How to: Detailed tutorial about creating Custom Bubbles for PS Vita
After the release of the custom bubbles a few weeks ago, a lot of people asked us for a tutorial as help.
Even though we provided those, people still had problems (connecting to CMA, renaming EBOOT.PBP files, the bubbles themselves, and much more) and we’ve decided to make a very detailed, but also very long tutorials.
This tutorials includes the installation of OpenCMA (QCMA would work too), preparation of files, creating the fake signed EBOOT.PBP files, actually moving those to the right place, and much, much more…
Tutorial #1: Creating custom bubbles
The first tutorials covers the tasks of setting up the first bubble on your own. All the required things are either listed in the video, the video’s description or are listed somewhere else.
It is worth to mention that you need to have access to an exploit in the first place to set up your very first bubble. An eCFW (TN-V/ARK) on firmwares ≤3.20 or a VHBL on firmwares 3.30+ is required, since access to the memory stick is necessary.
After you are done with setting up a bubble, you won’t have to have an exploit game anymore. This is convenient, since creating a bubble on ≤3.20 will then enable you to update to 3.35 without requiring an exploit game for that firmware to set up even more bubbles (as long as you have set up a working VHBL or FTP bubble prior to updating).
It is also pretty important to mention that some games should not be used as a “base game” for this bubble trick, since some specific games will have either limited or even strictly limited capabilites, which renders the bubbles pretty much useless, if one of these games was chosen.
If you intend to update to 3.30+, then be sure to not choose any of the 3.18 exploit games as a “base game” for your bubbles and also do not choose Minis, since those have limited capabilities since firmware 3.10. A normal PSP game (or even a PSP demo, if it is already installed!) would be the best choice.
Since typing out everything I did in the video would make this news post at least 10 times longer, I am not going to do this and just ask you to watch the video. Every step was done slowly and carefully, so following should be no problem.
If you successfully managed to create your first custom bubble, be sure to keep reading, since the last thing we are going to do is changing the icon and name of the bubble.
Tutorial #2: Changing the bubbles’ appearances
Changing the bubbles icon and name is an easy task. If we simply drop a modified PBOOT.PBP file into the folder of the original base game (the ‘&-folder’) and rebuild the database, the PS Vita is going to change the icon and name of the bubble to the ones of the PBOOT.PBP file.
The PBOOT.PBP file has to be carefully placed into the ‘&-folder’, since usually PBOOT.PBP files have a write protection. Thanks to a trick we are able to move these files, though.
It is also worth to mention that the PBOOT.PBP files have to be hex-edited to have the same Game_ID as the “base game” we have used for the bubbles.
Once again I just ask you to simply follow the video. This one is shorter, since changing the bubbles appearances does only make sense if you successfully set up a working bubble in the first place.
I hope you were successful in creating your own custom bubbles, and I hope that these video tutorials are enough for you to understand what you have to do.
I could provide an additional text tutorial, but that is kind of a waste of time, in my opinion, since the videos should be sufficient.
FIRST?!!
BAN?!!
Oh man go and cry me a river.
This is a brilliant idea, ban someone from a website because they commented on an article saying ‘first’ as you know, I am never sarcastic; therefore it is a good idea.
🙂
You forgot “pr3” before your nick 😉
4th year without PS Vita cfw, GG :v
still no way for 3.35 ..
you shouldn t have updated!
my ps plus subscription is worth more to me
(even if my psvita stays at home in its bag while i’m carting my psp go around everywhere )
I laugh at that given how terrible PS Plus has been, let alone for the Vita. Mostly Indie ports and not even ones worth updating for.
Thats why i still use my ps3 to atleast help my vita with latest firmware psx remote play works, some ps3 games work, showtime player works on the vita but psp games dont thats what ive been missing
Please write a text format turtorial. Com’on. dont be so laZy.
if u want text tut then look in #Talk
I want it in one page. integrated. I’m giving you 3 days to do it , you laZy.
and what’s going to happen after those 3 days are up?
Write a tutorial, submit it as part of the monthly comp. and presto, a $10 PSN code is yours.
Most of it has been written out for you in /talk. So really you’re getting $10 to copy, paste and proofread.
He will commit seppuku.
After 3 days and still nothing, you ask? The answer is simple, he will prove what I said about him.
