How to install PSM Dev for Unity on PS Vita firmware 3.20 and above
Note from Wololo: This tutorial was initially published by /Talk member YumYumOfTheYum, as part of our monthly tutorial contest. YumYumOfTheYum won the best PS Vita tutorial prize in June (a $10 PSN Code) for his entry. You can find the original post here.
This is for PSM Dev Unity packaged by Major.Tom & Mr Gas.
Credits to them, and also all you coders in the scene. Big thanks !
Without further ado …
- Get the PSM Dev Unity package here: http://wololo.net/downloads/index.php/download/8322 then unpack.
- Install Mozilla Thunderbird (portable version also OK, thanks pythonista for clarifying).
- Open the “test2.eml” file included in the package using Thunderbird then send the email to your email. You can send it to yourself, btw.
- Copy the directory “UNITY” into PSAVEDATA/blahblahblah/UNITY in your PSAVEDATA folder .. note blahblahblah is your device unique identifier.
- Then copy the package using Content Manager. It will show as PSM UNITY INSTALL (>3.20).
- Rebuild database before anything else (power off then R+power+PS button).
- Tap any game that needs updating but don’t open it.
- Start update for the game by tapping the upper leftmost icon in that game’s “page”.
- Pause the running update (open your notification bubble in LiveArea then tap … then “pause”).
- Open Vita email app, then open the email sent earlier by yourself. If it’s correct, you will have 2 attachments showing as images.
- Tap image 1 (left). An error message will appear, just close the app (NOT the error message).
- Re-open Vita email app, then open again that email.
- Tap image 2 (right). An error message will appear, just close the app (NOT the error message) just like before.
- Turn off Wi-Fi.
- Reboot.
- Open your notification bubble in LiveArea, then tap on the message showing failed update.
- ???
- Profit !!!
Additional notes:
- For you guys noticing 96kb (or whatever) size in the Vita content manager app after copying the save data, don’t worry, it’s really 27-something MB. It is shown as 96kb because apparently the Vita system did not read the size of the subfolders.
- Also, apparently you need QCMA instead of OCMA for successful file transfer (h/t Dr.GiggleZ and AlexTwolf).
- If you’re on 3.30+, apparently you need to update the PSM Dev Unity app first. Just do it.
- If your Vita says “you must update the system software”, just shutdown and refresh database. Restart in airplane mode (h/t tinostar91).
- Some people reported that the game update must be paused right after it is initiated, but that seems not to be the case (h/t tinostar91).
- Outlook doesn’t work, Hotmail doesn’t work (h/t RonnChyran and SaltySticks). For Gmail, you need to either enable 2-step verification and use app specific password, or allow access to less secure apps.
- PSM Runtime can also be used for update payload (h/t RikuKurai).
- Any game on a cart can also be used, as long as it requires an update (h/t Xplic1T).
- Edited for a few important points forgotten, 2nd edit for additional infos learned by people in this thread. Thanks, everyone!
Cheers!
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So what can we do with it?
Once YifanLu and Netrix are done with the Rejuvenate port for Unity, it will be required to run homebrews
cool!!!
I already have PSM Dev, on my vita oled 3.18.. Is this still required?
It is better, because unity is wi-fi and dev is cable-connected
Still, it’s easy for a 3.18 to install unity..
http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=43219
My hope is, that the wifi ability will enable starting Rejuvenate via smartphone app at some point. This would really make Rejuvenate a lot more portable friendly.
When will be the rejuvenate for unity come? And can we play Psp, ps1,gba,3ds games with this?and is there a way to connect to psn in 3.51 and will this work in 3.52?
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I missed a lot of stuff. I have a vita on fw 1.81 with TN-V via MadBlockerAlpha. Should I update to newest fw to do this?
No, the newest firmware already blocked this hack so DON’T DEW IT!
There is no point in being on 1.81. Don’t update to latest firmware, get a game that contains firmware 3.18 or 3.20 and update to that manually. Those two and 3.36 are the “golden” firmware at the moment.
Yeah but does this PSM DEV for Unity stuff let me run psp isos? Because that’s what I’m using my vita for since my psp died. I have two vitas. One is always up to date for buying legit games and playing online, and the other is mainly for homebrew and psp isos via TN-V.
