PS Vita Hack: Yifan Lu announces “Rejuvenate” – A platform for native PS Vita Homebrews!
Despite not getting a space on Sony’s E3 lineup, Yifan Lu decided to announce a PS Vita hack: the Rejuvenate platform for the PS Vita on his very own blog.
But what is Rejuvenate? Well…
PS Vita Hack – What is Rejuvenate?
Summarized: A way to have native PS Vita homebrews on your portable (No PS VitaTV support) Playstation Vita handheld!
The Rejuvenate ps vita hack does NOT enable any kind of PS Vita piracy, even if Yifan Lu wished to, he cannot, due to limitations preventing piracy on the vita itself.
Yifan Lu bypassed a few limitations that Sony has added to the PSM programme, which in the end made it possible for him to enable native Homebrews for the PS Vita through this hack.
Like he has said in the past few weeks, the PSM Dev application is necessary and you have to have the PSM SDK installed (on your computer). If you lack these things, you cannot use Rejuvenate. Yifan Lu says he expects Sony to remove the PSM Dev App from the PSN Store any time now, so get it while you still can.
If you are a fan of numbers, then keep in mind that the PSP 2000+ (non-1000) has 64MB of shared memory, runs at 333MHz (CPU) and 166Mhz (GPU), while the PS Vita has 512MB of memory (main), 128MB of (video) RAM and four CPU cores running at approx. 1GHz!
If the PSP could provide cool homebrews with its weak hardware, then just think of what the PS Vita, and its great hardware, could be capable of?!
Heavy modifications in terms of installing an alternative OS, major (or minor) system modifications or kernel access is not possible with Rejuvenate.
If you want to know more about Yifan Lu’s upcoming platform release, then head over to his blog. He is explaining a lot of things regarding Rejuvenate, including the upcoming release schedule, as well as limitations. Cheers for this PS Vita hack!
Source via Yifan Lu.
I was happy to saw the news title until i click and read at the beginning “No PS VitaTV Support”… Damn, i was maybe going to buy a second for 50$ at BestBuy Canada in another Bundle. 🙁
We will get help from the inside you will all see theres a sony employee in the master dev dept willing to spill the beans eventually leading to what we all want.
so when exactly is this gonna go out? and will i be able to install it with out installing the dec apps?
guys help… my fw 3.51, but i cnt download psm dev on psn.. thres no download button.. why?
Great Work Yifan.It’s a great progress.
I have an early version of PSM… 1.0 i think…. Can i update with the package installer on 3.18? Without updating the firmware and a ps3? Thanks
The Z,
I thought there is 4-core GPU&CPU each… CORES, NOT CPU/GPU ITSELF.
Yeap, I am correct:
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In terms of pure statistics, the PSP-3000 has 64MB of shared memory, 333MHz CPU, and 166MHz GPU. The Vita has 512MB of main memory and 128MB of dedicated video RAM. It has four cores of CPU running at around ~1GHz and four cores of GPU running at around ~200MHz. In addition, the Vita also has the entire PSP hardware inside its silicon.
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From source link.
I need help I sign into the PSM dev portal and it says sign in with your psn account and set your online I’d and sign in is grayed out please help!
So I’m on 3.51 now. Moved up from 3.18 CFW (was going to anyway to get online and other PSN bits). Didn’t manage to become a registered dev in time. So am I completely stuffed now? No ePSP CFW, no hacks, can’t install dev assistant? Is there anything I can do? Sigh – Makes me want to sell my Vita because Sony have locked it down so hard.
boomshakalaka!
If I already have Dev App and need to update it via package installer, how do I invoke it? The email trick doesnt work for me. I’m at 3.18
Sony Knows About it you’re stupid dude atleast find a better hack.
What can i do if i can’t register for developer? i can’t get to download th psm dev on the ps store
is necessary an update at end?
is neessary update at end?
So many people updated… is there any ePSP exploit (kexploit ?) in sight for 3.51 ?
The limitations of this “homebrew-enabler” are turning me off, I miss the eCFW of 3.36.
N’ayant pas pu m’enregistrer à temps pour télécharger le SDK sur ma Vita (j’en suis écœuré après avoir suivi la scène de près depuis la date de sortie de la console en France !)… suis je donc dans une impasse ? Impossible de profiter de cette ouverture inespérée ?
Il semblerait que malheureusement, oui, vous ne pourrez pas beneficier du hack si vous n’avez pas pu telecharger psm dev a temps
Vous pouvez toujours le telecharger…. Je viens de le faire sur ma vita. Il suffit de se connecter au Ps Store. Ensuite taper “development” dans la barre de recherche et ensuite il va vous indiquer l’application et vous n’avez plus qu’à l’installer… J’ai réussi et pourtant je n’ai pas eu de licence de développeur. Je me suis bien inscris mais je n’ai pas eu de mail comme beaucoup ici…
This is huge for people who enjoyed developing homebrew for the PSP. The Vita essentially has 8 times the speed of the PSP when cores are being properly utilized, and 10 times the memory.
Tried to install over charles proxy, and ps3, but received the message “this content has expired or the owner of this content is another player”. So… No hope for me? My vita is updated, but i am not registered at psm…
did you used the same psn account on PS3 and Vita?
Will I be able to play PSP game like the PSP mode with previous exploit?
because no point to upgrade before if lose this
Yes you will…
Just checked, no…
‘Can I run backups/ISOs/copied games for Vita? For PSP? For PSOne?
No.’
If you bothered to read the god da-mn article before start asking you wouldn’t have the need to ask…
Stop spreading false information first
so is necessary to own SDK publishing licence ??
1)Would installing the Unity dev app be good, too?
2) No point in updating my PSTV to get dev on there, right?
Woo hoo!! Congrats and kudos to you, Yifan Lu! d:-]
By the way, guys, I downloaded and installed the 2.00 PSM SDK instead of the older 1.XX version. Is this okay? Thanks.
so i have everything. except for psn sdk. which one do i download. 2.0 or 1.2? plz help :3
It will be interesting to see if there are enough developers who even still make homebrew for niche devices at this point take any interest in the Vita. I hate to say it, but I think homebrew developrs of the PSP era and alike have moved onto platforms like Android, iOS, PC, etc.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m rooting for an awesome Vita homebrew scene. I just do not believe the likelihood from this exploit will produce anything much beyond what the PSP homebrew scene already offers. There are a lot of polished and refined emulators for the PSP that underwent years and years of development. I just cannot imagine the same level of interest for the Vita.
Hopefully we get Android emulator ports for Dreamcast and N64.
bleh, if you read these since it’s awaiting moderation, i posted it on the wrong dang page, so if you could delete that last comment (and this one), it’d be appreciated, if not, that’s fine i guess.
Nope 🙂
Too sleepy to say much, but too good well nice of newz to say nada. So happy zaze sez yay…. Sense of this try to not do for i know not what i say. Vita no charge almost a weak… May B eyell charger the battery again. —- Seriously? You read my whole comment?—
People !! can we see PS2 games also working on that new Hack or we can’t ? I hope you answer me
Is there any hope for support on firmwares higher than 3.18? I understand Yifan has been doing this on a 3.18 Vita
It’ll work on the latest firmware.
do i need to have PSM SDK installed on my computer to have REJUVENATE or the psm dev is enough?
i dont have ps3 , what should i do ?
you¨re out of luck …
How do I get apps on PSM Dev app? I have it on my vita.