Status of the PSM+ Beta: bugs and next steps
Hi people,
I mentioned that we’re doing a closed beta of PSM+. The people who have had the opportunity to try the mechanism have reported a few bugs, some of them critical.
Please keep in mind that the system in place requires some heavy synchronization between Major_Tom, YifanLu, Mr.Gas, and myself. We’re all extremely busy with real life (as far as I’m personally concerned, I’ve been waking up at 6am every morning for the past few weeks just so I can handle this release) so finding time to understand and fix the bugs, plus surfacing the bug fixes back to the server, is kind of a long process.
The following bugs have been reported:
- The first step of getting the psm+ license, in addition to letting you download a zip file, is supposed to send you an email. Several people have reported that they never got the email. This seems to be an encoding issue. Major_Tom will not have the time to look into this until tomorrow. People have had better luck using gmail as their email service, it seems. Again, this is a known issue and Major_Tom will look into it in the days to come.
- Some people have reported that psm+ doesn’t work for their specific version of the PSM Dev assistant. This should definitely work on 3.51 with PSM Dev Assistant 1.21, but I’m a bit unsure about other versions. Major_Tom has fixed a particular file (and it’s up on the server as of today), which should improve compatibility. Please keep in mind that Rejuvenate is not compatible with all versions of the PSM Dev assistant. Check the Rejuvenate readme!
Please understand that these bugs are delaying the beta: There’s no point in opening it up to more people if the system doesn’t work.
On the brighter side: Major_Tom has updated psm+ to work with the PSM Dev App for Unity. We are testing it and once I’m confident things are ok, I’ll surface it to the beta testers.
Here again, keep in mind that Rejuvenate, as of now, is not compatible with the PSM Unity. It needs to be ported, and YifanLu has made it clear that he won’t have the time for that. Other hackers, with more free time, need to step up.
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looking foward to it, great work guys
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Nice progress, waiting for invitation right now. The scene is ….. ALIVEE
Thank you for all of your hard work!
Sounds good! Thanks for the heads up, wololo. Great work man. 🙂
I’m a developer and if you need assistance lete know. I can help fix bugs andanage the release
Hi wololo, I just wanted to ask if you got my (offtopic) PM in /talk.
I see that you are currently busy, no hurry, I jsut want to asl if it’s possible what I wrote you.
Thx
So will this hack enable piracy ??
No, it does not. This enables native homebrew support. Who needs piracy anyway? Support the game devs, buy the games if you like them.
You know piracy is inevitable right? In order to not have piracy, Their shouldn’t be a hack to begin with.
It’s inevitable for a console I guess, but not with this hack (It’s only usermode, this does not have the privileges to enable piracy), and not anytime soon. The protection in the vita will probably only be cracked long after it dies – you under estimate how secure this console is…
I completely understand what you are saying, also I was talking in general not just the Vita, And I most diffidently know that this handheld is super secure. That is why for me, I don’t bother holding back on updating when their is a new update. I just like reading the latest hack news is all.
you do know that ‘piracy’ is one of the reason why japanese game dev did’nt translated their game to other language right?
Can’t have both right now
I have received the email to install unity for psm, but have not received any other email for the PSM licence. I use yahoo email. I can patiently wait. This takes alot of effort and work,
I am halfway there. Thanks.
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There will be no PSP game for you this time.
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Thanks for all your work
Cant wait and thanks for all the work
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Is it possible to download games on 3.36 ? update blocker is not working anymore 🙁 and exists pkg installer for 3.36?
Yes. You just need a PS3 with the same PSN name as your vita. Than you can transfer the games.
OK, so if we were able to get the PSM Dev Assistant for Unity, is that all we will need for now? Just one thing. I Updated it as informed in the Talk Forum, and it is Version 1.06
Yes, this is my understanding. Stay at FW 3.51 or below
OK great. Excellent news for those with problems attempting to get the App. It is also my understanding that everyone would also need a SDK Installed in order to Im guessing be able to compile or assemble or somehow authorize whatever PKGs or Apps that come down the line?
