Did you miss the Ninja Release? Then hurry up and get eCFW!
Well, if you don’t have VHBL/eCFW but are still on OFW 1.81, then hurry up because using this method you will be able to get the eCFW by Total_Noob running on your Vita!
Mad Blocker Alpha, Gravity Crash and Urbanix are back on the PSN, so if you follow this guide you will be able to run the eCFW on your 1.81 Vita.
You need a PSVita (with 1.81 OFW), a PS3, Open CMA 4.5 (and money on your PSN Account 🙂 ). I personally recommend Mad Blocker Alpha because it’s the cheapest but you can get any of the exploitable games (Urbanix, Mad Blocker Alpha, and Gravity Crash) .
- Once you’ve got everything prepared, run Open CMA and connect your PSVita to your PC. Open Content Manager on the Vita and when it asks you if you want to transfer content simply disconnect your Vita from the PC but with Content Manager still open.
- Then, press OK and connect your Vita with your PS3, choose “Connect with a PS3 system” and the transferring screen should appear again.
- Then, download the exploited game you want from the PS3 and download it but DO NOT INSTALL IT.
- Choose copy content from the PS3 to the Vita, then go to Applications and PSP/Others.
- Go to Applications downloaded from the PS3 and now select the game and copy it to the Vita.
- Now download the Savedata (make sure to select the one for the game you chose), copy it with open CMA and you’ve got eCFW on your PSVita!
Note by wololo: it seems Charles proxy does not allow you to connect to the PSN anymore if you’re below 2.00. Please confirm this statement, or let us know in the comments if you managed to buy content from the PSN on 1.81 without the need for a PS3.
Source -> PSX-Scene
Is there any way to update from old firmware to a newer one without getting the latest?
im on 1.69 and am hoping to get to 1.81… is this possible?
thanks
Yes, The_Z describes how to do it on his twitter. The whole trick is to get the 1.81 firmware’s update file.
Didn’t u get my pm like a week ago about this
Including the FW trick I’ve even got all the files ready for people with all editing done
Where’s the tutorial on how to get PS1 games on PSVita.
U talkin to me??
You can find a in depth guide here.
http://psx-scene.com/forums/f194/%5Bguide%5D-update-your-vita-previous-fw-releases-101831/
Also I want to confirm that this trick does work. I missed out on the MBA release. I got the MBA just before they took it off the store but, was unable to transfer it cause they(Sony: the Evil CRAB MONSTER) already black listed it. Now I can see what I’ve been missing.
Forgot to mention.
I already bought the game of course.
I just went to the Account Management Download list and re-downloaded it.
PS3 OFW 4.21
PSvita 1.81
Open CMA 4.5 – I think.
Yes i have a way jus like This is my find and I’m not happy I didn’t no people were like that on this site I was speaking on this site 2 days ago about this method of transferring stuff I told people once the games were bk I would of told people my secret. So I decided to trust 1 person and look we’re it got me. Its just a bit funny that I told someone a couple of days ago now it’s on ere for every1. Well I won’t be doin it again. And yes I got a FW trick
I mite of bin a bit confusing in that message because I can’t believe it. This has to be my find everyone didn’t no until I said the other day. Thieving bastards!! I’ve bin usin it for bout a month now so enjoy because I won’t be givin out anymore finds
I knew about this trick months ago, it is nothing special.
That’s fair play put people may have known but I brought it to attention but total noob gets credit how does that work I even told wololo in a pm. Something’s fishy here coz everyone got told it don’t work so my find confirmed it did
Get over it dude
Get over it. It’s a nice trick but many people found it on their own, I don’t think your “secret” got leaked by anybody, it’s just that it’s been the way to connect to the PSN with an old firmware for months now, this article is just a “let’s refresh our memories” type of article.
Same here, been using this method since 1.69 FW
It’s not even a huge discovery, this is more of an FYI for people who missed all the exploits with no experience in Vita hacking since they would never of needed anything like this before.
