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Total_Noob, famous developer of the CEF (Custom firmware within the PSP emulator of the Vita) is back with a project to bring the convenient PSP XMB to the PSP emulator on the Vita.
The first screenshot (see below) is pretty impressive, and I know it’s a feature many of us have been dreaming of. But this is still a work in progress and there are lots of obstacles to bring the XMB back to the Vita.
The idea is basically to copy some modules from a PSP 6.60 firmware, probably reverse engineer them a little bit to fix/remove the parts that don’t make sense as well as get them to communicate correctly with the PSP emulator on the Vita. Of course, distribution of such files (once the project is ready) might become problematic, as they will surely contain some code and graphics from Sony, but that’s something that will need to be addressed when the project is complete.
Total_Noob will be busy with real life and has to put the project on hold for now. He is looking for a trusted dev of the PSP/Vita scene to help him continue the work. If you have what it takes, you can contact him through the source below.
So what do you think? Pretty cool, right?
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WOW! Thats awesome!!
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Wow. That looks even better than hgoel0974′s and his looks amazing.
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this is gunna be awesome!!!!!!
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why do I have a feeling that that’s what coldbird was talking about, when he said that his “e”CFW would be better than total_noob’s?
i see a big flame war coming up, but thats just my feeling-
Better as in “More compatibility than of TN’s” but this is different. I don’t think you’re reading it right on his blog. Ignorant end-users start flame wars, dev’s don’t… and if you were reading an article a while ago stating that Team-Pro recruited Frostegater to bring the scene closer than of the PS3. This XMB port is amazing and I don’t think this is an eCFW but a plugin/add-on to load 6.60 external vshmodules and emulate it.(At least that is what I think…)
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correct, this emulates the actual PSP XMB on the Vita
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It will be awesome if it somehow allowed you to launch Vita games and apps. Still cool either way
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lolno
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Just say it, you want to butt-pirate all the Vita games you can. XDDDDDD
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That is really awesome
I Appreciate your hard work Total_Noobs
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Nice!
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I believe Total_Noob as he’s an awesome dev but the problem with pics like this is they can easily be faked.
Still would be great to get the XMB on the Vita. Proves the hackers are better than Sony as they cant do it.
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yeah, fake, because he is trusted and adking for help.
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I believe him but if someone like me posted the exact same pic you will all call it a fake.
Just some things are easily faked and this pic is one of them.
I’m NOT saying this is fake but do you want me to post one that is fake?
JUST SAYING.
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Hes asking for help because the work of many great minds together would result in more badass stuff than just one great mind because not every one person has the same thoughts. He could use other peoples input. See what he could do with the help of others to not only emulate just the psp xmb but to make it better than it was on the psp in the first place.
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How cool would it be if the USB mode would work on this XMB, thus eliminating using the Vita OpenCMA or FTP Transfer?
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That doesn’t even make sense, that won’t work.
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This is just a theme.
That would be impossible without first hacking the Vita itself.
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you only get access to the emulated part of the memory stick, it binds you from the rest of the memory stick, almost like a two way mirror.
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great!! can’t wait for it!! i wish, it is fully compatible to exploits if not greater
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Man cant wait for this ooks amazeballs
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o_O Did you suffer a stroke right before those last two……um…..words?
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How about NO? It looks frigging UGLY! Hehe
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This is AWESOME. I was just asking about something like this on the forums. I really hope a good dev picks this up.
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Although this is REALLY nice, why now? why when we already have other devs who are nearly done with their own XMBs?
and wouldn’t it be much more easier and more legal to just make a shell rather than port the real thing over and worry about legal issues?-
Why would there be legal issues when the files your using are just from the modules from the games it’s self and not just brought in from a psp firmware.
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The files they are talking about here are from the psp’s firmware
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A simple word: amazing. We stay tuned.
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I will 100% be installing this once its completed LOL, I always liked the XMB better than the Vita’s GUI!
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Vita’s GUI is trash. I love my Vita, except it’s terrible GUI.
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YEP! I know the perfect person : hgoel0975 < I think that's correct numbers? He's making a XMB just like yours, Total_Noob! His has designs but really I do like yours, I want the normal wave
You guys should team up to make the best XMB that is just like the PSP / PS3.-
Now that I have started to make some changes to it, I am trying to get those waves back.
