Vita memory card dumped by mr.gas and tomtomdu80
Progress on the native side of the Vita hacks is rare, so news like the one we are seeing today is always welcome:
/Talk member mr.gas announced today that him and tomtomdu80 (whom you might remember for his VHBL port on Apache Overkill last year) were able to dump the contents of a PS Vita memory card. Although they are not sharing this content publicly for obvious reasons, they have given reasonable proof that their work is totally legit.
This is the first time we see such a dump being announced publicly, since developer katsu released technical documentation on how to copy Vita game cartridges‘ content more than 6 months ago. Keep in mind that his announce was for game cartridges, while we are talking of a memory card here.
Sony uses proprietary memory cards on the PS Vita, which makes them virtually impossible to read without any additional hardware.
Additionally, it is believed the content on the card is encrypted, but mr.gas precised that a large majority of the content on the card is actually not. Famous vita hacker Yifan Lu was quick to mention that the unencrypted content is more or less useless in the context of a vita hack, while the encrypted content is still, well, encrypted, and therefore useless “as is”. His comments in the thread seem to imply he has been able to read vita memory sticks content himself for a while now.
Nevertheless, the number of people able to read Vita memory cards today can probably be counted on one hand, so this is still exciting news.
As shown on mr.gas’s screenshot, the PS Vita memory card contains several folders, for which the content can in general easily be guessed:
- app
- appmeta
- bgdl
- calendar
- data
- game
- license
- mms
- music
- patch
- pspemu
- SceIotrash
- temp
- user
- inconlayout.ini
- id.dat
Although it is ok to doubt this will help hacking the vita, this could still become useful in several ways:
It could for example be possible to copy/move content to the card without having to go through CMA, which could help transferring psp exploits and homebrews more easily than today. It might be possible to reassign the card to another account without formatting it. It could be possible to handle backups, and in general, everything that CMA does, directly with a third party card reader connected directly to the PC. It might be possible, in general, to tweak a few things here and there for fun and profit, simple mods for the console (icons, etc…)
Source: mr.gas on /talk
Oh look. the memory card uses some linux Filesystem.
I am sure, our pictures are saved somewhere, so why don’t we just place a symbolic link bomb into the picture folder, pointing to the root of the flash?
as soon we Access fhe picture viewer on the vita, we get Access to unencrypted Firmware content like /dev/bin
and if you happen to copy that spoofed folder over with CMA to your PC….
Unfortunately this will never work, a) CMA checks the folders, b) you can’t write over the firmware whilst the device is being actively used
2 years late mate…
*its acturally exfat*
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I wonder if it would ibe possible to copy games from the ‘games’ folder to another cartige?
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I wonder if it would be possible to copy games from the ‘games’ folder to another cartige, what do you think?
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