When the initial version of VitaIdent was released, I did not think we would see many updates to it – bar the occasional bugfix update – but after a small hiatus from development of this tool the developer Joel16 (who I erroneously named by his wololo forum handle sauske_firekid in the original article, which was later ammended.) has returned with a pretty cool update to his homebrew application. This new version adds an alternate GUI-based version for people who don’t like the rough look that the lack of a GUI gives to applications and also adds new features like distinguishing between Vita models and hiding information that isn’t relevant to Vita TV users.

What is VitaIdent?

VitaIdent is a tool in the vein of tools such as 3DSident, PSPident and PS2ident that are really cool know-all tools about your console hardware. It will tell you all sorts of information about your console like firmware and model information, battery information to the most minute detail (including temperatures and voltage) and now even tells your own PSN information, along with CEX/DEX/IDU/Debug/Tool information. It is available in both with both a GUI-based and non-GUI versions.

Changelog for VitaIdent v0.3

– Now grabs username (PSN user id)
– Displays CEX/DEX/IDU/Debug/Tool info.
– Model identification (PS VITA/ PS TV).
– Hide certain info that isn’t relevant to VITA TV.
– Display accurate version under app information.

GUI:
– Fixed controls.
– Displays sub section titles.
– L/R trigger can be used to cycle through sub sections.

Instructions for VitaIdent GUI version

If you’re deciding to use the GUI version isntead, please download the VID000016.zip, and copy the folder VID000016 into your Vita’s ux0:/data/

Download VitaIdent

To download the latest version of VitaIdent just head on over to Joel16‘s release section on GitHub and download whichever version you prefer to use. You can leave the developer some feedback on his release thread over at the wololo forums.