I don’t really think I would be able to work with TN on this project because he is trying to port the XMB while I am trying to clone it, his method requires more info on the psp’s firmware and MIPS assembly
My method requires more logical thinking and graphics.
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you both(hgoel0974 & TN) are awesome!
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wow throw back
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is it touch screen
at all??
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WOW.. looks like something that would be great fun to have on the vita. sorta a classic look to a new device. I hope this gets lots of support.
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We break a video
I dont thatbis true pic -
It’ll be nice if someone could get this up and running just fine. It’d be interesting if somehow through this theme that the PSP side of the Vita will truly become a better, faster PSP with every feature that comes with a normal PSP, including having a USB connection, even if it’s just on the PSP side. It’d feel nice to be able to copy homebrew and backups over as easily as I do my PSP. Not very likely, but it’d feel like home, lol. Vita FTP kind of makes that feature a bit obsolete, but sometimes the internet can be down and it’d get rid of all those extra steps that come with OpenCMA and all that. I’d really like to see maybe the camera section always active since the Vita has its cameras and all. I’ve never owned the camera for the PSP, so it’d feel kind of neat to see the option available.
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looks beautiful
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wow this is incredible this is something i can definetly wait for
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This would be a dream come true!!! Ive been waiting for this… >_<
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Wow. It looks amazing
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When you think he’s done, he always comes back with a surprise.
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Very nice… I’ve always preferred the XMB of the PSP despite not owning one; it’s a lot more organized. Can’t wait for this to become a reality.
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Wow PSP in vita USB connection on pc work?
lcfw 6.60 will look nice PSP vita -
There won’t be any legal issues, as I can simply write an installer which dumps the 6.60 EBOOT.PBP to the memory.
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Thanks for all your hard work, Total_Noob. I’ll be awaiting this with bated breath.
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Nice, so you’ve already thought about it
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Then it fine
If you need any help then contact me, I will see what I can do
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“So what do you think? Pretty cool, right?”
Cool doesn’t even begin to cover it. PSP compatibility on the “no games, cry cry cry” Vita is a bare necessity the PSV community has needed from day one. Without it there can only be an epic fail of Vita itself. We need it, and we need like yesterday. That said, I applaud Total_Noob and wish him every success and godspeed.
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Thx wololo for the news, very good =)
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Wow this is cool news! Welcome back Total_Noob!! But I understand you will be busy. Happy to have ya back. The PSP XMB idea is really awesome, can’t wait.
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dis wud b wahk dohnt evin bova whi wud u evin wont 2 go bak 2 dat?
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dis wud b wahk dohnt evin bova whi wud u evin wont 2 go bak 2 dat?das so kornee
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English please.
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english? How about human
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think uo prety
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Awesome news!!!Total_Noob welcome back
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Woaw, good job.
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哇吗
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just one question. WHY ? i think that people, who can play these games, should grab their psp or buy for few bucks some used one. I think its useless to buy vita for this. Everyone here saying, that they aren’t supporting piracy, but i doubt that games which is played trough this emulator are not downloaded. So why dont these hackers won’t (if they could) hack vita for being able to play pirate backups ?
sorry for bad language and thanks for answer.
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Thank you^
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oh r u a currently a dev and working on hacking the vita…………… didnt think so u ignorant bastard, the system willl b hacked when it will b hacked u douche
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Your right, it is useless to buy a vita “just for this”. However, the vita has other features that make it nice. Netflix, html5 browser, better Q video, and the possibility of awesome games coming (bioshock
). This is just a hold over till that.And yes, you are right that most game I play on emu’s are downloaded. However, I own the original cart to all of them. Just because my GBA broke doesn’t have to mean I can’t play Zoids, that I legally bought. I just don’t have the way to back them up myself. On the systems that I can, NDS (I know, no psp emu, but still), PSP, computer, ect I do my own backups.
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“So why dont these hackers won’t (if they could) hack vita for being able to play pirate backups ?”
First, they aren’t hackers. Second, some people (like me) just rip their UMD to only bring 2 memory cards and not a hundred UMDs.
