wololo.net is a good source for information about hacking the vita.
3. I am not sure if you need the latest firmware, but you need a newer one than 1.06. Besides this remote play is not working with every game and playing games which need the L2 and R2 buttons is a pain in the ass.

 

Yeah I've been looking over the Wololo stuff, problem is knowing which guide to follow as some of the older ones seem to either not apply or don't work after certain versions. I think I am going to have to update to a newer firmware but I don't want to go too far forward and jeopardise what I can do with the Vita - one wrong step and I could end up with 3.55 on there and ruin my chances before I start. I still have the Vita in flight mode just in case. Remote Play isn't a huge priority. From the little I've read since this morning I'm thinking 3.18 is going to be the best one, where the email exploit etc still works.

I did try changing to the oldest protocol available on qCMA which on both Mac and Windows versions is for 1.00 edition firmwares but it won't find it. I'll try uninstalling regular Sony CMA on both and see if it makes a difference... as long as it works on one or the other I don't mind, one of the advantages of a working Bootcamp Win7 install. :-)

EDIT: Further followup on this. Uninstalled CMA and left qCMA on the Windows 7 version. Recognises that the Vita is connected even though it doesn't show in Explorer as it did before, can't seem to browse anything in the program itself though. The bottleneck seems to be Content Manager on the Vita - keeps moaning that "You must sign up for PlayStation Network to use this application" or the usual "Could not connect to this device" with the Suggested Actions/OK buttons below it. In the Mac version with qCMA running and CMA closed the browser did seem to work although there was nothing there (formatted the memory card through the system settings, again it moans you need to be signed into PSN before you can - to format a memory card, why's that then Sony?) probably because there aren't any save files or anything yet.

I figured it's going to need something between 3.00 and 3.30 to be usable. I want to keep the lowest possible version that will work for everything I need, ideally, as I know Sony are pretty quick about closing exploits as they appear and writing it off on their website as "system stability improvements" - we know what they really mean, right?

Ideal world the PS Vita will be a replacement for my PSP-3004 as it has a nicer screen and the native hacks are looking good for faster/more compatible emulation for old SNES titles which the original 333mhz PSP just can't handle with no frameskip (i.e. Super Mario Kart will run stable but just the PAL version running with frameskip = 1 so only 25fps), also there's a few titles with weird glitches or that need major hacks to work at all. Rejunevate has one based on a newer version of Snes9x than the PSP tyl/mecm ones used doesn't it? So I'm looking for something with PSP/PS1 ISO (or the PSX2PSP versions of the same in EBOOT.PBP format) support as well as better emulation for SNES etc than the PSP could handle. I wonder if the PS Vita would be fast enough to run PS2 game ISOs one day? I know it's a tough machine to emulate because of all the weird custom chips it uses but I'm not a developer so I'm interested in finding out.

Is this the only way to do it, with a PS3? I could be wrong but I swear I've seen a couple of tutorials where you can do the bubbles thing without needing a PS3. So much to learn in a short period of time!

This is all very useful, thanks to both of you. It's helping me put a plan together. So I'll need Rejuvenate for PS Vita home-brew run natively, i.e. SNES emulation, and something like TN-V for the PSP side of things, am I reading this right?

I agree, it is a rare firmware version. I was expecting it to come with something in the 2.xx range but true to what the seller says it looks like it's never had a game running to still have 1.06. I was wondering if it was worth keeping it like this to aid development, but my guess is that from an exploit/bubble point of a view so few people would ever have a version this low it wouldn't be much use, especially as work on the native level Rejuvenate hack continues and it exploits firmware well into the 3.xx range.[/QUOTE]

 

As I didn't receive any replies re: keeping the older firmware I've installed 3.01 which you have to do to run God Of War Collection. From what I've read most exploits need 3.00 and above anyway...