The modded vita is a must have. Seriously the library alone is staggering,and with backwards compatible with psp and ps1 together with emulation capabilities, its a beast in the hands.
I just picked one up after seeing this video. I’ve been thinking about it for a few weeks since I missed out on this side of the handheld market. I had my New 3DS XL modded with CFW years ago, but I’m now looking forward to playing the PlayStation handheld exclusives!
This brought back so much from the days of psp with swapping memory cards. I think my “dream” for the vita is to run resident evil 4 and marvel vs capcom 2. Super Metroid runs greatish on psp and I thought that was impossible.
One of the major contributors I think to the demise of PlayStation Mobile was also the fact that people were eventually able to root most Xperia Play phones and reverse engineer the PS1 game conversion process, making them able to convert near any title to a XPlay compatible title.
Rooting phones is so hard these days Everytime I tried flashing the magisk zip my phone would stop booting after I restarted it. Same thing with custom roms and unless you have one of the well supported brands and a new device of that brand, you'll have to compile the rom yourself. I can't wait for the pinephone to be ready for daily use and I hope we get competitors to it.
@@deoxal7947 rooting phones is so much easier nowadays lmao Especially since manufacturers allow to unlock bootloader etc without voiding warranty. Maybe you are just unlucky with your device, but my Mi9T Pro was very easy to root/flash
@@deoxal7947 its not that hard at all, on sony xperia phones u need only to unlock bl, patch boot.img and then u have root via magisk, but of course u lost all DRM keys like HDR support in apps, all display improvements etc.
@@TechITMobile Ya I've never used an Xperia device so don't know. I'm not the only one to say this though. ruclips.net/video/ThsXFPC-_60/видео.html It's kinda annoying that a failed install takes out the recovery. I mean if you botch an install of Windows or Linux, the UEFI menu doesn't become inaccessible.
@@vetrixfx9264 Asus did void my warranty though. The only ones I know that don't void warranty are Google and maybe Oneplus. It's possible I could install just fine now but I've given up. Asus had a recall for my phone because of a hardware bug preventing devices from booting after an update of the stock rom. It's possible Lineage tripped over the same issue.
0:26 Clarification on this one: While Sony kept digital stores alive, PS Vita developers weren't allowed to publish and update games until July 20th. Some developers were able to push updates after July but still, games couldn't be published anymore. There were some physical releases that were sold after July through PlayAsia store however those releases had only few thousand copies and sold out in a blink of an eye.
I lost $3000 carelessly trading on a platform then I was referred to Mr Ronald Clark and he recovered my Lost and made an extra profit of 8000$ I was amazed by his strategies.
DO NOT TRUST THIS CONVERSATION. Ronald Clark PERSONALLY came to my house and took MY CHILDREN AWAY, SELLING THEM FOR PROFIT on the BLOCKED CHAIN. Now all I have left is my PS Vita and his GOONS, LACKEYS, AND VARIOUS NE'ER-DO-WELLS have come to COMMENT on the ONLY VIDEOS I WOULD WATCH to MOCK me and my LOST CHILDREN. YOU ARE SUCKS, RONALD CLARK!
"Sony did their homework by integrating everything into the SoC" Just looking at the industry at large, integration was just a natural progression in the chip production, mostly for cost cutting and speeding up transfer rates. security is just a "happy side effect", i would argue it wasn't their primary goal....
I really love the Vita and it is such an overpowered beast given when it got released. Sadly Sony was too cocky about it and ruined what could have been a great device with their stupid expensive memory cards. Downloadable games but no space to store those because people don't buy those cards...they really shot themselves in the foot there. Just look at the amazing library the PSP has and then the games the Vita has to offer...heck Ridge Racer 2 on the PSP is the BEST Ridge Racer and then look at the sh1t Ridge Racer on the Vita- the graphics are nice though.
Those memory cards are indeed nuts. I got into the Vita very late in its cycle, and not only were the memory cards hard to find, but the obscene prices never came down much, so a Vita 32gb card was still $100 while plain old MicroSD cards were below $20. But it wouldn't be Sony if they didn't "invent" some proprietary gimmick at 4x inflated prices. It made sense in the PS1 and PS2 years, because flash memory was not yet a mainstream product, but everything after that is pure narcissism on Sony's part.
nah. PSP has memory card too but they sell like mad. the vita died because of the mobile gaming in the rise. they know they couldnt compete with nintendo and android/ios in the long run so they pull out quick and bet every chip they have on the thing that is going well for them, the PS4.
@@miru2583 This would've made sense if Switch didn't hit 100m+ sales earlier this month. Yes, PSP cards weren't standard SD, but they weren't as proprietary, lots of devices (mostly cameras) used them. Also, back in PSP times downloading games from store was still not as popular, most bought games physically.
