Vita cartridge dump and boot from vita memory card by Mr. Gas
Mr. Gas did it again. He recently shared a video showing him booting off a dumped cartridge game from vita memory card.
Mr. Gas shared a video titled “ps vita cartridge dump working from ux0: ! ” yesterday. In the video Mr. Gas shows the icon of the game “Power Smash 4″ in the Livescreen and he gets an error when trying to run the game. After that, he puts the cartridge to his vita, he gets a warning message about the game being both on memory card and cartridge so the cartridge version couldn’t be installed. After that step, he pulls out the cartridge and he can run the game from the Livescreen without the cartridge. As Power Smash 4 is a cartridge only game, it is impossible to do this without dumping the game cartridge contents to vita’s memory card (or internal memory) and boot from there.
Mr. Gas later explained in his twitter account that it is still needed to plug the cartridge once after each reboot.
Here is the video showing Mr. Gas in action:
Is this piracy? No, I don’t think so, as you still need the physical cartridge every time you restart your vita.
Is it useful? Apart from the technical info it provides/might provide in the future, it could be very useful for daily gaming too. For example I generally buy physical versions of the games and each time I travel, I give extra care not to lose these little cartridges. If this method gets released, I could just dump them and save them somewhere safe in case I need them after reboot. It is not clear however at this point if the trick works for several games at once, or if we’d have to enter a cartridge every time we switch games.
Source: Twitter account of Mr. Gas
Virtua Tennis 4 on Vita is really awesome by the way, and it’s one of the game that utilized a full power and features of Vita.
WOW, from everything that’s been going on from these guys, bypasses and all, I’m very hopeful about a backup loader in the near future. I’m totally against piracy, I just crave the freedom that that would bring.
One would need to make a universal payload cartridge for this to work like if you dump your game on the ux0: and then use that custom cartridge, given that it can trick the Vita that the cartridge is the original game but in fact it is just a dummy that contains some sort of header for it to read and verify then all would be well :). It is just one of the possible outcomes of this news :D.
So, When will the instructions on how to do this be available? I would love to not have to switch my cartridge for each game..!
+1 to this. I would love to play with my friends using my Vitas (My Vitas have different accounts).
My question is that can we connect to psn using this method?
christ my beanbag shrunk but the egg roll blew up like a Italian sausage man can’t wait to use this method
can this be used to run psvitatv or playstationtv games cartridges
that otherwise wouldnt run on playstationtv (limitations bypass) ?.?
So I’ll be able to buy a used game from a game store, dump it, return the game, and then have a temporary digital game on my Vita. Sounds pretty cool.
so …
when will we see howto’s for this little nift ?.?
id like to make cartridge backups to my memcard to on a playstationtv3.20
so then i could prolly be playing a couple of games more then thats now the case.