Last Exit

There's a new hack out for the Playstation Vita... and it's likely to be the last. Hacker TheFlow released Trinity a few days ago... it's an exploit that lets you run the VitaShell file browser and some unlicensed applications. Unlike Henkaku and Henkaku Enso, this one's not easy to use, requiring you to download a PSP game, send it to your computer with QCMA (an altered version of Sony's content manager), decrypt it, insert a file, re-encrypt it, and send it back to your PSP. It's a rather involved process.

The creator of the hack recommends that once you've installed Trinity, you use it to roll back your Vita to an earlier firmware, then install Henkaku Enso for more reliable and user-friendly access to homebrew apps. On the down side, you'll lose access to the Playstation Store, but on the plus side, there won't be too many more games released for the Vita anyway. Just back up everything you've already purchased to your computer before running the hack and you should be set.

One fun thing you can do with your Vita after you've installed Henkaku Enso is change the splash screen that comes up when you first power it on. Courtesy of Talking Time user Tegan Robichoud, here's Danny De-Vita!

If you want a taste of this kind of fun, you'd better act quickly. Sony usually seals off these back doors with a security patch shortly after they're discovered, and with TheFlow retiring from Vita hacking and general interest in the console dwindling, you probably won't see another jailbreak for the system again.

One other thing... I've got four chapters of the SNK book finished, and started a fifth one last night. If things continue to move at this pace, I'll have the whole thing done in just a few months!