Release: psvimgtools-frontend
Scene member SilicaAndPina dropped by our forums a few days ago to release psvimgtools-frontend, a GUI for the recently released tools psvimgtools. If you own a PS Vita 3.63 and don’t know where to start to hack your console, you might want to give this tool a try as it will abstract some of the command line thingies you’d otherwise have to run with psvimgtools.
A Toolkit for PS Vita 3.63 hacks
As a matter of fact, this GUI includes a build of psvimgtools, which means it will pretty much run out of the box. Note that you’ll need to have QCMA installed, configured and running properly with your account in order for psvimgtool-frontend to run. Which should not be a big deal as QCMA is pretty much required for all your 3.63 hacking needs anyway.
PS Vita 3.63 is much more limited in terms of what hacks you can run, compared to firmware 3.60. Nevertheless, recent developments let you do things such as install an ePSP Custom Firmware or Homebrew launcher VHBL, install DRM free apps (such as Netflix), install Custom Themes, Switch accounts without formatting your memory stick (which technically lets you have data from multiple accounts on a single memory stick, something that is otherwise not possible on the PS Vita), disable the PSTV whitelist to increase game compatibility, and various registry hacks such as swapping th O and X buttons.
In many of these cases, psvimgtools-frontend should help you get started.
Executables have been released for Linux and Windows (download link below)
Download psvimgtools-frontend
You can download psvimgtools-frontend from the developer’s github here. As a reminder, you’ll also need QCMA.
source: SilicaAndPina on /talk
Cool
not bad… this should be easy for everyone i guess.
So gue yang pertama?
cuba lagi 😀
How do you install DRM free apps with this?
You need the decrypted backup of one, xD but i dont know of anywhere you can get these
your best bet is probably to use the account switch method to downlaod and DRMF’s you need
“Noob question.
I have a Vita on firmware 3.60. My Final Fantasy VIII game.psvmd got corrupted so i have to delete it. Don’t know why i keept the game.psvimg of this game. With this tool can i regenerate a game.vsvmd to be abble to play FFVIII? Thanks”
Acturally yes you can click browse to decrypt it
but you would have to repack with the CLI :/
Thanks.
This is coming from the same scene member who “accidentally” released a Vita bricking vpk as a “prank”. I’d be hard pressed to trust anything they make in the future.
Huh whaat bricker?
yeah sure, blame the dood for everything who happens, blame his entire life for something he did once, come on dude, dont be dumb.
He released a VPK that formatted memory cards. Never bricked a single Vita. Sure, it’s still a *** move, but no need to lie.
You are the kind of guy who blames someone forever for just one screw up ? XD
it wasnt even a bricker.. >_< and i didnt release it as a prank..
You released it as it was and someone else redistributed it as a fake Harry Potter game according to what I heard at the time
I’m not against you or anything it was a concept at the time I understand concepts can be skewed but it was made to brick regardless of the intent I know now your intent wasn’t malicious but for respect of those effected we shouldn’t forget what actually happened so we can at least keep it from happening again with another upcoming scene creator you are one of the reasons why HENkaku is so secure today which is good, and you’ve contributed a lot since your days of code stealing for things like package installer 2 witch I think is a good redeeming quality for you i hope you don’t forget these Silica and you use them to only get better from here I’d hate to see you drop again and us have too blacklist you intirely
first
do i need to have this installed before updating?
You dont need to update xD lol this works on all firmware.
what a surprise, doesn’t work. tried on two PSPs. it makes the Arc bubble and save data, but loading it just gives a C1-2858-3 error
B-but when i made an ARK Bubble it DID work..
It really works
Ah i found the error, im saving the Savedata as ARK-123 instead of ARK-1234 just a simple Typo xD will be fixed in next version :3
and that fixes it, doing that got it working. thanks
so when is the next version going be out?
i donno exactly when xD but you can fix it manually for now
Thank you very very much for the Linux bin/installers.