If everyone new about it then how come when Charles stopped working I scanned this site for an answer and no1 had 1 now every1 knows about this and your all sayin it old news. Anytime people asked me I said I had 1 jus waiting for the games
Can someone decipher this for me?
“Yes that was my trick, didn’t know people were like that here – I mentioned this method 2 days ago, also I said that I’d release this method once the games came back onto PSN. So, I decided to tell one person, and look – now it’s released publicly, for everyone. This’s the last time I’m doing this.”
..or something along those lines, no idea myself how much truth is behind that wall of text.
Nice 1 for putting all the punctuation in I’m proper *** at that lol anyways the reason I’m ranting on is coz everyone I told on this site said they didn’t no about it and the 1s that did said it didn’t work that’s why I said wot I said but I ain’t bothered as long as it don’t get patched ( witch it prob will) i mean I even told wololo the other day.
I got the FW update thing ready for any1 who wants it XML file or ready done changed links to download from zload.net
could you linky please? im not farmiluar with twitter and social networking 🙁
I’m working on an article to describe the process, I4ll post it asap 🙂
thanks heaps!
Quite good,although I’ve no ps3.waiting for the new exploit on 2.01
same here, i don’t have ps3 and im on 2.01 ofw,hence, still hoping for the new exploit to come..
meh… i don’t have a ps3…
anyway, i really got hold of a $20 psn card this time and hoping for a new exploited game that costs less than 20…
i missed all the exploits and i really hope i can get it this time… my brother got the urbanix one and i am kinda jelly.. hahaha..
Mad Blocker Alpha $2 Dollars
Damnit, i upgraded to 2.0 as soon as I got my new PS vita on 1.69 thinking that the next ecfw release will be on 2.0 or 2.0.1 🙁
i thought i was on 1.67 so i got SC3, then it wouldent work and i re-checked and it was 1.69 😀 I win the derp award!
so hard to pirate game…huhu,,,
Awwwwwww poor baby. >_>
wololo how about a vita that not activate yet but on 1.81 fw..so cannot open the download game..
Yay for good news~ I think i would have updated anyway though cause i hart my PSP and playing P4TG on artificial difficulty mode maximum squad go (Risky/Very Hard~) is a major *** without the SP you get from people helping you across PSN. ._. I didn’t know you could start NG+ on a different difficulty, but i wanted a challenge anyway..And by challenge, i mean grind for 2+ hours only to be stupidtowned to death. BUT ENOUGH TALK, HAVE AT YOU..er.. Thanks for this. D:
I just sh*t myself thinking i missed a release happened for 2.01
Me too 😐 ………..
Yea, whooo, thats enough excitement for one day
Wololo i hope you can help me. I have opencma on my mums pc and when i plug my vita in to my mums pc it asks me to update my ps vita PLZ HELP.
Get a opencma 4.5
Who says that the games that are back on the PSN aren’t patched???
the actual games are not patched… they cannot mess with any of the published games…
the patch is on the firmware.. 🙂
Thanks for the answer 😀 so all they can do is to take it down from the Psn?
Who says that the games that are back on the PSN aren’t patched already???
the games are not patched, they cant
They already checked them and they ARE NOT patched, hence why this exploit works still.
yea… go play some psp emulator…
Well i don’t know what’s wrong with me i just have no luck in the ps vita scene ! I have URBANIX a ps3 cfw BUT a god DAM 2.01 fw !!!!
mine is the opposite..got 1.81 but vita is not activated..so cannot open those download game to apply exploit..lol
I thought there was a new ninja release I didn’t know about for a new eCFW… damn, its the old one…
Stay tuned for that too, it’s in the air 🙂
It works! , i was playing before with the MHFU exploit, now i can use Mad blocker that load faster. By the way, i’m on 1.80.
