UNO Exploit: Installing homebrews and Isos on Vita 2.02 with TN Menu
Preparing and installing homebrews on your Vita for the recently released 2.02 CEF port by Frostegater is not an easy task. All menus have different ways of handling the installation packages, but, more importantly, Sony made the Vita in a way that copying anything to it is almost impossible, which is why the copy steps always look so convoluted. Tools exist to make your life easier, but here is a how to to understand how it’s done by yourself. I promise, once you’ve done it once, it all becomes simpler.
Note: all the steps below work with all versions of TN’s CEF and TN Menu, but the example are taken from Uno’s exploit on the 2.02 firmware (more precisely, with the European version of the exploit).
1.A Preparing Homebrews
The homebrews we will run on the 2.02 Uno exploit are PSP homebrews. Most PSP homebrews will run out of the box on your Vita with the UNO exploit, but you might often need to package them in a ZIP archive (unless you got a friendly download link which already has it pre-packaged for you.) . Note that in some cases you will have to create the ZIP archive yourself, for example most emulators will not ship with any rom, and you will have to add those yourself to your ZIP file.
Before you start!
The basic thing to understand is that the Vita will not accept any filename. The files you can copy to your Vita with the content manager need to be all uppercase, the “body” of the filename (anything before the “.”) needs to be 8 characters or less, and the extension (anything after the “.”) needs to be 3 characters. Accepted characters are also limited, so I suggest you li,it yourself to letters and numbers. In particular, do not put spaces in the file names.
For example, WAGIC.ZIP is good, but Wagic.zip is not (not uppercase), WAGIC.zip is not (not uppercase), Wagic the homebrew.zip is not (not uppercase, and more than 8 characters before the “.”). A very typical mistake for windows users is that your file will end up being named WAGIC.ZIP.zip because Windows will by default hide the extension for you. You will see it named “WAGIC.ZIP” but in reality the name will be WAGIC.ZIP.zip, which will not work.
When you have a problem in the filename, the vita will silently not copy it, and will not give you any form of error message. The only way you have to realize you made a mistake at this point is if the size of your savedata on the memory stick is smaller that what you’d expect.
Read the “before you start” section above 5 times, because this is the root cause of 99.9% of the issues people have installing homebrew with CEF.
I’m not kidding, read the paragraphs above!
Ok, so, let’s move on to prepare your homebrew. All homebrews have an EBOOT.PBP file. You need to create folders so that that EBOOT.PBP will end in a series of subfolders PSP/GAME/[your homebrew game]/EBOOT.PBP.
For example, PSP/GAME/WAGIC/EBOOT.PBP.
Don’t forget of course to include all the files from the homebrew in that folder structure. Once this is done, zip the “PSP” folder you created, and name it whatever you like, following the rules I described above (all uppercase, less than 8 characters, etc…). I personally suggest to use the “store” option for creating your zip, but I believe TN Menu handles all formats of compression. Do not use an other format of file that you would rename in .ZIP, this will obviously not work.
Once your ZIP is ready, copy it to the UNO exploit savedata folder in your CMA folder on your computer. It will look like PSAVEDATA/[random letters and numbers]/NPEH000DATA02 (this might vary depending on your exploit).
1.B Preparing Isos
Preparing isos and cso files follows the same naming conventions as the homebrews above, and you have to put the files in your UNO savedata folder just like for homebrews above, but you don’t ZIP them. Instead, you copy them “as is” to your UNO savedata, but keep in mind that the filename body must be 8 characters or less, and the filename must be all uppercase.
2. Copying your prepared Homebrews/isos to the Vita
Copying stuff to your Vita is done using the Content Manager. We recommend you use OpenCMA to avoid bad surprises. To do this, you will connect your Vita to your computer, run the Content Manager like you would usually do to copy PSP Savegames to your Vita, and copy over your Uno savedata.
At this point, your UNO savedata contains two types of things: the exploit required to run CEF, but also your homebrews and iso files. You can have as many homebrews and iso files as you want in this folder, as long as they follow the naming rules described above. Also note that you will likely repeat this process several times, and that it is not necessary to keep in the UNO savedata isos/homebrews you have already installed. As a matter of fact, it is better to delete them from your Uno savedata on your computer to avoid copying them once again next time.