Nope psp isos only work via TN-V
Can someone explain step 8 to me?
you need to have download game or software in progress in your vita notification panel to do that the easy way is to get new update for game or software.
you need to have a game and that game should have a update vertion
Will an automatic firmware update work? Like (when the download is in progress)
Yeah Bro.
My Vita is still on 3.18 for TN-V. Should I consider updating to 3.20 in order to take advantage of this or is it possible that a 3.18 fix will come about?
Use the pkg installer and the unity pkg.
Just to clarify, I wasn’t able to register and download the PSM Developer stuff prior to Sony ceasing accepting registration requests. Will installing the Unity pkg be enough to use Rejuvenate?
it will be enough
Thank you kindly.
Trying to install the Unity Devkit Update 1.05 pkg(seems to be the file I need to install), but it says “faild..(C2-10526-4)” after trying to do “Promoting”. I’m sure i’m missing something, but i’m not sure what.
Ah, I figured out my problem. Now I have PSM Dev for Unity installed and updated. Do I run it or just wait until Rejuvenate is ported to Unity?
Yes
Will an automatic firmware update download work? Like (when the download is in progress in he notifications)?
uhm.. i’m on 3.18 and installed PSM dev for unity, can i ask how to update it? it asks to update my system software.. if i do update my system software i’ll be on 3.52 and i can’t use this PSM dev right? what do i have to do? sorry.. really noob.. thanks in advance..
Best tutorial so far for this. That said, its still pretty bad.
Also, Outlook.com email addresses work fine, that’s what I used.
So what’s up with us 3.18 users?
3.18 users have the eml activating pkg installer that makes it even easier. google it. About pstv (had trouble so here is a hint) : in qcma settings uncheck “Disable Wi-Fi monitoring” (even if you use rj45 plug instead of wi-fi), then stop and restart QCMA. otherwise pstv and pc will not interact to register pc name in the pstv
Thank you so much for that as I was having issues getting this to work
I have done this, however the app seems to still prompt for a update using the proper 3.18 PSM Unity update PKG. It’s not mandatory like version 1.00 though. I can open it, it says it’s out of date, I can close the update prompt and it stays open.
Im on fw 1.8.1 can i update to 3.18 and do the pkg installer way. Cheers
to safely upgrade to fw 3.18 go there : http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=43262
err to safely upgrade it s that link : http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?t=23013
sorry guys this is a noob question.
what is the difference between PSM DevAssistant and PSM Dev Unity?
Could someone explain to me if this ‘PSM dev for Unity’ is the one we downloaded along with ‘PSM dev assistant'(the one we raped later), and if so, do i need to use this article, or am i good already? Thanks!
both are good, you just need one. unity is however easier to install for late comers, and will be the only one working on pstv (debug over wi-fi compatible instead of usb only). names are psm dev assistant and psm dev assistant for unity.
@narsink, to safely upgrade to fw 3.18 go there : http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=43262
I confirm it worked on my pstv fw 3.36 using retail black ops declassified ps vita game cartridge
Some pstv specific hints :
– pc, ps3 and pstv on same hub, pstv using vita blocker 1.2 proxy (almost all the time)
– in qcma settings unckeck “Disable wi-fi monitoring”, stop it or kill it then restart it
– when i restart pstv first thing i do is content manager to see what is on my ps3 to download
(that way i see in vita blocker 1.2 that it spoofed fw version, so no worry about fw check, might be optional)
– I wrote psn details in parameters app and downloaded from ps3 a game to activate pstv with my psn account
– step 4 : blahblah doesn’t seem specific to device, might be specific to psn account (same blabla on my ps vita)
– step 6 : on pstv, shutdown it, press power button for 10 seconds until it says on screen please plug in controller
– step 8 : to make the top left yellow download icon appear you have a few things to do first :
a) hit the third icon (blue double arrows to symbolized ‘refresh’, if you get NW-8942-3 error it s normal if proxy is on
b) change network settings and don’t use proxy (just temporarily)
c) hit the third blue icon ‘refresh’ again
d) now the top left new icon showing a yellow download arrow appears! click it
e) when top right corner shows download is in progress (rotating bubbles), keep pressed circle button to close game
f) navigate to top right corner then bottom right … button to pause all downloads (that’s step 9)
g) you can change network settings again and use vita blocker proxy again and go to step 10 (i used baby pop server)
– step 11/13 : on pstv to unfold and close immediately mail app just keep circle controller button pressed for 3s
– step 17 : hi from mr gas! (grats to you!) once dev for unity is installed, on fw 3.30+ you have to update that way :
a) hit the ‘refresh’ icon (blue double arrows to symbolized ‘refresh’, if you get NW-8942-3 error it s normal if proxy is on
b) change network settings and don’t use proxy (just temporarily)
c) hit the blue icon ‘refresh’ again
d) now the top left new icon showing a yellow download arrow appears! click it
e) when top right corner shows download is in progress (rotating bubbles), keep pressed circle button to close unity
f) navigate to top right corner to check the download progress of the upgrade unity v1.06, when it s finished then…
g) you can change network settings again and use vita blocker proxy again and go to step 10 (i used baby pop server)
If you launch unity it will faill checking your dev license, it’s completely normal. You are ready for next hack release.
