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THIS TUTORIAL IS UNTESTED AND IS MERELY SPECULATION, SO IT WOULD BE GREAT IF SOMEONE COULD TEST THIS OUT.
Almost all of the credit of this tutorial goes to frostvi3n.
How to share games between Vita accounts:
Things needed:
- 2 PSN accounts (for clarification purposes, consider account #1 your own account, and account #2 your friends account).
- 1 PS3 with latest OFW or CFW (be aware to be protected in CFW to access the PSN store without taking much risk of being banned.)
- 1 PSVita (of course) with e-mail trick activated (meaning: FW 3.55 or below only, AFAIK) with 1 Memory card. The bigger the better. This tutorial can also be made using 2 memory cards, infact, it may be easier and better, but for the sake of not everyone owning 2 memory cards, the tutorial is made with only 1 memory card in mind.
- 1 PC running VitaUpdateBlocker
Personally, I reccomend the following:
Steps:install the latest version of REBUG CFW on your PS3.
Then, after that, install "psnpatch". With it, you will be able to hide the CFW functions and access the PSN Store in a more safe way (avoiding a possible block/ban from $ony).
With that all set, run psnpatch, access the PSN store and download what you want.
WARNING: NEVER UPDATE YOUR VITA. MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW THESE STEPS WITHOUT ACCIDENTALLY UPDATING YOUR VITA!
1) In your Vita (Account #1), backup EVERYTHING from your Memory Card to your PC using QCMA
2) Backup these needed files using e-mail method:
email:send?attach=tm0:npdrm/act.dat. (http://www.psx-place.com/forum/tutorial ... -3234.html)
email:send?attach=vd0:registry/system.dreg.
email:send?attach=vd0:registry/system.ireg.
email:send?attach=ux0:id.dat.
+info: (viewtopic.php?f=65&t=44480&p=400260&hilit=IDPS#p400181.)
Consider the ACT.DAT above ACT #1
3) Now, in the PS3, your friend must create a "new" account (luckily for us, the PS3 supports multiple accounts).
He won't create a NEW account, he will simply insert is currently existing Vita account in the PS3
(consider your friend account as Account #2). Now with is account in the PS3, he must login into PSN store, and download his bought Vita games to the PS3.
4) Grab the Vita. First, we clear the ID.DAT of the memory card using this tutorial: http://hackinformer.com/2015/06/26/how- ... ormatting/
This will enable the card to be inserted without asking to be formatted.
Remove the card from the Vita.
Next, we do a System Restore. Insert the ACCOUNT #2 information in the Vita when asked, but remember that you CAN'T LOGIN INTO PSN, or it will ask you to update.
Insert the memory card into the Vita, it will ask to reboot, rebuild the database and ready. No loss of data (if everything wen't accordingly), but then again, everything is backed up in QCMA, as safety precaution. If any existing bought games were in the card, they won't work, because they are linked to the ACCOUNT #1. Demos will work without issue. Continuing...
5) Now, with the Vita using Account #2 (your friends account), connect your Vita to the internet using your PC as a proxy with the program VitaUpdateBlocker. All you need to do is insert the internet settings. MAKE SURE TO SELECT THE PROXY USAGE AND USE YOUR PC IP ADDRESS (presented in the program window)
6) Now, connect the Vita to the PS3 (both using Account #2), to be able to transfer the games from the PS3 to the Vita. Using VItaUpdateBlocker in this method, the games will transfer without requesting the Vita to update. Also, if any activation is needed, this will clear that out as well, AFAIK. Transfer all the Vita games from the PS3 to the Vita.
7) Right now, if everything went OK, the Vita has all your friends bought games in it and still remains in an older firmware 3.55 or lower, still having the e-mail trick activated.
8) Now, we backup the newly generated files using e-mail method:[/b]
email:send?attach=tm0:npdrm/act.dat. (http://www.psx-place.com/forum/tutorial ... -3234.html)
email:send?attach=vd0:registry/system.dreg.
email:send?attach=vd0:registry/system.ireg.
email:send?attach=ux0:id.dat.
+info: (viewtopic.php?f=65&t=44480&p=400260&hilit=IDPS#p400181.)
Consider this ACT.DAT above ACT #2
9) Now, we clear the ID.DAT of the memory card again, using this tutorial: http://hackinformer.com/2015/06/26/how- ... ormatting/
This will enable the card to be inserted without asking to be formatted.
10) Now, system restore the Vita again. This time, insert the initial/default (ACCOUNT #1) account settings.
11) We restore ACT.DAT #1 to the Vita, reverting it to it's "initial" state.
12) Insert the memory card in the Vita. It will ask to reboot and it will rebuild the database.
If there were bought games in the memory card prior to all this method, they should be working again, and also, you should have your friends games installed in the memory card as well, but they won't work with this ACT.DAT #1 file.
So, everything should be back to what it was before the tutorial, except, you now have more games (the ones your friend bought and shared with you).
Right now, technically speaking, your Vita Memory Card has all the games in the memory card associated with the correct SERIAL NUMBER in the ACT.DAT file, the only thing "wrong" is the account...
So, whenever you want to play your friends games, just switch over the ACT.DAT #2 file, reboot, and play the games he shared with you! If you want to play your games, do the same process, reverting to the ACT.DAT #1 file.
Please keep in mind that the games he shared with you will probably not work online. Infact, it's RECOMMENDED that you stay OFFLINE when using ACT.DAT #2, because $ony can easily detect 2 Vita's using the same account/ID????
So, keep this in mind to save your and your friends account. If he shared his games with you, this is the least you can do to thank him. =)
That's that! THIS IS STILL NOT TESTED, AND UNFORTUNATELLY, I HAVE NO WAY TO TEST THIS. IF ANYONE CAN TEST THIS OUT, COMMENTS AND RESULTS ARE MORE THAN WELCOME.
A BIG SPECIAL THANKS TO frostvi3n.
BR,
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im happy to see u made a tuturial out of this , but there is one thing that im not sure of , that anytime u will switch account will the vita remake ID.dat file or not , basically we are switching accounts here , but anytime that we will restart the vita , it should check the ID.dat file , but i dont know that will it over write with the new data , u know , after restart , or not. if it stayes blank then we are good to go , if not then we will basically need 2 vita memory card , and i remember that when i was testing my teory about accessing an other accounts , ive ran into some problem with qcma , qcma application havent been able to fully detect my psvita user , suchas user072 or something , but then i read more about registry and other file , so i dumped them too , then switched accounts and it did work , so i guess for just playing those games , basically we are ok simply by switching act.dat but if we want to connect it to PC via qcma we will need those 2 other files to be in place properlly. ill try to test this completely once i get home. lets hope i will have time