TheFloW has managed to modify the PS Vita’s PSP emulator, Coldbird taking over to port ARK eCFW to FW 3.60!
Famous PS Vita developer TheFloW has managed to get full access to the PS Vita’s PSP emulator, which basically enables you to run any custom PSP content via the PS Vita’s built-in Playstation Portable emulator, including eCFWs such as ARK and (theoretically) TN-V.
He was searching for a proper person to take over the project, preferable a person who knows one or another thing about PSP exploiting, and it turns out that no one else than our good old friend Coldbird is going to take care of this!
Coldbird, already know for the PRO CFW for the actual Playstation Portable and the initial version of the vPRO eCFW for the PS Vita (nowadays called ARK), is going to take care of this project. The project involves porting the ARK eCFW to the most recent hackable PS Vita system software, which is version 3.60.
This will enable you to run your PSP game backups (basically ISOs & CSOs) via the HENkaku Homebrew enabler, and you won’t be required to buy any specific PSP game as an exploit title (you might need a random PSP game as base game).
ARK can be easily ported to version 3.60 since its source code is easily available and can be modified by anyone who might be interested in it. The other famous PS Vita eCFW, the TN-V eCFW, cannot be easily ported over, since its source code is not publicly available and the binaries of it have been encrypted, which makes reversing the code a long & hard process.
I would not hold my breath for the PSP XMB on firmware 3.60 if I were you.
Nonetheless, Coldbird is working on porting the ARK eCFW to system software 3.60, which will enable you to run your precious PSP games on your Playstation Vita (and VitaTV).
The last remaining emulator would be the PS1 emulator, but the current status of PS1 backup support is unknown.
With a bit of luck we will get (partial) PS1 backup support as well, depending on how successful the project turns out to be (ARK is capable of playing PS1 backups, albeit soundless).
Source via Twitter.com
Great guys , i really admire you , the flow , and the zett
wish you the best of luck
Great news to hear, can’t think of anyone better to handle this. Welcome back to the scene MrColdbird 😀
Can’t we play PS1 backups now via RetroArch?
im playing suikoden ii as i type this…
With RetroArch on 3.60?
yes sir
Awesome!!
Yep. You can! Look the Libretro RetroArch – PCSX ReARMed
https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/playstation/vita/
You can. Some games run okay like Crash Bandicoot, some are very slow and some are not working at all. The core still can be optimized and in the future, it might be able to run every PS1 games flawlessly with touchscreen support for extra buttons mapping.
Yes but it’s not native emulation so it has its own problems.
Yup we can now as of latest nightly! 🙂
I’m hoping for a new nightly for PS3 CEX/DEX soon *fingers crossed*.
Yep. You can! Look the Libretro RetroArch – PCSX ReARMed
https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/playstation/vita/
*** ‘the zett’ taking reputation, though being helpfull, but greedy in the very end 😉
Kudos to all the others.
This is a great news for us stealers and pirates. Will need to steal more psp games now!
Technically enabling the backup support is not illegal & stealing.
You, the user, decide if you want to run legit backups or pirated roms/isos.
That is like selling/gifting you a crossbar that you may or may not use for breaking into someones house to steal some stuff.
Your decision what you use the crossbar for, we only provide you with it (which isnt illegal), you decide if you want to do something illegal with the given things or not.
That is a good analogy
Do you use illegal Roms? Just curious, I mean many do 🙂
Nobody lost with me pirating games, so you can’t say it’s stealing. Copyright infringement ok, but not stealing.
I have a good collection of psp games in UMD, however my old PSP got damaged, but can’t play them in my vita, except if I buy them again in digital. This is useful for people like me and I think that it is not stealing
While I totally 100% agree with you, by law though this is still technically stealing unfortunatly :/
This is not if he owns the UMDs
Maybe morally it’s not wrong, legaly it’s still piracy.
But I think the PSVita has very little storage and the 32Gb or even 64Gb cards are very pricey. For the same price of a 64 Card you can pretty much a real PSP (used), a photofast CR-5400 adapter and some cheap (but quality) microSD cards, allowing you for up to 2Tb of PSP games (I myself use 2x32Gb microSD cards, giving me 64Gb of storage just for PSP games).
Still, cool effort nontheless and who knows, maybe being able to use the second analog stick in the PSP GTA games would be worth playing them on the Vita…
The law specified that you had to make the backup copy yourself. Downloading it from the internet is illegal. So (s)he would have to dump the UMD himself/herself. Probably won’t be possible with a damaged PSP.
I’ve heard that recently, though, even making a backup copy isn’t legal anymore. 🙁
It is because, per law, he doesn’t own the software nor the rights to duplicate it. He just own the UMD (physical object) and the right to use the software on it.
Hence, ripping the UMD is forbidden.
Some countries like France let’s you make a backup copy of any software you own (and are still owning), but you still don’t have the right to workaround any security (encryption, etc.) to do it, otherwise your backup is illegal.
Silly , but that’s the law u__u
Whatever, I already bought again on PSN (during sales) most of the PSP games I still play from time to time, but unfortunately, some aren’t available on EU PSN, or even on any PSN
yo on the real i got mad umds and the umds themselves fall apart as well here here these things should be considered…a broken blueray ps3 i resurrected can attest to the magic of hax
First
Farst!!!
Is there anything other than Vita news?
I kissed a girl and I liked it.
You should try kissing a boy, that’s a real rush.
hahaha
no! 😀
still waiting for iosu hack and ps4 hack :p
The Vita news that has been coming out has been huge. How could anyone not be excited? Heck, I might just buy a cheap vita or pstv myself to join in on the fun.