@@miru2583 the PSP used Memory Sticks that were used on other devices like camera and cellphones, and were also a competitor to the SD Card where as the Vita memory cards were entirely proprietary and exclusively used on the Vita and were priced as such
It's not narcissism, it's pure greed on their part. They thought they'd make more money by using their own flash cards. Sony is always trying to make more formats to sell, blu-ray being probably the last since we've pretty much moved on from physical media and SD cards are unlikely to be surpassed by anything else for years.
Really one of the best homebrew scenes around. I remember the PSP being a great time back when I was a kid, playing PSPcraft and NZP, but the Vita just feels like it was built to be community driven. Having all my homebrew set up with proper livearea bubbles is so satisfying
The vita still is one of my favorite consoles to this day. Despite how basically nobody I talk to knows what it is, and the library was pretty small comparatively speaking, it still has an amazing homebrew community and a few really solid titles. I really wish Sony put more marketing/emphasis in the vita as it could have been up there with the 3ds. I remember back in aug 2016 when the vita was hacked and I didn't believe it at first, but I tried it and it worked, never went back since. really interesting video as always!
It was definitely marketing strategy plus the dumb memory cards that killed it, the later one being just an extra push at that. Both the Vita and 3DS weren't so hot when they launched, the difference is that Sony gave up quite quickly.
@@Kalvinjj yeah although the memory cards were really dumb don't get me wrong, the psp also has custom memory cards so that wasn't the main issue as it seems, but didn't help in any capacity.
@Bob Duckington That's a good question and might be worth me making a video on, I'm not really sure Tbh, I'll go for the obvious answer and say the homebrew store as it has basically everything homebrew in there
@@rockapartie fair enough, for me I got the Lego bundle with a 16gb card and that was fine for most games but I bought most of my games digitally and after a while I was like "time to delete some games" because of how ridiculous the card prices were, however for me that wasn't as much of an issue as the lack of AAA games and the price of physical games (even today)
I remember having a lot of fun on the psp scene back in the day. When it was discovered how Sony protected their newer 5.55 and onward releases, by having them check for a newer system modules that were not present on a CFW's (5.00m33 and 5.50 gen at the time) And then with the 6.20 permanent hack for the "unflashable" psp's. I never paid Vita attention as i moved to other things at the time, but it sounds like it had a very fun history of it's own. Maybe i'll try to snatch one on the second hand market one day, just to see what it can do. Cheers and thanks for the content mate
Also don't worry too much about memory cards. If you get the fat vita, your going to need a 4gig card to hack it. The slim has built in storage. Once you hack it, you can use a sd to vita adaptor to use sd cards. The adaptors are 10$ max.
I loved the vita ever since it released. A friend of mine gave me a 1000 model last year and a week later I did the installation for henkaku then downgraded the firmware to 3.60 to have it permanently hacked. I just love the support that it has for homebrew and emulators. I've been waiting for this video for a long time and I loved hearing the history of the exploits for the vita.
My favorite thing with this community is the translate patches. Thanks to this community i got to play a bunch of great Jrpg's whom i've never got the chance to before. And Catherine Full Body for example have the greatest eng-patch ever. Not only is it fully translated, it also has the ported FMV-sequences and english dub track from the Ps4 version. As well as being upscaled. Things like these makes me grateful for this community.
This by far is my favorite series of videos that you make. I find it super fascinating to see the history of these consoles and how they got hacked. Super quality keep up the good work.
The PSVita is the most underrated consoles in existence and i'll never understand why Sony let it die after forcing the devs to release Rushed ports like the Jak trilogy and the Ratchet Trilogy. Sanzaru showed that the PSVita could run games smoothly and efficently like ther Sly Trilogy. Nonethless i play the PSVita way more than my 3ds, it's my portable console of choice and i absolutely love it
Unfortunately Sony as they often do made some VERY bad decisions and destroyed something that could've been great. I would've totally gotten a vita if it wasn't for the major hard nopes, the memory cards/there radically high prices,no UMD support, and no free/discounted digital downloads of UMD games you own.
The Jak and Ratchet ports really have poor performance, they sold all of it on the store for cheap, but the homebrew path is much better. The performance makes it hard to play the ports.
The dream is definitely still to have some replacement for Enso for later versions so a downgrade is no longer needed, but at least it is possible to downgrade as an option in the meantime, I definitely remember a good while where it wasn't, so hey. But yeah, the existance of such a thing would finally firmly seat the Vita alongside things like the Wii and 3DS where you can (for the most part) just pick one up, softmod, and have it boot directly in an unlocked environment.
Don't get your hopes up. The switch doesnt have anything that can let you access the www so it's impossible to download any nodding software. The only way to mod one if you have the launch model which is extremely hard to find since its been discontinued.
@@itsmesteve1081 I think if an exploit has already been found in the PS5 by thefl0w, the switch should have a chance as well, although you do have a point.
I keep my PS vita oled with a 500gb micro-SD running everything i can, as well a ps tv in the same way. This is a treasure that we have to preserve. Thank you for the videos Modern Vintage Gamer
I love my PS VITA, it's got an amazing library with all it's VITA, PSP and PS1 games, plus emulation of everything up to the N64 and a number of custom conversions.
