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Your gaming device might still be gathering dust in a closet somewhere, given that Sony has long since stopped making games for the device (other companies still persist). That doesn't mean you can't do plenty of other things with your Vita, especially now that developer Yifan Lu has announced a brand-new exploit that grants owners full access to the PlayStation Vita's file system. This opens the door for the easy installation of custom homebrew applications.

Or, to put it in simpler terms, someone went and jailbreaked the PlayStation Vita, and it's an easy exploit that anyone can now take advantage of to run all sorts apps and games. '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),' reads. As notes, you'll want to make sure that your PlayStation Vita is updated to version 3.60—the latest version available as of this article's writing.

And if you're reading this at some future date, don't update your PlayStation Vita beyond version 3.60 unless you have confirmed that the HENkaku exploit has also been updated to work with that firmware version. Bad things will happen. 'It is important that you never update your Vita past 3.60 if you ever wish to use HENkaku now or in the future. If you do update, all your installed homebrew will no longer work and you cannot install any homebrew in the future,' describes. To perform the exploit, just head on over to the official HENkaku website on your PlayStation Vita and tap on the big, fat 'Install' button. However, this exploit isn't permanent; you'll have to visit the site and tap the Install button every time you turn your Vita on and off.

It's annoying, but that's a small price you have to pay for homebrew applications. (And it's certainly possible that this exploit will open the door to another app that allows you to bypass this issue.). The exploit's developers acknowledge that HENkaku could make it easier for other Vita hackers to play pirated games on the device, but that's not why they developed the exploit. 'We are all developers by trade and we understand the problem of piracy that usually arises from breaking the security features of a device. The usual response from hackers is 'not our problem' but we believe we can do better. We carefully designed HENkaku to be as permissive as possible for developers to write homebrew supporting private APIs and the option to bypass sandboxes.

However, we also made sure to make it as difficult as possible to repurpose our tools to enable piracy. While piracy is always inevitable, we will not make it easy,' reads. Northeastern Mba Program Tuition. Strike Up The Band Sammy Nestico Pdf.