How to: Re-enable PSTV Whitelist on 3.60 PS Vita, with HENkaku
Note from Wololo: The PSTV Whitelist is a trick on the PS TV that lets you play more Vita games than the device normally lets you. The PS TV has a whitelist of games and will refuse to start a given Vita game if it’s not in the compatibility list. This prevents you from playing Vita games that would normally play just fine on the PS TV. This trick solves that, by making ALL Vita games compatible on the PS TV.
As a reminder, you’re messing with some critical files of your PS Vita here, although the Whitelist cleans up after a reboot, meaning there’s no big danger of an irreversible issue, proceed at your own risk.
Update: There is now a HENkaku app to do all of this for you at no effort, courtesy of Kankertje. Download Vita TV Whitelister, install it through HENkaku, run it, and you’re done.
The tutorial is left below for reference, but again, you can now use the app instead! This tutorial on How to Re-enable PSTV Whitelist on 3.60 PS Vita was initially published by /Talk member Pixelbutts. You can find the original post here.
So with the release of HENkaku, many of us are excited, especially myself since PSTV has support for this.
The procedure is quite simple.
What you will need
- HENkaku (https://henkaku.me)
- A PSTV
- FileZilla
- The whitelist file (https://www.dropbox.com/s/d6gef9cx07n7kx6/list_launch_vita.dat?dl=0)
How to whitelist all Vita Games on your 3.60 PS TV
1) Install HENkaku, the method is quite simple but in case you need a visual method you can view the video below: (Dont let the errors worry you. They will be fixed soon enough.)
2) Open the newly made Molecular Shell bubble and start an FTP session (hit select)
3) Take the “list_launch_vita.dat” and place it on the desktop (easy access)
4) Open FileZilla and connect to the PSTV (the IP to connect to and the port are displayed on the screen)
5) Navigate to “ur0:game\launch\” in filezilla
6) Drag and drop the “list_launch_vita.dat” over to the PSTV and overwrite it (feel free to back up the “list_launch_vita.dat” currently on the system and put it somewhere safe if you feel the need to)
7) Close the FTP session on the PSTV (circle – or X depending on where you are)
8) Insert your game card of choice that is not PSTV compatible without the whitelist
9) Play the game
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HENkaku works on PSTV? I’m ecstatic that the whitelist is back! Looks like it’s time to shell out 30 bucks and finally play some of these Vita games.
it does. 🙂 I’m back to Gravity Rush after years of having a broken Vita.
It works only with game cards ? or it will also work with games transfered by CMA?
Vita Cartridges are working great! The only problem comes from digital downloads now. For instance, Neptunia 1 and Tetris are not working. Any ideas on what it would take to get those off the white list, or are digital downloads hard coded to not work maybe?
What did you use to install the new whitelist hack? The app or the tutorial? I haven’t tried the HENkaku whitelist hack myself yet, but I’ve used a PSTV with 3.52 and the Mr.Gas whitelist hack enabled and it worked fine for digital Vita games. Crazy Market booted up without issue, although I recently downloaded the PSP game Crazy Taxi Fare Wars. While it worked on my Vita handheld, it didn’t work on the PSTV.
I have question about PS TV if it accepts USB Gamepads same as PS3 ?
DS3 and DS4 controllers work with PS TVs.
I figured it out, but thanks for reply!
That only left us with PSOne Loader Left, Do you know if the Bubble method of the flow for psone works with henkaku? or does it need kexploit to work?
i heared that HenKaku is based on kexploit so maybe it is possible who knows
I have a Vita on 3.36, and a PS TV on 3.60, which is currently used to run the hack. It’s cool how whitelist is now supported again, it’s like a little bonus for TV users.
I was trying this with Soul Sacrifice and it doesn’t seem to work… Perhaps there’s something I’m doing wrong?
Oops make sure you’re putting it in ur0 not ux0
hoy a bout a “how to install custom themes with henkaku ” ? :v
So will the whitelist hack ever work with downloaded digital titles?
it works i can play jet set radio downloaded with that
Yup, works for me. Playing Dangan Ronpa 1 on my UK PSTV right now, in fact.
Thank you so much for this, pixelbutts and the guys at Molecule. You’ve all breathed new life into my Vita!
