New vita exploit finally adds support for newest firmware

Shinriji · February 28, 2019, 8:15pm

My release launch date 64GB is working like a champ after all those years.

asmith906 · February 28, 2019, 8:51pm

Those memory cards were always kind of garbage. Copying things to them took a stupidly long amount of time. I still have no regrets with buying the 32gb card at launch. I hated switching memory cards with the psp.

raskulous · May 25, 2019, 4:31pm

Just an update on this, I just successfully hacked my Vita running the latest firmware 3.70! It’s nothing like the hack shown in the original post of this thread, but it’s still not a difficult process.

The hack is called Trinity, and it’s by a person named TheFlow.

Here’s the page that describes how to do it:

github.com

TheOfficialFloW/Trinity/blob/master/README.md

# Trinity

*Trinity* is the third public jailbreak for the *PS Vita™*, which supports the latest firmwares 3.69 and 3.70. The exploit chain consists of three stages: the MIPS Kernel Exploit, the PSP Emulator Escape and the ARM Kernel Exploit.

## Write-up

A technical explanation of the *Trinity* exploit chain is available [here](<https://theofficialflow.github.io/2019/06/18/trinity.html>).

## Requirements

- Your device must be on firmware 3.69 or 3.70. If you're on a lower firmware, please use [h-encore](<https://github.com/TheOfficialFloW/h-encore>) instead.
- If your device is a phat OLED model, you need a Memory Card in order to install. There's no need for a Memory Card on Slim/PS TV models, since they already provide an Internal Storage.
- Your device must be able to access the PlayStation Store.
- If your device region is mainland China (model PCH-2009) then this exploit may not be available for you, since this model is region locked to only accept mainland China PSN accounts to login and can only access mainland China PS Store, which doesn't contain any PSP games at all.

## Preparation

If you have already done the preparation, you can skip this part and go to the `Installation` section.

1. If you're on firmware 3.69, you have two options:

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And a YouTube video that runs through the same process in case you get stuck:

And finally a photo of my vita on 3.70, running VitaShell.

apathetic · May 25, 2019, 5:13pm

Vita means life!

Has switch taken over as peoples mobile emulator?

raskulous · May 25, 2019, 5:17pm

I think for a lot of people, for sure. For now, I’m keeping my switch stock.

apathetic · May 25, 2019, 5:35pm

Guess I should look into it either way even if I’m doing the same. Got a launch model but have been keeping the firmware updated so don’t even know if I’m locked out of doing stuff to it, but gonna keep it stock till a new one comes I think.

matt · July 7, 2021, 8:05am

Just picked up a Vita, again. This makes it my fourth over time! All sold after a while.

Goal is to use it for emulation, plus the odd retail/download game I’ve bookmarked since my last Vita.

Any recommendations as to the best setup?

(I’ve only added hencore2 + VitaShell so far.)

Shinriji · July 7, 2021, 11:44am

Don’t know what firmware you’re on, but install vitadeploy

So you can easily downgrade to 3.65 and install enso. After that, you should install the recommended plugins like Itls 2.0, nondpdrm, repatch, shellbat, psvshell, vitagrafix and 0syscall6.

matt · July 7, 2021, 3:48pm

Just done VitaDeploy 3.65+enso — cheers!

Not able to FTP connect for some reason to add the plugins. One for another day.

I also have an SD2Vita with 64GB MicroSD plus an original 16GB Vita memory card. Need to look into what to do there.

Shinriji · July 7, 2021, 4:29pm

Best way is to connect via vitashell and download stuff via USB, sometimes have issues when FTPing.

matt · July 7, 2021, 5:48pm

Sweet! That works well.

Cheers

IrishNinja · September 20, 2023, 1:33pm

pardon the bump, but i need some help here y’all

so i used this guide to jailbreak my playstation tv, and it worked great - only thing i noticed is, whenever i reset the device, it stays with the kenkaku or whatever settings, but the date & time need to be reset, and any apps i installed (vitashell etc) seem to be gone

so i use his his next guide and with the this micro SD and an sd2vita adapter, i get it all set up…only, i’m not sure where to put the actual ISO/game files ive backed up, i go to uma0 and the games directory, but it doesn’t find shit on the actual device. sometimes it says no memory card, despite configuring it exactly like the tutorials said…and again, still no apps or date/time upon reset showing. any ideas what i’m doing wrong here?

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