Met de laatste firmware update was het niet meer mogelijk om de Vita Half Byte Loader (VHBL) te installeren op een PlayStation Vita, waarna je homebrew (.iso games werken hier NIET mee) als SNES, N64, SEGA MegaDrive en eigen gemaakte games kon spelen. Maar wololo and Neur0n hebben weer een gat kunnen vinden, en daar door een nieuwe loader kunnen releasen.

De games waar een exploit in zat die dit mogelijk maakte waren Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (US/EU), Monster hunter Portable 2ndG (JP), Monster hunter Freedom 2 (EU), en Monster Hunter Portalble 3rd (JP). Deze zijn dan ook door Sony gelijk uit de PlayStation Store gehaalt en is het voor de meeste mensen nu wachten tot deze hackers een nieuwe gat ontdekken.

A few days ago we announced the name of the game that is being used for Neur0n's port of VHBL for firmware 1.80: Monster hunter Freedom Unite. As I type this, Sony started removing the game from their stores, although some of the exploitable games for this release are still available in some locales, which is the first time this has happened in VHBL's short history. Grab them while you can, and for us it is now time to release VHBL for this exploit!

Credits go of course to Neur0n for the exploit discovery, as well as for porting VHBL to it. Many thanks, as usual, to the people who initially created HBL, in particular m0skit0 and JJS. Thanks also go to dimy93 for beta testing, to the mods at /talk for their awesome help throughout the Ninja release, and to our brilliant community for making this Ninja release work, once again (this includes other websites on the scene who have done a brilliant work at mitigating leaks). I'm sure I'm forgetting people to credit here, but you'll have to forgive me, this release has been pretty long and exhausting. To quote neur0n: "It's a relief to see this exploit being released, after 2 years" :)