The PS Vita has a special place in my heart. I sat in highschool computer class looking up all the news i could find about it. I was so excited. I didnt get one right away but i did when molecule was being teased. I got a pre owned 3g original model which had only been updated once or twice. I was so lucky i remember pre 3.5 vitas going for double the price on ebay. Last thing i did with it was convert to enzo and load it up with 100GB of roms and homebrew. I barely use it but it still alive in a little carry case on my shelf. My trophy of another conquered system right next to my launch switch
My Vita was the Switch before the Switch. With VitaDock, SD2Vita, and a PS4 controller connected Via Bluetooth. I loved my Vita! But I ultimately sold it to get a backwards compatible PS3..I just wanted more PS3 games over Vita games in the end.
I love the Vita for all my PS1, PSP, & Vita games. I also love it because it supports the native raw save files, making it compatible with original hardware.
Even though there’s a lot of impressive people to thank for the continued life of the PS Vita, one of the most overlooked is a Sony corpo by the name of Shahid Ahmad. After Sony and major publishers gave up on the Vita, Ahmad took advantage of this apathy to turn the Vita into what he dubbed a “portable Steam machine” which stretched the Vita’s lifespan by a few more years. Ahmad focused on attracting indie devs to port and make games for the Vita and turned it into what Steam is to PCs. Nintendo would take these lessons to greater success with the Switch. IGN wrote an article about him in 2021 that brought this to light and it’s impressive when passionate people with vision get up in the ranks and manage to do something cool.
Seems about right. There are still indie devs up until last year or the year before (for sure) which had consistent physical releases on vita 🤷♂️🤷♂️ they have a very niche but dedicated group of gamers still interested in expanding the life of the vita. I think i remember mystic or spawnwave talking about it🤷♂️🤔 In most cases i feel like everyone has a JB switch but buys the games to support devs and keep their fav portable going Its interesting because as a person who would've likely pirated games back in the day, i feel myself wanting to pay full price now just to support the devs... Perhaps it's because i feel my support is more directly impactful, maybe it's because im older... But either way, its interesting to think about i guess haha
I always told people that even if they didn't want to bother with hacking their vita, it's still totally worth it for the indie-game scene. I find the psvita's screen and inputs more satisfying than the switch for indie games. Just a solid little piece of tech all around.
What a system I remember as a kid in the late 90's, drawing a PS Vita like system and sending it into a Gaming magazine. Much before the PSP was a thing - picture two Vita's hinged together, one layer for games and the other just a phone.
This system was so nice, I hacked it twice; first one being temporary, then just recently, making it permanent. Fell in love with the system all over again cause now not only can I play PSP and PS1 games, I can also play over ad-hoc with my sister who has a PSP. It's awesome!
Sony likes to shoot themselves in the foot. The very same mistakes they made with the PSP they made for the PS Vita. It was too expensive, it had proprietary hardware, and it was too focused on other media rather than games. I could count piracy as a reason but Nintendo has had that problem on all their handhelds and they’ve owned that market for decades. But yeah, piracy also.
I remember taking a hard pass on it when it came out, but in the last few years they've really grown on me. The ports within the last year have more than kept it alive. It's just such a nice little console.
@@Zeriel00 Yup. I'm planning to find the original model switch with the unpatchable exploit and enjoy thumbing my nose at Nintendo'nt and the rest of them Btw Nep nep love Nep nep is life but Nepgear is best Waifu 👍
I would have loved to hear more technical details about how the exploits worked. This video is more like **when** the PS Vita Security was defeated, but not actually **how**. You've just provided a timeline. The exploits for this system are pretty original and cool, and I was hoping to see a simple, high-level description of how the exploits worked.
The Vita was such a remarkable handheld. Way ahead of it’s time. Thanks to awesome features like cross-game Party Chat (something the Switch still doesn’t have today as of Feb 2022) I made a lot of friends on PSN. Many of which have become very close friends that I still keep in contact with today. Really incredible to get such sophisticated online console features and social features on a handheld that came out in 2012
Till this day, I am absolutely surprised to what the homebrew community are able to pull out of the vita. A modded vita opens the door to so much homebrew, games and emulators.
I'm sad you didn't mention the trinity exploit that was the type of hack I dreamed would happen for it when I first heard about the vita. Great video as usual though! 😁
I am so glad that I picked up a PSTV when it was discontinued. it is such a versatile and portable piece of kit once it has been hacked. I have also hacked my PS Vita but don't use it as much as PSTV.
The fact that i was watching vita videos then refreshed t the recommended page and saw this video is amazing also could you show us how to record a ps vita screen without jailbreaking it
I've had my PS Vita for 9 years but as well as play games on it I mainly use it for playing music through a Bluetooth device at birthday parties for my young niece & nephew.
