Release: Vitamin 1.0 by TheFlow
Hacker TheFloW has released his and Team Freek’s tool Vitamin to dump and decrypt PS vita games. Following our policy* on this tool, we will not be sharing links here related to this release, and we appreciate if you can refrain from sharing such links on this site. Out of respect for the work of TheFloW however, I’m leaving his donation link in the explanation below. Remember that donating does not entitle you to anything special.
This official release, according to TheFloW, brings a lot of new features and bug fixes compared to the leaked release:
- Amphetamin plugin
- Additional self dumping (higher compatibility)
- PARAM.SFO patching to prevent 0x80101144 error
- Games are dumped as ‘safe’ homebrews
- Auto-suspend blocker
- More stable dumper
- Better UI with progress bar and percentage
Also, I incorrectly stated yesterday that the 444MHz mode was to dump games faster, this was incorrect, it is for dumped games to run at 444MHz (i.e. faster).
Additionally to the release, TheFloW gave a long explanation on the circumstances of this release and Team FreeK‘s reaction to the leak:
Vitamin
by TheFloW, Major Tom, mr. gas
This software has been written by us within 4 weeks, which we planned to release anonymously under the name Team FreeK. However Major Tom accidently shared an old built with a group of people, in which one or more of them decided to leak a game first and the day after the tool itself. For no reason. As we, Team FreeK already wanted to officially provide the dumper soon.
Now, there are some people who say: You guys actually wanted to release it anyways, why do you get mad about a leak then? Let’s say their wifes give premature births and their children aren’t well developed yet, would they also say: The baby would have actually come out anyways, why do you get sad? That was a bizarre example, but it’s actually how we feel about a project: We took care of it and worked on it 5h per day with full of passion until it was fully developed. Not only was our disappointment big, but also our helplessness, when we saw our work floating in the internet without our knowledge. We were then called babies because we showed some emotions when we faced the fact that our work, that we have been taking care for one month, got leaked.
The betrayal drove Major Tom so mad, he just left the scene immediately, not because he was a dramaboy as some people think, but because he didn’t feel respected by anyone. The same feelings did I and mr. gas also have, as we couldn’t believe how many people existed who were so disrespectful and impudent and even insulted us. There is also a small part of people who is totally against piracy and think that we damaged the whole PS Vita game industry. From our perspective, piracy was unavoidable, it would happen sooner or later. Our private motivation was, to be very first group that would release the first tool ever to dump and launch pirated games. We, personally, don’t care alot about games, as we have already bought those we liked. We also considered the PS Vita game industry as dead, I mean, not even $ony shows support for the device anymore.
Beside all these people that made us feel sad, there’s luckly an even bigger group of people that show understanding and thankfulness. And thanks to them that was what motivated me to release the final tool in the end. I want to support those who supported us.
We also want to express our thankfulness to Team molecule, as their work HENkaku is brilliant. A masterpiece. Their work is true hacking. Ours on the other hand is just a software that makes use of some tricks to dump games.
Donation
Any amount of donation is a big support for Vitamin development and therefore highly appreciated: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=Y7CVA9VSJA2VW
* Given that the main use of Vitamin is to decrypt and pirate games (although backups and plugins are a very legit, and in my opinion fair, use case as well), I have decided to not allow links to this tool on Wololo.net for the time being. People have rightfully mentioned that we have been distributing PSP Custom Firmware on this site, wondering how that is different. This is true, but there are two reasons I feel these are ok. First, PSP Custom Firmwares have way more goals than enabling piracy, in particular they are a requirement for most homebrews to run. Secondly, game Piracy had been mainstream on the PSP since 2005, 4 years before we started distributing Custom Firmwares here at wololo.net. The financial damage, in my opinion, is way more significant here as the Vita is still “current gen” and Vitamin is a first of its kind. We can talk about this policy again in 4 years.
I wonder how much the Black-Fin Cobra device will sell for?
Maybe this release should be renamed as “Vitamin 1.0 – Team Cobra’s laxative”…….
Thanks TheFloW, Major Tom, Mr. Gas all of you are a inspiration and is a great honor to use your work.
Someone is sorry!!!
http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=116&t=46878&p=411223#p411223
team black fin piracy stuff must be livid no one needs to buy your *** now thanks to the scene
Thank you TheFlow0 for keep going even after what the *** did and said, you’re a truly good person and dev, I wish you the best! Thank you again.
Thank you team Freed. Well handled. I hope you guys come back when the scene learns some common sense. You and your work is appreciated.
I guess that it doesn’t matter as Vita is generally speaking region-free, but I’ll ask it anyway: can I install VPK game from other region (US, JP) than my Vita is (EU) without any problems (brick, restarting, freezing, problems with files if any etc.)?
