A couple of years ago I hacked my PSTV that was on FW 3.60. I use a USB as storage and use the plugin to spoof higher FW for games that need it. I've just about got every game on it I want and things set up the way I like. I would like to dust off my Vita 2000, put CFW on it using the current web browser method and then transfer everything that I have installed on my PSTV's USB drive over to the SD2Vita card. Is this possible? I searched the forums and didn't see any instructions. I remember having to install an image onto the usb drive with the old cfw method so I don't know if that will effect what I am trying to do.

I'm hoping I can do this. Transferring the files from the USB drive to the sd card would be a lot faster than redownloading all the games on the vita using PKGj and trying to find the old retroarch package I installed on the USB back then.

Thanks.

 

[zetsu]

Simply transferring the games from PSTV to PSV will get you nowhere, i suppose, since they won't be installed.
You'll only have the data at hand, but not the files' entries in the registry (app.db and act.db).

Things would be different if these systems actually allowed the user to transfer all the data from one device to another, like it can be done on PS4 or most mobile phones (by using accounts, for example).

Not sure if placing the current .db files in your Vita's ur0 would suffice, though.

 

[zekro94]

I mean NPS downloaded games have to be transfered to the app folder and then use the refresh livearea setting in vitashell in order to make them appear so try that. Copy all games from the app folder to the app folder on your second vita and refresh the livearea. I don't remember if saves are in the folder in the app or if separate since I don't have my vita anymore
Edit: Try it with 1 game and see if it works, that way you can also see if the save file is there or not (that way if it doesn't work you wouldn't have spent so much time for nothing)

 

[zetsu]

I don't remember if saves are in the folder in the app or if separate

They are split from the game data and found within [partition]/user/00/savedata/[title-id]

 

[zekro94]

They are split from the game data and found within [partition]/user/00/savedata/[title-id]

Thanks for confirmation, since I have my vita in another country I haven't used it for a long time so I kinda forgot

 

[form4li7y]

I mean NPS downloaded games have to be transfered to the app folder and then use the refresh livearea setting in vitashell in order to make them appear so try that. Copy all games from the app folder to the app folder on your second vita and refresh the livearea. I don't remember if saves are in the folder in the app or if separate since I don't have my vita anymore
Edit: Try it with 1 game and see if it works, that way you can also see if the save file is there or not (that way if it doesn't work you wouldn't have spent so much time for nothing)

Thanks for the reply, I'll keep that in mind. I'm going to check some other forums before I try anything. If I come up with clear instructions or if I try your recommendation I'll update my post with the results incase anyone else is trying to do this.

If anyone else has info about this please leave a reply.

 

[GothicIII]

Huh? Don't you have the same SEN account on both devices? Just use CMA to transfer games and saves.
I am using that for my PSTV/PSV/PSV2k. Backup to pc first and restore on target device.

 

[nothing-to-see-here]

The app.db from the pstv won't work on the vita. It will rebuild the database, which will happen anyway. That rebuilds the app.db. easiest way is just to delete the id.dat. as long as the account is the same, that's all you need to do to use the same card.

 

[leerz]

I mean NPS downloaded games have to be transfered to the app folder and then use the refresh livearea setting in vitashell in order to make them appear so try that. Copy all games from the app folder to the app folder on your second vita and refresh the livearea. I don't remember if saves are in the folder in the app or if separate since I don't have my vita anymore
Edit: Try it with 1 game and see if it works, that way you can also see if the save file is there or not (that way if it doesn't work you wouldn't have spent so much time for nothing)

this works, i've done this before.