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Half Byte Loader Rev. 85 Stable & Recommended

greg | May 28, 2010

It’s the recommended stable release if you’re a user and you don’t wish to report any bugs. But if you do want to contribute and help improve Half Byte Loader, then grab the development version from the source and read this. Otherwise enjoy all the homebrew and emulators to your heart’s content.

Instructions:

  1. Install the Patapon 2 Demo
  2. Connect PSP with USB
  3. Copy the “hbl” directory and the “h.bin” file to ms0: (copy them to the root)
  4. Copy UCUS98732_DATA02 (Patapon 2 SAVEDATA) to ms0:/PSP/SAVEDATA
  5. Copy your homebrew to ms0:/PSP/GAME
  6. Load the demo, load the hacked save, load your homebrew.

Download:
Patapon 2 Demo
Patapon 2 SAVEDATA Exploit
Half Byte Loader BETA r85

- source: wololo

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131 Responses to “Half Byte Loader Rev. 85 Stable & Recommended”

  1. Lector2 says:

    Just to stop the first idoits…. Cool news, why the sudden lack of people here and PSP interest drops..IS the scene dead? Dying? I feel it… :(

    • psp1238 says:

      I wish that they can make this run plugins . everyone hold your boats i just read that thier is rev 86 and plz keep a chek up on the HBL. And its not dying we are just branging back to life SLOWLY…………………………..

  2. Lector2 says:

    Btw, pitty we can mute that gay Patapon music!!Drives me mad I tell you. Nice you picked Shadow of he Beast, shame the megadrive has BS music compared to the amiga version….

  3. Schluptnut says:

    Lub Lub

  4. Peter says:

    can u run .lua hbs?

  5. xsKiitz says:

    omg. Got gPSP working on this! Pokemon Leaf Green on the PSP GO!
    Thanks you so much :)
    xx

  6. fifarulez says:

    Good to know things with HBL are working.
    I’ll download it right now…

  7. Oldie says:

    8TH!!!!!!!!!!!!! I win. So, back on topic, It would be very nice to see the scene come back. I remember when the phat PSP was still on 1.0 and we had to use Wipeout to browse the web, back when the scene was actually together and not stealing any work and everybody lived in harmony.

  8. hagr182 says:

    Awesome, been following this for quite a while, I only wanted emuators on my psp, now its possible!

  9. cblemc says:

    What is the name of the game tested in the video?
    I have tried several homebrew games and any did work. I get in the Homebrew Loader menu, and when i chose a homebrew, a screen saying “Looping HBL Thread” appears and the PSP Go just shuts down.

    Help?

  10. x@!n™²³ says:

    WT* when ever i go pick an app…and starts saying LOPPING HBL THRED it freezes and turn off my psp =.=… i did what it says by the ways the fils beeing put in the ro0t done!

  11. clarence0 says:

    Not all homebrew works on this.

  12. cblemc says:

    Ya, exacly… The same happens to me. I have tried 15 different homebrews. With some of them the “Looping HBL Thread” thing happens and turns my PSP off, and other times the Loader just disappears and the XMB screen comes.

    Does someone have a link to a homebrew which is tested and works with this Half Byte Loader?

  13. x@!n™²³ says:

    =.=…okey tnx man!

  14. mansu says:

    tried it on nester J and it worked fine thanks a lot

  15. cblemc says:

    Ohh man, tnx for the compatibility list, i love you!

  16. snk says:

    i try all the version of hbl loaders but it crashes when i push the R butten in the game can sombody give a full pack that you just need to extrakt in the root
    sorry for my ingelish i am dutch

  17. Metroid_III says:

    Note: HBL will most likely never run ISO’s. A CFW cannot be made out of this unless a kernel vulnerability is found. Plugins are extremely unlikely, but might be possible. Also, homebrew that use network modules are not working as well, but may work eventually.

    homebrew that use .prx files should be on the horizon from what I’ve seen, so when that happens stuff like gpSP-J should work (I’ve managed to get an error screen from it by removing the .prx’s, so hold tight on that). Thanks to all the developers and to all the people who were willing to test when HBL barely could run anything :)

    Now compatible emu’s for me are (all tested are 100% compatible):

    mh gpsp kai v3.2 test 04 (supports up to 14mb roms, it can load 16mb, but at the risk of bugs, i personally had a problem where pokemon would not work for me anymore, even after reinstallation. Stick with <14mb roms).

    nesterJ V1.10 (no problems at all)

    Homer's RIN v3.2: No problems

    Picodrive v1.51 (perfect, but no sound)

    Also there is a rumor going around that if you load netfront beta 4 and return to the xmb after it crashes, the normal internet browser gains the benefits of it (32-64MB usable RAM). I'm off to test it, I may report back on this.

