ARK-2: The ARK eCFW for the PS Vita gets an Update!
Since TN left the scene a few months ago, and without a way to run an eCFW at the most recent PS Vita firmware, it got a bit quiet about eCFWs.
The developers of the ARK eCFW, an alternative choice for your PS Vitas PSPemulator, are currently updating the ARK eCFW to revision 2, which should enhance the features and functions of said eCFW.
Our well known developer Acid_Snake is currently offering some beta builds of the ARK-2 eCFW, which can be tested by anyone, as long as the firmware is 3.01 or below.
The ARK eCFW is basically a port of the PRO PSP CFW for the PS Vita, except that the ARK eCFW does not offer the PSPs XMB for the PS Vita (yet!).
Keep an eye at said thread, it should get pretty interesting in the future.
Source and download: Wololo.net/talk
Hope you don’t mind me asking – but what benefits (Now or planned in the future) will this have over the current TN-V? Will it be possible to get PS1 games working properly (With sound) Or is that not going to happen due to the lack of ME emulation?
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This can be updated while TN-V is dead, You can thank TN for giving the source to some random instead of actual devs.
I’ll add to this, is this a straight port of the last Ark build to new exploits or is there something new and significant that we would want?
To fate6,
Please correct me if I am wrong, but didn’t Coldbird claim that TN and Ark were now sharing code? Or was that a short lived alliance that possibly only had TN sharing old builds? Interested because I never heard anything about what TN did with the source after he left.
ARK has better compatibility with certain plugins thats all i know like CWCheat works better in ARK than in TN-V
the question is, will it be as comfy as TN-V
I’m just pleased to know ARK are working on having the XMB menu in their eCFW.
That was The Z’s assumption. We have no intention of porting the XMB to ARK for many reasons, first being that it kills the huge customization that homebrew menus give you, and secondly that it requires a lot of time and patience (it took TN about 6 montsh to get it working, I don’t have nearly that much time!).
Basically, if you want the XMB, stick to TN-V. If you want a custom menu, go with ARK.
Ark rocks!! Why would anyone stick with the old XMB ? LOL PPL THIS IS THE PS VITA NOT THE PSP!!
its time we get over the psp
Many people still love the PS Vita, including myself. The PSP holds some titles that aren’t on the PS Vita (Unless it has eCFW/TN-V) We know obviously the PS Vita is not the PSP. It is not time we got over the PSP, not yet anyway.
omg.im dying for a nds emulator to be released,it will happen atleast 20fps im sure of it
They do have ds on psp hombrew it is very slow
Will anyone release a guide on finding a kernel exploit anytime soon?
Nope
First, there’s no such thing as “a guide to find kernel exploits”, each kernel exploit is its own world and requires creativity and a small mistake on Sony’s part. Secondly, we have made countless blog posts explaining PSP security and how previous kernel exploits worked.
For example i wouod like to know how do you hackers dump flash0 inside the psp emu on the vita?
There’s some code that does this once you get kernel access, I’m not sure if it’s public though, but we’ll probably make it public some time.
Any chance some brave soul will port this to mystylist?
I’m pretty sure that’s not possible with the mystylist exploit as it’s a usermode exploit and not a kernal. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
There would have to be a new kernal exploit that can be triggered with the usermode exploit or before it. Unlikely to happen.
it lives!!lol
acid is on a roll it seems
keep the steam going
thank you ark mode
is it anything update with this version?
Haha so how did the first hacker dump flash0? And then you guys found kernel exploits and dumped the flash0 on the newer firmware etc?
Pro online?
It’s on our TODO list. Thankfully we managed to bring the master over for a couple of days to get it working.
“The developers of the ARK eCFW, an alternative choice for your PS Vitas PSPemulator, are currently updating the ARK eCFW to revision 2”
The developers of ARK haven’t touched the source code for a long time. It’s qwik and me who are updating it, if it were for the original developers ARK would still be gathering dust in the farthest regions of the internet.
Can anyone give me complete guide how to install this on 3.15 ofw vita complete guide and list of games that i can play
Nope