yous bandy accounts on a memory menu without having to format it.

• The PSTV Whitelist
  
  is a trick on the PS Television that lets y’all play more Vita games than the device normally lets y’all. The PS TV has a whitelist of games and will decline to kickoff a given Vita game if information technology’southward non in the compatibility list. This prevents yous from playing Vita games that would normally play merely fine on the PS Goggle box. This trick solves that, by making ALL Vita games uniform on the PS Telly. This besides includes applications such equally Netflix!

• Custom Themes and Bubbling

  • To install Custom Themes, you tin employ Redsquirrel87’s
    PS Vita DB Theme Installer. Alternatively, hackinformer take a skilful
    guide on how to install custom themes.

  • You tin create your own PS Vita Bubbles with this
    Bubble Studio tutorial.
    
    

Hacks and Customization (Advanced)

• Sony accept fabricated it difficult to activate your 3.sixty PS Vita. Y’all might demand an activated PS Vita for multiple reasons, including running some specific tools or games. Although the solution is non perfect,
  MLTActivator
  
  lets y’all activate your PS Vita without accessing Sony’s servers. Use at your own risk.

• It is possible to mod PS Vita games for the purpose of fan-translation, cheats, or more. Hacker Major_Tom explained
  how to modernistic vita games and Savedata here. A good example of this is the
  Persona 4 Aureate undubbed
  
  projection.

• Yous can edit your PS Vita’s registry to Bandy 10/O, discover your PSN Credentials, Fake your PS Vita’due south region, make CMA backups without a linked PSN business human relationship, etc… Hackinformer have a
  detailed guide.

PS vita backups and PSP/PS1 isos – A note well-nigh piracy

Running PS Vita backups (pirated Vita games) is technically possible on PS Vita iii.lx. Nosotros do non provide whatsoever links on how to run such “backups” here on wololo.internet

Running PSP and PS1 isos tin can can exist accomplished with
Adrenaline CFW

on a PS Vita iii.lx.