PS Vita: 3.50 modules + prxtool mod released by TheFloW

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20 Responses

  1. Bpn says:

    Where do I download the necessary files??

    • Omnomnom says:

      If you checked the source (TheFloW’s twitter post), there’s a pastebin link that has the download link to it.

  2. AcidBath says:

    Very nice work. Im loooking forward to what will come of this. Thank you all for your hard work on the vita.

  3. Enigma86 says:

    Well now we can expect articles for Linux on the Vita, but not exploit release! Haha j/k let’s hope someone can actually re-rejuvenate the scene!

  4. Salar says:

    im looking forward to it already 😀 wish i knew some programming 😀

  5. Zeke says:

    Awesome. Not happy with just winning the ReVITAlize competition with his super-useful VitaShell app (AFAIK the only such one which can copy files between the PSP and native Vita mount points of the memory card which I use a lot recently) he’s only gone and given the scene something that might finally be the key to unlocking kernel mode native exploits. In my eyes he’s continuing the fine work started by Yifan Lu which gave us Rejuvenate in the first place.

    Who knows, with any luck maybe a way will be found to downgrade firmwares… could be a long way off but whatever this yields I can’t wait to see.

    Thanks TheFloW! 😀

  6. Predator0808 says:

    Nice job TheFloW, keep going with your great achievements:)

  7. diego says:

    This is not even about piracy, its about a dead console. I even understand all those who want to import some games from Japan and want to patch it in english.

    This is not linux or piracy for me. Its for giving the console some useful content. Some will talk about all the PSP emulation & Homebrew content but I was sick the first day i tried when i saw the Vita re-scalated the original PSP resolution and all the hombrew and games were ugly as heck.

    • sloppycrap says:

      ^this.

      The Vita is a *** PSP. I’ve owned mine for about 6 months now and all I’ve been playing is NFS:MW. PSP games look horrible on it (OG 3g/Wifi model) but PSOne Classics look okay.

      That said, if all I could play on it was NFS:MW, I’d be happy with my Vita. It’s just not a good console for PSP games.

      • Zeke says:

        Have both of you not turned bilinear filtering on for PSP games, then? It provides some anti-aliasing and smooths out the picture quality.

        I disagree that PSP games look horrible on it. Both the Slim and the Phat have much better screens than all the PSPs did. The PSP-1000, for example, had a horrendous amount of image ghosting. PSP-2000 had washed out colours. PSP-3000 had the scanline issue. All of them hid the fact some games looked a bit jagged here and there due to hardware limitations, whereas because the Vita models have better screens it’s a bit more obvious. Not a big deal really. PS1 classics actually look better because the PSP’s limited resolution meant they had to be forcibly downscaled, whereas they run close to native resolution on the Vita.

        I certainly think calling it a s****y PSP is a disservice since it can play all the PSP games with the right exploit(s), same with the PS1 if you stayed on FW 3.18 or below. What kills the scene is this kind of attitude when someone skilled like TheFloW does something really impressive and people just turn up in the comments section with the same old “Vita is dead” rhetoric.

        • John_North says:

          What I think they’ve mean is that on Vita psp games are rendered in a native psp resolution and are then stretched to fit Vita’s screen which is quite noticeable and does not look good.

          • Zeke says:

            I got that, but I think bilinear filtering mitigates this and suggest that it didn’t look as bad on the PSP because all the screens were flawed enough to hide it. The Vita has a larger, nicer screen (even the fairly poor LCD on the Slim is better than any of the PSP LCDs, understandable given the age of the PSPs now) so any flaws are more obvious, but the fact colours are deeper, viewing angle is better etc has made – for me personally – the Vita a far better experience for PSP games than the PSP games themselves.

            Anyone that thinks PSP games look poor on the Vita should try it through PSTV or on PC via emulator. No amount of filtering on the latter is gonna hide the problems when you try blowing it up to 1080p…

  8. Roshuou says:

    I’d love to see yifan lu’s thoughts on it.

  9. EthanC says:

    Can any of there learnings from here, apply to the PS3 Super Slim? like the webkit exploit?

    • Zeke says:

      Totally different architectures, dude. No exploit from the Vita can be transferred to the PS3 and vice versa.

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  11. maxxxivo says:

    today is the day !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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