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Introduction

In this tutorial we'll create an exploit and install it on a fully stock PS Vita. The exploit will allow us to play PS Vita, PSP, and PlayStation game backups, as well as homebrew software. The current Vita homebrew scene is very impressive, and many emulators for 8-bit and 16-bit consoles are available.

This exploit can be installed on any PS Vita with software up to version 3.68. My system was updated to the latest firmware (3.68) and I have tested everything here and it's working great. Note that if you have 3.65 or below, it behooves you not to update past 3.65. In addition to what I show you below, you can optionally install a package called ENSO that allows you to permanently install custom firmware versus having to execute exploit code each time you cold-power up your Vita. There's no real penalty for not having ENSO installed, other than it's a little less convenient. Since my Vita was on 3.68 I was unable to install ENSO, but if you have a VIta with 3.65 or lower, you can find ENSO here: https://enso.henkaku.xyz.

The original article that I followed to install this exploit is located here: https://github.com/TheOfficialFloW/h-encore. I have expanded upon their instructions to hopefully explain some more things and make some thing clearer.

Vita Hardware/Software Prerequisites

To check the software version of your Vita, go to Settings > System > System Information.

The latest version right now is 3.68. You can go to Settings > System Update to update if you aren't worried about installing ENSO, or if you're already on a version greater than 3.60 that isn't 3.68. If you are on a version less than 3.60, you should probably stick with 3.60 or below. You can upgrade from a lesser version to 3.60 via USB. You'll have to Google how to do that, as it's beyond the scope of this tutorial.

Here are some additional 'gotchas.'

  • PS Vita 'fat' models require 270MB free space on a Vita memory card to install.
  • PS Vita slim models don't, as they have internal storage.
  • The device must be linked with a PSN account – the PSN account doesn't need to be activated and you don't need PS+.

Preparing Packages for Install

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Download h-encore and decompress the h-encore folder to your Windows desktop for easy access. You can download h-encore here: https://github.com/TheOfficialFloW/h-encore/releases.

Download and install QCMA from here: https://codestation.github.io/qcma/. Install is typical 'next next next finish' Windows installer. Accept all default values.

Download pkg2zip from here: https://github.com/mmozeiko/pkg2zip/releases.
Download the 32-bit or 64-bit binaries and extract them the root of your h-encore folder for easy use from the command line.

Download psvimgtools from here: https://github.com/yifanlu/psvimgtools/releases. These binaries also go in the root of your h-encore folder.

Download the DRM-free demo of 'Bitter Smile' – This is the exploitable binary we'll use to construct our exploit.
http://ares.dl.playstation.net/cdn/JP0741/PCSG90096_00/xGMrXOkORxWRyqzLMihZPqsXAbAXLzvAdJFqtPJLAZTgOcqJobxQAhLNbgiFydVlcmVOrpZKklOYxizQCRpiLfjeROuWivGXfwgkq.pkg

Copy the Bitter Smile PKG file to your h-encore folder. Do yourself a favor and rename it something shorter. I renamed mine bitter.pkg.

From the Windows command prompt, cd to the following folder and run the command:

…where YourName is your Windows username and bitter.pkg is whatever your shortened Bitter Smile to. I assume you can do this without explicit instruction.

You'll get output that looks something like the following:

This will output files to h-encoreappPCSG90096

Copy all of the files from h-encoreappPCSG90096 to h-encoreappux0_temp_game_PCSG90096_app_PCSG90096

Copy the temp.bin file from h-encoreappPCSG90096sce_syspackage to h-encorelicenseux0_temp_game_PCSG90096_license_app_PCSG90096 and rename the file to 6488b73b912a753a492e2714e9b38bc7.rif Sims 4 babies for everyone mod. See what I highlighted in red and note that this is NOT the same location where you just copied the game files. Also note that it has to be .rif, and not .rif.bin. You may need to enable the setting in Windows Explorer to show file extensions to properly rename the extension for this file.

