Comments on: Vita Custom Firmware for dummies

By: rew

rew — Sat, 18 May 2013 02:08:18 +0000

im at the same stop you are. but i think UNO came packaged with one of these downloads. i cant remember if it was TN or PRO. but at least one can with UNO. you might just need to install that. also uno uses FW 2.02, im just not sure if its 2.02 “and below”.

By: Nathan Drake

Nathan Drake — Fri, 17 May 2013 23:25:03 +0000

So, with PS Vita, OS 2.01, but no PS3 and no UNO installed on the PS Vita, what can be done? Seems like someone could do something with hacking the USB port’s firmware controller (flash it like in the PSP CFW), and jailbreak the damn thing. I want to root the PS Vita like was done with the PSP. I own a number of PS Vita games, and could just play them until I grow too old to move, and probably not get too bored doing it. Still, I’ve a large collection of PSP games in ISO that I’d like to play on my PS Vita. That’s where I’m at on this right now. Maybe there are others out there who want this as well. Dark Alex et al to the rescue…I hope and soon!

By: Rew

Rew — Fri, 17 May 2013 10:21:51 +0000

Would this UNO exploit + psp emulator work on my 1.67 vita? I heard UNO works for 2.02 and below. Also, how important is it to ‘activate’ my vita? Will the UNO exploit still work if I don’t activate it?

By: scott

scott — Thu, 02 May 2013 10:04:32 +0000

Can someone pls tell how to unlock my 3g on my ps vita so that I can be able to use any sim card on it?

By: Alexi

Alexi — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:07:28 +0000

Someone ought to do something about Sam Jordam. Who’s to say he will not pull any shenigans?

By: wololo

wololo — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:36:01 +0000

you can find the list of games (up to date as I post this) here:
http://wololo.net/2013/04/17/lower-ps-vita-firmwares-for-dummies/

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 06:17:29 +0000

It mentions “If you are lucky enough to have the ‘right’ game” what is exactly is the right game, is there a list of games? can I buy that psyical game is a store or craigslist? or do I need to download it from the psn store?

By: Kuroyuki

Kuroyuki — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:03:18 +0000

If, i don’t have uno games and my firmware is 2.10. how to hack my ps vita then?

By: skipsy

skipsy — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:35:28 +0000

ok im conpleate noob on vita although have hack psp ( pandra ) also wii and 360 to give u idea of background what i d like to know is i just revived my vita and firmware is 1.6 where should i go from here all i want is to be able to run homebrew on but if i dont update the firmware then will i still be able to play cod or resistance online im a bit confused with it all any help appreciated

By: onnz423

onnz423 — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:37:56 +0000

I think that The Z Is releasing his VHBL Exploit some time

By: fuyao

fuyao — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:55:48 +0000

I see

By: wololo

wololo — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 08:48:46 +0000

I know what you mean, but I disagree with your statement that TN revolutionized anything. TN is a great PSP hacker, and probably one of the handful who still care about the community today. And for this he deserves LOTS of credit because many other hackers just gave up on the community. However, the work he’s done, besides finding Kernel exploits (which is a difficult task, but is nothing groundbreaking), has been reusing existing work, such as Dark Alex’s M33 FW.

You want to look for “revolutionary” stuff in the PSP scene? Look at Dark Alex’s initial explanations on how a custom Firmware would work, look at the first homebrew loader by Noobz, Look at the Pandora battery, look at the FailOverflow/mathieulh/kgsws work on signing homebrews, look at Virtuous Flame’s work in defeating DRMs for games, look at JJS’s work on perfect syscall estimation in user mode for VHBL, or, finally, look at Coldbird’s prometheus online project, which rewrote huge parts of the network drivers to allow things that simply were not possible before.

There were lots of great hackers in the PSP scene, and Total Noob is one of them. But when you use the word “revolutionize”, you should probably look elsewhere. Let’s give credit only where credit is due.

That being said, yes, I see what you mean, hopefully other people are hard at work looking into the Vita right now.

By: fuyao

fuyao — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 06:54:16 +0000

you know what I mean, he revolutionized the PSP homebrew scene three years ago,I can’t remember exactly who did the signed homebrews.

I’m saying someone else might be working on a VCFW right now as of this message being typed.

By: wololo

wololo — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:01:50 +0000

TN had nothing to do with the possibility to sign homebrews.

By: fuyao

fuyao — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 05:31:36 +0000

I get a feeling that something big is gonna happen this year, someone other then Total Noob or the Pro team will find an exploit in the PS Vita, which will be like when TN found the exploit that opened up PSP’s possibility to have signed homebrews.

Also, an Nintendo DS or iPod Touch emulator on Vita.

Just a feeling, might not happen, but don’t give up hope.