How to: Download Vita Games Using IDM from PC (by ryuzen)
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.
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:
- Download PSN download Manager first! : http://www.solidfiles.com/d/51255ac50c/Downloader.rar
- Create Hotspot From Your PC using your Router / Connectify (Or use virtual router plus, its free)
- Connect your vita to the hotspot
- Download the game you want
- Pause the download.
- Now connect to your hotspot using proxy. Put your pc ip and port 27 then reconect your hotspot
- Now open “psn dm.exe”, see it fetching the game, if nothing happen make sure to allow the firewall.
- Right click and copy download link, copy it to IDM
- Now delete ongoing download on psn dm. also pause the download on vita too
- After download completed, copy downloaded file under downloads folder on psndm folder.
- make blank text file, name it ready_”yourdownloadedfilename”.txt
- Back to vita, resume the download, you’ll notice it will download faster and install directly from file on your pc.
- 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)
mmmmm i gonna try that
wow! nice but how can i download 3.18 version
Wow ive been using idm for years and this tutorial is very very helpful for downloading huge file like 3gb games very nice thanks
Hi, I have my PSVita in 3.18 so if I want to buy a game on the Vita PSN Store I can’t because I need to upgrade (and I don’t want to upgrade !)
With this “trick” can I buy the game and put it on my PSVita without upgrading ?
I’m not sure I have really understand, that’s why I ask this question ^^
^^^^ Is this correct? I just bought a few games (physical) and can’t play till I update. Could I purchase digital downloads and still play, without updating?
Too excited about what could be down the pipeline to update.
No.if the game requieres 3.20 and up and you are on 3.18,you cant play that game.
Im pretty sure you need to read the download link from your psvita while its downloading.so the download needs to start on your vita.
hola
solo sirve para demos?
tengo que actulizar mi consola?
espero respuesta ya que como ya abra muchos usuarios un saludo
No es para demos, es para bajar por el pc lo qye deberia bajar por el vita, eventualmente tienes que actualizar teniendo en cuenta que la descarga debe iniciar desde el vita… si consigues usar el truco de download queue tal vez puedas usarlo
Hola disculpa este es para juegos completos?, fucniona en 3.30?
erm… so this will only work if you’re on the same ver with the PSN stores? Unless Charles proxy still works?
I’ve been doing this with Charles Proxy for quite some time as the time it takes for me to download the PKG via my Mac and let Charles Proxy stream it to my Vita is much faster than letting the Vita download it from Sony in the first place.
Hi Charles,
Could you please instruct me how to download the PKG vita via Mac? Thank you very much
So let me get this straight. By using this tool, I can just download a 3GB game from my Download list (For example, my FFX-2) and just download it in less than 30 minutes instead of the actual three hours? If what you said is true, I can actually dump my digital copy of the game to the PC and transfer it to a second Vita that has a different PSN account without the hassle?
I guess not, u need to download it first and pause the download (which means vita already downloaded the license at this point). So basically it’s doesn’t work if your second PSN account doesn’t purchase same game.
The part about being able to use it in a different PSN account leads me to believe that piracy could be pretty easy using this method, unless it doesn’t work if the other PSN account doesn’t have the game in its purchased list?
uuh does that mean we can share those pkg files and wouldnt have to buy those games online??
No you still need to have bought the game on your other vita.this is just a download of the game.
it doesn’t magically gives you the license file. PKG doesn’t include that.
would be possible to make downgrade and install the version 3:18 with this method ?
heh and here we have the pkg games ready to install when a loader is released with the web exploit 😛
Psnstuff can we combine with this trick?we can download pkg file with the help of psnstuff maybe the key is to break the account security to install different pkg etc..
i am the one how publish this tuterial first
http://wololo.net/contact/comment-page-16/#comment-2917910
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNfT_Ub1DuI
i just say
Thought it seemed familiar.
Could I use this program to log into PSN without updating?
yes
Wait seriously? I could bypass Netflix with this?
Would you happen to have a tutorial for doing so?
Congrats Ruzy !!!
Oh,almost had a heart attack,don’t name articles like this pls)
my command is delete whay ?
plz answer
How exactly does this work if you were on 3.18 (which you need to be on to install PKG’s) now that the proxy doesn’t work?
If we can’t do this, isn’t this tutorial a little pointless and useless now?
you can ignore update request buy proxy
update request is something like this xml
and than you can log in to psn and buy game
xml :
http://deu01.psp2.update.playstation.net/update/psp2/image/2014_0730/rel_977f3eb1e691ffc4d5e7b47a2a21beab/PSP2UPDAT.PUP?dest=eu
http://deu01.psp2.update.playstation.net/update/psp2/image/2014_0730/sd_bc7c8ab8270ec49458046c8e5a81c3a3/PSP2UPDAT.PUP?dest=eu
http://deu01.psp2.update.playstation.net/update/psp2/image/2014_0730/pre_4535f30994c112326040e4c4f25bb3ba/PSP2UPDAT.PUP?dest=eu
buy proxy you can make fake server to vita and vita will not detect any new firimware is avaliable
in update xml this lines is important
Which proxy should I buy that would be most effective and less time-consuming?
PsvProxy.Net did the same thing but without any manipulation
well, Sony purposely made download manager not using multi thread so it won’t kill PSN
I use PSN Download Helper, Works perfectly for me, with both the PS3 and Vita!
theoretically speaking , this method could be used to download downgrade from the vita ?
i have version 3.30 would be possible to get the downgrade 3.18 as update from ” server ” and install it ?
At first I thought this was a stupid comment, but its a clever idea. I still doubt it would work though since I’m sure the vita has an anti-downgrade system that probably checks versions to make sure the version you are installing is later than the one on the vita.
Naw bro sorry.
can this work on psp games downloaded
theoretically speaking, and deceive the ps vita showing that donwgrade is actually an update? logically because each console has her own encryption but and make he think that the 3:18 version is a update? The console could erase the 3:30?
how it affects the anti downgrade system?
is it only for demo games? or can i play any region games which i purchased from my another account?
does it still work?
i’m trying this but can you be more specific about points 1 and 2?
i also read the readme but when i try to open psn dm.exe it doesn’t work and it gives me some net.framework error…
this is for full games?without pay
xman,no!
at some point we were all thinking it.
DOnt work on 1.81 any solution work virtual router but i can get psn.
Cállate imbécil.
so im on 3.18 now does this trick bypass the force update when you go to psn store or this trick is just to speed up the games that your downloading?
can those pkges saved also be shared to another vita?
it works perfect on version 3.35! 🙂
Hi there, this weekend is pleasant designed for me, as this moment i am reading this wonderful informative
paragraph here at my house.
how to put pkg files to ps vita i need help
Can anyone copy here the download link of DOA Xtreme 3 Demo JP using this method? A thousand thank for you :))