Modded my Vita after watching your video on the PS Store potentially closing. It really was easy and SO worth it. Outside of Persona 4 Golden I haven't really touched it before I had CFW on it, but since then it's amazing what the little handheld can do, and I haven't even been able to put it down since.
What’s so unique about this story? Nothing because the same story happened on the ps3,everytime a hacker succeeded to beat the security system,then sony did come with a firmware update and so on and so forth,the only thing am amezed about is that the psvita will be 10 years old this year.
Great episode. I never really gave the Vita a go until today. I think the handheld is mindblowing even now in 2024. Sony should have invested more into this thing.
The Vita is a total homebrew beast, installing retroach and adrenaline, plus the psx games gives you nearly 2 decades of retro games in just one portable console.
I'm glad I bought a PSVita when I was able to pay for it. With the emulators I was able to play again so many old games, it looks really impressive with that beautiful oled screen!
You among other things is the reason I have 3 vita 1000s from EB and recently a PSTV I ebayed from the UK. . I love them all and I must thank you for your videos. Big love from Sydney
This is a perfect summation of the homebrew and hacking scene. From all the consoles i have played to date, I've been following the Vita scene since I got mine right before henkaku in 2016. Been checking daily on wololo and was following theflow to see what they were up to and getting excited for enso on 3.65, since it allowed us to play newer games since the key change and loading homebrew on startup. Thank you for this video, it made me relive the moments of discoveries and releases in the vita hacking scene.
I cannot tell you how much a love these “how system “X” was hacked” series. They are simply amazing.
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The modded vita is a must have. Seriously the library alone is staggering,and with backwards compatible with psp and ps1 together with emulation capabilities, its a beast in the hands.
This is the exact reason I picked one up. The ultimate emulation portable.
It's my main console when we go on vacation
I just picked one up after seeing this video. I’ve been thinking about it for a few weeks since I missed out on this side of the handheld market. I had my New 3DS XL modded with CFW years ago, but I’m now looking forward to playing the PlayStation handheld exclusives!
agreed and the og oled screen is incredible
The life of the beast. Or can I say the beast of life? Currently undecided.
This brought back so much from the days of psp with swapping memory cards. I think my “dream” for the vita is to run resident evil 4 and marvel vs capcom 2. Super Metroid runs greatish on psp and I thought that was impossible.
One of the major contributors I think to the demise of PlayStation Mobile was also the fact that people were eventually able to root most Xperia Play phones and reverse engineer the PS1 game conversion process, making them able to convert near any title to a XPlay compatible title.
Rooting phones is so hard these days
Everytime I tried flashing the magisk zip my phone would stop booting after I restarted it. Same thing with custom roms and unless you have one of the well supported brands and a new device of that brand, you'll have to compile the rom yourself.
I can't wait for the pinephone to be ready for daily use and I hope we get competitors to it.
@@deoxal7947 rooting phones is so much easier nowadays lmao
Especially since manufacturers allow to unlock bootloader etc without voiding warranty. Maybe you are just unlucky with your device, but my Mi9T Pro was very easy to root/flash
@@deoxal7947 its not that hard at all, on sony xperia phones u need only to unlock bl, patch boot.img and then u have root via magisk, but of course u lost all DRM keys like HDR support in apps, all display improvements etc.
@@TechITMobile Ya I've never used an Xperia device so don't know. I'm not the only one to say this though.
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It's kinda annoying that a failed install takes out the recovery. I mean if you botch an install of Windows or Linux, the UEFI menu doesn't become inaccessible.
@@vetrixfx9264 Asus did void my warranty though. The only ones I know that don't void warranty are Google and maybe Oneplus.
It's possible I could install just fine now but I've given up. Asus had a recall for my phone because of a hardware bug preventing devices from booting after an update of the stock rom. It's possible Lineage tripped over the same issue.
Thanks to HENkaku, my Vita stopped being a dust magnet in 2016. I love using it for emulation. The OLED makes the classics look stunning.
The Vita is amazing. Sony may have given up on it, but the community has taken it to their hearts and thank God they did.
The "Mistakes were made" series is back on the menu, boys.
Anytime you hear Jit recompiler or frame buffer, etc in a ModernVintage video. Shits gonna get real.
He did use the name for bad choices for big companies, like recently Nintendo announcing the end of the 3DS and Wii U eShop
0:26 Clarification on this one: While Sony kept digital stores alive, PS Vita developers weren't allowed to publish and update games until July 20th. Some developers were able to push updates after July but still, games couldn't be published anymore.
There were some physical releases that were sold after July through PlayAsia store however those releases had only few thousand copies and sold out in a blink of an eye.
I lost $3000 carelessly trading on a platform then I was referred to Mr Ronald Clark and he recovered my Lost and made an extra profit of 8000$ I was amazed by his strategies.
What the actual F? Anyone else not buying this completely fake conversation?
