PSVITA Firmware 3.10 out today, will probably block TN-V

57 Responses

  1. D yo_Dylan

    staying with 3.01

  2. Chris.Beanz

    Well sad news indeed, I suppose the 3.01 exploits had to be addressed at some point. I’ll miss being able to go online on my exploited Vita but I’m thinking of getting another so I can have one of each 🙂 Here’s hoping for a 3.10 exploit in the near future but I won’t hold my breath.

  3. Gauban

    Someone please crack the vita wide open!

  4. Apple

    I wonder if Sony purposely gimps the Vita at launch with stupid restrictions like the 100 app limit so that they could remove it later and make people with hacked Vitas want to upgrade 🙁

  5. Zik

    at 3:01 am buy games exploid this version
    back to psn ​​I install tnv??

  6. PspJunkie

    I wish I could talk like that

  7. Technatorium

    This should be interesting. I may or may not update. I really havent used the exploit all that much.

  8. TNT2Gamer

    Since I still have 2 PSP’s, I haven’t used TN-V much. I will definitely hold off on 3.10, though. TN-V is a great piece of work, and I don’t want to lose the ability to use it.

  9. Maverick81PL

    YES! YES! YES!
    Please SONY block ALL PIRATES!! To JAIL WITH THEM!!

    • jake

      It’s not about pirating.
      It’s freedom of choice.

      What you’re saying is *let’s make it so people can only eat at restaurants because Kitchen knives can kill people*.

      We use the exploit not only for homebrew, but for games WE HAVE AS UMD!!!!

      Practically everyone who has a PSV had a PSP…

    • You're A Slaphead

      Such an idiotic statement. “Piracy” doesn’t hurt many in this industry. A few, sure. Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft? Almost NEVER. Nintendo only REALLY got hurt with piracy during the Famicom Disk system days, but that obviously didn’t sink them.

      If the Vita had ALL the PSP games available to it through the PSN store, you may have a point. But I want to play Star Ocean on the beautiful Vita screen and I’m going to do it whether you like it or not. I bought the game, several times already, and yeah I can do what I want with it since it’s for my own private use.

      If piracy guaranteed damages the DS would have sank and Nintendo along with it.

      PSP ended up doing great and frankly, “piracy”, emulation, homebrew is precisely what kept systems selling until the games finally came, and the dreamcast died from the PS2 being released. PERIOD. Sales data PROVES this. Those are the two modern systems that idiots blame piracy on, yet have no common sense behind it. Also, if piracy = less sales, the PS3 would have been absolutely amazing during its first couple years.

      • Chris.Beanz

        I completely agree with everything you’ve said except for one thing. The Dreamcast was technically sunk because of people pirating games. How many people did you know back when the DC was for sale that had burned games for it that worked from day 1? I know I had a stack of at least 10 games that weren’t bought by me that all worked on it and many of my friends would just pass the burned discs around effectively eliminating the need for any of us to ever buy retail copies. The PS2 was a huge competitor for the DC but the simple fact that anyone who owned a Dreamcast could simply go online, download the game they wanted, then burn it to a basic R/W CD killed the system’s game sales and thus the system itself in just a few months time.

        • fate6

          So because that is what you did it makes it a universal fact? No the Dreamcast(and I am a fanboi for the thing BTW) sold very well all around till the PS2 was released

          Piracy did not kill the Dreamcast but the PS2 rofl stomped it

    • CycloneFox

      There is no need to pirate Sony with those sales and PS Plus. EA/Origin? damn sure. But with platforms like Steam, humblebundle.com, GOG and the Sony Entertainment Network, there is no need to pirate video games. It’s not about the prices alone, but more the mentality of the platform holders, to always get as much profit out of little content.

      But that’s not the point. A custom firmware is not about pirating games, but about running self made software, customizations that don’t hurt anybody or even fan translations of Japanese games that never get localized in English. It is about the freedom to do with your device, what you want to.

      I can totally understand the point of people claiming the PSP was destroyed in the west by piracy. I see it similarly. But that was also the fault of the pricing policy, being falsely translated from the Japanese market to the west, advertising, and the target group, etc. Sony is still experimenting with that market and no one can figure out the best way, yet. With PS Plus, all PS3 and PS4 owners should now have access to about ten or more games, they can’t play without a Vita, but a lot still don’t buy a Vita, (which wouldn’t even cost more than 200 bucks or so) yet. Maybe there is a lot of people waiting for a price cut, a way to get cheaper memory cards or the right games.

      To all people pending, I can only say: Do it. Buy it. It’s a freaking awesome device, that amazes me more than any smartphone (which costs X times more the price of a vita) and you get a lot of games for little money, just like with steam or even for no money at all. You can just spend the time with it, you would otherwise waste with candy crush and it’s not too heavy to carry around, next to your phone.

  10. jake

    And jail? Really? Unless it’s an indie game, (which most psp games aren’t) NO ONE is practically getting hurt. PSP gen is finished, it’s just trying to get all the games off the shelf basically

  11. PanchoLoco

    Im a noob. If my vita is on 2.02, is there an way of installing ecfw on this puppy?

    • jake

      Well, have you already bought one of the exploits? If not… no =(

    • cruorsitis

      If you have access to a ps3 then you’re fine. Just buy Uno on ps3 or pc through SEN and download on ps3 (or any other game on this list http://www.zload.net/bilder/PSVita/VitaExploitChart.png that wasn’t patched for 2.02…uno boots into ecfw pretty quick though.) To transfer it to your vita you will need to install open cma (guide on this site) run it and connect the vita to your pc. Without closing content manager on the vita transfer from ps3 to vita and bam! exploit.

