Virtuous Flame’s Open CMA r3 released
Virtuous Flame released an update to his Open CMA tool a few days ago. Open CMA allows you to connect your playstation Vita to your PC through the Content Manager without needing to be connected to the internet. This is useful if you need to transfer some files while away from your network, or simply if like me you don’t see why it should be required to be connected to the internet when you transfer files between two pieces of hardware you own.
This update (revision 3) patches the PC side of the content manager further, preventing it from auto updating. Without this patch, Sony’s driver is silently updating itself whenever it’s connected to the internet even if you were using open CMA so far, which makes this r3 an important update.
Wololo, quick question from one of those in the usa, awaiting launch, has sony straightened the psn ps1 classic part of the vita out yet? or do you not know because you guys are staying on lower firmware with VF’s CMA tool? i apologize if this question is considered a thread hijack….
I’m trying to keep my vita disconnected as much as I can for now, so I can’t easily answer your question. Last time I checked, the PSN only had PSP and Vita games, no ps1 games.
wololo can this support pc window xp because i try to patch it and it work but….. when i want to connected it say it say need psn account to connected on pc and ps3? pls help me 🙁 because i juat want to put music on my psvita and anime pls help me!!!!
it work but is say but it need to open the account psn server how to do this pls help:(
do i have to create psn account via psvita ? to connected to pc?
thank you wololo, i appreciate your input. Good luck with everything HBL!
Some WindowsXP couldn’t install OpenCMAr3…
Wololo, are you able to contact to Virtuous Flame about this issue?
I’ll try to see if I can contact him. The same people had no problem with r2?
Thank you.
Maybe, CMAWatcher.exe doesn’t work after installing r3 or r2.
You are such a *** seriously …
What a dumb comment!
And you think by posting these kind of things you will encourage them to hack it faster ?
Poor you, you really don’t get it.
Anyway, i don’t even want to waste my time trying to explain you…
T.
Wololo,
any chance on porting it to MacOS system ?
There is not even an official application from SONY, so mac users are stuck.
Thanks in advance for your answer.
T.
mac user’s aren’t really stuck, we just don’t get native support, if have have bootcamp or a virtual machine of some sore (there are several), or maybe even wine (though i doubt it runs properly in wine)
What do you exactly mean by WE? On my part I am willing to pay money for *** sony console games. Playing them for free is like telling the studios we the fans of some series don’t value the hard work they had to put into such a game! Would you work for free? I know what you are going to say “ohhh but those are only games, it does not hurt to play games for free” Stop being an idiot! If you don’t pay for games, studios won’t get paid and if studios don’t get paid…bye video game industry. I said once, one thing is hacking the PSP in order to screw sony up, but another very different thing is to have it hacked to screw up the studios and developers.
@Wololo and all the devs, I might be asking for much on this one, but please try your best to keep the scene free from piracy enablers. we all know that the ISO loaders on the PSP did not mean to be used for piracy, but still there were users who misused the knowledge you guys kindly gave us, they used it against the scene, they used it in a way it was not supposed to. Please if there is a way to hack the VITA, so it can run homebrew and cool stuff, but without enabling it to run OFFICIAL games for free or falling into piracy, then I hope you guys can find it. Long life to the PSP scene, long life to the VITA scene, Homebrew without Piracy!…
Sorry I got a little emotional, je je je. Anyhow thank you to all the devs.
Guardian, this is unfortunately impossible. I was never personally involved in iso loaders, but I *know* that some people’s goal on the vita is to make those possible. There are many hackers with lots of various goals in the scene, some of these hackers’ goal is to run backups. What happens when the scene fights very hard to keep pirates far away is the following: 1) Sony sues the wrong guy 2) Some punks start selling a DRMed dongle that not only allows piracy, but also requires people to pay for it. (see the True Blue scam on the PS3).
In other words, if the scene is not where piracy comes from, it’s even worse because eventually piracy still becomes possible, with a bunch of *** making money out of it.
What I can tell you is that I personally will never work on an iso loader because I have absolutely no interest in it, and I probably don’t have the skills. But with the True Blue dongle I’ve seen the truth: there’s worse than hackers enabling piracy.
Oh I see, Damm! I am sorry if I offended you or anybody, I did not mean to say the hackers were the sourcer of piracy. It is just that this situation enrages me as much as it enrages you, I think. Well it is true, I saw the same Blue thingy you just said and I was horrified. I mean, enabling piracy is one heck horrible thing, but profiting from it? Well, I hope things change for the better someday. Probably what december 2012 is about Sony stop thinking in money and start thinking more about their users. Anyway, I am a big fan of your work! I was present on the Hot Shots Golf exploit…ah good times!
Absolutely no offense taken 🙂 I personally don’t care about piracy, I think there’s lots of hypocrisy around it, and I understand that some people pirate, but I also understand that some people simply hate it.