DO NOT TRUST THIS CONVERSATION. Ronald Clark PERSONALLY came to my house and took MY CHILDREN AWAY, SELLING THEM FOR PROFIT on the BLOCKED CHAIN. Now all I have left is my PS Vita and his GOONS, LACKEYS, AND VARIOUS NE'ER-DO-WELLS have come to COMMENT on the ONLY VIDEOS I WOULD WATCH to MOCK me and my LOST CHILDREN.
YOU ARE SUCKS, RONALD CLARK!
Do not trust Ronald Clark. Ronald Clark killed my wife, beat my dogs and stole my fucking money.
@Alex Bryan Awww, poor little Alex. Did your little girly feelings get hurt? LMFAO!
There are 2 era's in the PS Vita modding community. The Beginning, and TheFl0w
"Sony did their homework by integrating everything into the SoC" Just looking at the industry at large, integration was just a natural progression in the chip production, mostly for cost cutting and speeding up transfer rates. security is just a "happy side effect", i would argue it wasn't their primary goal....
I really love the Vita and it is such an overpowered beast given when it got released. Sadly Sony was too cocky about it and ruined what could have been a great device with their stupid expensive memory cards. Downloadable games but no space to store those because people don't buy those cards...they really shot themselves in the foot there. Just look at the amazing library the PSP has and then the games the Vita has to offer...heck Ridge Racer 2 on the PSP is the BEST Ridge Racer and then look at the sh1t Ridge Racer on the Vita- the graphics are nice though.
Those memory cards are indeed nuts. I got into the Vita very late in its cycle, and not only were the memory cards hard to find, but the obscene prices never came down much, so a Vita 32gb card was still $100 while plain old MicroSD cards were below $20.
But it wouldn't be Sony if they didn't "invent" some proprietary gimmick at 4x inflated prices. It made sense in the PS1 and PS2 years, because flash memory was not yet a mainstream product, but everything after that is pure narcissism on Sony's part.
nah. PSP has memory card too but they sell like mad. the vita died because of the mobile gaming in the rise. they know they couldnt compete with nintendo and android/ios in the long run so they pull out quick and bet every chip they have on the thing that is going well for them, the PS4.
@@miru2583 This would've made sense if Switch didn't hit 100m+ sales earlier this month. Yes, PSP cards weren't standard SD, but they weren't as proprietary, lots of devices (mostly cameras) used them. Also, back in PSP times downloading games from store was still not as popular, most bought games physically.
@@miru2583 the PSP used Memory Sticks that were used on other devices like camera and cellphones, and were also a competitor to the SD Card where as the Vita memory cards were entirely proprietary and exclusively used on the Vita and were priced as such
It's not narcissism, it's pure greed on their part. They thought they'd make more money by using their own flash cards. Sony is always trying to make more formats to sell, blu-ray being probably the last since we've pretty much moved on from physical media and SD cards are unlikely to be surpassed by anything else for years.
The amount of effort the community puts into keeping these old systems alive astounds me, long may it continue.
Really one of the best homebrew scenes around. I remember the PSP being a great time back when I was a kid, playing PSPcraft and NZP, but the Vita just feels like it was built to be community driven. Having all my homebrew set up with proper livearea bubbles is so satisfying
The vita still is one of my favorite consoles to this day. Despite how basically nobody I talk to knows what it is, and the library was pretty small comparatively speaking, it still has an amazing homebrew community and a few really solid titles. I really wish Sony put more marketing/emphasis in the vita as it could have been up there with the 3ds. I remember back in aug 2016 when the vita was hacked and I didn't believe it at first, but I tried it and it worked, never went back since. really interesting video as always!
It was definitely marketing strategy plus the dumb memory cards that killed it, the later one being just an extra push at that.
Both the Vita and 3DS weren't so hot when they launched, the difference is that Sony gave up quite quickly.
@@Kalvinjj yeah although the memory cards were really dumb don't get me wrong, the psp also has custom memory cards so that wasn't the main issue as it seems, but didn't help in any capacity.
@Bob Duckington That's a good question and might be worth me making a video on, I'm not really sure Tbh, I'll go for the obvious answer and say the homebrew store as it has basically everything homebrew in there
@@rockapartie fair enough, for me I got the Lego bundle with a 16gb card and that was fine for most games but I bought most of my games digitally and after a while I was like "time to delete some games" because of how ridiculous the card prices were, however for me that wasn't as much of an issue as the lack of AAA games and the price of physical games (even today)
I remember having a lot of fun on the psp scene back in the day. When it was discovered how Sony protected their newer 5.55 and onward releases, by having them check for a newer system modules that were not present on a CFW's (5.00m33 and 5.50 gen at the time) And then with the 6.20 permanent hack for the "unflashable" psp's. I never paid Vita attention as i moved to other things at the time, but it sounds like it had a very fun history of it's own. Maybe i'll try to snatch one on the second hand market one day, just to see what it can do. Cheers and thanks for the content mate
You'd be in luck, the PSP3000 is hackable and the PSP Go is as well with Infinity. Don't think the PSP Street is (the one without the Wi-Fi).
