RELEASE: Open CMA 1.80
We knew it was awful when firmware 1.80 rolled out disabling Open CMA. Everyone hard at work has made a new patch to fix all the problem and it works!
This release has some new features as well as some bugs but it’s working. To use this you MUST have the official CMA already uninstalled.
You can download the patch here. All credit goes to Virtuous Flame for his new version and special thanks to chesethief and ind3x-gosu from the forums with helping me on this.
How to install
The following tutorial by me and is also included in the download with more details and troubleshooting (just follow Jd8531’s tutorial text file).
- Download the patch and extract the files to your desktop
- Run “CMASetup”
- After installation open the folder openCMA_vita_180 and copy everything to where the official CMA is installed at —>(C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony\Content Manager Assistant).
- Run (<–DOUBLE CLICK)the “set.dll” file (run everything as administrator)
- Then Run the batch file named “run”
- It should load everything within the window and it’ll install CMAWatcher and CMADownloader in that same folder.
- Run “CMAWatcher”, it should open and close quickly (you might not even seen it open)
- After that let it rebuild the database if needed
- You are all done!
I was able to successfully copy psone, psp game saves ect without internet on either the PC or VITA with no error. Sorry mac users this is so far windows only and something is in the works. You can find the /talkforums thread here, and enjoy a youtube video showing it working below:
Other files related to VHBL, etc… still need to be tested but this is still good news for everyone who uses open CMA regularly. If you are having errors you can try replacing the psp2-updatelist.xml with these specific ones or the second set of steps in the Tutorial:
- Japan: http://www.mediafire.com/?8v8kf91h5kjx2nr.
- US version :http://fus01.psp2.update.playstation.net/update/psp2/list/us/psp2-updatelist.xml
- EU: http://www.mediafire.com/?x8epwbv6l25amq6
EDIT: All the errors seem to be related to the psp2-updatelist.xml file, so just replace that with one of these below corresponding to your appropriate region:
US: http://www.mediafire.com/?8v8kf91h5kjx2nr
UK: http://www.mediafire.com/?gwyky82s2jwlfy5
EU: http://www.mediafire.com/?x8epwbv6l25amq6
JP: http://www.mediafire.com/?8v8kf91h5kjx2nr
AU: http://www.mediafire.com/?gna6fs6f9f9o41j
SA: http://www.mediafire.com/?8hfohuwhc1wsho6
Download
Download openCMA r4 here
I had the error, but i fixed it by editing the xml. I simply changed the region and two lines from “jp” to “us”
Working fine now. Thanks and keep up the AWESOME work.
Can I use your method without harming my device?
OMG! Thank you! Just changed the region from “jp” to “us” and that did the trick. Had gotten the same error like 10 times.
Is there a specific xml file for region 6/HK? Can’t seem to make my OpenCMA work. 🙁
Region 3 I mean.
Really sorry guys… I’ve tried to install OpenCMA 1.80 Eur bundle 5 times… and each time i follow the tutorial that comes with it, and I still get an error when i connect my Vita 1.80. I have it on Flight mode. The only way i can get it to connect without error is to turn wifi on, on the Vita.
Any ideas/clues/hints please?????
HELP! 6 times installing, uninstalling, trying again and again and again. I keep on getting errors when i try with opencma. what am i doing wrong? the trouble shoot steps aren’t working either.
thanks!!!
can some one share a game with me so i i dont need to buy it
I cant download The CMA always says Error
It’s working on me in Windows 7, with wifi turned off on the Vita and PC. I was able to copy several vita/psp games over, and restore them back onto my vita after disconnecting/restarting CMA.
I did have to manually update the psp2-updatelist.xml file from the links above, and reboot my vita to get around the error code I was getting.
Thanks to everyone involved in putting this together!!!
got it working by using the install instructions and editing the .xml file (“jp” to “us”) now where do I place the PS1 and PSP files so they show up to the content manager? and what file format should they be in (iso, cso, eboot.pbp, ect.) directory structure?
where ever you have it set up to show them Right click the CMA icon in the taskbar then go to settings it will show you. The files have to be ones that you have bought from psn you cant copy any psone games you download off the internet.
I keep getting error (E-80182014) I can’t connect to CMA. How do you manually update the psp2-updatelist.xml?
Mine says JP in region ID eventhough I have a U.S vita account
just replace it with this ^_^
US: http://www.mediafire.com/?8v8kf91h5kjx2nr
That’s the solution to E-80182014 error.
Just rt-click on it and select edit then change it and save it.
am i the only one who doest have this problem?
what is that?
Thanks a bunch.
Thanks for the fixed psp2-updatelist.file works now! 🙂
Mhh I uninstalled old CMA completly, then I installed Open CMA step by step as the readme shows. But when I run CMA after that, the program “hangs” and nothing happening, no error, just 100% CPU usage and no reaction, so that I have to kill the CMA process with the task manager. I am running XP SP3. The only special thing: After starting run.bat a error in the console appears, that the kill command to kill cma processes doesn’t work. (So I kill cma.exe and other cma processes with task manager, before I start run.bat) But anyway – CMA just freezes after start. Any ideas ?
try the new update on the blog i posted
Thank you. I tried the new update, but same problem. I will try now on my office notebook, then I will see if I am doing something wrong, or if it’s a problem with my system. But anyway, new VHBL is already working on my vita, I had no problems with the official cma. (But anyway, I will continue to try install the open cma)
Moi aussi même problême! j’comprends pas.
yay 🙂 it worked
do i have to uninstall the original?
ppppfff nevermind, didnt read the whole thing lol
do you have to uninstall it from the vita? if so how???
go the new post on the blog, there’s an update
you dont
mmmm. I don’t know , but once again my PSV says error.
go the new post on the blog, there’s an update
I just want to say thanks to the devs. awesome work all around. I read all posts and I am seeing people with error problems. I am not getting and error. What I am getting is can not connect to pc problem. I am going in circles because I can not figure out what I am doing wrong. I even updated the xml file and tried different ones and restarted the vita.
update I noticed that when I run.bat it will shut down my cma. is that normal cause after that I run cmawatchers.exe and thats when vita says can not connect to pc.
third post please dont hate me. after i install everything and run cmawatcher.exe… I then ran cma.exe and it opened up and I ran rebuild database now it works. so those of you that have the same problem that I was having try what I just wrote and I hope it helps you.
I just get something rare, I have two Vitas, 1 for me and 1 for my little one kid, mine go perfectlywith open cma, but the one for my kid dos´n error 81014, (in win XP service pack 3) number error something like it, but install the same open cma in a diferent computer (win 7) and runs without error inclusive my vita runs open cma content in rhe win7 whit no errors but my little one´s do not in xp
strange isn´t?
enyway there´s no problem only have to run the 2 vitas in a diferent computer ich
tanx 4 the update
cheers
i need internet to install open cma?
and can i play games on vhbl or its just only the homebrew games if yes quake 3 have playable fps(30+)
i have done everything you have told me to do to install and when i try to copy something to the ps vita it doesnt copy
i mean i have installed everything and i can get into the cma but when i try to put the homebrews i want in my ps vita it finishes copying but it didnt copy anything
everything has worked, but out of nothing the content manager assistant asks me to update the system software in order to proceed.. What shall i do?
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