So for a 3.60 user like myself, would it be possible to use this to install Netflix like you stated?
your on 3.60 just do it via pkg installer
How to swap the O and X button for ARK?
Could you please tell me the status of the ps4 cfw , I’m from south africa and for us the the price of games is doubled and internet access sucks and is to expensive to go digital so could you please tell if they are close to any cfw for the ps4 as I really want to be able to play games at a much more faster rate in terms of availability don’t get me wrong I’m not looking to pursue a distribution of the cfw just for personal use as I can’t afford to keep up with new release hope to hear from someone sone thank you. PS I like this site work and the articles written here are great and easy to understand unlike most site to mean to be a hater to them but this site is way better
Yes!
Not just the price, but the availability too. Getting a good Vita game in South Africa is near impossible.
lmao get a gaming pc then i have a vita and gaming pc. they trier to stop piracy on pc but atleast they tried haha re7 was hack 3 days after release haha got it for free and so is tales of berseria got it for free wish i have a 3.60 vitw =(
Could you please tell me the status of the ps4 cfw , I’m from south africa and for us the the price of games is doubled and internet access sucks and is to expensive to go digital so could you please tell if they are close to any cfw for the ps4 as I really want to be able to play games at a much more faster rate in terms of availability don’t get me wrong I’m not looking to pursue a distribution of the cfw just for personal use as I can’t afford to keep up with new release hope to hear from someone sone thank you. PS I like this site work and the articles written here are great and easy to understand unlike most site to mean to be a hater to them but this site is way better thanks to the writers and admins.
lol…..seriously…..cool story bro….either get a better job or keep waiting 😛
Hey SilicaAndPina is there anyway you can take me step by step with this process?
what do u wanna do with psvimgtools?
Hey never responded, but I am looking for the same thing. When I try to install VBHL through the GUI I get the error in the terminal “IOError: [Errno 22] invalid mode (‘wb’) or filename ‘C:/Users/(my usrname)/Documents/PS Vita/EXTRACTED/PGAME/NPUH90024/game/ux0_pspemu_temp_game_PSP_GAME_NUPH90024/’ ” How can I fix this?
I am running 3.65, but I have heard that psvimgtools works just fine with FW 3.65. Am I wrong about this?
When I try to install VBHL using psvimgtools GUI I get the error “IOError: [Errno 22] invalid mode (‘wb’) or filename ‘C:/Users/(my usrname)/Documents/PS Vita/EXTRACTED/PGAME/NPUH90024/game/ux0_pspemu_temp_game_PSP_GAME_NUPH90024/’ ” How can I fix this?
Wasnt he the one who released the &%@ harry potter vpk?
its a little bit more complicated than that.
no someone else redistributed it as a fake….i hate how false info can be so easily spread around on the net :/
I am running 3.65, but have heard that it works fine with 3.65. Am I wrong about that?
Oops wrong post lol
This tool seems like it would be pretty good and helpful but I simply can’t look past the fact he released a vita bricker in the passed. I’ve read comments saying about how you can’t blame people for a mistake they made a while back and all this ***, but this dev went out of his way to maliciously damage people’s consoles as a ‘joke’. I don’t know how anybody like that could be trusted.
There have been articles on this site in the past about the 3ds cards and how those devs have added code intentionally to brick consoles and vilified them for that, and yet this guy isn’t.
Can’t say I like those double standards, frankly.
The difference I make here is in the amount of damage that was made. I don’t like what he’s done but it was a (bad) prank and we still report on his releases. Gateway, conversely, are a company that makes lots of money and intentionally bricked thousands of consoles in order to make more money.
so im new to the vita secen so i have no idea what anyof this is i wish i didnt update but i didnt learn about henkaku untill it was already updated it seems neat to do but i just dont understand what it is or how to do it … maybe i should sitck to nintendo hahahaha
No Mac love again, huh. Guess I’ll have to stick with the command line versions for now.
1. Thank you guys for doing all of this, i love you.
2. I am new VITA owner and working with 3.63. Dont understand *** yet..
3. SilicaAndPin, tool ROCKS, dont let h4t3rs get you. Coders make mistakes! Thats something people that didnt get over “Hello world” dont understand.