The Vita will most likely ask you if you want to overwrite the existing UNO savedata, and this is ok.
One typical mistake there is that some people will delete some files critical to the UNO exploit by manipulating the UNO savedata. If this happens, the best is simply to redownload the UNO exploit and start from scratch 🙂
3. Extract and run the games
At this point your homebrews are in zip form, on your memory stick, and need to be extracted before they can be used. The isos, them, are in their “final” form, but need to be moved by TN Menu in order to be used.
Of course TN Menu provides functionality to do both of those. Simply select the homebrew/iso you want to install, and press X. The homebrew will then be extracted. To run an installed homebrew/iso, press X as well, it will simply run. The TN menu interface is relatively simple so there shouldn’t be any issue.
4. Troubleshooting and alternatives
If you don’t see your homebrews zips, or isos in TN Menu, the most likely reason is that you messed up the naming convention of your zip files or isos. More unlikely, but it happens again: make sure you copied your homebrews/isos in the exploit’s savedata, and not in an unrelated savedata (this technique used to work for example with VHBL, and might work with alternate menus for CEF, but not with TN Menu as I type this).
It is also possible to copy homebrews with FTP For Vita. This is much more convenient that the whole technique described above, as you don’t need to zip anything, etc… but this also assumes you have FTP For Vita up and running, and a wifi router.
Please note that we do not support piracy. Asking for or providing psp iso download links will get your comments deleted and your account banned.
Quick question: If I already have the save files for my game backups, are they loaded from the memory stick, or do I have to do something else to load these files?
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You need to take your save files from your PSP’s memory stick, copy them to the PS Vita –> PSAVEDATA –> adab456adfadf folder on your computer. Then copy the saves over with CMA.
Dissidia 012 has a plain white screen after I make my save file. After the moogle sets up the play plan and asks me what difficulty I want the game cuts to an all white screen and after about two minutes an error message pops up. Please help!
to ahbba daba ***,
right click on the iso game and press rename, then type all capital letters yah dumb shipt
I am having trouble with the naming. Windows keeps on adding .iso at the end.
ex: GAMENAME.ISO.iso or GAMENAME.iso
Any fix?
Nevermind. I got it working now.
Under the Advanced Settings section on the View tab in the Folder Options dialog box, disable the tick box called Hide extensions for known file types.
Anyone get CWCheat to work?
ERROR WHEN STARTING THE ISO/CSO “AN ERROR OCCURED”
(C1-2858-3)
IVE CHANGED THE .iso to .ISO capitalized 8 CHARACTERS..
but the game doesnt start.. T_T help pls..
only hombrew games are working
Make sure you guys use unpatched ISOs. With patched ones youll get weird problems like above, or the ISO won’t even try to start. However some games have strong copyprotections (Like FF Duodecim or DJMax), so the chance is high, that they wont work.
And I wanted to mention that you cant transfer ISOs with a size about 1.4GB; CMA will copy it, but right after that it gets deleted. With the FTP-Server it will work anyway—
im playing my patched kingdom hearts birth by sleep final mix iso and its running perfectly ….
@nutsplater i renamed the iso file and installed it just fine. the problem is that after starting the game (which i wouldn’t be ableto do if i didn’t rename the iso ***) the game cuts to an all white screen.
oh *** nevermind i thought you saying to ahbba was just you saying random gibberish. I apologize for the misunderstanding.
need help cant get anything i get up to the uno but only show few games i already have but i want to get others pls somebody break it down for me help!!!!!!!!!!
Hi. I downloaded an iso from a website, but when I unziped it there was a bin and a cue file instead of an iso. How can I add those? Where can I get an iso file? Thanks
thanks..
working…
Hello I have got my homebrew game work but I tryed to put NBA 2k13 ISO on but no go. any Ideas. I will try another ISO just to make sure.
Thanks this is awersome by the way.
Cheerss
id like to play dissidia duodecim but the game wont load on my vita.. but other games are ok..
pls help me what should i do to help me play..
help me guys plsss T_T
What i have to do if i want to install a Psone game?
