21w ago - Today Sony PS Vita hacker wololo shared a video from Virtuous Flame who introduces PlayStation Vita eCFW ARK in a demonstration presentation courtesy of Structures360 via YouTube below.

To quote: Developer Virtuous Flame, the dev behind many projects including the recent Open CMA, just recently revealed some information on Chinese scene site duowan.com about a kernel exploit and Vita eCFW (a Custom Firmware running on the Vita within the PSP emulator) he's been working on, dubbed ARK.

Virtuous Flame revealed that he has access to another working kernel exploit other than that of Frostegater's, working on 2.02 and running his own version of a eCFW. This is extremely good news considering kernel exploits in the psp emu can be hard to come by, it's always good to have more.

Virtuous Flame's eCFW ARK is something similar to that of Total_Noob's CEF. Virtuous Flame is already hard at work on a new eCFW Ark through a new kernel exploit, on the latest Vita 2.02 official firmware update.

ARK along with this exploit has some advantages compared to TN-C such as a neat feature of being able to instantly go into loading into the eCFW ISO menu instead of having to load the save data (note: this is most likely a feature of the game used for the exploit rather than...

26w ago - Following up on the PlayStation Vita TN-B Urbanix and Mad Blocker Alpha and Gravity Crash releases, this weekend Total_Noob has released TN-C eCFW for PS Vita handheld console owners with details below.

To quote: Developer Total_Noob has released TN-C eCFW with a huge list of improvements including compatibility for the Motorstorm and Super Collapse exploits. TN-C has also now become open source. Keep reading!

The long awaited and highly anticipated update to TNmenu by developer Total_Noob for all exploits is finally here, bringing a substantial update to just about everything. With TN-C Total_Noob has added compatibility for those still holding out on the Motorstorm and Super Collapse 3 exploits; something he was testing a while back.

TN has also made this release open source which means other developers will be able to build and add new features to TN-C. With this release Total_Noob also released a statement that this will be most likely his last release. It’s very sad news; we can only say thanks and best wishes in your future endeavors.

42w ago - Following up on his previous release, today PlayStation Vita homebrew developer deroad has updated PS VitaTools to version 1.06 with the changes outlined below.

Download: PS VitaTools v1.05 / PS VitaTools v1.05 (Mirror) / GIT / PS Vita Keys GIT

To quote: Changelog: Vita Tools v1.06

• Added ungpkg to allow to unpack game packages.
  
• Fixed tools.c to allow to search ps vita keys in the right folder.
  
• Removed pkg_reader. useless
  

About: Vita Keys

• These files contain the keys necessary for encrypting/decrypting/signing files for the PS Vita.
  
• They are compatible with deroad's vitatools.
  
• Copy these files to your ~/.vita/ or %userprofile%\vitakeys directory.
  
• Initial files were created by Deroad.
  

62w ago - Today PS Vita developer Phexe has released a tool for viewing / deleting backed up PlayStation Vita content (via Content Manager Assistant) along with the related source code.

Download: PSVeeter v0.1 / PSVeeter v0.1 (Source Code) / .NET Framework 4.0 (Required)

To quote: What can it do at the moment?

• View
  

1. PlayStation Minis
2. PlayStation Portable & Save Games
3. PlayStation Vita Games & Apps

• Delete Individually via Right clicking name
  
• Shows the Title, the Playstation ID Code and the Size of the Game/App
  
• Automatically retrieve the path to your Vita Directory from Registry
  
• If Sony’s Content Manager Assistant is not installed or set up, you can specify a directory to use
  

Known Issues

• Has trouble deleting item if Icon is in use by windows explorer. You can rememdy this by either restarting your PC or Explorer.exe (Windows Issue)
  

Coming Soon (Todo List)

• Add more details from the local SFO file to the information box on the right. Ie./...

73w ago - Following up on his previous update, today PlayStation Vita hacker SKFU reports that he may have uncovered a PS Vita encryption flaw.

To quote from his page: Since I finally have access to a retail PS VITA, today I started with some basic tests.

After a complete freeze of the system within the first 5 minutes after unboxing (*always happens to new consoles 4 me rofl*), I went on and noticed that there is a problem with the VITA's encryption functions and was able to decrypt some test files directly via the system.

I will post updates as soon as I have news

- SKFU