When I was a kid, most of my games were pirated and I didn’t understand that people actually bought games. Now that I think of me as a highschool kid playing hundreds of dollars’ worth of game for free, I feel absolutely no shame. I had enough money every month to buy either one game or 5 comic books, I chose the comic books, and pirated the games. In the end, the entertainment industry got all my money anyways, it’s not like I was saving anything, it was either play the game for free or not play the game at all, so no difference for them. The few times I actually bought games, it usually felt like a ripoff (my first game was ghostbusters on the atari 2600, cost me 3 months of allowance for the shittiest game ever). The only good game I bought when I was a kid was Command & Conquer, the rest was a series of ripoffs. Being a kid doesn’t mean we are stupid. After you paid months of allowance for several *** games, piracy becomes the best way to not get scammed.
Nowadays it’s the other way around for me, and that’s how I live fine with my conscience: I buy lots of games, and never play them because I don’t have time.
In an ideal world, people who have money should pay (more) for games, and people who don’t have money shouldn’t have to pay for games or culture in general. Of course this is a utopia, but by buying games I never play, I feel I’m paying the share of some kid who pirates game because they have better stuff to do with their money. That kid was me 15 years ago.
@ Wololo, (sorry for the long answer and I hope I made my point clear, I am tired from working and nearly falling sleep as I write)
that was very touching… I am crying… ok no, I am not crying, but com to think of it, I agree with what you said. I mean no one wants to pay a huge load of money to play a shi**y games. Yet, there are those games that are awesome, those games in which you can see that all of those who worked on it did it not because they were interested in selling it or because for the best interests of sony, you can see they did those games for the passion of telling the story, or probably the enjoyment of designing alavel or a character, the wish to share that particular story to the world, to make those characters and see how they become immortal and the happiness to see their hard work and sacrifices finally paid off.
I think all those people who are in the industry because they love to tell stories or designing or the whole process of video game programming deserve something back.
Think about cave story, I bet that PIXEL never thought that his hours of work and programming would finally pay off. Not only the success of the game itself, but also the porting into the nintendo consoles. Cave Story is one of those games you can’t just forget, and I think all the sacrifices PIXEL probably had to do in order to have the game done and running should be rewarded somehow.
I see piracy as stealing something, think of Wagic, I bet you want Wagic to succeed and become as great as cave story, don’t you? Even though I am not fan of card games, I can see the potential of your game, (seriously I hope you manage to solve all the possible legal implications and be able to make an official Wagic release someday) I think if you succeed with that game you deserve something back too! and it is not only the credit I am talking about.
All that I mean is, when you pay for a game you really like, you are telling those who created it that you are there to support them, that you like their work, many times you see that people call Wagic a great game and things like that, but how many of them do you thing really mean that? That is why I pay for my games, it is my way to tell them I liked their work, that I want more things coming from them. That is something that unfortunately you can’t do only with words.
nut anyhow that is just me. I hope HBL to be alive for long time!
srew this sony make hard with this stupid program cma program just because of this i cant put music and movie on my psvita because it need psn acount
this patch doesnt work with my CMA on windows 7… i open the r3 folder and drag the contents to the sony folder, then i make sure CMA is not running, and run the Batch file, command prompt opens up and says “error couldnt back up CMANPlib.dll” “error couldnt install CMANPlib.dll”
more errors at the top of the command list that im to lazy to type down, what now
Be sure to run in admin mode on windows 7
thanks
Sony’s driver? Why the heel do you need a driver to transfer content to a device? I touhgt it was a server that only affected the system when loaded.
I hate all this *** that you need to install drivers and services just for transfering content to a device 🙁
And now sony goes further, you even require Internet Conection, what a Same.
And regarding the True Blue Dongle, it’s posible because of the exploits Geohot, CCC, and others hackers found, isn’t it ?
Anyway, if we can blame someone for the piracy in the PS3 is Sony, before removing OtherOS, many hackers weren’t interesred in hacking it.
If there is anyone to blame it sure is the hackers (and pirates of course). Just because something is vulnerable to being miss-used, does not mean it should be.
is awesome in my PS VITA
any idea Virtuous Flame making new cma ??? for window xp??? or patch for psvita doesnt use any psn account when connected on pc and ps3?
PSVita 3G/Wi-fi FW 1.06 8gb Bundle. CMA 1.10.4086.63
I’m unable to get this to work. Every time I try it. It tells me to update.
Things I’ve tried that didn’t work:
1.) Downloading the xml file and replacing it.
2.) Disconnecting the Internet then installing running run.bat
3.) Hard reboot. Holding power for 20Secs
I’ve done others but forgot. If someone has an older version CMA. Please post it.
Thanks,
Is there a way I can get opencma to work on Ubuntu?
For now, no, but some people are working on Linux access to the memory stick. I don’t know if it will lead to anything though.
I updated my Vita sistem to 1.67, is It the reason why the patch for content manager doesn’t work? because I’ve tried everything.
Is there anyway to get this working on a Vita that cannot update? In the community in which I live there is no broadband infrastructure, so I am still on the original 1.06 firmware… I have no way to connect my Vita to a PSN account, and no way to (safely) update over a dial up connection… I already bricked one Vita trying to do so over official CMA.
I don’t want to pirate or anything else, I just want to be able to use my gosh darned piece of hardware which I paid for in a manner that SHOULD be allowed!
So, does anyone know of anyway I can get this to work, or an alternative so I can just transfer some music over to my Vita?
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