    • cblemc says:

      Can you send me a link to where i can download the gpsp kai 3.2? I have downloaded one, which i thought was the right one, but i does not work.

      • Metroid_III says:

        Check the compatability list on advancedpsp.tk. Just go there click on the PSP forum, then click on Homebrew, then click on Half Byte Loader. You should see a sticky thread called “Compatible Homebrew”. Click on this and scroll down to where it says 6.20, then press the “show” button. it should have a download link for it there. I’d love to give a direct link, but the Wii Opera Browser is pretty shitty.

        Also make sure you have a gba_bios.bin in the same folder as the eboot. It should be 16kb big.

  18. MaX says:

    I just wanted to thank you guys for keeping this up on the front page. HBL is doing a great job and so are you guys.

  19. drew550 says:

    where do you put the homebrew? do you use the eboot or the game’s folder? and are you supposed to put the eboot (homebrew) in the root?

  20. RaJeEv says:

    hii can some one pls report to the developers of HBL to enable wifi support for next releases of HBl,,
    when we use this loader it does not start net module, means wifi mode doesnot work for the homebrew loaded by this HBL

  21. Mads Teland says:

    if u have HBL-Source folder, place there where HBL foider is. I have not newest but its 83. I using it on psp go, it works, i can play sega like sonic on picodrive. But i shall download newest version now

  22. durdenzr says:

    Tested it on a Phat psp,
    crashed after pressing the r trigger 5 times.
    Just tryin it out,
    will it brick psp 3k versions.

  23. draj says:

    was wondering does the Go support iso?

  24. Metroid_III says:

    NO. READ FOR ONCE.

  25. mercyless says:

    gpsp kai 3.2 emulator works on it, keep up the good work

  26. draj says:

    just figured there can be support for iso considering there is not a UMD device although im sure there is some sort of block on devhook if that were to be compatible with HBL just random thought

  27. tunechie says:

    will this run recovery flasher ???????
    too lazy to try

  28. wolv3rine says:

    The n64 emu doesnt work for me running PSP 3003 on 6.20, returns hbl thread looping or something like that. Tried all versions and even the DaedalusX64 Beta 2 Update. Maybe in future releases hopefully

  29. dayron_1379 says:

    running on psp 2001 5.50 of

  30. wolv3rine says:

    my mistake Daedalus r14beta is working great stuff

  31. apgm says:

    Alredy exist a emulater of Nintendo DS who runs whit
    patapon2 ???

  32. s says:

    my psp crashes always i try to start the menu i hold the r tiger then it crashes how can i load the homebrew its f*ck t up

  33. snk says:

    thnx liam_mad_genius

    if you need to know something just email me :sharish_1997@live.nl
    10000000x thnx

  34. snk says:

    liam_mad_genius it works but it just need to crash when it start to load a game
    stupid sony

  35. snk says:

    it works i love wholo and liam_mad_genius for helping thnx
    i try to play pokemon got e catch em al

  36. Zephyr says:

    Kudos to everyone who worked on this exploit, keep it up we all appreciate it :)

  37. doodoo says:

    does gotube work on this?????

  38. snk says:

    does gotube works on it and snes emulator is very slow
    but if you use gba emulator then it goes fast ? is there a other snes emulator

  39. Alessa says:

    not yet improved for psp go 5.70 ofw.. still not works for me.. what should i do?