“However Major Tom accidentally shared an old built with a group of people, in which one or more of them decided to leak a game first and the day after the tool itself. ”
“he didn’t feel respected by anyone.”
So to be sure,
-this group did not go around looking for this confidential information exactly, but was given ‘accidentally’
-Yet it’s a group he knows (that we don’t), not just a scamming group from thin air
– this unidentified group’s member or members leak it without permission cuz they’re super jerks
-The whole community gets blamed for not respecting the team, but not due to the leak, but some ignorant idiots questioning why they’re obviously *** on their hard work just thrown out the door, but what about the group who leaked it? who are they? What about the ones who respected the team and waited?
I tried it, used Fez as example and sadly not worked for me. The manual does not show up, second atempt returns error, and when i tried to open game from bubble it was corrupted.
Now cobra forget the Blackfin, make a memory card adapter and you will get more $$$ then you can spent GO!!!
Even if someone makes an app which lets us access the memory card via USB would be awesome. Wifi is just too slow.
hi, you can send vpk files to vita via qcma with usb renaming them in .mp4 and send in video folder of psvita. Then you can rename them in vpk and move in the right folder.
Nice. I never knew you could send them a MP4s. I’ll try that next time. 🙂
Thanks for that. 😀
I usually rename it to 1.bin and send it via PSP savegame. then rename it.
Still it would be a lot easier if we could do it on PC instead of via QCMA or on the Vita. with CM.
very much like to thank Freeker team, the brilliant work! definitely The Flow, Major Tom and Mr Gas, together are unbeatable!
Collaborated very, very much for the whole history of Ps Vita! You are the pioneers Together with Yinfanlu the greatest tools and revolutions in homebrew and utilities, are unmatched!
No one has moral to denigrate the work of you! Look upon my friends as follows: “All the celebrities suffer several critical throughout his career, which brings recognition of the artist is the ability it has to overcome the criticism and not give up the love you have to your work!”
I know it’s asking too much, but I ask you to rest but do not abandon us …. please! A hug !
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This is great I will start dumping all my games. By all my games I mean all the free ones we can all steal now. Good job Tom you hoser! Up yours the Z.
hello! i have only 1 question
what does dumping and decrypt mean?
im super noob in all this so… in oder for me to install a game that is already decripted (downloaded it), do i need vitamin? or just vitashell? or just molecularshell?
thanks!
just vita shell
hmm would you mind sending me a link? i don’t know what to download… vita shell.vpk or vita shell master.zip
and there are also other files like VitaShellCustomization.rar, Source code (zip), Source code (tar.gz) D:
Molecularshell can install the games but is behind a version of vitashell. So download the vpk file and install that rewith Molecularshell and then install game from vitashell
You dump your original games via Vitamin which decrypts and creates a .vpk file of the game.
So if you just want to install a vpk you use Vitashell.
A new version of Vitamin has been released which fixes a minor bug where the Vita would crash after dumping. It’s still labeled as 1.0 though.
I could not dump Dungeon Hunter Alliance,Resident Evil Revelations 2 or Army Corps of heck and i am using the new released vitamin?
Ironic isn’t it? they are sad that there programs gets leak … imagine the feelings of many game developer and sony developer?
the feeling is mutual I guess
Would be if they still made games for it.
The Vita was killed off by $ony last year. Nobody is making any games for it anyjmore which is a real pity as the 3DS is still getting games and the Vita is such a better unit.
BUT as most of you love to play emulators and retro games that are old and look *** compared to good Vita games I can see why the *** looking 3DS is still making games. WHY are old looking “retro” games so wanted? I would prefer play a new game like Assassins Creed Liberation than Super Mario Bros.
If I want to play an old game I would get an old console and play it. Or if I cant get an old console I would load up an emulator. Its a waste having this awesome handheld being wasted on emulators and retro games.
THATS why I think the Vita is dead. Its too good. Game devs want to make money from 20 year old games and arent interested in making new good looking games anymore.
BTW, I own a few nintendo handhelds. 5 actually. 3 Vitas, 4 PSPs, so I know what Im talking about. its not like I’m having a go at the 3DS and never used one, I’m playing a 3DS game atm. Well, after typing this I will get back to my N3DS and keep playing it.
Someone knows if we have the God of War collection game “hacked/…” to download in .VPK?
i have it ,
will upload it tomorrow
i have it , i’ill upload it tomorrow
i would dump it but as none of what i dump works i wont bother. Just do a search and you should find it somewhere or wait for someone else to dump it.
ALL dumpable games will be available online soon at your favourite download site.
FIRST GAME DUMBED BY ME 😀
Angry Birds
https://www.mediafire.com/#org5j8f3p3tj8
Yes DUMBED by you, that is why the link doesn’t work 🙂
lol
It’s dumped or else backed up.*
shame on you 😀
Fix your link dude!