Prepare for the coming hack very fast, because i feel there is too much dependency from these upgrade downloads from sony servers. Sony might stop serving them soon.
I don’t understand why everybody is saying “3.20 AND above” … it should be “3.30 and above”, because on 3.20 you can just use the pkg installer.
Afaik mr.gas also called it something like “unity installer (>3.20)”, which means bigger AS 3.20 … not >= (same AS or bigger).
Can use it to install pkg demo # ?
i can’t get the QCMA working with my psvita 3.36, my pc crashed some days later(new HDD), so i had a fresh install of QCMA, it still doesn’t work, what am i doing wrong ?
in qcma settings set protocol to manual and choose 3.30, only uncheck Disable wi-fi monitoring and prefer usb cable method. close and restart qcma
err only uncheck Disable usb monitoring, let others ones checked
THX very much!
So, I’m 3.52. is there any chance?
nope. dev assistants are black listed in fw 3.52 and above. resell and buy another.
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So, does this work on 3.52?
Becouse when i try to start the PSM Dev for Unity app it comes up whit an update notification.
And even after installing the update, the same message appears and the app isn´t launching.
+1 same problem
No
Will this work on 3.52? If not, can we get some updates on that ‘potential’ exploit with the Puzzle Scape game?
no it not working
Does it work on 3.51?
yes
if i do this , after the restart i just get the pauzed update , no psm thingy….
whatever got it to work
you might have been wrong in step 6, 11 or 13. when it says image can’t be displayed, be sure to not press ok, you must kill mail app
also the paused update should say it failed because before rebooting you turned into airplane mode (thatis uncheck network connection), so when it restarts, it makes download fail. and when you tap the failed download bar, the magic happens (it says hi from mr gas). If the 2 files are still there, if you killed mail app correctly twice.
no, i was using a mail that someone forwarded to me for it to work, but it didn’t, i then send it myself to my gmail and now it works, the rest of the steps i did exactly like mentioned.
so is this gonna enable something like …
psplinknet via prx in seplugins that has a nethostfs.exe and pspsh.exe or pcterm.exe above telnet
and has the ability to %loadvsh% and assignhost.prx that assigns host0 to ms0 ?.?
thank u for reading.
keep on the good work.
I still have 2.61 on my vita with that tower defense game. Can I install this rejuvenate stuff without upgrading?
yes Chris. u can but use vitaupdateblocker1.2 and start transfer pauze it and restart without proxy or soem.
like explained above in comments.
wonre July 19, 2015 at 12:04 pm
@narsink, to safely upgrade to fw 3.18 go there : http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=43262
narsinkonline.
what if you dont have an app or game that needs updating. is there anyway of getting an older version of a game or app so you can do this.
I saw in another site that you can update PlayStation Mobile, Settings/System/PlayStation Mobile
I’ve just tested this and it works.
Updating Playstation Mobile causes two updates to start downloading. Pause both of them. The top download will say failed when you’re finished, and the bottom one will still be paused.
When I am on Content Manager it doesn’t show me anything in Save Data PSP/Others :(. I am sure that I put the UNITY folder in the correct place, PS VITA/ PSAVEDATA/ “a lot of numbers and letters”/ and in this folder I pasted Unity, it is correct, isn’t it? What’s the problem? 🙁
Im receving an error message when trying to send the email to myself… saying “sending of the message failed.”