  40. luvdrunk says:

    hey can you hook me up on how to get emulators running games on my psp go? sorry for being a newb but have pity on my pspgo i only use it for mp3s and demos hahaha

  41. PURPLEHAZE says:

    FOR THOSE OF YOU HAVING A PROBLEM GETTING IT TO WORK JUST DOWNLOAD HBL AND SAVEDATA FROM WOLOLO’S SITE INSTEAD. IT CONTAINS A README (ITS NOT SOCKET SCIENCE). THERE IS A HOMEBREW COMPATIBILIT LINK ON COMMENT 15 AND 17. ITS VERY ACCURATE. I’M ON FIRMWARE 6.20 AND AS IT SAID ONLY BOOKR WORKS. MORE COMPATIBILITY SOON.

  42. Iscariot says:

    @ PURPLEHAZE caps button broken?

    also good work guys at the HBL loader much appreciated

  43. PURPLEHAZE says:

    @ iscariot.- NO BROKEN KEYS. just had to put it BOLD out there after reading lots of silly problems encountered

  44. Iscariot says:

    WELL I THOUGHT YOUR KEYS WERE BROKEN SORRY

    since we have that out of the way, yeah i know what you mean also i have tried pretty much all my emulators and all work fine..again good work

  45. snk says:

    look is there a way to get recovery flash work on it
    or something and the hack on youtube is a trojan
    i want cfw i have more then 100 psp iso s download but i dont have cfw isnt there a iso loader or cso loader

  46. Jayzen Freeze says:

    what a pirate. lol I dont think there will ever be iso support.

  47. MikeNeedsHelp says:

    Ok listen, I have done everything I was told to do and everytime I push X to load my NesterJ it goes back to the XMB. I have put everything where it says to. I have a PSP OFW 6.20 and my Model is a 2000 series. Can someone please explain what I am doing wrong? and yes I’m a noob.

    • Kanan says:

      Did you do what comment 17 said?

      • MikeNeedsHelp says:

        well no. But I put everything where its suppose to go. I put the patapon2 demo in Games. Put the Save in SAVDATA. Put hbl folder and h.bin in the root. Put my NesterJ in Games. And its not working. Everything I push X to load NesterJ it goes back to the XMB

  48. Kanan says:

    Tested this with some of the homebrew on the compatibility list on a PSP 1000, 2000, and 3000, all with OFW 6.20 and they work! I didn’t try it on a Go though because I don’t know anyone with one. I’m gonna donate to wololo because this is great and Wagic is the best!!

  49. MikeNeedsHelp says:

    Ok, I’m an Idiot. lol I got it working and it works great. Thank you guys for building such a great hack. You guys Rock hard! Looking forward to everything you guys do in the future. and thank you for your hours of hard work and dedication we appreciate it so much!

  50. Kanan says:

    What fixed it, Mike?

    • MikeNeedsHelp says:

      My dumbass didn’t take it out of the zip folder LMAO Its the little things my friends lol

    • MikeNeedsHelp says:

      My dumbass didn’t take NesterJ outta of the zip folder LMAO I just put it in there zipped. Its the little things my friends.

  51. Lucid Fears says:

    HEy guys, I’m not sure if this will sound silly or not, but to everyone saying there will be no ISO/CSO support. What if someone figured out a way to support downloadable game content? For example the games that are downloaded from the Playstation network. Maybe there could be a loader of some sort similar to the old ISO/CSO loader. Yes, I know once you download a game from the network it comes with a license and all that good stuff and the console has to be activated, but I’m sure there is someone good enough out there to bypass this stuff. I mean I’m just throwing ideas out there, no need for smart comments or anything immature!

    • liam_mad_genius says:

      ISO/CSO support zzwill follow right after someone find an exploit with kernel access. With this exploit[user mode exploit] is impossible!

  52. WVUR says:

    when i try the dsonpsp it always says looping hbl thread and then crashes. can anyone help me?????