Pick up a vita, it can run all psp software.
Also don't worry too much about memory cards. If you get the fat vita, your going to need a 4gig card to hack it. The slim has built in storage. Once you hack it, you can use a sd to vita adaptor to use sd cards. The adaptors are 10$ max.
A modded vita is genuinely the greatest handheld console of all time and it’s not even close
The Vita is still till this day the best built handheld it feels so nice to hold compared to the switch which in comparison feels like a toy
Well, until the Steam Deck, because once we have a PSvita emulator...
Golden.
@@pacomatic9833 its not work grest
@@abdullakurdi6374 The Switch Lite is pretty good though.
@@pacomatic9833 Steam Deck is soooooooooo huge though.
Thank you, yifanlu and TheFl0w! The Vita wouldn’t be what it is without you.
I've recently home brewed the PS3, and I've been thinking about doing it with the Vita as well. I love these videos.
It is a fun project with so many possibilities and a great community.
I loved the vita ever since it released. A friend of mine gave me a 1000 model last year and a week later I did the installation for henkaku then downgraded the firmware to 3.60 to have it permanently hacked. I just love the support that it has for homebrew and emulators. I've been waiting for this video for a long time and I loved hearing the history of the exploits for the vita.
My favorite thing with this community is the translate patches. Thanks to this community i got to play a bunch of great Jrpg's whom i've never got the chance to before. And Catherine Full Body for example have the greatest eng-patch ever. Not only is it fully translated, it also has the ported FMV-sequences and english dub track from the Ps4 version. As well as being upscaled. Things like these makes me grateful for this community.
I am saddened the thumbnail did not say 'Mistakes were Made'
Your uploads always come in when I’m getting ready for work in the morning, always love watching these while I’m still waking up lol
Absolutely loving the Powerslave: Exhumed remaster! The game hasn't dated one bit.
10:42 If you're on 3.60 you can install Enso, which is a permanent CFW that survives reboots.
An absolute classic! Excellent video
This by far is my favorite series of videos that you make. I find it super fascinating to see the history of these consoles and how they got hacked. Super quality keep up the good work.
Man that intro music, it brings chill to my bone
Thanks, Yifan/Molecule/TheFlow. You all are legends!
I cannot describe how long I looked forward to this video! Love your content!
The PSVita is the most underrated consoles in existence and i'll never understand why Sony let it die after forcing the devs to release Rushed ports like the Jak trilogy and the Ratchet Trilogy.
Sanzaru showed that the PSVita could run games smoothly and efficently like ther Sly Trilogy.
Nonethless i play the PSVita way more than my 3ds, it's my portable console of choice and i absolutely love it
Well true i have a jailbroken 2ds but knowing of the power within the 2 systems... For now i'll go by my vita
You tell 'em, Ciccio!
Unfortunately Sony as they often do made some VERY bad decisions and destroyed something that could've been great. I would've totally gotten a vita if it wasn't for the major hard nopes, the memory cards/there radically high prices,no UMD support, and no free/discounted digital downloads of UMD games you own.
The Jak and Ratchet ports really have poor performance, they sold all of it on the store for cheap, but the homebrew path is much better. The performance makes it hard to play the ports.
@@JohnSmith-xq1pz cry about it. Roasting you to my discord so they can laugh at you be a Nintendo fanboy crying over this video hahahha
Sony: *Kills the homebrew scene that made the PSP so popular*
*PS Vita isn't popular*
Sony: *Surprised Pikachu face*
TheFl0w and Yifan did an amazing job with the vita. I still play on my launch vita thanks to their work.
The dream is definitely still to have some replacement for Enso for later versions so a downgrade is no longer needed, but at least it is possible to downgrade as an option in the meantime, I definitely remember a good while where it wasn't, so hey. But yeah, the existance of such a thing would finally firmly seat the Vita alongside things like the Wii and 3DS where you can (for the most part) just pick one up, softmod, and have it boot directly in an unlocked environment.
As a PSP fan that followed it's jailbreak battle with Sony, I am very interested the see how the PS Vita battle went.
MISTAKES WERE MADE
OMG!!! I was waiting for this video! Vita is best handheld ever
I can’t wait to see something like “how the Nintendo Switch security was defeated” in the next few years
Same here
Don't get your hopes up. The switch doesnt have anything that can let you access the www so it's impossible to download any nodding software. The only way to mod one if you have the launch model which is extremely hard to find since its been discontinued.
@@itsmesteve1081 I think if an exploit has already been found in the PS5 by thefl0w, the switch should have a chance as well, although you do have a point.
I've been waiting for this! Thanks MVG
I keep my PS vita oled with a 500gb micro-SD running everything i can, as well a ps tv in the same way. This is a treasure that we have to preserve. Thank you for the videos Modern Vintage Gamer
I love my PS VITA, it's got an amazing library with all it's VITA, PSP and PS1 games, plus emulation of everything up to the N64 and a number of custom conversions.