Please help… I have a loop with my tv in HENkaku website http://go.henkaku.xyz and appears all time an error page…! I update for nothing this ***
I have the same issue I think it is because I don’t have a memory card? I’m going to get one today
All I get is the error loop and never installs the exploit
Also you can achieve The whitelist via app.db, going to ur0/shell/app.db, and make the new file sending to your email via calendar app. Finally apply the app.db metod to your file and put the new file in ur0/shell/ after has deleted the old file
the app.db method is definitive ?
Is there a tutorial? This doesn’t fully explain the process.
Will this work for hyperdimension neptunia re; birth 1?
only with app.db method, not this one
Hellooo,
I have Tetris PS Vita but the game non working even whit the whitelist.
Is there a possibility that the game works?
GAME PCSB 00642
I don’t think Tetris ever worked with the whitelist trick. Maybe it has some sort of ingame check? I dunno.
you could try the v2 of the whitelist with the app.db method
Guys, FIFA15 and Fat Princess won’t work on PSTV even with the Whitelisted… is there any way to make FIFA15 work on PSTV ?
try the whitelist hack v2 (app.db method)
tried it, still didn’t work 🙁
you must delete and reinstall your game after the app.db modification
Will this allow us to run PSOne games that the PSTV will refuse to install/run?
Dont work little big planet digital edition please enable or fix thanks
For those who don’t wanna do this everytime you reboot your psvita tv here is a faster method…
http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=116&t=46154
That is the same file that is listed at the top of this page.
the best method is the app.db, it’s definitive (unless a database reconstruction) and it launches more titles than the list_launch_vita.dat
Does the app.db method work over FTP or do you still have to do the email thing? I tried it over ftp but I’m not sure if it’s just the game that doesn’t work. Game is Dengeki Bunko Climax.
Where can I find information on what to modify? I can’t find any information what to modify in the app.db file.
asking for a tutorial howto install vitadoom with working wads :p lol
How do you install an app through Henkoku? to use the whitelister, thks
Everytime I try to install HENkaku it hard resets my PStv.
I tried clearing my cookies, I’ve rebuild my database, I tried multiple Wi-Fi connections it doesnt seems to work 🙁
Any ideas ?
Thanks 🙂
I used this and got neptunia PP to run but the touch control emulation doesn’t work. Can anyone help me out?
For people that keep having restarts on their PSTV, you have to have memory card. The exploit won’t install without one. (Internal Memory DOES NOT WORK)
A*
This Does NOT work with downloaded Games from PSN, Wanted to play Xcom and Sid Revolution 2 but cant 🙁 any ideas?
I am playing Ratchet and Clank Collection which is a PSN only game on my PSTV. There are some games that still don’t work. I am using whitelister1_1.vpk.
Doesn’t work, tried Love Live, still won’t start up. This whitelist is rubbish.
Works with Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles (which I’ve never understood why it wasn’t Whitelisted already) but not for the Vita version of Gal*Gun Double Peace (which does work with the analog sticks and buttons, no touchscreen necessary)
If you’re trying to run Ps1/PSP Games (like Valkyria Chronicles 2) you might also have to replace the “list_launch_emu.dat” in the same folder.
Content:
format_version:001
list_type:b
LVER00101
That should make those games run, worked for me.
That being said, is there any way to protect those whitelists so that they dont get changed ever again? I guess i could take the card out of my pstv and load new games I purchased on the store on my vita and then put the card back, but not everyone has both systems and also I’m very lazy ^^
Sadly, when I bought my PSTV it shipped from Gamestop with 3.61. Is there anything I can do besides wait for another exploit?
Hi excuse me with this Whitelist, I can play all the games of psvita on ps tv , cause I going to buy one but the specifics games that I want seems that doesn’t run it like (Project Diva Hatsune Miku X . AoT, GRush and others) that’s why I Am Asking can someone answer me plz
Hey all, does the pstv mail exploit still work? I get the files onto my pstv ok, but the #0 file displays as ‘Done’, instead of #0! Clicking on it does nothing. Anyone else have this problem?
Thanks all
It should work fine as long as your Vita is 3.60. Anything above that will not work. If you’re on the right version and it’s still not working, try getting HENkaku and downloading the blacklister app. Its v2 option is a permanent fix.
does this works on 3.63?
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Question #1: Can you play online multiplayer with a whitelisted PSTV? Want to play Resistance Burning Skies which is a game that can be played on a whitelisted PSTV.
Question #2: What’s the difference between using the app method versus just the regular method (which is posted on this page).
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