Getting Your Unique System ID and Encryption Key

Launch QCMA and open the Other tab. Ensure Use this version for updates is set to FW 0.00 (Always up-to-date) (mine defaulted to this), and click OK. QCMA will continue to run in the taskbar.

Launch Content Manager on the Vita and then connect it to the PC via USB. Choose the option that says Copy Content on the Vita Content Manager screen. The Vita will ask Select device to connect to – Choose PC. Select the method to connect, choose USB cable. You'll get a system notification from QCMA that says that a device was added to the database.

On the Vita screen, tap the line that says PC > PS Vita System then Applications. If you left the QCMA paths at default, there will be a new folder created in: C:UsersYourNameDocumentsPS VitaAPP.

This new folder has a 16 character long name of letters/numbers and represents your Account ID. Take note of this string and save it in a safe place. This Account ID is unique to your PSN Account. You need to insert that key at this website to get an unlock key that you can use to encrypt Vita Packages: http://cma.henkaku.xyz.

Note that you have to use the key for your own PSN Account. If you try to use someone else's unique key, you won't be able to install the exploit (or any other software for that matter).

At this point you should have a 16-character Account ID number as well as a 64-character encryption key.

Compiling and Installing the Exploit

Open a Windows command prompt and change directory to where you unzipped h-encore. Type in the commands:

…where YOUR_KEY is your 64-character encryption key.

After all 4 command execute successfully, navigate to h-encorePCSG90096
That folder will contain a folder called sce_sys it should also contain the folders:
license, savedata, app, and appmeta. Each of those folders should contain the files X.psvimg and X.psvmd where X has the same name as the folder in which it resides.

Your final tree should look like this (D means Directory, F means File):

Copy the entire folder h-encorePCSG90096 to C:UsersYourNameDocumentsPS VitaAPPXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Right click on the QCMA icon in the taskbar and choose Refresh Database. You'll get a Windows message that says items have been added to the database.

Back on the Vita, under Applications choose PS Vita. The h-encore bubble with a size of 243MB should appear. Select h-encore with the check box and tap Copy.

You'll get a message that says The selected items will be copied to this system. Tap OK.

If the size does not match or if you get an error C2-12858-4 Waterworld the movie download. then it's because you did something wrong. Ensure your folder structure looks exactly like mine above. If that doesn't work, go back and follow the instructions from the beginning.

When the application finishes copying, close Content Manager and scroll down to the last page on your Vita home screen. You'll see the h-encore bubble. Launch it and OK past the warning about not being able to earn trophies. From here the screen should flash and you should see the option to install HENkaku and download VitaShell. Do both of those things, in that order.

Finally choose Exit. Note that you'll have to launch h-encore and re-apply HENkaku every time you reboot your system (unless you just put it to sleep). You should now be able to launch VitaShell.

Pro

Get Rid of the Trophy Warning

This next step isn't required but it gets rid of warnings about trophies when launching the exploit, since the save code that's been provided for the exploit isn't linked to your personal PS account. Keep in mind that you should do this, especially the first part where you enable unsafe homebrew, since you won't be able to install any other homebrew if you don't enable that setting.

  • Launch Settings from the Vita Home Screen
  • Choose HENkakuSettings from the Settings menu
  • Click the checkbox next to Enable Unsafe Homebrew
  • Launch VitaShell from the home screen
  • Navigate to: ux0:user/00/savedata/
  • Scroll down to highlight the folder PCSG90096 and press Triangle select Open Decrypted
  • Scroll down and highlight system.dat, press Triangle, and choose Copy
  • Go up one level (.), press Triangle, and then Paste. The system.dat file should have copied to the folder with all of the other 'PCSE…' directories.
  • Highlight the PCSG90096 folder again and press Triangle, and Delete it
  • Close VitaShell and launch h-encore
  • This will not launch the exploit anymore, rather it will launch Bitter Smile. When you see the title screen, close it.
  • Go back in to VitaShell and again ensure you are in ux0:user/00/savedata
  • A new folder for PCSG90096 has been created
  • Highlight the system.dat file that we pasted before and press Triangle and choose Copy
  • Highlight the PCSG90096 directory, press Triangle and choose Open Decrypted
  • Once in the folder, press Triangle and choose Paste to copy the system.dat file back in
  • Close VitaShell and launch h-encore again. This time it should take you to the exploit menu

Conclusion

This concludes Part 1 of the tutorial. In the next part I'll be showing you how to install homebrew packages, including games and a PSP/PlayStation system emulator.