Still a proud vita user to this day
Amazing video! Also, I can’t forget the trinity hack for 3.7
Interesting history lesson. I really enjoyed my modded Vita, and regret having to sell it a couple of years ago.
This is just hilarious. Me jailbreaking a newly bought Vita and you releasing this video within 2 hours of each other. 😁
I heavily recommend SD2Vita, so that you can expand your memory
I picked a Vita up at the EoL for $100 (it had a carrying case and SFvTekken as well).
Never regretted that decision.
I love the intros to your videos, I still have my PS Vita
The PS Vita has a special place in my heart. I sat in highschool computer class looking up all the news i could find about it. I was so excited. I didnt get one right away but i did when molecule was being teased. I got a pre owned 3g original model which had only been updated once or twice. I was so lucky i remember pre 3.5 vitas going for double the price on ebay. Last thing i did with it was convert to enzo and load it up with 100GB of roms and homebrew. I barely use it but it still alive in a little carry case on my shelf. My trophy of another conquered system right next to my launch switch
Been waiting for this video for a long time
Your content is flawless. Please continue doing this series!
My Vita was the Switch before the Switch. With VitaDock, SD2Vita, and a PS4 controller connected Via Bluetooth. I loved my Vita! But I ultimately sold it to get a backwards compatible PS3..I just wanted more PS3 games over Vita games in the end.
FINALLY THE VID I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR
man... Wanted to see this for a while!!!!
It's nice to see handheld that is actually small.
has always been
Are you saying that “mistakes were made”
I love the Vita for all my PS1, PSP, & Vita games. I also love it because it supports the native raw save files, making it compatible with original hardware.
i love waking up to some MVG! cheers man!
Even though there’s a lot of impressive people to thank for the continued life of the PS Vita, one of the most overlooked is a Sony corpo by the name of Shahid Ahmad. After Sony and major publishers gave up on the Vita, Ahmad took advantage of this apathy to turn the Vita into what he dubbed a “portable Steam machine” which stretched the Vita’s lifespan by a few more years. Ahmad focused on attracting indie devs to port and make games for the Vita and turned it into what Steam is to PCs. Nintendo would take these lessons to greater success with the Switch. IGN wrote an article about him in 2021 that brought this to light and it’s impressive when passionate people with vision get up in the ranks and manage to do something cool.
Seems about right. There are still indie devs up until last year or the year before (for sure) which had consistent physical releases on vita 🤷♂️🤷♂️
they have a very niche but dedicated group of gamers still interested in expanding the life of the vita.
I think i remember mystic or spawnwave talking about it🤷♂️🤔
In most cases i feel like everyone has a JB switch but buys the games to support devs and keep their fav portable going
Its interesting because as a person who would've likely pirated games back in the day, i feel myself wanting to pay full price now just to support the devs...
Perhaps it's because i feel my support is more directly impactful, maybe it's because im older...
But either way, its interesting to think about i guess haha
I always told people that even if they didn't want to bother with hacking their vita, it's still totally worth it for the indie-game scene. I find the psvita's screen and inputs more satisfying than the switch for indie games. Just a solid little piece of tech all around.
A video about the story of this guy would be great
I was waiting for this one for so long
Another excellent video! 📺
_Long live the PS Vita !_ 🎮
Perfect timing, just got a slim vita today. Impressive little system, can't wait to dive into it \m/
I was waiting for this. The jailbreak helped me fall in love with my vita again and get me interested in homebrew in general
What a system
I remember as a kid in the late 90's, drawing a PS Vita like system and sending it into a Gaming magazine. Much before the PSP was a thing - picture two Vita's hinged together, one layer for games and the other just a phone.
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS
I'm happy to see another great video from MVG.
Can I make a video request?
Can you do a video that walks through the Doom source code for modders?
"Honey wake up, a new MVG Mistakes Were Made episode just got released" :D
I inherited a PS Vita from my late friend and I modded it for custom firmware. It’s an underrated portable console, which is quite powerful.
1:20
Juuust over 12 minutes. Subtle!
What I was surprised about modded vita's is the fact that it will still connect to PSN without a fuss. Even if you're on older software.
This system was so nice, I hacked it twice; first one being temporary, then just recently, making it permanent. Fell in love with the system all over again cause now not only can I play PSP and PS1 games, I can also play over ad-hoc with my sister who has a PSP. It's awesome!
drop yo psn bro
Critically underrated handheld not only from a hacking perspective, but also just in general.
Sony likes to shoot themselves in the foot. The very same mistakes they made with the PSP they made for the PS Vita. It was too expensive, it had proprietary hardware, and it was too focused on other media rather than games. I could count piracy as a reason but Nintendo has had that problem on all their handhelds and they’ve owned that market for decades. But yeah, piracy also.
thank you so much I was waiting for this video since I discovered this amazing Chanel 🔥🔥keep up the great work 💪
when the intro music hit, u know it's gonna be a good vid.