  53. snk says:

    just do not say there never be a hack for the psp GO
    what els are you doing on PSP-HACKS.COM

    JUST DONT TALK STUPID I DONT WANT TO HERE PSP GO NEVER GET HACKED THERE IS A GO WITH 5.50GEN D3
    FOOLS CHEK PSPGOHACKS

  54. snk says:

    i was thinking i know a way to get every body free games i tel listen gooood its for psp who are registred with psn GAME SHARE PSP GO YOU KNOW:
    GO TO MSO/PSP/GAME COPY THE GAME
    GO THO PSP LICENCE KOPY THE FOLDER PUT IT IN A RAR.HAPPY END I TRIED IT AND IT WORKT I WIL SET THE FOLLOWING GAMES ONLINE OK A WAY OF FREE GAMES WOEHOE

    THIS IS FROM EUROPE BUT TRY IT MY EMAIL sharish_1997@live.nl

    1 VICE CITY
    2 MIDKNIGHT CLUB DUB EDITION
    3. gran turismo

    thnx to sharish from dutch !!!!

    i am giving you soon links like tomorow !!111

  55. apgm says:

    I got into the nintendo ds emulator when I Rudar HLB the screen goes black after I click the X and appears DSONPSP CONFIG settings and I do rarrego START ee emulator quits and go home and i put the dsnrom in the past NDSROM
    Whats the problem?
    Can you helpe me?

  56. snk says:

    i wil give you the links but with wich site do i need to upload its over 1gig

  57. austin says:

    it dosnt work on my psp go

  58. snk says:

    can sombody say a good upload site
    ?

  59. gon says:

    it didn’t work for me :( it just froze and 10 sec after it turned off my PSP :(

  60. jya says:

    i can’t understand step 1, how will i install the patapon 2 demo game? please help

  61. alky :D says:

    i got the snes emulator (uo_Snes9x) runnin fine with rev 85,all sound and no slow down . shame the pico drive dont have sound . :S

  62. r0kEr says:

    use mediafire

  63. snk says:

    ok i wil give it soon just need to upload
    i wil give you the REEDME for instructions

  64. snk says:

    hey is there pmplayer advance for hbl?

  65. snk says:

    i get my psp for 60 euros in holland

  66. snk says:

    http://www.psp-hacks.com/file/92
    can somebofy try a iso loader here’s one just ty
    try all iso loaders tel me if it worked

  67. snk says:

    http://www.depositfiles.com/en/files/ehj3vpt68

    thats gran turismo game share packet
    made by snk

    • Alessa says:

      is this the EBOOT file + the LICENSE? or just an ISO/CSO file? pls reply

      • snk says:

        its just the eboot file and licence

        • Alessa says:

          i have downloaded the rar file and have it on my psp go..but i dont know how to activate it..i also dont have any european account.. is there any activated license you have? just like the DOCUMENT.DAT file together with the EBOOT.PBP file..pls reply..tnx

  68. EvDawg says:

    Well I have tried a couple emulators and the only one that I can get to work is picodrive, I tried nesterj and gpsp and neither worked on my pspgo ofw 6.20

    Any suggestions?

  69. topgun432 says:

    try putting it in mso:hbl: something something to skip the menu

  70. snk says:

    reed comment 17

    if you pushed the r butten keep pushing 8x

  71. apgm300 says:

    can you put the gran turismo in MEGAUPLOAD

  72. r0ker says:

    Not able to understand how to register Midnight club.

  73. Nes says:

    Daedalus r14beta wouldn’t work for me. psp 3000 6.20 ofw hbl:rev79

  74. [...] 目前為止,以上軟件不支援Half Byte Loader,換言之,如果你的PSP 是2000v3 或3000 ,大家仍需要使用ChickHen 破解PSP (但只需5.03 系統軟件), PSP1000 或2000 非v.3 機仍可以使用m33 或Gen 軟件執行此程式 [...]

  75. idl12 says:

    snes9x euphoria doesn’t work

  76. kim says:

    Ruka(NesterJ for PSP author) Released NesterJ 1.13beta!
    Support HBL full work!
    http://rukapsp.hp.infoseek.co.jp/

  77. mercyless says:

    all you basterds that cant get it to work on any psp 6.20 are stupid and big time noobs hahaha

  78. Jamal says:

    Hi everybody. I have a psp 3004 with OFW 5.50 running on it. I’ve tried lots of different online sources to download PATAPON 2 DEMO and EXPLOIT(save data), but non of them has worked by now. Every time I push the R Botton, the screen just flashs and after a while goes black and turns off. By the way, I’ve tried comment No.17 but that didn’t work too. Now what should I do?
    PLEASE HELP ME.
    tnx a lot…

  79. resi4 says:

    so for psp go users we need a memory stick?