OMG!! I’ve been playing with RetroArch PS1 emulator for 3 hours, it’s been really good, just been playing crusader no remorse! remember that one? lol.
Then wololo hits us with another Fantastic scene announcement! I can’t handle all this good stuff for the Vita, it’s Like Dark Alex days on speed!
Resistance: Retribution, killzone liberation, tiger woods 2008 and Ultimate Ghost N Goblins, Gran Turismo………oh my…….pass me a drink! No! I’ll pee myself.
What did exactly TN-X in order to archive native sound emulation?
TN-X didnt achieve sound emulation, TN-X used the ps1 emulator baked into the psvita, and just hijacked what it was doing to do other things, and sound was already figured out by sony themselves
Simply amazing
I said the same thing about your mom
Can’t wait! Big thanks to all the developers who are making this possible 🙂
Great news 🙂
This is thrilling….who really cares if we get shell like TV-V as long as we have a launcher for our ISOs and CSOs. As to the whole piracy, uhhh last I looked PSP is dead and $ony kind of *** on us all when they told us their would be a UMD capture mechanism for Vita and there never was. In addition many PSP games where never available on PSN in all territories. I hated giving up eCFW especially on my PSTV so getting that back will be a big plus. Thanks Flow and CB………and FLOW you are the bomb dude! Thank you for all you are doing………….keep up the great work!
Uh, pretty sure TN-V’s source was leaked by Qwik at some point.
That’s why he refused to update anymore.
Why not ask TN-V (aswell as TN-X)’s developer himself? I am sure he would kindly lend it’s source code to the willing. As in, he is obligated to.
“he is obligated to”
no. they’re not
Lol this is TN we’re talking about. He’s not sharing his source code with nobody
u mean Total Noob.
apart for the good stuff he released hes kind of an a**hole
the way he left i dont think he will be back to this scene
That was a very good Drama!!! that’s the entertaiment part of the scenne between releases.
This would be awesome. Thanx to all the devs who have made the vitas fun again. Looking forward to see what other goodies the vita has to offer.
TN-V can’t be easily ported because you (TheZee) and Qwik’s petty drama/trolling nonsense long ago with Total Noob. If your useless *** hadn’t provoked him into specifically wiping YOUR Vita memory card, and Qwik hadn’t gone crazy leaking ***, we wouldn’t have lost a valuable scene contributor.
First! heck no I aint and who really cares! Talk about a “dream team” of developers. Awesome news and awesome system. I am really loving my PS Vita right now.
I liked TN-V over Ark because of the psp xmb. But as long as it plays psp backups who cares for now.
Wow thought cold bird left the scene? Dark_Alex coming back?
Fight Night Round 3 while on long bus rides? YES PLEASE =D
Finally feel like a ps vita is a good investment now.
Because you can use it as a more expensive PSP? What a joke.
no, because it potentially can do anything on 3.60
Smooth 30/60 fps emulators including N64 Emulators
PSP games, PS Vita games, PS1 games.
Potentially Android since the vita is running an ARM Processor. So android can be “easily” ported.
The Vita can do alot more than a PSP when its hacked.
Hallelujah!!!!!
What’s the n64 emulator? That rurunat 30 fps ????
I tried one vhbl but it’s really slow and the sound is choppy af
Come back you god damned TheNoob ! We need your dark powers again !
It’s “Total Noob”,not TheNoob #failboy
good news
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Time to buy a Vita, then!
“…you might need a random PSP game as base game”
^Can you elaborate, please? Confirmation?
Meaning … Demo
Previous hacks have enabled “overwriting” an existing bubble on your PS Vita live area. It has not been possible to create bubbles from scratch, or if there ever was a way to do this it was patched a while back. Going off this knowledge, the Zett is assuming this new exploit may have the same limitation.
This can be basically any PSP game, and PS1 games have worked in the past as well (although that may or may not be applicable here.) This means if you can get a free PSP demo with a small file size, it makes for an ideal “base game”, and then you can replace it with ARK. I’ve used the Petz Saddle Club Demo in the past.
https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/games/petz-saddle-club-demo/cid=UP0001-NPUH90024_00-SADDLECLUBDEMO01
Of course, if you have any paid digital PSP games you could use those too… But I figure free is almost always preferable. 🙂
Demo or any PSP game for sending datas inside it’s savegame.
Demo PSP game on the Vita? Those are real? Is this confirmed (as a requirement)?
Most non-US PSN stores have demos of PSP games.
and you can install them with a little trickery too 😀
Can’t wait to play Crisis Core again on my Vita because the game is better on it and the controls too. My PSP can’t read UMDS anymore so I’m waiting for it!
My PSPGo can’t read UMD anymore either…#tears
It never could
The joke
you
1 things must I say ” VS Vita is now Life, Liivee, Liiiiiiffffeeee!!.
thanks to TheFlow and Coldbird, I’m so Happy.
yes vita actually is life in the italian language 🙂
Are from Italy, nice. I want go there.
You mean Latin? 😛
Will PSP games overclocked on the new Ark port?
Loving all the idiots badmouthing Total_Noob. The little you know…
che fico
It would seem the PSVITA scene is moving along steadily, a bit slow but its really interesting to stop by and see all that has developed since we left off with the introduction of ARk (vPRO- eCFW by Coldbird).
PSPEmu And PS1Emu are the same app
Awesome news, but I sure would love an XMB. Oh well, can’t have everything.