I haven’t tried the hack yet as my ip address has been banned due to ISP issues. But I was wondering if we could bypass the need to renew our key every day if we just keep putting our system time back to prevent the system day from carrying on to the next day ? Or better still by setting our system date to a year in the future before getting the key and then reverting back to the correct date, perhaps giving us a year before needing to renew our keys. Just a thought, probably not even possible .
Sadly wont be possible – the keys are a lot more complex than that. They don’t work based on the vitas local time.
We can only hope that we eventually get access to this trick ourselves, without having to go through wololo for it.. Would make it a lot easier, and depending on how exactly it works, you could potentially set it all up on localhost, completely offline. That way you could buy a cheap windows tablet, and have access to PSM+ and rejuvenate all offline, whereever you go.
Yeah I guessed it wouldn’t be so simple. I’m in a tricky situation where I use my mobile phone as an internet hotspot ( and therefore have a non static IP) and my phone provider (Three Ireland) is on the banned list for the forums, I haven’t been able to log on reliably since there was a security upgrade about 18months ago, so having a way to trigger the hack offline would be great. I’ve tried using proxies but those sometimes work, sometimes not so much lol. Guess I ll play the long game….
yeah agreed. Hopefully at one point we’ll have access to this without having to use wololo’s forum, but for now it seems the devs want to keep some of the steps behind the curtain so to speak.
I hope eventually this works for unity. I thought I put unity and psm assistant on my vita but I only see Unity on it. In my ps 3 download list it shows the psm assistant but not on my vita list.
hey wololo I found this http://pastebin.com/iGFQ9jfe
is it usefull for devs???????
Heh, email is hard.
Like, no, seriously way harder than it should be.
Can we re-define the standard to be modern, and reasonable instead conglomerate of plain text?
Like, heck, I dunno, JSON? I mean that still means binaries as base64… but it’s nice and defined. Or maybe something else. I send you email I ask for bucket to send my attachment, I push you my attachment. I mean it’s not like sending the recipient first even matters anymore, we all just take the email and say “We’ll do our best to deliver that” and either deliver it or drop it onto the floor. BTW spammers, you suck, this practice is all your fault.
No? We can’t make a new email standard. I’m a sad llama now…
This is why we can’t have nice things.
I’m going to go become a potato farmer now.
Есть кто из России посоны :)? Требуется сгенерить ключ под мой сид, потому что когда генерят за бугром то не работает.
In the article psm dev assistant mentioned version 1.21 should be read as 1.15 (keep bubble pressed and click information to get the real version of product). I failed finding the update pkg url over internet so far. I forgot i could try to write it down with charles proxy on while updating psm dev assistant, sorry all. Maybe update still work s thru vita blocker but dunno how long it will still work… (for 1.14 which is good for fw 3.18, it s secured and available on internet). A version set for installation thru eml trick exists, dunno which version it is (maybe 1.00)
hi guys im new to ps vita hacking scene, coming from Nintendo 3DS Gateway. is this PSM+ a cfw for the ps vita? is it the right time to buy the vita? the firmware requirement is 3.51 and below right?
Its not a CFW.
It enables people to deploy homebrews on vita and as far as i understand it you can also run them with it.
Still its more similar to the HBL (in case you knew that on the PSP) than to a CFW.
It will take some time for it to get stable and more usable
dont know much about sony consoles this will be my first. will the homebrew let me play iso games from other regions? (like japanese game i cant get here in aust) also do you think its worth to buy a ps vita now and just wait for psm+ to finish?
Kind of the same as ninjhax although it’s still in its early stages and not much has been released for it yet but hopes are high for the future.
i see now this makes a bit more sense to me thank you
Ninjhax rocks with pasta CFW GBA compatible 😉
there was a preowned vita v3.51 at my local store is that good?
At the moment you unfortunately can’t get the psm dev app needed for this hack, it was removed by sony. Possibly in the future there will be a way.