4. Few days ago i installed ARK manualy (with psvimgtools) and last night, with your GUI i installed VHBL without any problems and put 138menu on top of it. All in all its looking AWSOME!
QUESTION: What can i do with this? Can someone explain how to install homebrews/emulators/games or point me on reading?
Manager has only 1 n
So can I use this to easy install adrenaline in 3.60 or is it just for 3.63 only?
how do i fix the loading the ark emulator option? with the rename the save i mean.
never mind i got it to work.
anybody properly tested this yet?
i’m getting this error with psvimgtools-frontend-win64 on windows 10 x64
Patching With ARK-2
Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “lib-tk\Tkinter.py”, line 1542, in __call__
File “psvimgtools\easyinstallers\ARK\chooseBackup.py”, line 131, in
File “psvimgtools\easyinstallers\ARK\chooseBackup.py”, line 47, in patch
File “shutil.py”, line 119, in copy
File “shutil.py”, line 83, in copyfile
IOError: [Errno 22] invalid mode (‘wb’) or filename: u’C:/Users/froid/Documents/PS Vita/EXTRACTED/PGAME/NPUG80318/game/ux0_pspemu_temp_game_PSP_GAME_NPUG80318/’
then this error with psvimgtools-frontend-win32 on windows 10 x64
Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “lib-tk\Tkinter.py”, line 1542, in __call__
File “easyinstallers\ARK\chooseBackup.py”, line 131, in
self.Button1.configure(command = lambda: patch(defs.getTitleID(self.backupList.get(ACTIVE))))
File “easyinstallers\ARK\chooseBackup.py”, line 55, in patch
easyInstallers.close_window(root)
File “easyInstallers.py”, line 31, in close_window
File “lib-tk\Tkinter.py”, line 1865, in destroy
TclError: can’t invoke “destroy” command: application has been destroyed
can you install henkaku or vitashell using this tool on 3.63?
will this work on win32??..
but how do you do the account switching?
I think SilicaAndPina needs to learn to spell “Manager”, other than that.. it’s a neat start to a basic GUI for PSVIMGTOOLS. Useful for those who are frightened by CLI’s and commands. Well done.
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My computer won’t open the program. Installation went off without any hitch, but when i try to launch the program, the window appears and immediately disappears.
Same here, it just vanishes, tried both 32 and 64 bit with no luck
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Actually I’ve been trying to run psvimg tool but it is not runing closes automatically… what you think that which mistake im doing? It is 64 bit
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Hey does anybody know where I can go to get help with running psvimg front-end? It installed fine and runs ok, but when I try to patch a miniS game with vhbl it doesn’t work. It doesn’t do anything. In the command prompt of psvimg; it says something about access denied and throws a weird error code. I can post it later from my pc, but there isn’t a window notification that says anything when I try to patch a game. So I don’t know what to do.
Hey does anybody know where I can go to get help with running psvimg front-end? It installed fine and runs ok, but when I try to patch a miniS game with vhbl it doesn’t work. It doesn’t do anything. In the command prompt of psvimg; it says something about access denied and throws a weird error code. I can post it later from my pc, but there isn’t a window notification that says anything when I try to patch a game. So I don’t know what to do.
why iam geting this eroor please help
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “lib-tk\Tkinter.py”, line 1542, in __call__
File “imgtools\easyinstallers\VHBL\chooseBackupVHBL.py”, line 129, in
File “imgtools\easyinstallers\VHBL\chooseBackupVHBL.py”, line 43, in patch
File “imgtools\unsign_support.py”, line 86, in goUnsign
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: ‘keys/’
OKay so i have a Problem/Question
Whenever i Back up my PS Vita to my computer, Unsign and Unpack my back up, Resign and pack it (Even if i dont edit anything), and put it back on the vita, everything is Corrupted. Does anyone know Whats doing this/How i can stop it from happening? Thanks
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