Do you not know how to spell tutorial?
awe i hate to see this fkr still posting in wololo.net
Please be quiet or go to a different website 🙂
I don’t get those ppl. You don’t have to love everybody. And it’s your and the other person problem only.
To haters: Get a life people!
ask to total_noob who is the hater
Me too…. better go to hackinformer
Thank you for this detailed explication.
A good question is there a pkg installer bubble? so i can update without worrying about vitaxploit native hack
Not possible. PKG Installer is “fixed” on 3.30+ anyways.
“fixed” well said.
enough insight steps
Good tutorials but there’s a typo: “This tutorials includes” should be “These tutorials include”
What are the best games for bubbles?
VHBL Launchers? Small “full games” that are not exploits for 3.1x.
PSP game launchers? Full games that are a tiny bit larger than the game you want to sign.
If I use small game to launch Ark I can run any game from ibside Ark? There is no size limit there?
Thank/Danke
Yes, i have done that (run ARK/TN-V with a small game as base and run way bigger PSP games from there).
Of course this only works up to 3.20, since you are using the kexploit that was fixed in later firmwares.
Thanks. I just wanted to be sure 🙂
At least we know a vhbl for psvita 3.35 is coming out
How ?
Nevermind, I haven’t see the video. Now I have. Well that’s great =)
Yes, but what if Sony releases a 3.36 update or whatever? Don’t we need to download the exploited game onto the Vita before that?
Yes, the cycle is that the game is released that can be used for the exploit. Then Sony will pull the game down from the PlayStation Store so no one can buy it anymore. They will then start working on a 3.36 firmware to be released. Once 3.36 is released the exploit game for 3.35 will be put back into the store. If you then want to get it, you have to use OpenCMA or QCMA to start CMA on your PS Vita, then connect your PS Vita to your PS3 and copy the game from your PS3 to your Vita and you now have your exploit game for 3.35.
Thanks very much for the tip! I will try this when the VHBL for 3.35 is announced. I regret updating to 3.35! When I bought my Vita, it was on 3.20, which people say is the firmware that will get a native hack, I think.
where to get the vhbl bubbles iso? thanks
Videos are sufficient, that’s probably why you tube is so popular instead of a read tube describing step by step videos. A picture is worth a thousand words. I followed step by step and it works, just take time to follow videos. I prefer videos over step by step translation, sometimes you leave out a step assuming everyone knows what you know.
I am correct in assuming that you need a new base game for each bubble you want to add?
At least we know there is going to be a vhbl 3.35
Yo Z, how do you launch Type-0? You need a base PSP game larger than the ISO correct? The English patched merged ISO is the biggest PSP game (I think).
Use a signed eCFW + ISO loader.
Hey
Can i use the bubble exploit straight from a clean 3.35 to play home brews?
No, you need to be t 3.18
Hi for me a text tutorial would be well when we don’t understand the audio language, it would be one more who understands English how to write
Are you kidding? He is speaking English! And he over-enunciates most words, making everything very easy to hear!
What’s up with the ps4 exploit ? I hadn’t see anything more on it since it was announce I hadn’t update my ps4 but if there no news I don’t see the point in saving it anymore.
Hello sir how do i put a vhbl cfw in my psvita 3.35 ??? sorrry newbie here :/
Hey, I remember seeing that it was possible to launch TN-V from a bubble. can someone tell me how?
http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=41122
There you go, just use the ISO and PBOOT.PBP from this thread rather than the ISO and PBOOT.PBP that The Zett mentions in his video and you will have a TN-V bubble. Just be aware that you cannot update to 3.35 if you want the bubble to still work. TN-V is not working on 3.35 yet (if ever). So if you want to do this and then update to 3.35 you have to use VHBL or ARK eCFW.
THIS IS A NICE TUTORIAL….WAITING FOR A 3.35 HACK-EXPLOIT WITHOUT HAVING TO HAVE EXPLOIT ON PREVIOUS FW.I HAD NEVER AN EXPLOIT BECAUSE I COULD NOT DOWNLOAD ANY GAME AND I DO NOT HAVE A PS3(YET).
Did this yesterday. After sitting on TN-V on 3.01 I decided to try this. Worked perfectly! Now I have VHBL on my 3.35. Rarely played my PSP collection anyway but now I can remote play GTA5. Thanks guys!! Keep up the great work!
