ePSP bubble installer – GekiHEN contest – ARK/Adrenaline without a PSP game
Developer ‘CelesteBlue’ has created a homebrew that installs an ePSP bubble on your PSVita easily and WITHOUT a PSP game so you can install ARK/Adrenaline on it. This, of course, saves you the hassle of having to borrow a PS3 or do the risky IDU mode method if you have a PSP. It’s important to mention that your Vita must be ACTIVATED prior to using ePSP bubble installer.
What’s this homebrew?
Pretty simple actually. It’s a homebrew with which you can install an ePSP bubble and then you just install ARK/Adrenaline normally! For those that don’t know, ARK/Adrenaline are hacks for the PSVita that allow you to play all PSP games and homebrew. They were developed by “qwikrazor87” and “TheFlow” respectively. ARK can run on your Vita without installing taiHEN after a reboot and works on 3.61/3 if you got it on there. You can use it to save space too as it only takes up about 4MB while some PSP games/demos take 100s of MBs.
ePSP bubble installer
What do you need to do this:
- A taiHEN enabled PSVita on 3.60 (duh)
- The VPK installed on your Vita (it’s unsafe of course)
- 20MB free space on your PSVita
- An activated PSVita
It’s pretty straightforward as you can see but you still NEED an ACTIVATED PSVita as of now.
Download Link and what to expect next:
The download is off GekiHEN’s website by pressing the VPK file download button. Make sure you get it from GekiHEN’s link as unsafe homebrew might be malware from the wrong hands. The developer of ePSP bubble creator has in the readme hinted that he may release a tool soon to let you attach your Vita to a PSN account and maybe activate it.
The best to thank the dev, as per the readme, is by contributing to the Vita community so do just that 🙂 Stay tuned!
GekiHEN link: http://gekihen.customprotocol.com/en/project/ePSP-Bubble-Installer
Adrenaline link + instructions:
https://gist.github.com/TheOfficialFloW/0ed4e09e2d447e631416cb84d7c43107
ARK link + instructions: https://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=47678
Very nice. Thank you CelesteBlue!
hahahahah totally this app is useless becos if you extract the vpk file you will see (File1.zip and File2.zip) and if you extract them and copy file zip 1 0000001 folder to ux0:/bgdl and paste there and file zip 2 0000001 folder to ux0:pspemu/bgdl and paste it and now let restart your ps vita and it working too 100% hahahahhahahah tolally epsp vpk is useless just extract file and copy file make it so long .
that’s why it’s called an installer, kudos to you for reverse engineering a vpk davinci (cough)
i wonder if thats why he said “thanks to SilicaAndPina” because my pkg installer 2.0 did the exact same thing.
Also he didnt reverse engineer anything he looked at the src code thats available in the index.lua
Darn it. Just yesterday I had to went through the trouble of installing IDU mode/ package installer.
nice! gracias thank you very much. i hope now for a tool to activate my vita so i can die in peace
but if i’m on 3.60 i can’t activate it, right?
Unless you have a PS3, you can’t. CelesteBlue hinted at an activation utility they may release release tho
i have ps3 with current official firmware, what should i do to activate 3.60 vita?
See http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?t=40302
Sorry, that was for Vita TV. Check out http://hackinformer.com/2015/10/29/tutorial-activate-vitaplaystation-tv-lower-firmware/
Error co 9252 8 and it,s not install adenaline …
everything is explained, but not what an ACTIVATED vita is!
sigh sigh sigh sigh its a taihen enabled psvita sigh sigh
Look it up on Google.. Activation allows you to purchased (even free) apps from PSN mostly
^ Only some free PSN Games require activation though those that are DRMFree do not.
its kinda just hit or miss on if free content will be DRMFREE
however paid content is never DRMFREE
Any way to activate now? I bought a new motherboard to install henkaku yet i cant go into psn.
Nope but the developer hinted he may come up with a tool to do it soon
Silica had a hand in this? I could have helped you guys!! Let me know next time!!!! ;D
I don’t know what they did, sorry. I’d suggest you help out the community as that’s the best way you can help us all out 🙂
I barely did anything.
pretty much just explained how ux0:pspemu/bgdl and ux0:bgdl worked
and how you could use it to trick the vita into thinking that a download had just completed.
i had no idea this was even being developed he told me he was making something with it but didnt really know what it was.
that was all i did
i didnt help with activation (i have no idea how this works. tbh)
finding that sony completely failed at licence.rif
or anything else.
im only there because i explained how to fake downloads.
also he probably got ideas from my newer versions of pkg installer 2 (version 4 or whatever)
that had a feature for installing PSP stuff but it wouldnt run because i didnt know it was so easy to make the vita think licence.rif is valid.
also. hey its ICanHazMuffin47 your the one who allways comments on my youtube!
hiii
What is ACTIVATED Vita ? I don’t know what it means.
if you managed to get here to type your message then you are capable of using google.
is it me or is your site messed up. everything is squished! Thats on both my windows laptop and my macbook.
