Release: VitaCID (get your PS Vita Console ID)
Hacker Major_Tom just released VitaCID, a tools that gives you access to your Vita Console ID (the equivalent of PS3’s IDPS).
What is VitaCID?
VitaCID is a tool that runs on a HENkaku-enabled PS Vita (currently Vita firmware 3.60 only). It retrieves your Vita’s console ID and writes it in a file at the root of your Vita System (that you can later on retrieve for example via FTP).
Currently the tool is of little use for the vast majority of users, but it is expected that we’ll see “Console activation” homebrews released soon, that will let you activate a 3.60 Vita without having to update. Pretty useful for those of us who ended up with their hacked Vita deactivated, for any reason.
A sample activation script can be found on the vitadevwiki. People with the relevant skills should be able to turn this into a self contained homebrew fairly soon 🙂
Download VitaCID
You can download VitaCID from the developer’s github here.
To install & run, please note that you will need to have a PS Vita running firmware 3.60 with the HENkaku hack. To install HENkaku, please check our PS Vita CFW page.
Looking for more? We have a full list of Emulators for the PS Vita, an up to date list of Homebrews for the PS Vita, and an All in one guide for Vita 3.60 describing everything you can do with your hacked PS Vita.
Source: MajorTom
Wonderful news! Keep it up, scene!
So we can create a community account and share it
WOooooooW 😀
Great job! I hope one day we will not only automatically generate act.dat but also inject our NP Account ID into registry (and every other place where is present). I really want bind my VitaTV with existing SEN account but without connecting to their network (BTW: I have already read it on PS3) and accepting new license… Why? Because it’s important to me to be a one and the same owner for all content. I believe I am not the one who dream about such stuff. 😉
Please someone should work on the mobile network unlocker for the 3G versions
good news, everyday
yeah but the hykem news is depressing, no? 🙂
Interesting, so this activation still requires internet connection thus still is using up an activation slot. It’s just a way to activate through Sony’s servers without using the official method.
Does this mean we could use our PS Vita CID on a banned PS3 console? 🙂
Bad idea for now, since we have no knowledge of how to replace cid on ps vita if it gets banned. It’s hard enough as it is on ps3 to permanently change cids( you need eid root key to write to EID 0 on ps3)
That’s a genuinely imsipesrve answer.
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Doesn’t this mean that the cobra fin is useless now because people could just do what they do to ps4 consoles and add a bunch of games onto the memory card and trick the system into being activated under that person’s profile but as far as the PSN knows that system is not activated for that account?
Yes, but it was already done since we can get the IDPS from the PSP emulator (ARK or TN-V)…
And since we can write to the entire memorycard from the mailFail trick…
Ahah ! This was hidden by some famous devs that doesn’t want piracy !
f**********k i ended up with deactivated psvita and i dont have ps3
now iam playing only nes games on that ***
finley some light i see coming from this dark cave
i dont want to use it in any hack things, but to only use it with my f****k 120$ psn account games
From what I understand the act file is still provided by sony’s servers. I doubt they’ll keep providing these data without making ajustements to block unlegitimate requests.
Is that all it does? You could find your console ID through ePSP homebrew iirc. Which means even VHBL should be able to.
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Use that brain which god gave you and you will soon find out the meaning! 😀
You’re missing the point. This is to help people who don’t have an activated Vita so they can actually get the homebrews you mention ONTO the system to begin with.
yep we could identify someone with that
GOOD NEWS for the ones who used ACCOUNTSWITCHER, this will be a very useful one if the devs can make console activator app keep up the good work!
so I have a banned Ps vita ( System banned not account banned) on fw 3.60. Could I use this to activate the Vita?
Don’t think so, because its IDPS is banned and the script queries PSN servers to generate act.dat for a given IDPS.
This is only needed to avoid the requirement to use a PS3 in order to activate a Vita or PS TV which doesn’t have an act.dat file (anymore). Registry settings can be fixed by entering PSN account credentials on first time setup screen after doing a system format (restore).
No, that you need is the Vita-activator vpk…
for what? I need this i don’t understand please can someone explain?
Wrong “IDPS”