PS Vita hack: Qwikrazor releases ARK for Firmware 3.52
Qwikrazor just released a port of ARK for Vita Firmware 3.52. Incidentally, this release also works on firmwares 3.5x (including 3.51) and 3.3x
What is ARK for PS Vita?
ARK is a PSP Emulator Custom Firmware for your Vita. It supports most PSP Homebrews, plugins, and backups, as well as PS1 games
Features:
- PSX game support (soundless so far, our sound plugin is too glitchy for public use at the moment)
- ISO/CSO game support
- NoDRM Engine for decrypted dlc playback
- MS-SpeedBoost (most noticable on games like soul calibur)
- Stargate Game Patches (fixes several anti-cfw games)
- Customizable Main Menu
- Plugin support
- Recovery support
- ISO-cache support (speed up ISO gaming)
How to: Install ARK on PS Vita Firmware 3.52
Alright, let’s make things clear: the process to get this to work is fairly complex, and requires lots of manual steps. Hopefully at some point people will automate some of this, but this is what we have for now.
Installing ARK on PS Vita Firmware relies on the recently revealed email hack, the same thing that was used for the Playstation TV hack (whitelist).
The idea is that you are going to “inject” ARK into one of your existing PSP games on the PS vita. The PSP Game in question must be one for which you own the real license, and it doesn’t seem to work with all games. some people have had success with free Demos. Qwikrazor mentions that PSP games used in past exploit might not work, as Sony have added special additional securities on these games.
Hackinformer have a good (but complex) tutorial on how to get things done with this technique (see below).
Remember that PS vita 3.55 was just released today and patches the vulnerabilities required to perform this hack. Do not update if you plan to use ARK.
From Qwikrazor:
Included NP.ISO is the necessary loader for ARK.
Follow tutorial here to install ARK ISO using MajorGas method
For the above, you must have a base game installed from PSN, and it should not be a crappy minis,
and full PSP games with previous exploits may not work, but I haven’t tested much.
In my tests, Pool Hall Pro and Numblast didn’t work.I have provided three separate saves, which have different patches/kexploit depending on the firmware.
For 3.3X, it is possible to create folders in ms0:/PSP/GAME/, but it has been patched in 3.5X.
Folder names should be self-explanatory for which one you require.In the “menu” folder, you can choose the menu of your choice, current menu in ARK save is ONEMenu,
drag and drop the files into the ARK_01234 save so that VBOOT.PBP is at root of ARK_01234/.To exit homebrew/ISO, hold button combo L + R + Start + Down.
To enable plugins:
Make a file called PLUGINS.TXT inside ARK_01234/.
Here are some examples for the format to use.
game,ms0:/seplugins/cwcheat.prx,1
game,ms0:/seplugins/tempar.prx,true
umdemu,ms0:/seplugins/cwcheat.prx,on
pops,ms0:/seplugins/cwcheatpops.prx,enabledAs you can see, the format is mode,path,switch
mode:
“game” should be used for homebrew.
“umdemu” should be used for ISO/CSO/PSN.
“pops” should be used for PS1 games.path points to plugin.
To enable, you can use “1”, “true”, “on” or “enabled”.
Thanks to the authors of ARK, Coldbird and Virtuous Flame.
Note:
This is not ARK-2 or ARK-3, it is the very first ARK, updated for later firmwares.I hope I didn’t forget anything, enjoy.
Download ARK for PS Vita 3.52
You can download ARK for PS Vita 3.52 here
I’ll be honest here, I don’t think I remember a hack ever being that complicated (in terms of the manual steps required), so I’m hoping tools will show up to make things easier for those of us who can’t get it to work. Nevertheless, impressive work as always from Qwikrazor, Mr.Gas, and the other devs on the vita scene!
Please report success/failure in the comments below, and don’t hesitate to ask for help in our forums
Source: Qwikrazor
VIDEOtutorial please cause…it is too long
Got it to work with Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (EU) but non of my Games are gonna run. All i get is some nasty error massage, thats all. :C
I’m using Luxor the wrath of set as a base game and it’s WORKING !!! vita 3.52
After some trial and error I can get my ARK running fine and effectively getting rid of C1-2749-2 error.