Can u contol it??? i remote play gTA V on my ps3 jailbreak and i cAn get to my save game to load, but i cant control it no matter if use my vita or ps3 controller cant move
Sorry Z, you lost me at 26 minutes. You said to use Filer to rename the folder so that it has an “&” at the end but then you didn’t actually do it and said that sometimes it won’t let you do it. Then you went on to show how to do it with FTP but you never carried on with how to continue if it does allow you to rename it in Filer. I renamed it in Filer to have the & at the end and then carried on following the steps once you got back to the PSV side of things.
Basically – I renamed the folder with an &. Then I exited out of Filer and restarted the Vita into safe mode and rebuilt the database, my bubble appeared but I get “error C1-2738-0” when I try to run the bubble.
Could you possibly explain what to do if Filer does allow you to rename the folder please?
the reason this happens is because if you use tn-v with filer to copy the eboot.pbp to your game folder, tn-v will automatically change any EBOOT.PBP into FBOOT.PBP so the vita wont launch it from the live area screen. so you HAVE TO USE FILEZILLA NO MATTER WHAT.
Кстати когда уже пираты при помощи этих пузырьков научатся запускать все пиратские Вита игры?
so if im on 3.18 right now do i still need to have an exploit game to run this bubble setup or i can do it even if i dont have an exploit game… ??
You need a VHBL/eCFW to set this up, since you have to manipulate files and folders. Once set up, you don’t need any exploited games, just your custom made bubbles.
so i need to have at least an access to an exploit game one time to run vhbl/ecfw then after i set this bubble i can run the ecfw w/o the aid of an exploit game? am i correct?
Awesome tutorial only one question that i don’t believe was in the video how do we add icons to the pboot? My custom bubble is blank?
what about my banned vita stuck on 3.01. using the 101 in 1 game
Wait how did u get banned on a vita i used 101 megamix before an i updated since. I miss playin online
sony banned my PS4 because i farmed on Destiny so i lost my PS4, PS3 and PS Vita in one shot.
You can regiater Vita in new account.
i dont want to lose my DLC for my games so i dont go online anymore
You don’t need to go online as long as you have any psp games downloaded already and working.
Wow thats sucks i have ps3 jailbreak and im lucky its still not ban i only use it online when i have the legit game but why is farming not allowed? Thats bs from sony
yeah i have a modded PS3 that never went online and they banned my PS4 . so now i had to download all my lost DLC/Games because of Sony
Sorry for the English, but downloading eboot.pbp an error
DATA.PSAR is not an npumdimg!
load base eboot.pbp failed!
used game – Tekken 2
System – 3.35
I would be grateful for any help
TEEKEN 2 is not native PSP game, it’s from PS1.
Hi,
I have a question:
I saw in the Video, that a 3.35 Vita shows a Final Fantasy Type-0 bubble.
Since I updated to 3.35, I haven’t kept up with the news. I sacrificed my ability to play Final Fantasy Type-0 on my Vita for the sake of using the PSN again (PS Plus games without a trick, cloud saving, etc.)
And I’m also afraid of my Vita uploading that my PSN account played [custom FF- Type-0 bubble name], which might or might not lead Sony to ban me eventually.
I’m also too lazy to change my account and memory card, each time, I want to continue playing a game.
Now considering all these points: Am I able, to play FF Type-0 on 3.35 at all? Is it only possible from a custom bubble, or can I just use an official bubble? If it’s only possible from a custom bubble and I have to stay offline while playing it, will my Vita eventually upload the information as soon as I go online with it again?
No, you don’t. I guess he made bubbles and then he updated firmware.
ZLOAD.NET is down… cannot get the fake_np files…
Try forum. There are files need to this bubble hack.
You’re right. It is. However, I found another link that hosts all the Sony CMAs for the different firmwares. If I find the fake_np files, I’ll also post a link. Hope it helps while zload is working out its issues.
http://www.mediafire.com/ofws
God bless this post
I was about to update my Vita because I thought I would never get CMA to work, Thanks for still supporting the newbies, The Z
There’s a downfall to this right? If you play a PSP game on a bubble you can’t use plugins since it’s not in TN-V right? But it’s faster to play games rather than opening TN-V.
Hello, thank you a lot for your tutorials, I’m translating your great tutorials in french, but I need an information about the edition of the bubbles : why is it impossible to use “PBP Unpacker’s SFO Editor” to change the game ID and title (in your 2nd video you use HEXEditor) ?
Thank you in advance, and congrats for all ! 🙂
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