Maybe it’s the wine talking but THEM’S TOO MANY DAMN STEPS!
aLSO my msn account doesn’t work on the vita dammit…
Hello,
i hope anyone can help me.
I have a vita on firmware 3.36. I recently bought another one on firmware 3.52 with 8gb card and some nice games on it. Since 3.36 is a good firmware to stay on, i was hoping to switch the mem card. However i can’t connect to PSN due to the firmware. Before doing a factory reset on the 3.52 i backed up the mem card with open cma.
I was hoping if anyone can help me to get the games on the card in my 3.36 vita. It says to input the sony entertainment network account that will be linked to this device. So i try to input the psn account of the mem card, however it keeps saying “psn is not avaible”.
idk if this is what you mean: http://hackinformer.com/2015/06/26/how-to-swap-your-vita-memory-card-without-formatting/
ps: if you just wanna transfer games, why dont you transfer the game to pc and then transfer from pc to the other vita? btw, I would tell you to stop using open cma and start using qcma
I”m totally new to this activating,transferring stuff. After backing up the memory card with open cma., i formatted both systems. Now i inserted the card in my 3.36 vita and it asks me fi card is mine, if so to login with the sony account. So when i try to do that it keeps saying “psn isn’t avaible anymore” (maybe because lower firmware can”t go on psn?)
So at the moment i’m totally stuck and got no clue what to do…
if you remain stuck, buy a ps3, put vita ps3 and pc on same hub, redownload vita games on your ps3 from your psn download list, then have your vita use vita blocker proxy 1.2 that runs on pc, and use content manager to transfert vita games from ps3 towards vita. all will be fixed and you will keep your old firmware
note that first, you will need go to vita parameters icon and write down your psn username and pwd int the psn entry in its menu (but do not launch psn bubble)
For some reason I am unable to get the exploit to launch at the very end step 17-18. I believe I am doing everything correctly. I have the email sent to the vita and both attachments are attached and accessible. I have transfered the Unity installer (save file) which is located under PSP Saves. I am starting an update on a random game and pausing it in the top right have tray. I am going into my email clicking on the attachment and closing out of the mail app while the screen is displaying that it cant display the image. I am repeating this process for the 2nd attachment in the email. At this point I am disabling the WIFI and rebooting my system. When it comes back up it still shows the update as paused. If i try to click on it it will try to download but fail out. Afterwards I try to click on it and nothing happens. Any clue what im doing wrong here I am having the same issue on my Vita and PSTV both on 3.51
Are u using gmail?
retry without pausing (be quick)
Are u using gmail?
I am using a Gmail account. I have tried opening and sending the test email through Mozilla as well as my outlook client. Both seemed to make it through just fine and are accessible on my vita that is setup through its client to access my gmail account
Should I be sending it from or receiving it to another email that isnt gmail. If that is the case would anyone mind sending the email to Runehasa@gmail.com if gmail does indeed work to receive it.
gmail should’ve worked..man, dont post your email here..if it’s linked to your psn account you can get banned(I think)
did you use thunderbird?
I’m using gmail…but every time I try to send it via thunderbird to my gmail it says “sending failed” …idk what’s wrong
I can’t help you, I’m sorry
I didnt have to do this, so I don’t really know what could’ve been wrong
you can always run baby pop server on your pc, put eml in drop\username directory
and have vita get it from there. to get eml right click mail in thundirbird to save it locally. keep an empty line before each –id entry, if you see many many empty lines remove them, that will fix the eml
hey guys i was having problems with unity, only getting the 15kb but i noticed that once i uninstalled qcma from my pc and installed it again and then i let it refresh the database and i would reboot the vita and then thats when i would get the he 27mb unity file or 96kb y’all should give it a try
Its not linked to my psn account. I did try using thunderbird as well as my outlook client. I did notice one thing I missed though which is I used OCMA instead of QCMA. I am going to start the process over again when I get home using QCMA to transfer the files instead of OCMA. Hoping that is my issue
Tell me here if you succeed
Well used QCMA and it showed up as 27mb when i transfered the files. Again though I click on each of the images in the email closing the mail app each time and after I do the reboot it just shows the update as paused.