Same as me I got urbanix 1.80 was n MHFU I cud update to 1.81 if I want but I think 1.80 and 1.81 r the same that’s why it works
Hello. Guys I have my ps3 and my PSvita with different accounts, I mean if I download one of the games, do you think it’s going to work?
im keeping ecfw, becuse they psp games i have never played before from great game series, its a shame there wasnt a devil may cry game on the psp, and you know that it will be another 4/5 years before another dmc game
ps vhbl gravite crash or psn store exploit with 2.01 future?
so i can do this as long as im on 1.81? or can this be patched?
***.. i have no PS3
Install opencma,
Plug in your vita to your pc and open cma app on vita, leave plugged in to pc!
Then press ps button on vita, but leave cma app open,
Go and open ps store and it works, even on 1.81
So in live area you will have open both cma and store apps.
No u can’t! Yea u can’t connect to ps3 and transfer but store on vita don’t work below 2.01
Ment to say u can tranfer to ps3. But no store under2.01
Should I do this if I’m already on 1.80 using the monster hunter exploit? What benefits would I get?
Faster access to ecfw (if you use Mad blocker) and you avoid the annoying steps to charge the exploit on mhfu.
me descargue el urbanix desde la psvita de un amigo y la copie a un flash memory yal quererme pasar el juego del pc al psvita ocurre un error ayudame que hago
M8 stick it in pc running cma and without pressing anything unplug from pc and traight into ps3 then th transfer screen appears push connect ps3. Done!!
I download the PSVita Urbanix from a friend and copy it to a flash memory yal spend loving pc game to help me on error PSVita I do I have the 1.81
that will only work if that vita is logged in to the same account. that way if you had two Vitas you would be able to transfer stuff onto the locked one
lol, sony fails bigtime sometimes, i mean yeah you need a ps3 but i guess quite a few vita owners have a ps3
wololo, how about a vita that not activate yet but on 1.81 fw..so cannot open the download game..
to activate, you need the latest fw.
I don’t have the 1.81 how do i downgrade from 2.0 to 1.80 ?or .81 ?
Hey guys, there’s a way to downgrade may vita? I1m on 2.01 OFW ¬¬. Thanks.
There is no way to downgrading a vita at this time. You will have to wait for new exploit.
Hello fellow Wololo members,
Frostegater wrote me today that he finally got enough money for buying a new PS Vita.
I should announce that the new exploit and the name of the new exploit game will be release this month!
The game will be announced like always, via a Ninja Release, since this is the best way for releasing the name of the game.
The files will be available some days after the public announcement of the exploit game.
Greetings The Z and Frostegater
thank you ALL for this, i will wait for the NINJA release for my “world series poker” psp game, i hope they(sony) know i would probably RE BUY the psp games i enjoy, if only they would release them for the PSVITA. in canada we are still waiting for ANGRY BIRDS and “crash bandicoot PS1”
thanks again, wololo, The Z and Frostegater
Great news finally xD
it did work
I don’t have my PS3 with me just my vita on 1.81 I believe, is there anyway I can just go to the psn store on the vita, download the game and use the exploit?
This is great thanks guys for the great tutorial and advice 🙂
i’m running Urbanix for the EU account but i want to run my US account because of all the downloads i got that i cant run for the vita.
It’s works.
Thank you sooooooo much
I have 2.01…is it still worth it to download any of these games in case in the future a new ecfw is released or are these games on this fw totally useless now?
you guys have check out the new game Lemmings it’s free and have savegame !!!
2.01 and finally able to relive the crisis core and 3rd birthday once more..soon!
nice new’s but no i have no a PC -.-
but i have gravity crush 1.81
Proto
Praise Allah stinky for this!
Thanks for answering me Dante xD
I was thinking: could i transfer my backup files (games, savedata) to another ps vita? (ps vita -> pc or ps3 -> another ps vita). If this is possible, maybe we can share our backup game folders and create a donate website for buying games. Maybe i’m thinking too high…
im pretty sure that if we could share backup files between ps vitas, this would be much easier :X.
But who knows what the future holds.