  80. Brian says:

    honestly i dont see how anyone can’t get this to work. All your doing is copying and pasting. Theres so many little kids and noobs on this site its overwhelming.

    • Andrew says:

      Psp go users make sure you install to the internal memory, not a memory stick. Will not work off of memory stick.

  81. josue says:

    so i know u all r frusteated by now but i guess there is not an iso loader for PSPGO OFW 6.20

  82. josue says:

    can you downgrade psp go ofw 6.20 to one of the earlier or no?

  83. Andrew says:

    Brian says:
    “honestly i dont see how anyone can’t get this to work. All your doing is copying and pasting. Theres so many little kids and noobs on this site its overwhelming.”

    I’ve been putting custom firmware on my psp’s for years, and I can’t get this to work on my Psp go. I follow post 17 word for word, but every time I press the R button, it freezes then shuts off. I have found zero help for this problem on the internet. Anyone have a solution? The number of elitist a-holes in the psp homebrew scene in overwhelming.

  84. snk says:

    i know how .you need a (dutch holland nederland) acount
    if you have it go above the psn butten and go downstairs
    by :systeemactievatie(systeem activation) if your there just keep pushing x like 8 times then you have it

    here is some information

    city : den haag
    zip code 2515gk
    a tel number from holland :0703649088
    and you can play

    sorry for the word map it means folder srry

  85. hypermephiles says:

    one question does psp filer work on hbl rev83

  86. cblemc says:

    Hey everubody. This message is to everyone who has a PSP Go ofw 6.20 and and want something that works with this Half Byte Loader:
    I have just tried the newest SNES emulator that came to this website today and it works!!!
    Hero is a link to it: http://www.psp-hacks.com/file/29
    I tested it with Mario World and Mario RPG and it worked!!!!

    The only bad thing is that it runs a bit slowly.

  87. Andrew says:

    To anyone trying this with a psp go, make sure you put it on your INTERNAL memory, not a memory stick. WILL NOT WORK OFF OF MEMORY STICK.

  88. luther349 says:

    half byte loader is a usr mode expolite. and really its still very good for your emus and alot of homebrew. plugins and so on need kernel mode or a cfw. same for backups and so on. alot of people are running around calling him anti iso etc its just not possible for this expolite to do it. and yes it is bringing the homebrew scene back to live. you gotta rember most of us psp hackers/coders moved on the the iphone after the cfw scene collapsed on its-self.

  89. anti-iso says:

    If kernel exploit does come I hope noone tries to pirate anything(impossible).

  90. diablo says:

    the scene died when dark alex left if team gen really wanted to carry the work on we would have newer custom firmware witch would work 4 all games not this bullshit patching that dont work for all games and we would have psp camera support

  91. cool4875 says:

    can v use HBL+recovery flasher to flash ofw 5.03, and then run chickhen??? i dont think it will b possible with go, but what about 2000 and 3000 series???

  92. [...] Emularea jocurilor (PSP GO) Este posibila emulare jocurilor de GAMEBOY, SNES pe un PSP 3004/GO care are versiunea de firmware 6.20 multumita celor de pe psp-hacks. [...]

  93. dcash says:

    this is so old i got hbl r89

  94. [...] Try it and leave a comment below. And no, before you even ask — this will not work with Half Byte Loader or PSPgo models. [...]

  95. Bob says:

    I got R90

  96. Rodrigo says:

    Hello , i really need help because i have a psp 1000 with the hlb hack and the 86rev thing and it put some games on and it goes to hlb looping thread.

    DOES ANYONE HAVE A LINK O SOMETHING TO HOMEBREW GAMES FOR 85REV AND PSP 1000? thnx!

  97. Rodrigo says:

    sorry i have software 6.20 thnx!

  98. Hi I’m Marilyn vos Savant for those of you who don’t know who I am then search me on Google. I don’t have time for stupid or impatient people so any and all immature or rude comments will be ignored. I just wanted to say that you guys are really doing a good job with Half-Byte Loader. Ever since CFW became impossible and Dark-Alex left HBL has been PSP users only option for Hacking the PSP. Keep up the good work!

    -Marilyn vos Savant, author of “The art of spelling”

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