TheFloW unveils USB Mass Storage for PS Vita, releases in February
I’ve been waiting on confirmation of this one for a while. I had seen the original tweet, but without confirmation about it from TheFloW himself I wouldn’t dare write about something that could be utterly misleading. With that said, it is indeed great news the USB Mass Storage is finally coming to the PS Vita. Which also seems to show that even during his break from the scene, TheFloW can’t stop working on Vita-related things.
If you’re wondering what I’m talking about, this is the tweet that set the scene on fire last week:
A dream pic.twitter.com/kabZu1Ikqj
— TheFloW (@theflow0) December 16, 2016
This is today’s confirmation by TheFloW himself confirming USB Mass Storage:
Merry christmas and btw this picture was real. Release in February. https://t.co/yngPQJvtc5
— TheFloW (@theflow0) December 24, 2016
As you can clearly see, it’s a picture of an USB Device (formatted in exFAT) that shares the same folders as the ux0: partition on the PS Vita. Unfortunately, that’s all we know at this point. There were people assuming that this USB connection was created through Adrenaline, but he has refuted that claim.
What does this mean for you, the user?
The short version is: goodbye qCMA, goodbye VitaShell FTP. The only reason why alternative methods to copy files to the Vita were created (.mp4 trick, FTP transfer) was because the Vita was made to not have any sort of storage you could access on your computer. Only the CMA tool was able to communicate with the PS Vita for files transfers and only in a very limited way.
This upcoming release will allow us users to copy files unrestricted to the PS Vita memory card. This also means that we will finally be able to enjoy speedy transfer speeds which was the clear weak point of the FTP method. We could do so until now using the .mp4 switch but that wasn’t very practical and still depended on qCMA. With this upcoming release, the PS Vita will finally be free from the shackles imposed upon it by Sony. Good riddance.
Now all we have to do is wait until February… and maybe hope for an earlier release.
From all the staff here at Wololo.net, we wish you a merry Christmas!
I just hope this works for PS TVs too.
I was thinking the same thing
where are you going to stick that usb cable?
there is an usb cable,
an usb to usb isnt that hard to find
usb port*
I’d love to see someone figure out a way to allow the PSTV to use external USB storage. It’s capable of reading data off the stick for updates already…
Luckily and hopefully this won’t require the Vita to be hacked. If so, I’ll buy it in e heartbeat.
of course it will need to be hacked.
and i doubt he’s gonna charge money for it or he might get into trouble with the law faster than one could thinkt
sounds like you missed out on 3.60 lol
The vita will certainly need to be hacked. Probably a USB mode plugin added into vita shell
Go ahead and buy it, you’ll be able to hack it if you do. Why would you want this without the hack anyway? Why would anyone want a Vita today without running a hack on it when Sony basically discontinued the device?
I know why someone would want a PS Vita without hacks: to be able to play games released for firmware 3.61+.
Just because Sony isn’t supporting it anymore doesn’t mean third-party developers aren’t.
“…this is the tweet that set the scene on fire a few months back…”
You probably meant to say days. It happened last week.
Was it? I’ve been away for some time and it feels like ages since I saw that. I’ll correct myself then. Thanks!
Edit: In hindsight, I could have just looked at the Tweet’s date but I still have to write about two more things so I was kind of in a hurry since it is Christmas today and I have place to be at.
Thanks 😀
THANK YOU!!! AND HAPPY ALL HOLIDAYS!!!!
Idk what you are talking about. It’s already March 2017.
Its a great news!Waiting for February to come 😉
I hope The Flow is doing okay. After reading the initial tweet some guy said that The Flow has been working too hard and should take a break, The Flow said he would withhold a release until February in a rather passive aggressive way. If you read this The Flow, I hope you’re taking good care of yourself, have a happy holiday, and thank you for all you’ve done.
I did see that. Seemed like a rather odd reaction, but I made nothing of it. FloW has taken to trolling as a way to deal with Twitter, which isn’t a bad idea.
This is good who knows in the future to create a tool to extract vpk to copy the game folder directly instead of installing
Use MaiDumpTool dude, it’s already doing it.
Flow , You , and everyone behind the scene , are truely LEGEND.
Merry Chris mass everyone.
who did the mp4 trick, the psp game saves way was much better and faster.
If only this had happened a year sooner, it would have been a life saver to me. At least this will make things easier for transferring though. I might just get my Vita back into full time use again.
I’m holding my hope on this (thanks TheFlow!). As it might mean that I can directly install games on my Vita memory card without needing double-space to have them installed.
In the same way, I’ve an idea (in the sense of thought), that it may open the possibility to allow our Vita’s to run games already “installed” on our PC’s, via a “virtual” memory by redirecting memory calls (take my idea please!). Time will tell, but this is for sure, the best new I’ve got for Xmas!
Yippee ki-yay ***! 😛
It’s good news. I hate QCMA and specialy FTP manager.
I have one question. Is it possible to translate game for PS Vita at the moment?
Merry Christmas, fellow citizens of Wololo!
Live long and prosper!
Your friendly neighbourhood Planeswalker, Monster Hunter and Sith
Actually, NOT goodbye QCMA. This can’t replace QCMA’s backup and restore function. It does only mean, goodbye ftp.
Yes, it actually does, everything qcma can back up, Vitashell can back up, too but better and without some arbitrary database to jumble things up. You just need to know where things are located
we L u