You can still get the PSM Unity app. This hack will only allow you to run homebrews. You won’t be able to play any iso games.
is this only for PS Vita 1000? or does it work with PS Vita 2000 aswell?
It works on both models.
thanks for replying. if i were to buy a console now, will i still be able to get this homebrew? people say the psm dev app is gone now
I’m out of the loop, but can anyone explain what the difference between PSM and this hack is? Does this hack give more access to the hardware than PSM did?
PSM and PSM+ are actually same. The only thing is that PSM+ doesn’t need key to run the hack.
So the hack give just as much access to the hardware like PSM have done for the last ~2 years or something?
Yeah
I see. Thanks for the info =)
Good job
About fix for eml, in last resort it will be always possible to have beta pages provoke download of an extra zip file having the 5 or 2 attachments inside, along with a program that recreate the eml files by uuencoding them, then just use babypopserver or similar). About difference between this hack and PSM, it’s simple : it’s a double hack : a) it extends psm forever because you get keys seeds licences etc from this site instead of sony servers b) it allows to run fast compiled code instead for the slow interpreted psm code (but the compiler, called a ‘toolchain’, is not finished yet and to document new legal api’s will some take time)
We will get this one in the bag. Wait for the bass drop before going nuts about why this isn’t used for piracy.
hi there, im a developer interested in making a few games or emus, im sure ill be able to help
email me filipef101 at sapo.pt
Nice try filipe :), but….
didnt get it, wololo sayd he could use help, i can
Really?
yes..
Tenho vita cortado com begins atualizei para 3.50 deste então estou meses esperando outro jogo esxploravel os q sairão eu perdi a oportunidade porque prá comprar o jogo eu teria que atualizar o vita então não foi possível . E oque me resta é esperar até descobrirem outro esplora jogo ⊙︿⊙ obrigado a todos.
Hey, does anyone want my *hopefully* working port of rejuvenate? I’ve made it so it works with PSM for Unity. I’m not sure if I’m doing this right, but I only patched the SETUP.bat. Anyone with more knowledge I would gladly give the files to so they can either finish the patch, or distribute it.
show your code
http://pastebin.com/AxuTk2jT
This is the SETUP.bat
so how do we go about getting the Unity Dev app
is there a way to obtain it when PSM+ gets released?
no worry about psm dev assistant for unity, all the .pkg have been secured and available on internet (xpGRO.. v1.00, upgrade PCSI00009..A0105.. v1.05 for fw3.15+, upgrade PCSI00009..A0106.. v1.06 for fw3.30+). when psm+ and rejuvenate are successfully adapted to run with psm dev assistant for unity (may take some time), a method using a .eml will be released in order to let you install it. just keep fw < 3.52 at all cost.
I am happy to have access to the beta, but not having a key is holding me back….
@zorak, if you have acces to beta pages, clicking ‘submit’ after you enter device id gives you the keys both in zip file and in 2 eml files. all you need is psm dev assistant 1.15 (can’t try yet with 1.14 but i will, can’t try others)
huh? You got access to the beta, right? Then why do you need key?
Lol XD
I have a question. I bought a ps tv recently in hopes of getting Unity on it, but how am I supposed to go about it? Do I need to activate it with my psn account first? How can I do so without updating? Any tips, links to a guide, or.. Anything really, will help.
in order to have vita apps on ps tv you will have to swap the storage card completely anyway between pstv and a psm+ compatible vita anyway, just try that now to see if you can skip the initial activation, but i guess it won’t work. here is the appropriate thread : http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?p=392540
about activating : http://wololo.net/2013/04/17/lower-ps-vita-firmwares-for-dummies/
this one more specific to pstv : http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?t=40302
that last link worked for my pstv fw 3.36, i could play game TxK without updating to 3.52
I have gotten to the step where I have to open attachments on the email App. Problem is I never set it up and it is refusing to accept my Gmail to sign on the email App on the live area screen?
beta page should allow to specify another mailbox now. another way is to right click save the eml file in mozilla thunderbird and serve it thru baby pop server or similar to your vita