Note from Wololo: This tutorial was initially published by /Talk member ryuzen, as part of our monthly tutorial contest. Ryuzen won the best Vita tutorial prize (a $10 PSN Code) for his entry. You can find the original post here.

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This tutorial will show you how to download your Vita games with Internet Download Manager instead of using your Vita or Sony’s tools.

Benefit :

• Download faster
• Fetch .pkg file for various use (example : Install another region demo (Via SKFU Package Installer method)
• Let your vita rest while downloading
• Store downloaded games for backup later use on another device
• Use downloaded game on different psn account without redownloading the same game again (cma won’t let you do this)

How to:

 

1. Download PSN download Manager first! : http://www.solidfiles.com/d/51255ac50c/Downloader.rar
2. Create Hotspot From Your PC using your Router / Connectify (Or use virtual router plus, its free)
3. Connect your vita to the hotspot
4. Download the game you want
5. Pause the download.
6. Now connect to your hotspot using proxy. Put your pc ip and port 27 then reconect your hotspot
7. Now open “psn dm.exe”, see it fetching the game, if nothing happen make sure to allow the firewall.
8. Right click and copy download link, copy it to IDM
9. Now delete ongoing download on psn dm. also pause the download on vita too
10. After download completed, copy downloaded file under downloads folder on psndm folder.
11. make blank text file, name it ready_”yourdownloadedfilename”.txt
12. Back to vita, resume the download, you’ll notice it will download faster and install directly from file on your pc.
13. Done!

note : you can keep your downloaded .pkg and do the same process if you want to install the game again, also you can use the downloaded file to install on another psn account without redownloading the game again!

Hope it helps

 

Bonus

Like i said we can install another region demo

But the process is different,
basically you can get the .pkg file from this method and use the hidden package installer to install another region demo (this might not work above firmware 3.18)