Sorry for my bad eglish, I’m french >_> -
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Can someone please explain to me… what is this?!
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Great and Exciting work TN
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wouldnt the PS3′s GUI be a bit better? I know there’s little difference, but why not go all out?
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Tried it, the ps3 icons are too plain to look good on the Vita, PSP icons look best.
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Understandable that experimentation is key to unlocking the PS Vita’s true potential. But I’m sick of seeing the Vita’s PSP emulator being the only exploit being worked with. Efforts should be geared towards working on a native hack for the Vita. I feel as if Going through the PSP emulator is very limited and isn’t showing the Vita’s true potential.
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native hack for the vita isnt coming out for quite a while. It would be a SHAME for a native hack to be patched this early in the vita’s release.
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And that’s IF one gets released
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Oh come now. You say that as if it’s so impossible.
Please. Someone, somehow, someway, will most likely figure it out. No need to be so pessimistic.-
There is a native hack : UVL
The thing is it won’t be released so soon because it is the only hack we have and we were lucky to get it.If it were released now, the exploit would be wasted, instead the plan is to learn everything we can about the PSVita and to find more hacks.
Then later on when we have enough information and the tools to hack the Vita, UVL will go publicbut not yet
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@sparks: if you think its so easy go do it what r u waiting for
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The problem is no one really has experience with any native Vita hacks. PSP savegame exploits go WAY back so it was an easier way to bring homebrew to the Vita.
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True. I suppose it has more to do with understanding the hardware than releasing information that one has no true understanding of. I suppose I didn’t see it from a hackers point of view.
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When the PSP was released, no one knew how to hack it, we were lucky to have a firmware with no security at all which gave us a kickstart (direct kernel access)
In the case of the PSVita it is completely different, this time Sony hasn’t made that kind of mistake, we have the tools for the PSP so we have ePSP exploits but it isn’t so easy to hack a device which we have no information about especially when the device is so locked up that we are lucky to have PSP hacks.
No one has any idea about what the PSVita RAM looks like, there aren’t any tools for it, so we can’t hack it as easily.
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Damnit Sony…Don’t they realize that accessibility is what makes consumers want their product?
They give you all these features for the Vita, yet I’m sitting here bored out of my mind because they won’t even release anything mildly entertaining for it.It’s no wonder people are drawn towards hacking it.
They choose to focus spending resources on fucking hackers. Instead of appealing to what they already have, a beautiful piece of hardware that is capable of so much more.
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I’d also like to add that XMB menu is completely redundant in itself seeing that the Vita’s main main can do everything the PSP can and more.
I don’t know, it just seems slightly pointless to me.-
The XMB is supposed to be used in the PSP emulator
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theres something you have to learn kiddo, devs program bc they love doing it, they dont do it for u
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true I can understand that.
I mean without getting all technical, I’m just a person who has to have a reason to do anything.I suppose enjoyment is theirs.
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stop being such a nazi
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Also I’d like to add that you’re pretty damn ignorant yourself. Not once did I say it was “easy”
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thanks for more great work TN…not sure why some people are so disbelieving though, because ive never known TN to post anything fake, and he has been a staple in the scene for many years now…im excited to see the end result of this, and i am wondering if CXMB would be possible with it…i love making my own ctf’s and would love even more to see that work come to life on the vita…thanks again TN and best of luck to ya bro.
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Isn’t there some way that this can be released as a script that requires the 6.60 firmware files, and then modifies them as an addition to whatever files are released?
That, while requiring a bit of extra work checking the output of the script, should dodge any “ethical” (ie legal lol) issues that are inherent in a release of a modified XMB.
While it might require extra effort, it should limit liability and then the websites that put up the firmware files or put up finished XMB-for-PSV files would be the ones at risk, while everyone would always have the option of making the files themselves (with the addition of their PSP firmware files)
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It doesn’t require modified firmware files. Patches to these files are done by the core.
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you should try to reverse engineer 6.60 PRO-Cfix3 from pro team. that would really improve the XMB! Also bring the “inferno” ISO Driver to the vita so that we can play games from any country on any vita as well!
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