Hacking Is there a way to spoof firmware too play a 3.69 game on 3.65?

[lolcatzuru]

sorry if this is obvious, im a bit new mates, but, i got to henkaku 3.65 largely on my own and got p5 dancing from nps downloader, problem is, it wont play, and its because it needs 3.69. i've already tried the spoofer but that seems, lackluster at best, is there something else i can do?

 

[PhantomChu]

There is a plugin called reF00D that allows any device no matter what firmware it is on to play the latest games. It can be found here, https://github.com/dots-tb/reF00D/releases.

I believe there is also an application that can download and install a lot of the plugins (including reF00D) on the system called Autoplugin, which can be found here: https://github.com/theheroGAC/Autoplugin/releases

This is also a nice written guide for setting up various applications and plugins that make the Vita quite nice. https://vita.hacks.guide/finalizing-setup.html

 

[lolcatzuru]

i installed those pluggins and unfortunately the game still wont play.

 

[reddragon105]

reF00D should be all you need. It auto patches the game on the fly. There's also rePatch, which uses patched files instead of patching on the fly, which can make the games load quicker but requires that you download the right files for each game (which I believe is something PKGj can do).

Is it one game in particular you're having problems with? How did you install reF00D? Manually or using Autoplugin? I don't know exactly how you have your Vita setup, but ideally you'll have your plugins in ur0: (system storage) so you should have the plugin installed at ur0:tai/reF00D.skprx and then you need to edit config.txt to add an entry for it (create a new line under *KERNEL and enter the file path - ur0:tai/reF00D.skprx - make sure you've typed zeroes, because those aren't the letter 'Oh' in reF00D) and then you'll need to reboot for the plugin to be loaded, because it's a kernel plugin.

 

[kaymynd]

In henkaku setting do you have spoofing enabled? If not you must enable and set to 3.70 which is the newest firmware.

 

[DoctorGigantic]

sorry if this is obvious, im a bit new mates, but, i got to henkaku 3.65 largely on my own and got p5 dancing from nps downloader, problem is, it wont play, and its because it needs 3.69. i've already tried the spoofer but that seems, lackluster at best, is there something else i can do?

I believe that you need to download a comb patch. This is done with NPS Browser, you can download updates, dlc and those comb patches there. I believe those packs will help you out. I can if you want later tonight help you with NPS Browser, just sent me a pm. I'm in Amsterdam so time zones might be difficult, also I'm at work now so I can't sent you screenshots and stuff but I don't mind doing it when I get home.

 

[reddragon105]

In henkaku setting do you have spoofing enabled? If not you must enable and set to 3.70 which is the newest firmware.

I don't believe that's necessary - I've never heard that it's required before, and I've just checked with Secret of Mana (which requires 3.67) and it boots using reF00D with Henkaku spoofed version set to 3.65 (which is also my official version).

I believe that you need to download a comb patch. This is done with NPS Browser, you can download updates, dlc and those comb patches there. I believe those packs will help you out. I can if you want later tonight help you with NPS Browser, just sent me a pm. I'm in Amsterdam so time zones might be difficult, also I'm at work now so I can't sent you screenshots and stuff but I don't mind doing it when I get home.

I think you mean comp (compatibility) patch, which is how rePatch works, but it's not strictly necessary now that reF00D exists as that will just patch everything automatically on the fly. Compatibility patches can improve load times, but I'm not sure if there are any games where it makes a significant difference. If OP has installed reF00D, as they said they did, and it's not working then it suggests the plugin isn't installed correctly, rather than a lack of compatibility patch, as reF00D doesn't use them.

 

[DoctorGigantic]

I don't believe that's necessary - I've never heard that it's required before, and I've just checked with Secret of Mana (which requires 3.67) and it boots using reF00D with Henkaku spoofed version set to 3.65 (which is also my official version).



I think you mean comp (compatibility) patch, which is how rePatch works, but it's not strictly necessary now that reF00D exists as that will just patch everything automatically on the fly. Compatibility patches can improve load times, but I'm not sure if there are any games where it makes a significant difference. If OP has installed reF00D, as they said they did, and it's not working then it suggests the plugin isn't installed correctly, rather than a lack of compatibility patch, as reF00D doesn't use them.

Okay. I just use NPS Browser to download a game (with the patch, dlc and updates), put them on PS Vita 3.65 and it works. But I need to check if I have reF00D or rePatch is installed. I think I forgot about that part.

 

[reddragon105]

Okay. I just use NPS Browser to download a game (with the patch, dlc and updates), put them on PS Vita 3.65 and it works. But I need to check if I have reF00D or rePatch is installed. I think I forgot about that part.

Yeah, I do the same. If you have both reF00D and rePatch installed, rePatch will take priority - so if reF00D finds a compatibility pack for the game you're trying to load, it won't do anything; it will just let rePatch do its thing.