Ok I’m a complete noob can someone please tell me what things i have to download to get UNO homebrew working I’ve been stuck all day. I can only seem to copy UNO I’m not computer savvy at all please someone help.
i dont have uno
should i buy it to make this hack
or i dont need to have uno
help me in this point
please
Triing to “instal” Corpse Party
after i say Yes to “Do you wnat to mov ethis backup to ms0:/ISO/?”
it says “Not enough memory space. You need 742 MB but available 733MB”
any ideas? :O
you need double the space of the iso you want to install
i have about 4,5gb available … so that shouldn’t be the problem 🙁
problem solved, iso had prolly an error or something
made another dump, works now.
I’m also having the same problem I’m trying to move the backup of Kingdom Hearts:BBS to “ms0:/ISO/” and it says I don’t have enough space the game is 1.5 GB I have 8.8 GB free it’s a 32GB card. Is there any fix for this?
quick question, why do you nid to install the iso and move it?
I added grand theft auto liberty city stories the iso all capital and only 8 letters to my ps vita savedata where the uno savedata folder is and yet I dont see it when I go to uno. All I see is the uno game and when I click x on it or triangle it restarts and I get this error (C1-2858-3) and it exits the uno game. I saw a post saying that a fix is is delete the save game data then install it again. I went on my ps vita and deleted but I noticed content manager wouldnt open and if it did it would be extremely slow. So I decided to turn off my vita. Now when I turn it on it has a black screen with the *** circling in the middle of the screen like its loading something and the blue ps button flashing. I have tried turning it off but I guess I will have to wait till the battery waste. I am extremely.
Im trying to get my wwe svr 11 game to work and its not been patched and i have deleted dummy files with umdgen but it still doesnt load. is there anything else i can do or is this game not compatible with this cfw
I found a solution. I changed the cpu speed to 222/111. From what I gathered is that some games only run on certain cpu values. Try changing cpu speeds for different isos as that may be the problem.
How do I change a file extension from lower case to upper case? I can’t find the answer on google.
Hi there. I have a question about file types like .ISO and such. How can I see the .iso in my Win 7, I wanted to avoid the .ISO.iso part. Any ideas?
Thanks
Also which games are compatible to play?
when i was trying to extract BOOKR.ZIP after it complete it just disappear from the list :S and i have to copy the file over again and it pretty much same thing over and over. idk where it go after i extract it. sorry for my bad english :S
AFTER 3.Extract and run the games
right after step 3. when is finish extracting, the BOOKR dissapear from my list :\
IS THIS GAME PATCHED? EVERY homebrew after i extract it just dissapear :\
Finely! Got it, Ummmmmmm…….. One Q?, Can it load
plugins?.. from seplugins…some ho wwwwwww?????
AHHHHHWWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEE!
…………sadface : < cant add folder.
Disregard the last post, and I have another question.
Is there a chance that it might brick like the PSP? Or is this exploit safe for all units.
Also are the JP, US, and EU folders on the exploit can be run on a specific game or just the unit?
Thanks.
psp is a UNIT, and from how far the psp is, (signed execute
code’s to run with the psp. im guessing its a no.
because 5.03 HEN form way back was used to run code in the RAM,
and 3.00 days flashed the Firmwares because no body wanted
to pay the rumor of the 20k psp sdk, so they took the risk,
and most of these works are done doing the bulid.mk,
and data.psp, (Signed) compiled using a Encrypter. and
you ask, well it break?. and where talking digital hardware.
you have to be stupid to play with the ps vita psp flash0:/.
every time i try to install a homebrew it pops p saying would like to extract the zip? i click yes ant then the game does not install and the zip is gone
never mind i forgot to make the zip in psp\game/(homebrew)
Thanks to all who helped in making this hack 😀
I just have one question: When you are trying to put more games on the vita do you have to overwrite the other games because that makes it take even longer
please I NEED VIDEO please
same here bro, i feel your pain is so confusing for new people 🙁
Why do you “need” video? Just read the instructions and follow them step by step. After you do that go read a book. 😛
Say if we had like 20 isos and 5 emulators all running good on the tnb menu 1.0.1, and we wanted to add just one more game, we would add our new iso to the psavedata and cma all the 21 isos and 5 emulators over to the vita, but when we overwrite the uno save data, do we have to extract all the 21 isos again ..? Is there an easier way to get around that so we can just extract the new iso only while having all our other stuff ready to play?