Installation

  1. Download Visual Studio Code for macOS.
  2. Open the browser's download list and locate the downloaded archive.
  3. Extract the archive contents. Use double-click for some browsers or select the 'magnifying glass' icon with Safari.
  4. Drag Visual Studio Code.app to the Applications folder, making it available in the macOS Launchpad.
  5. Add VS Code to your Dock by right-clicking on the icon to bring up the context menu and choosing Options, Keep in Dock.

Launching from the command line

You can also run VS Code from the terminal by typing 'code' after adding it to the path:

  • Launch VS Code.
  • Open the Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P) and type 'shell command' to find the Shell Command: Install 'code' command in PATH command.
  • Restart the terminal for the new $PATH value to take effect. You'll be able to type 'code .' in any folder to start editing files in that folder.

Note: If you still have the old code alias in your .bash_profile (or equivalent) from an early VS Code version, remove it and replace it by executing the Shell Command: Install 'code' command in PATH command.

Alternative manual instructions

Instead of running the command above, you can manually add VS Code to your path, to do so run the following commands:

Start a new terminal to pick up your .bash_profile changes.

Note: The leading slash is required to prevent $PATH from expanding during the concatenation. Remove the leading slash if you want to run the export command directly in a terminal.

Note: Since zsh became the default shell in macOS Catalina, run the following commands to add VS Code to your path:

Touch Bar support

Out of the box VS Code adds actions to navigate in editor history as well as the full Debug tool bar to control the debugger on your Touch Bar:

Mojave privacy protections

After upgrading to macOS Mojave version, you may see dialogs saying 'Visual Studio Code would like to access your {calendar/contacts/photos}.' This is due to the new privacy protections in Mojave and is not specific to VS Code. The same dialogs may be displayed when running other applications as well. The dialog is shown once for each type of personal data and it is fine to choose Don't Allow since VS Code does not need access to those folders. You can read a more detailed explanation in this blog post.

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Updates

VS Code ships monthly releases and supports auto-update when a new release is available. If you're prompted by VS Code, accept the newest update and it will get installed (you won't need to do anything else to get the latest bits).

Note: You can disable auto-update if you prefer to update VS Code on your own schedule.

Preferences menu

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You can configure VS Code through settings, color themes, and custom keybindings available through the Code > Preferences menu group.

You may see mention of File > Preferences in documentation, which is the Preferences menu group location on Windows and Linux. On a macOS, the Preferences menu group is under Code, not File.

Next steps

Once you have installed VS Code, these topics will help you learn more about VS Code:

  • Additional Components - Learn how to install Git, Node.js, TypeScript, and tools like Yeoman.
  • User Interface - A quick orientation around VS Code.
  • User/Workspace Settings - Learn how to configure VS Code to your preferences settings.

Common questions

Why do I see 'Visual Studio Code would like access to your calendar.'

If you are running macOS Mojave version, you may see dialogs saying 'Visual Studio Code would like to access your {calendar/contacts/photos}.' This is due to the new privacy protections in Mojave discussed above. It is fine to choose Don't Allow since VS Code does not need access to those folders.

VS Code fails to update

If VS Code doesn't update once it restarts, it might be set under quarantine by macOS. Follow the steps in this issue for resolution.

Does VS Code run on Mac M1 machines?

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Yes, VS Code supports macOS ARM64 builds that can run on Macs with the Apple M1 chip. You can install the Universal build, which includes both Intel and Apple Silicon builds, or one of the platform specific builds.





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