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PS Vita can now be jailbroken with ease using the web browser on the device (No PC needed)

Jawmuncher

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View: https://twitter.com/RetroGameCorps/status/1612140145129689094?s=20&t=GwNLz8EAsJkfT_5U0turAQ


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hiq-ttpU6bU&feature=youtu.be

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guide.psp2.dev

enabling homebrews | guide

with this guide you will install the taiHEN framework along with a homebrew toolbox
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Thought this was pretty cool and well worth sharing as it'll allow many here who might've found the prior methods too complicated to perhaps try this out now.
It works on the latest firmware and makes the entire process of enabling the SD2Vita adapter far easier than it was in the past (SD2Vita allows you to use a microSD card for Vita storage). It's a rather nice surprise for vita fans in 2023. Hopefully, the age of the device is enough that Sony doesn't care about trying to patch this exploit (As it can be done on the latest firmware).

Some things you can do with a Jailbroken Vita

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar1_BJIjQsQ
 
Dest

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a jailbroken vita is a better console than the switch

do it
 
Issen

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Some fucking awesome and completely legal things you can do with a jailbroken vita:
- Use SD2Vita for a shitload of storage
- Keep games from different regions in the same storage and play them with the same user account
- Play all your PS Classics, regardless of region and regardless of whether or not they had official PS Vita compatibility
- Emulation!
 
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I assume this relies on the exploit TheFloW publicized a couple of weeks back after hinting at it for ages ?
 
Lukar

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This is rad. I saw that people managed to get the old mobile Dead Space and Mass Effect: Infiltrator running on VIta. I almost want to get one again just to try those out on it.

EDIT: lol, I see that was mentioned in the video in the OP
 
Rainer516

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Oh nice, I've had a second 1000 series vita sitting around. Can try this method out on that.
 
Roxas

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I need to buy an SD2Vita urgently, I jailbreaked mine ages ago but I didn't do much with it, specially since I already had Persona 3 and 4 on it, but if I do that I could get the fan translation of the Persona 2 PSP port, right?
 
Hoot

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SD2Vita is so fucking good. Having twice the usual space for half the price. Love that small console. Still the most comfortable handheld I ever played with
 
Dirtyshubb

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As others have said, a jailbroken Vita with SD2Vita is a fantastic device. I have a 256gb SD card with basically every game I bought and every single Vita game given away through PS Plus, and som PS1/PSP games.

As a bonus, if you get yourself a PSTV you can jailbreak that and then go between the Vita and PSTV like a switch.
 
Subnats

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Great to see modding a Vita getting even easier. Really need to pick up a new one at some point since my 1000's GPU looks to be dying.
 
Nolbertos

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I have 2 PSVita's, but I wanted to jailbreak mine. There was alot of Vita games that wish was available on Switch, plus the storage issue too. Will definitely crack my Vita soon now
 
vixolus

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You telling me i could've not bought some random ass Japanese game to trigger an exploit to jailbreak my launch vita 7 years ago and just waited for this
 
Zonic

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Issen said:
Some fucking awesome and completely legal things you can do with a jailbroken vita:
- Keep games from different regions in the same storage and play them with the same user account
- Play all your PS Classics, regardless of region and regardless of whether or not they had official PS Vita compatibility
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Oh damn, as someone who bought a ton of PS1 games off the Japanese PSN, this is super tempting. Is it as simple as signing in & downloading after jailbreaking it?
 
Powerwing

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I remember the discussions long time ago about how vita was "unhackable". To be fair it stayed a long time without a hack.

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Subnats

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jwk94 said:
If I hack my vita TV, would I be able to play any Vita game on it?
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Yeah you can. Once you've modded it you'll need to install this plugin to let every game boot up and you can install this one to get gyro working if it's required for any game (it's not exactly great feeling though). Not sure if there's anything that can be done for the Vita's camera, but iirc I don't think it's required for many games at all.
 
Atolm

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I didn't know SD2Vita now was able to use the game cart slot, I remember at first you had to solder a bit to add a slot yourself? This is a total game changer, I have a 128GB sd somewhere, gonna buy the adapter.
 
heehofiend

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Wanted a Vita for a while and finally got a PSTV over the Summer of last year. Love the device. Once I pick up the rest of the physical Vita games I wanted, I will hack my system.
 
Theswweet

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It's a shame that PSVSD is less known, because swapping out the 3G modem on one of those units for internal microSD storage is great.
 
Gaardus

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Am I reading that guide correctly? An official memory card is no longer required to hack 1xxx series Vitas? That's great news.
 
Necromanti

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Atolm said:
I didn't know SD2Vita now was able to use the game cart slot, I remember at first you had to solder a bit to add a slot yourself? This is a total game changer, I have a 128GB sd somewhere, gonna buy the adapter.
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Yeah, I just saw this as well. Wasn't expecting to see a super cheap adapter instead.
 
Liquid Plejades

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Been tempted to get a vita oled for emulation of some games. I have been using a steam deck for it, but the Vita oled screen is so pretty.

How is the performance of the Vita when it comes to emulation? Guess I should look up some vids.
 
wrowa

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Tbh when I hacked my Vita many years ago I was rather disappointed. Was hoping the Vita would make for a nice emulation machine but it even struggled with more demanding SNES games. Don't know if there are better emulators these days (back then mostly everything seems to have been developed for PSP).

Zonic said:
Oh damn, as someone who bought a ton of PS1 games off the Japanese PSN, this is super tempting. Is it as simple as signing in & downloading after jailbreaking it?
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Sony knows if you connect a hacked Vita to the internet (I think people who requested user data from Sony discovered that you don't even need to access PSN for that - as soon as you put the system online it's going to send your play history to Sony), so it depends on how comfortable you are with that.

Even then, you can only connect one account to the Vita though. Don't know if there's a homebrew way to add multiple accounts or to remove the account encryption from games.

Theswweet said:
It's a shame that PSVSD is less known, because swapping out the 3G modem on one of those units for internal microSD storage is great.
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I think it's less a matter of people not knowing about it than most people just not owning a 3G model.
 
Shift Breaker

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Really need to mod my Vita, I've got a 64gb card in it and it's not been used for a while. Got a SD2Vita card already as well. Only modded my PSTV, and that was only so I can play the games I've already purchased that are blacklisted for some mad reason.

Keep getting an error when accessing the store on it nowadays though, need to look into it.
 
Flevance

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Gonna give this a try, the store already closed and Plus Premium/Deluxe failed to deliver, so no reason to hold back
 
Crydaddy

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Can a jailbroken vita still access online and sync with psn profiles for trophies and whatnot for things on the system pre-jailbreak?

Still a few vita games I would like to get trophies for but worried if I do this it would interfere (silly reason I know).
 
Theswweet

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Crydaddy said:
Can a jailbroken vita still access online and sync with psn profiles for trophies and whatnot for things on the system pre-jailbreak?

Still a few vita games I would like to get trophies for but worried if I do this it would interfere (silly reason I know).
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I've been using my hacked Vita online since 2018~ with no issues whatsoever.
 
Shinobido Heart

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Issen said:
- Emulation!
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This part is awesome right here. I bought all the PSP Armored Core games off the Vita store and transferred them to PC to play on PPSSPP emulator. Being able to play them at higher fidelity and the ability to remap the controls are game changers.

I need to transfer more games, like Jeane D'Arc, Hexyz Force, Duodecim 012, Wild Arms XF, etc. PPSSPP can detect PSP eboot files.
 
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