I remember taking a hard pass on it when it came out, but in the last few years they've really grown on me. The ports within the last year have more than kept it alive. It's just such a nice little console.
Once the predatory priced memory card prices and no UMD support news was released I walked away and never looked back
@@JohnSmith-xq1pz Same, and now with the Nintendo Switch there's no reason to ever own a Vita.
@@Zeriel00 Yup. I'm planning to find the original model switch with the unpatchable exploit and enjoy thumbing my nose at Nintendo'nt and the rest of them
Btw
Nep nep love Nep nep is life but Nepgear is best Waifu 👍
@Bob Duckington check in /r/vitahacks
@@Zeriel00steam deck too
I remember when the Henkaku exploit chain was first released, exciting times.
Thanks Yifan/Molecule!
I would have loved to hear more technical details about how the exploits worked. This video is more like **when** the PS Vita Security was defeated, but not actually **how**. You've just provided a timeline. The exploits for this system are pretty original and cool, and I was hoping to see a simple, high-level description of how the exploits worked.
The Vita was such a remarkable handheld. Way ahead of it’s time. Thanks to awesome features like cross-game Party Chat (something the Switch still doesn’t have today as of Feb 2022) I made a lot of friends on PSN. Many of which have become very close friends that I still keep in contact with today.
Really incredible to get such sophisticated online console features and social features on a handheld that came out in 2012
Till this day, I am absolutely surprised to what the homebrew community are able to pull out of the vita. A modded vita opens the door to so much homebrew, games and emulators.
These videos are so addictive
I'm sad you didn't mention the trinity exploit that was the type of hack I dreamed would happen for it when I first heard about the vita. Great video as usual though! 😁
Thanks MVG,I love these videos, always learning from you !
I am so glad that I picked up a PSTV when it was discontinued. it is such a versatile and portable piece of kit once it has been hacked. I have also hacked my PS Vita but don't use it as much as PSTV.
The fact that i was watching vita videos then refreshed t the recommended page and saw this video is amazing also could you show us how to record a ps vita screen without jailbreaking it
Playstation Vita TV and HDMI splitter
@@bit4795 i wanna record cod declassified it doesnt support ps tv
@@S1RB4T Then it's impossible to get raw footage and your only option is to point a camera at the screen.
@@MrFwibbles well i’ll try to find a good way to out put video and audio other than the old 2009 method of pointing your camera
I want the official MVG soundtrack as a download. Loving the music!
It's always a beautiful morning when MVG uploads
I've had my PS Vita for 9 years but as well as play games on it I mainly use it for playing music through a Bluetooth device at birthday parties for my young niece & nephew.
Modded my Vita after watching your video on the PS Store potentially closing. It really was easy and SO worth it. Outside of Persona 4 Golden I haven't really touched it before I had CFW on it, but since then it's amazing what the little handheld can do, and I haven't even been able to put it down since.
What’s so unique about this story? Nothing because the same story happened on the ps3,everytime a hacker succeeded to beat the security system,then sony did come with a firmware update and so on and so forth,the only thing am amezed about is that the psvita will be 10 years old this year.
Just ordered a new joystick for my vita. Can't wait to start using it again
Great episode. I never really gave the Vita a go until today. I think the handheld is mindblowing even now in 2024. Sony should have invested more into this thing.
HELL YEAH another MVG video!
Hmm, what happened with the "Mistakes Were Made" video thumbnail? :)
Thanks for the video! I really appreciate your work.
One of these days, I have got to get my hands on a 1000 series Vita. This is so neat, and I regret that the PSP is not beefy enough to run 3D games.
The Vita is a total homebrew beast, installing retroach and adrenaline, plus the psx games gives you nearly 2 decades of retro games in just one portable console.
I'm glad I bought a PSVita when I was able to pay for it. With the emulators I was able to play again so many old games, it looks really impressive with that beautiful oled screen!
You among other things is the reason I have 3 vita 1000s from EB and recently a PSTV I ebayed from the UK. . I love them all and I must thank you for your videos. Big love from Sydney
I started collecting Vita's 2 years ago after watching your videos, PSP's too-1000/2000/3000/Go/Phone.
This is a perfect summation of the homebrew and hacking scene. From all the consoles i have played to date, I've been following the Vita scene since I got mine right before henkaku in 2016. Been checking daily on wololo and was following theflow to see what they were up to and getting excited for enso on 3.65, since it allowed us to play newer games since the key change and loading homebrew on startup. Thank you for this video, it made me relive the moments of discoveries and releases in the vita hacking scene.
This is probably just stupid, but I'm so glad you didn't use the "mistakes were made" line on this 🙌🏻
I haven't touched my vita in a year, I played it yesterday and today this video comes out. Weird coincidence.
Awesome video bro
Given I've had the Vita super close to launch, I was there when all of this was going down! That was an exciting time for gamers to be alive!
I remember getting a vita on release day when I was 14, I then spent a whole year checking wololo's blog every day just to see if an exploit came out