Hacking [GUIDE] The Ultimate Noob PS Vita/PSTV Hacking Guide OP OUTDATED

[supermariorick]

maybe it's ur memory card? how I booting into henkaku, offline or online?

memory card is fine. and I use the online method.

edit: I switched to the Android app and it installs the latest molecular shell 1.5.1 and that helped. Vitashell is installed and even gave me an update notice and autoupdated Vitashell to the latest. unfortunately vitamin and maidumptool still do not install.

how do I fix error 0xFFFFFF99 when installing vpk files in vitashell or molecularshell? both are now the latest versions and I have plenty of free space on the memory card. the file sizes are correct so the vpk files aren't corrupted at all. unsafe homebrew installation is enabled or else I couldn't install anything at all. why do I get this error and why won't Vitamin or maidumptool install?

 

[SuperSayianGod]

After Installing Everything needed for Homebrew and CFW where do i Download Games. How big is the average game size.

 

[godreborn]

the average size - I dunno. game carts can only be up to 4GBs which is y World of Final Fantasy had a 3GB first day install to add voices. ...so 4GBs or less basically.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

After Installing Everything needed for Homebrew and CFW where do i Download Games. How big is the average game size.

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Games can be anywhere between a few MBs to 3.5GB or so.

 

[supermariorick]

After Installing Everything needed for Homebrew and CFW where do i Download Games. How big is the average game size.

we can't link you or even mention any site here. best bet is google search it yourself.

 

[mmedeiro]

PS Vita activation. So i used the PS3 method for activating the Vita/transfering PSP games to use the Adrenaline expoit and all was fine until I went to transfer the PSP demos I downloaded on my PS3. The Vita is stating there was no content found. I'm on Henkaku 3.60 with my PSN registered but not activated on my Vita. My PS3 is stock and up to date FW wise. Any ideas, am i out of luck since i never activated my Vita.

 

[godreborn]

the game might be black listed. have u tried the IDU method with its package file assuming it's drm free?

 

[mmedeiro]

PS Vita activation. So i used the PS3 method and all was fine until i went to transfer the PSP demos I downloaded on my PS3. The Vita is stating there was no content found. I'm on Henkaku 3.60 with my PSN registered but not activated on my Vita. My PS3 is stock and up to date FW wise.

the game might be black listed. have u tried the IDU method with its package file assuming it's drm free?

I have not, do you know of a game that is not blacklisted?

 

[godreborn]

many games r not blacklisted. talkman tokyo is one of the smaller games. it doesn't require IDU mode which some find intimidating since u have a five minute time limit, and the system supposedly tries to update to the latest firmware unless blocked.

 

[mmedeiro]

many games r not blacklisted. talkman tokyo is one of the smaller games. it doesn't require IDU mode which some find intimidating since u have a five minute time limit, and the system supposedly tries to update to the latest firmware unless blocked.

I just ran through the method but it says the game is not in my psn dl list when i try to run it on the Vita. I copied the licensee from vitashell.

EDIT Vita shell was copying an empty license file for what ever reason. All is good now. Thanks for the advice, much appreciated.

 

[supermariorick]

so no one has solved my problem yet? I still get error 0xFFFFFF99 installing vpks with molecular shell. I'd try vitashell but now that won't install either. anyone help please?

 

[Deleted User]

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never mind, I misread.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

so no one has solved my problem yet? I still get error 0xFFFFFF99 installing vpks with molecular shell. I'd try vitashell but now that won't install either. anyone help please?

The only thing I can think of from that error is just corrupt VPKs/bad dumps. That's usually the case when people have this error with game dumps.

If you still have problems I would suggest reformatting the memory card and seeing if it still happens.

 

[supermariorick]

The only thing I can think of from that error is just corrupt VPKs/bad dumps. That's usually the case when people have this error with game dumps.

If you still have problems I would suggest reformatting the memory card and seeing if it still happens.

i might just use the usb transfer method instead of ftp to avoid invalid vpk errors

ok so that was exactly the problem. it seems my shitty wireless network makes ftp transfers screw up ftp transferred files on the vita so i installed the latest henkaku and molecular shell with usb mass storage support so i could transfer files from my computer directly to my vita via usb and that fixed everything

thanks TheFlow for putting usb mass storage in vitashell and therefore the fork of vitashell - molecular shell latest update - comes with it as well and solved the problem.

 

[mmedeiro]

The only thing I can think of from that error is just corrupt VPKs/bad dumps. That's usually the case when people have this error with game dumps.

If you still have problems I would suggest reformatting the memory card and seeing if it still happens.

This, has to be bad dumps. Are you seeing empty space on your memory card?

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[ayanekochan]

Is there anyway to switch accounts on my vita without formatting? I don't want to lose my activation since I don't have access to a PS3 anymore.

Thanks!

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Is there anyway to switch accounts on my vita without formatting? I don't want to lose my activation since I don't have access to a PS3 anymore.

Thanks!

https://github.com/elpendor/accountswitcher/releases/tag/v2.4

 

[F34R]

Goodness!! I found a few Vita games on sale so I decided to pull out my old systems and see where I was with them lol. Original launch Vita, fw 1.81. The Assassins Creed bundle (launch) is on 3.52..

I'm considering tinkering with them. Having to go through all the info in the OP. Interesting for sure.

 

[cathor]

Hey,

Quick question; Atm I have an 8GB memory card which is almost full. If I want to use another card, what files/directories do I need to copy over to transfer the exploit?
Might buy a couple of 8GB cards instead of a 64GB card. Any obvious issues that I might run into?

Cheers,

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Hey,

Quick question; Atm I have an 8GB memory card which is almost full. If I want to use another card, what files/directories do I need to copy over to transfer the exploit?
Might buy a couple of 8GB cards instead of a 64GB card. Any obvious issues that I might run into?

Cheers,

The exploit isn't stored on your memory card and is not persistent, it has to be reinstalled after every reboot. Just do a complete backup with QCMA, copy things like ROMs and BIOs to your PC (if you have them) and then restore everything to the new memory card and run install Henkaku again via the web browser.