Half Byte Loader r100

[Pimpin PSP]

Half Byte Loader, also known as HBL, has been updated to revision 100. As Sony blocked out the way the loader was initiated in firmware 6.30, wololo has discovered another exploit to load the Half Byte Loader!

Half byte loader was created after a bug was encountered in the demo edition of Patapon 2.
By exploiting the bug, users were able to load homebrew in their PSP's on firmware 5.03 to 6.20.
In firmware 6.30, the Patapon 2 exploit was closed by Sony. Wololo quickly discovered a similar bug in the game Hotshots Golf. This exploit currently works on firmware 6.30, as well as Sony's latest PSP firmware, 6.31.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR1S9fJvIvU[/ame]

Less than 2 months after Firmware 6.31 was released by Sony, J416 released a port of our beloved HBL to a new game exploit in the Japanese game “Minna no Golf Portable”. Today, less than two weeks after this release, we are releasing HBL for all known versions of the game (EU, US, JP), with also the hope that porting HBL to new game exploits will now be even easier.

There are still a few bumps on the road for people who plan to enjoy homebrews on OFW 6.30 and 6.31. Although HBL has made incredible progress in the past months, adapting it to new exploits and new firmwares still requires lots of testing. People who try HBL on the golf exploits will see that it is not as stable as on the patapon exploit. You might need to give it several tries before the menu accepts to show up, some emulators will not run at full speed, etc… but as I alreay said, compare this to the first HBL release for the patapon2 exploit, and be happy that you can run much more than simple text based homebrews.

Oh, also, this might be worth mentioning, this revision brings nothing new for the patapon exploit, so people who are on 6.20 or below don’t really need to download it, except for the test of helping us to catch bugs that might have been introduced.