I have a couple of Vitas…but I wanted to know what is the best firmware to stay? One, I am currently on 3.51, want to update that to newest firmware for downloads and what not but currently can’t because I’m in the dark (it has PSM DEV installed).
I have one on 2.x but I don’t think i want to update that either for PSP ISOs
Then I have another one on 3.15 which is probably the one I should try for the UNITY…but not sure what firmware I should be on or stay at.
One of my unopened Vita’s are probably on firmware 1.x ish.
sorry, for “Then I have another one on 3.15 which is probably the one I should try for the UNITY…but not sure what firmware I should be on or stay at.” I meant to say not sure what firmware i should update to or if i should stay on 3.15
i also assume I can use this link to update: http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=23013 as needed
get unity on your 3.15 and transfer to the others..you might want to stay on a fw that you already have an exploited game..and I dont get it, you have PSM DEV installed on your 3.51, so why dont you transfer it to 3.15? so that you can update your 3.51 to the latest
if you have 3.18 (3.20 for pstv) keep it (ability to launch pkg installer from an eml is priceless)
if you have 3.36 with some eCFW, keep it so you keep that eCFW, having a ps3 can make things easier
if you have 3.51 keep it of course, since 3.52 and above black lists dev assistants
As mentioned, I want to update 3.51 to the latest firmware to access PSN, sync etc. basically the “official” Vita. I have couple of other Vitas laying around and one of them happens to be on 3.15 with no PSP exploit (the one with TN has the old *** Uno exploit).
If you’re mentiong something else, I might not be to sure what you are asking / telling me. My main question is what firmware should I use (as mentioned, one of my unopened probably on 1.x) and if I can use the link (which is still awaiting approval) http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=23013 for firmware if needed
I got something about Mr. Gas 🙂 message with the update failing but I don’t see a Unity app…i do see it on the save side…3.51
I need help in the last steps; I don’t know what’s going wrong. I start the update, go to the LiveArea bubble, pause update, go to email, click on fwded message of mr.gas things, click on first image, close out app when it says “could not open image”, do the same thing with the same result with the second image, I turn off Wifi, and I reboot. When I look at the download it is failed but when I tap it nothing happens. I’m on 3.36 btw so this should work perfectly fine right?
Make sure you are refreshing database
as for me, i’m stuck at step 17/18….i get the message from mr. gas but nothing shows up on the dashboard.
yes worked fine on my pstv 3.36
maybe retry from step 5 and don t skip step 6
Am i suppose to get an icon once i reboot at step 16? Open your notification bubble in LiveArea, then tap on the message showing failed update.
As I said, I can get the Mr. Gas message but I am not seeing anything on the dashboard.
normally a progression bar shows that dev of unity installs itself, you then see a new bubble which is dev assistant for unity. I think downloading the fake saved game then rebuild database plays a major role. it probably secures the saved game somewhere. and the attachments reuse then this saved game.
Did you ever find a solution? I’m experiencing the same problem. Getting the error message, but it isn’t tappable. Nothing happens when i tap on it.
If this doesn’t work for 3.52, can you change the title of this to say ‘up-to 3.52’ instead of it saying ‘3.20 and above’ as it sounds misleading to people on 3.52.
I don’t think it’s apparent enough from this article so everyone listen closely.
YOU CANNOT, AT THIS CURRENT POINT IN TIME, RUN HOMEBREW WITH THE UNITY LAUCHER.
“Once YifanLu and Netrix are done with the Rejuvenate port for Unity, it will be required to run homebrews”
This is a prepping stage. Do it now and save yourself headache later.
While you’re at it generate your keys at http://hackinformer.com/PlayStationGuide/
Under PSM Exploit.
Have fun kiddos.
Worked perfectly on first try using a Vita on 3.51, ubuntu’s 14.04 thunderbird, yahoo as the email provider and QCMA from “http://codestation.github.io/qcma/” (ubuntu PPA)
Loved the “Hi from mr. Gas” part 😀
Good thing it worked on ubuntu. still having a hard time with my 3.51 on the windows. since i havent had ubuntu or linux. i’m stuck at step 5 cause i cant connect to my vita via qcma. is there something i am doing wrong?