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/org5j8f3p3tj8/ANGRY_BIRDS_PCSB00397_FULLGAME_01.00
If Wololo said he doesn’t want links to the program that can make backups posted here, why would you think it is okay to post a link to an actual backup?
THX, that works. If I dumped it myself it would fail. 🙂
THX, that works!!!!
“we can talk about this policy again in 4 years”. +9000 Wololo
Where would be a good place to ask for help using Vitamin, I can’t dump my card’s and any downloads I try dump Vitamin currupts them so they don’t work 🙁 any help or pointers to help would be a great help
Thanks Team Freek. Piracy is unavoidable, and the people who think otherwise, need to suck it up and move on. I would gladly donate to the team’s effort, if I had the money, because this is one step further to trophy hacks and savegame modding. Piracy in itself isn’t what I’d care for, just that it’d make it easier to get the trophy folders! 😀
Piracy being unavoidable is not a reason to make it happen yourself.
Only about 50% of the games work, so this still has a long way to go. Sadly, it might be the end of it too.
May more like 30% not worth the touble
Changelog v1.1
Added support for cartridges dumping which have grw0:.
Added files restoration in case your dump failed (fixes 0x80010011 error and Morphine name in LA. You need to launch Vitamin in order to restore the files).
There is a simple fix that works in most cases, you can find it on the vita piracy reddit not gonna actually link because ya know piracy.
How do people act like such entitled ***, like if someone stole your draft of a book you were working on and published it as their own would you be angry?
Amazing. Today is 59th Malaysia Independence Day 🙂
Wow, ur country is infamous due to corrupt politicians right?
I dumped my first backup today and deleted the original. I tried to install the VPK which seems to have gone alright, but after trying to run the game I continuously get a (C-12828-1) error. Anyone else running into these problems?
i get that with every dump. it can be a PSN dump or a card dump but all give that error and none work.
I’ve tried 5 cards and 5 PSN downloads. so far nothing works.
I have 2 downloads and they work but nothing I dump myself works.
Has anyone had any success? Any things you see that can help us?
The ripping process is all OK. no errors. I’ve ripped Unit 13 5 times and its given different sizes and it loads for about 5 seconds then that error shows up.
I’ve transferred to PC and back and that didnt fix. I did a recovery refresh database and that didnt help.
I’ve now given up. I will just find and download my games as I cant back them up myself as they dont work. Not sure if its a faulty Vitamin or what. Its this latest release.
“We also considered the PS Vita game industry as dead, I mean, not even $ony shows support for the device anymore.”
Such ignorance of reality. Thanks for ruining it, ***.
Is not working when 100% and exiting it’s freezing or when tell me to close vitamin and then open the game application my pstv just restart I am not understanding
Sounds like some people have been living under a rock. There are still plenty of PS Vita games releasing in Japan, and the West is still seeing game releases as well (though not as many). They may not be games you like, but that doesn’t mean the device’s market is dead. heck, God Eater 2: Rage Burst was released physically in Europe yesterday, and there’s more to follow, like MeiQ and Tokyo Xanadu.
Some of us dont live in Japan and dont like those JRPGs so to people like me they aren’t available and dont count.
The shops have a very limited selection of Vita games. The local EB Games (Which is supposed to be the biggest game shop) only has 3 Vita games. The next store (JB Hifi) has 10 but I already own all of them.
I’ve not brought a new Vita game for at least a year, maybe 2 as their either not available or nothing is released for it that interests me.
vitamin 1.1 has realeased Changelog v1.1 Added support for cartridges dumping which have grw0:.
Added files restoration in case your dump failed (fixes 0x80010011 error and Morphine name in LA. You need to launch Vitamin in order to restore the files).
Does this release fix the problem with trying to install your own dumped VPKs?
Nope. Its still got the same errors that I was having before.
It dumps fine, installs fine, loads up the game then crashes just before the first movie plays.
Some games wont even get that far. Say something about needing an update but you cant install updates to these dumps.
Is that real ?!? After all those time … Congrats and thanks 4 give the power to the people ….
Version 1.1 is out.
“Changelog v1.1
Added support for cartridges dumping which have grw0:.
Added files restoration in case your dump failed (fixes 0x80010011 error and Morphine name in LA. You need to launch Vitamin in order to restore the files).”
I personally want to say thanks to TheFloW and their team. I’ve read their statement on Twitter about this release, and they have my full sympathy and support. I don’t currently have any intentions of running backups, but I will keep this on my Vita as a token of respect for TheFloW and Team Freek- good work, and I hope you all have a good day.
thank you guys without each one of yours help it wouldn’t have been possible…
where i can download this vitamin1.1 . i cant find it. help please
just type vitamin v1.0 and google it. download it by first result.
just type vitamin v1.0 and google it.download it by first result.