Any chance we can activate without a PS3?
Nopes, not yet at least. Dev of this homebrew hinted at making it possible tho soon
Thanks sweetheart.
good things come to those who wait. keep up the good work people and always thank you for your time and service
I can’t get it to work every time it reboots I get hello from celesteblue and then could not install?
Aurora, are you aware of this?
http://wololo.net/2016/08/20/release-vita-activator-activate-3-60-ps-vita-without-ps3/
can’t use this method since psn spoofing stopped working iirc
Can I use this to make my 3.60 vita get ark, then back it up and take that backup and put it in a 3.63 vita for ark?
maybe? i dont know. it could work but it also couldnt.. — due to failRIF
This will win the GekiHEN competition. For sure.
So Basically we can play PS1 games with ark ? so i guess it is now possible on taihen with this method (instead of retroarch)
hahahahah totally this app is useless becos if you extract the vpk file you will see (File1.zip and File2.zip) and if you extract them and copy file zip 1 0000001 folder to ux0:/bgdl and paste there and file zip 2 0000001 folder to ux0:pspemu/bgdl and paste it and now let restart your ps vita and it working too 100% hahahahhahahah tolally epsp vpk is useless just extract file and copy file make it so long .
Im surprised you got it to work without FailRIF…
but also your right its soo much easier to
extract 1 zip file
then extract 2 more zip files into the right place
then reboot the system
than just to
copy 1 file to your vita
install the vpk
run it..
better just extract 2 of zip folder you will see the fold call (0000001 and 00000001 ) copy one to ux0:/ bgdl and copy orther one to ux0:/pspemu/bgdl and it work fine hahahah useless epsp vpk
Congrats. you worked out how to do a trick that has been known for over a year
good job!
also what bout FailRIF.
if you just do that i dont think it would work
it would ask you to download it again beause invalid rif
I don’t know if that’s the case for all of Europe, or only Germany, but the only free Vita-compatible PSP demo available here is Ape Quest: Starter pack. And that one is about 200MB. So this is a great thing!
Great !! I had success to install .
In asia server we dont have any free demo about psp game.
This is fantastic. Oh my god. Oh how I’ve waited!!!
I have yet to install either ARK or Adrenaline, despite having installed a PSP game in case I wanted to do either. Even with the guide posted to this website, I can’t figure out which one is better/ which one is more worthwhile to use. I just don’t know. Maybe you guys can tell me which you prefer and why?
Nice this installed a very small size mini on my Vita. I used AdrenalineEasyinstaller on my already activated vita and it’s now working. No need to transfer from a Ps3, Thanks!
Amazing work, now that i tested adrenaline, its the best thing ever, this thing expand the ps vita library to the psp one , with emulators and homebrews, i just cant think of a rough number of game we can play on the ultimate machine, may be like 200 000 titles? nes , snes , genesis, gb, gbc, gba…
more over i got pspdisp to work on my vita u guys should try it its the best pc controller over wifi and with a bit of tweaks the best wireless controller too.
thanks for your work! however does this minis bubble still have ram limitations? cause AFAIK sony limits the ram on minis
No. because once you drop a pboot.pbp onto it (from either ark, vhbl or adrenaline) its not a mini anymore
Am I supposed to install the ePSP installer through molecularShell? When I do, the bar that records your progress in installing the vpk is always stuck at 0%.
I tried using this method https://www.reddit.com/r/vitahacks/comments/5t5fhe/for_those_not_able_to_activate_using_the_epsp_20/
which i’m pretty sure it works because I CAN go on the settings and activate it.. but I don’t have a PSP base to install ark and when I try to install the ePSP bubble it’s just stuck at zero, maybe i’m doing something wrong..? (also when I click circle to cancel the installation through the molecularShell, it freezes and i’m forced to reboot my ps vita….
Also I don’t know if https://www.reddit.com/r/vitahacks/comments/5t5fhe/for_those_not_able_to_activate_using_the_epsp_20/ is safe can someone tell me if it is?
use vitashell instead, download ver 1.61 straight from https://github.com/TheOfficialFloW/VitaShell/releases
This works alot better than molec
Waiting for ps2 ps3 game support.. And usb flash drive read for vita..Tnks a lot henkaku.