Sorry, I just realized the guy above me ask the same question.
@ d
If you had 20 isos and 5 emulators and you wanted to add another you wouldn’t need to add everything again. Once isos or homebrew have been extracted / installed on your Vita, they are copied / extracted to your Ps Vita memory stick until you manually remove them. If you wanted to add another you would only copy the new iso into your savedata exploit folder. The only way you would have to add them all again would be if you forgot to extract / install them within the Tnc or accidentally deleted them.
Remember, once you have installed something in the ecfw, you don’t need to worry about it, it stays on the memory stick!
Thanks man
IF MENU FAILED TO LOAD BECAUSE U TRIED TO DELETE OR EXTRACT A FILE, now the menu is sc*** with black screen!!!!!!!!!! If ati is an extract problem, copy over the same extract folder zip that sc***, now you will have two icons that are the same when the menu loads. Since you can not delete the file otherwise it will get stuck and screw the menu, just copy over the savedata again this time without the file you want to delete. If you have problem with extracting or moving files because of not enough memory, use “psp filer 6.6” emulator to unzip or move files.
when ever i put the iso in the save data folder, the exploit wont work and I get an error. once I re exploit it, it works but I cant put the iso on. what is the problem?
same thing is happening to me too, hopefully wololo can show it to fostergate so it can get fixed
I found a fix, convert the iso into a cso and it’ll work.
Thank you guys a lot, thank you all, I’m so glad I got it working, it was pretty simple when I got myself on the right track. 😀
wow, in the 2 days since i got CEF, i’ve been hooked on Wagic. at 1st i was really f@cking up because it’s not noob friendly like the PC Magic: the gathering was. eventually, i’m winning now, because i’ve basically created a good deck 😀
Hello i do all the instruction but the uno game is not appearing after i copy it….
– I install CMA 5
– Then i download the uno exploit for 2.02 & put the Wagic game & named it WAGIC.ZIP & put it in the uno
BUT STILL the uno icon is not there? please help anybody
You have to purchase the actual UNO in PSN 🙂
Problem fix
hey paolo did you purchase the uno , i have a same problem as yours too . . how to fix it ?
can we transfer psp savedata to vita? (savedata not isos)
solved^.^; savedata treated as normal savedata, copy/paste via CMA, can be used with isos game
Hi,
Just put MSG Peace Walker on Vita. Accepted message to move file to ISO folder however says no room yet there is 16GB left on the card.
Hey sorry to be a bother but, I can open the exploit and make it to the TN 1.0.1 menu and my only option is to re execute UNO none of my homebrews or ISOs will show up. The naming isn’t a problem I fully understand the naming process or maybe I don’t I place my ISOs inside of the UNO save exploit name ex. MHFU.ISO or AZBZN.ISO. with the only homebrew I have attempted was wifi transfer and I placed it in the UNO exploit ex. PSP/GAME/WIFITRANSFER/EBOOT.PBP and that also didn’t work. IDK if this matter but i have the Assassin’s Creed white PSvita please help me 🙂 thanks
I’m having a similar issue. I have the naming down CRISIS.ISO, but when I copy it over it wont appear in the TN 1.0.1 menu, just my copy of UNO and FFT which I purchased and installed from the sony store. I’m using the white ACIII vita if that makes any difference? Thanks in advance for any help.
Figured it out by trying a cso conversion. Just converted the file to a .CSO and it apeared next time I transferred it.
do your isos show up as an icon or a corrupt (unrecognized) file might be windows double naming it i used my xp comp (have iso burner app so recognizes them) and it was GAME.ISO.iso so it didnt show up on my vita im encountering a prob with space have 18gb left but says not enough memory
Where do you actually download stuff? Isos, hombrews, etc…
just random sites like you can get ISOs from torrents there isn’t a special place just know what you want and find the places that share those files 🙂
thx