How to: access a banned PSN Account on PS Vita
Note from Wololo: This tutorial on how to access a banned PSN Account on your PS Vita was initially published by /Talk member frostvi3n, as part of our monthly tutorial contest. Frostvi3n won the February/March tutorial contest for the PS Vita (a $10 PSN code) with this entry. You can find the original post here.
Hey Guyz this is my first tut!
So basically I have a banned psn account and a primary one, I’ve bought some games on my banned account but now if I want to switch back to my new account I would lose everything and I cant get back to them. And I want to play some new games of course… so how can I have them together… well here is how to ( confirmed working here )
Make your Vita alive again!
- Before you go and destroy your vita and everything, make a backup of your act.dat file
- After you dumped your activation data, on your banned account you need to make your vita memory card be able to work with your other account, so you need to use this step. Also for backup of these files check this post.
- now that your vita memory card is free and you have a dump of these files
(email:send?attach=vd0:registry/system.dreg.
email:send?attach=vd0:registry/system.ireg.
email:send?attach=ux0:id.dat.
email:send?attach=tm0:npdrm/act.dat ),
you will need to restore your PS Vita system - pull out vita memory card ( just in case ), go to vita safe mode and do a system restore, after that login with your new or primary PSN account
- now get your email ready for the eml trick and dump your new PSN account act.dat file
- now simply plug your memory card back in it again ( it wont format but asks you to restart )
- now for playing your banned account games , simply put back your old act.dat using this guide
- then restart ( now you have access to your old games and your new games in the same vita card, but be warned that for playing the other account you have to restore that account act.dat file and give a restart to ps vita )
THIS LINKS CONFIRMS that it is working.
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I’m gonna try this on old Main PSN account that was banned years ago. Thanks for this.
Wow 😀 i reallly didnt know that it will become a post in wololo website 😀 thanks everyone 😀
Ok, so i have a banned account that was banned in PS3 (not psvita), is this any useful for me?
I already formatted the mem card that i used this account with, long time ago, but i still have the ps3 account intact.
well the thing is that it uses the act.dat from vita and i think it is different from PS3 system , but u can give it a try , but it might get corrupted 😀
It’s far more useful for quick and painless PSN account/region switching or backing up and restoring Vita activation state without the need to use a PS3.
It’s also missing the crucial requirement of a Vita being on firmware 3.52 or older.
Yup , u can use it to switch accs really easily , since my account got banned , and i didint had money to buy those games again but also i wanted to get new games and not loosing my old games again 😀 i tried this way. but yes the requirment is to be on 3.52 and lower due to EML trick
Does act.dat contain activation data for PS Mobile? Because then this’d allow me to switch accounts without losing that activation.
But if I read correctly, it still requires you to format your PS Vita’s internal memory. That means I’d lose my PS Mobile activation data. 🙁
the title is a bit misleading don’t you think? this gives directions on how to access already downloaded content that is related banned account, it doesn’t give access to the banned account
This is how you get around the eventual loss of your PSP games, too.
You can just backup your license files and ACT.DAT, and if you have the EBOOTs, it’s all copy-paste from your computer.