The new Vita firmware brought some behind the scenes “features”

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  1. crazycris25 says:

    Hi!!! I sorry to bother you with stupid questions but I just bought a ps vita (I’m new in the ps world) because I found a really good deal.
    I’d love to install daedalusx64 in it, these days I’ve been reading a lot about all the VHBL how to install it in a saved psp game…

    The problem is that I have the 3.12 firmware and I don’t know if there is still any psp game that I can buy in order to be able to install the emulators.

    Can someone help (please)? As I said I’m new and I just bought the ps vita I don’t want to mess with lots of software things just want an “easy and safe” way

    • PlaGeRaN says:

      You will have to wait till someone, at some point or some time release an exploit game title and the exploit itself. until then, rss feed this site, hope and wait that someone will release an exploit.

      sadly your device is on the latest firmware and you’re pretty much sc*** for now.

  2. rayan says:

    If You cant hack the native vita let it rest then.All this things are already there on psp and are pretty much lame now ,,,

  3. Tyler says:

    I love that the people who beg for games are the ones hacking! and im not even joking. I love my vita, There are a few gems that made buying the vita worth wile but after playing those I always question why i still have it. If they make more games for it ill buy them and the only reason ill still have a vita when they finally come out is because i hacked the damn thing to keep me interested.

  4. Vita says:

    If Sony is smart, all they should focus on is blocking Vita isos (so that you cant play Vita Roms for free). They should just let people unlock it and be able to install homebrews and emulators. Why do they care if people can play NES or SNES games on the Vita? They’re not loosing any money, and people who wanna play those games will buy a Vita instead of a 3DS. How much money will the lose if they let people play PS1 games on the Vita? They’re not selling that much PS1 games, and they’ll make way more money from extra Vita sales than PS1 games. And the Vita can’t play PS2 or PS3 games so they don’t have to worry about that. The only thing they need to worry about is protecting the Vita games. So many more people will buy the Vita if it’s unlocked

  5. decookaaron says:

    Has anyone mess with the Sony Xperia Play? Its like a psp but a phone. I had one and it was awsome. It came out before the PS Vita. Its had a touch screen, 2 trigger buttons, 2 circle pads for joy sticks, all the same buttons as the vita without the rear touchpad. And it had good *** games, i played dead space, modern combat 4, need for speed, and all kinds of emulators. I wish the vita was open source like the sony Xperia Play. Imma buy another xperia play to go with my psp and ps vita.

  6. pootie_tang says:

    I really love this console, it has TREMENDOUS POTENTIAL!!

    But, the lack of true AAA experiences has led me to make a decision: I’m waiting for Borderlands 2 to come out, and if it sucks, I’m selling my Vita right away.

    If it’s good, I might still keep it for a while, and also get Football Manager 2014 when it comes out, but in all honesty this is just a PROLONGED DEATH SENTENCE before I eventually sell it off.

    The fact that I have TN-V installed doesn’t really help either, it’s a nice distraction, but not much more (doesn’t let you use second stick, touch controls, etc).

    I believe $ONY has REALIZED THE VITA HAS LOST TO the mass deployment of inexpensive alternative devices (PHONES, TABLETS), and they don’t really care about putting all their weight behind the console. PS4 remote play in an extra feature for the PS4, but not something that will sell more Vitas to newcomers.

    LACK OF AAA GAMES = DEATH OF VITA = ALREADY HAPPENED

  7. james way says:

    Post Hoc ergo propter hoc

    It has been proven that Sony does not need hackers to keep putting out useless updates for stability and to make hacking difficult. In the end hackers were respectful of Sony’s business and trying to keep ISO loading from hitting the vita. Meanwhile Sony created a beautifully expensive paperweight and got at least one user, me, on ouya. psx emus, n64, snes, amiga, nes, etc., that’ll hold me over until I get the ps4 in 2015. Got no rush for it. Not just that but Sony seems to know how to limit or sandbox, carefully chosen word, our environments in the systems, so most of what they have been doing to limit hackers in the Vita, is patching every single exploit release. As such R&D into preventing hacking is null, and if they allowed one simple hack to continue, I tried it with monster hunter a while back, then people would just stick to the psp sandbox rather than trying to further hack the kernel. Murphy’s law with a big red button saying don’t press this.

  8. NNNRT says:

    This is what Sony isn’t understanding. HEY SONY SPIES READ THIS: WE WANNA HACK THE VITA TO GET THE CAPABILITIES AND FEATURES WE PAID FOR, AND NOT FOR PIRACY, WE ARE PAYING FOR OUR GAMES, BUT WE WANT FEATURES. The same way the calendar app was added, you should add a calculator, stopwatch, weather, compass, memo, those types of utilities. What about themes, copying & pasting text, and smileys in messaging? Those are very basic features that should come with any OS, & aren’t on the 2-year-old PS Vita yet…

  9. tobyjug says:

    Sony make very little profit on every Vita sold. The games are the main cash cow and Angry Birds is a good example of their indifference to the market. 30 odd euros for a game which is practically free on Android. Apart from a few examples most of the Vita games are side scrolling ***. These have existed in one form or another since the days of the Sinclair Spectrum. Knightlore was a simple sprite driven game which ran at about 4 Mhz on an 8 bit Z80. Never bettered in my opinion. Even Elite (41,000 kBytes !) had more depth than the current crop of Vita games. What has been achieved with a portable machine running at 600 – 1000 Mhz is frankly f*****g dreadfull. I’ve yet to find a comparable game to BBC/Spectrum Elite. I’m talking about game depth, not graphical power. Which brings me to my main gripe. If I write a small piece of code, using the PS Vita dev kit, I can run it, on MY Vita, for a mere 24 hours. After that I have to sign in – again. It’s my code, my copyright, yet I have to get Sony’s approval once a day to run it. If it wasn’t for people like TN, my Vita would have become an expensive paperweight. Having spent over 120 euros on what I thought would be good games, I finally called it a day. It’s unbelievable that there is only one chess game on the Vita. No names but it is the worst chess program ever written. A blind three legged donkey could beat it. But, it’s a graphical masterpiece. I bought it like a fool. Oh well. (deep sigh…). Thanks to TN I have Doom, Quake, ROTT, Heretic, Hexen, DOS games, Windows 3.1 (I know – sad), 100s of speccy games, Amiga, Atari ST, Atari 2600 etc etc. AND…I can create C software using the pspsdk and a psp emulator running on the PC. I’ve got more 32 x 32 sprites running across my Vita screen then I know what to do with. If I have any more fun…well, you know what I mean. Thankyou TN and everyone else involved in keeping the Vita alive against all the odds. Sony seem heck bent on killing it.

  10. Noll says:

    I own 3 psvita currently.

    one is updated to the last firmware and linked to my euro account. This is were I buy most games

    the second one is linked to my japanese psn, I mostly use this psv to play phantasy star online2

    the third one is the homebrew one. Here I play with emulators and ISOs all the games that they dont let me buy with my euro account, most of them I own them originals for my psp but I want to experience them on my oled vita