I’m in JP store and using ロックマンロックマン as the base game (it runs VHBL fine before).
Detailed steps to install ARK:
0. BACKUP THE BASEGAME. You can always start from zero again if you have the game backup.
1. Follow the instructions at hackinformer.com (The Guide) step 1 and 2.
2. We have NP.ISO, so go to step 4 and sign the ISO to get EBOOT.PBP.
3. Follow the step 5, but the directory structure is not that strict as in The Guide. I just copied the ARK-01234 directory to the save data folder, put the EBOOT.PBP in, and without any subdirectories. So my EBOOT.PBP is at SAVEDATA/ARK-01234/EBOOT.PBP.
4. Follow the step 6. In my example, the path should be:
originalpath=ux0:pspemu/psp/savedata/ARK_01234&selfpath=ux0:pspemu/psp/savedata/ARK_01234/EBOOT.PBP&discid=ULJM05044&parentallevel=3&gamedataid=&appver=00.00&bootable=1&category=EG
Of course, replace the discid to your basegame’s one.
5. Follow the step 7 and 8. I skipped the step 7 though.
6. Reboot and you should be able to get into the ARK using the basegame’s bubble.
If you try to copy the ARK-01234 save again (e.g. to change the shell), you may encounter error C1-2749-2. Just restore the original basegame using the backup (you should be able to play the game now as if nothing was done), import the modified app.db (#0) again, and reboot.
The step 1-8 mentioned above relates to the hackinformer guide, not the comment’s step order.
So I followed the video tutorial by The Zett (bottom of hackinformer tut) but used the NP.iso and the 33x ARK_01234 savegame (I’m on ofw 3.36) and successfully got a custom bubble, except that when I launched it I got the error C1-2749-2.
I restored my base-game (apequest starter pack) and got rid of the error, but now the custom bubble automatically closes after I see the startdat.png.
Any ideas?
Never mind, turns out I just had to re-sign the NP.iso with the fakenp box checked!
Thanks!
How the heck do i put CFW on my psVita 3.15??
i have a mac laptop so i can’t run the vita update blocker? its ridiculous how difficult this is
Have you tried QCMA?
Hello,
So i have a problem , I am on 3.30 I wasn’t using my PSVITA since ages, I have no psvita activated either on my PSN account, But I do have a exploit game talkman on my psn account.
Now i can’t download and install the game , My psvita is restored like new i can’t login because of Psvitablocker isn’t working. What am i suppose to do now ?
Please help
I hope we can one day just insert a mem stick duo with a micro SD in it and launch ripped games from there. Don’t get me wrong, I buy games, but I refuse to support digital only games.
It works using Patapon 2 as basegame? Anyone else tried?
I could make a vitaftp bubble work, but when I tried with ARK it keeps failing with error c1-2858-3.
Hey guys. I’ve been trying to figure out how to load an ISO (dragon warrior 7) using ARK-2 on CFW 3.52 with an Echochrome demo. I’ve been using tutorials from wololo and hackinformer but I can’t get passed the step where I load the ISO using 138menu. I used the email trick to setup up ark which worked fine. I was able to create the 138menu no problem there. I own dw7 so I converted it to ISO using Alcohol120 again no problem. I used this tutorial for the ISO (http://hackinformer.com/2015/10/13/psvita-tutorial-installing-isocso-in-ark-tn-v/). Where I get confused (and this is probably where I messed it up) is where I’m putting the iso. Before following the tutorial, I only had the arc folder in psvita>backups>PSAVEDATA>randnum so am I supposed to put the ISO (DW71.ISO, DW72.ISO) in that folder or setup up another one in PSAVEDATA like eCFWARK as suggested in the tutorial. Any help would be great. Thanks!
PS I own DW7
hey guys I’m kinda confused on how to add homebrew and plugins to the TN-V 11 bubble, any hel would be greatly appreciated.
To bad the email app is f**ked. I can’t make an account due to errors upon errors. (Gmail and Hotmail) im on 3.52.
I will pay whoever can help me get psp games on my vita slim running fw3.52. My mail alex_cnp@yahoo.com
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