      • PanchoLoco

        Thank you very much sir. Great info. Luckily I have access to a PS3 and several Vitas. I need attempt the exploit.

  12. I_will_be_harrases

    No point in staying in 3.01 looking it can only emulate psp games while i already have a psp will update to enjoy ps+ there is truly no point of piracy with ps+

  13. MiguelAMX

    I’ll be moving onto 3.10.

    I bought Persona 2 for two reasons : Its a game I’ve wanted. To try out the Vita CFW.

    Its a bittersweet feeling. Ultimately it isn’t beneficial to me.

    PSP games look beautiful on PPSSPP and same goes for PS1 games.

    I have a Bluetooth controler, so I’m able to play on my phone or. PC.

    It was a nice go around, but I don’t see the point in Vita CFW anymore.

  14. PlaGeRaN

    I guess they got wind of total noob retiring from the scene, so its business as usual for them now.

  15. Chrysolite

    Let me get this straight… I have to get an exploit in order to get TN-V on my Vita? I’ve been trying to make sense of all this.

  16. John_Scott

    2 days before FEZ 🙁

  17. dmaskell92

    I’m staying on 2.12, idc about PSN, I get bored of online games insanely fast. Also with Type-0 being localized by Operation Doomtrain, this is a no brainer. I will delete TNV as soon as PSN adds all my PSP UMD’s to the store.

  18. mangosteam

    ill stay for now ill just use a proxy or the pc psn store for now after i finish ff type 0 , digimon and sol trigger , i just hope my ps plus wont be affected lol

  19. Wow

    Wow my comment got deleted

  20. Nazar_Ops

    It is a really nice update. But Sony still hasn’t fixed the issue with displaying the avatars that you bought from PS Store on the Vita. Come on Sony, I don’t want to get on my PS3 all the time just to change my avatar.

  21. Sky Yuki

    After 4 months and THERE STILL NO F***ING COPY AND PASTE???
    AFTER 4 MONTHS AND THAT ALL I GOT FOR NEW UPDATE???

    • Sky Yuki

      Oh also i can access to psn on 3.01 HK PSN Lol
      I guess i should enjoy it as much as i can for now
      To be honest 4 months for developing one calendar and small update on old app??? seriously it shouldn’t took that long
      Oh well…..I guess it 3.5 months to patch the TN-V and 0.5 month to add real new update

  22. chris

    really waiting for persona to go back online i will use my ps3 to have the last kernel exploit on it 😀

  23. Mosi

    I have to update! Unless I give up on 1year on plus!!

    • cruorsitis

      So I’m guessing you have no ps3 to get the plus games as they are offered and xfer them to your vita? You can still ‘buy’ them for $0.00 from the SEN playstation store and then when you do decide to update (a really good vita game is released/another k-exploit etc., whatever your criteria) you will be able to play them all. Or just you know use a friends ps3 and your good.

  24. rowjack1993

    I like this!!!

    A new “Manage Content on Memory Card" option has been added to the Content Manager application. You can now view the data on your memory card, making it easier than ever to manage content on your PS Vita. You can now view memory usage by content type, and delete content and applications.

  25. cruorsitis

    I’m really happy with the timing. I have FFX/X-2, Project Diva f, Spelunky, Velocity Ultra, Danganronpa, Ys, MGS VR and the two ps1 Oddworld games. Oh can’t forget the crunchyroll app (although I have a feeling I’ll watch anime on a larger screen.) By the time I get through all that the whole system might be open ;).

    I do have some psps so I might end up upgrading if I like the look of the legend of heroes second chapter or more Danganronpa…probably not for a while though regardless.

  26. tokia

    waiting for sound on ps1 game.

    • Hellishere

      And i’m waiting for some fixes on 3.01 Tnv because silent hill crashes at the end,valkyrie profile crash after a castle door and some games are running with sound glitches,disapointed to donations.

  27. Anas

    I Will wait until the exploitable games are back then buying to through ps3 OCMA

  28. benemy

    I’ll be updating but only because I have an android for playing emulators on the go. With my luck this will be like the good old 3.03 PSP firmware. Took awhile to get a downgrader.

  29. valyr

    You can still send stuff to your vita from sonys web store pages if you are on 3.01 even ps+ stuff it seems

  30. Sovan

    I Don’t have ps3 but i have pc how can i transfer exploit games from pc to ps vita?
    My english not good

  31. Vitality

    I already update my 3G Vita, and yes, it blocks the exploit (101 MM, corrupted save data detected), but my other Wifi Vita is not updated since that one mainly used for exploit.

  32. mangosteam

    well atleast download que is still working so no worries for now

  33. jik

    I hope exploit was not blocked…hope..
    total noob already retired.. oh no

  34. Raih4x0r

    Bad update for TN-V users. I guess I have to update now.

  35. Dark GOD

    Staying on 3.01 until I need to renew my PS+.
    Unless a really good sale/game is made available. Then all bets are off.

    Seriously considering buying the 2nd gen VITA now..
    Having 2 VITA’s would stop me from choosing between homebrew or latest VITA games. Or just forget about homebrew on VITA and use it all on one of my PSP’s. Choices.. Great to have them. 😉

  36. Bofin

    Persona 2 exploit still work with this update?