Vita Hacks Guide
A complete guide to PS Vita (TV) custom firmware, from stock to Ensō.
Vita Hacks Guide
A complete guide to PS Vita (TV) custom firmware, from stock to Ensō.
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For complete guides to homebrew and custom firmware for other devices, check out Hacks.Guide.
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Thoroughly read all of the introductory pages (including this one!) before proceeding.
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This guide is for retail (consumer purchased; not from the PlayStation Partner Program) consoles only!
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Homebrew usually refers to software that is not authorized by Sony. It allows you to run homebrew games, tools like save editing and backup, and emulators for various older systems.
Running homebrew on your device is 100% free on your device.
Custom Firmware ("CFW") enables you to use more advanced hacks that userland homebrew can't easily do, in addition to anything homebrew can do. Essentially all homebrew solutions on the PS Vita (TV) include a CFW of some kind.
For information on how custom firmware works, please see this post by Yifan Lu.
This guide has the end goal of taking a completely unmodified PS Vita (TV) from stock firmware to custom firmware.
The best CFW solution currently available, Ensō, allows for convenient homebrew access on your device by running an exploit at boot-time to setup the homebrew environment. It is more convenient than other CFW solutions (such as HENkaku or h-encore) as it does not require you to trigger an exploit on your device after every reboot manually.
Ensō is available on all devices with firmware version 3.65 or below, while higher firmware version devices can downgrade to 3.65 to achieve the same result.
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