NOTE: I have some misinformation in my video , at 3:39 i suggest to upgrade to 3.68 if your firmware is higher than 3.60. The recommendation is DO NOT update past 3.65 in this instance as you will lose the ability to apply Enso
Modern Vintage Gamer don’t update past 3.60 cause you need to be on 3.60 at least to use 3.65 Enso. Otherwise the hcore exploit is out so all versions past 3.60 can do henkaku it just not permanent.
sithseven its not bad advice. 3.68 allows you to play newer title games that require 3.68 FW. Anything below that is primarily for keeping the Henkaku Permanent. How much energy does it take to reinstall the exploit? Not much since all you do is click on the hencore bubble on 3.68 and reinstall henkaku. Within 5 sec your back on hacks. He gave great advice.
I disagree, i feell telling someone on 3.61-3.65 to upgrade is really quite bad. No games need >3.65, psn is accessible and I think the flow will release a 3.68 safe upgrader for enzo units.
Virtual21 The Fat is cheaper and runs games better and has a blu Ray drive and can streams services. Probably not all of them anymore because of how old it is
@@ryanishungry7409 I can confirm PSN, TH-cam, Netflix, PS Store, TV apps etc all still do work on the PS3, flawlessly, with the exception of 4oD, which has always been shit and pretty unsupported by channel 4 (UK only) still works, but just, shit as always
What made the Ps1 competitive enough to be bought over a free download of emulators?
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@@nooneinpart Is it? Isn't it the other way around? Quad-core A9 (v7-A, 32 kB I&D cache, 128 kB - 8 MB L2 cache) 0.8-2 GHz vs quad-core A35 (v8-A 1.5 GHz) 512 MB vs 1 GB RAM quad-core Power VR SGX543MP4+ vs Power VR GE8300. www.notebookcheck.net/PowerVR-SGX543MP4.115852.0.html 3DMark - Ice Storm Extreme Graphics 1920x1080: 2713 points. 3DMark - Ice Storm Extreme Graphics 1920x1080: 4908 points. Though as it can run PSP and PS Vita stuff it may be more useful.
Anyone watching this in MAY 2019, there is a exploit for 3.70 I will update comment once this exploit is patched, if it gets patched. Edit: 3.71/3.72 has been released. There is a exploit out now. If I was you grab a vita / PS TV now!
Just to note, I've worked on Vita development. The PS Vita TV compatibility is set by the developers (usually). So if there was ever a game that should support it (i.e without much back panel integration) but didn't, you can be sure it was possibly missed by them. The few games I've worked on 100% work on it. I made sure of that.
I actually bought two PSTVs - one to play the newest games, and another to keep on the lowest firmware I could because I KNEW it'd get homebrewed at some point. Considering I only paid $25 for one of them, it wasn't even a costly risk. Glad it's finally paying off. Really is a damn shame Sony drops these sort of things before they even start running with them. If Sony had played their cards right, they could have figured out some way to integrate the Vita and the PSTV and beat Nintendo to the market with the whole "console + handheld at the same time" gimmick. But, Sony can't stand to put effort into anything that isn't immediately making them money.
They wouldn't beat Nintendo. Nintendo is too big for them when it comes to handhelds. If the PSP couldn't do it (and I love my SNES Emulator on it), nothing will do it.
All they really need to do is keep the new Vita or whatever it would be called the same style/shape and just upgrade the chip to 5G and get rid of their cards and instant success!!!
Oclockvita is really good! It lets you increase your vita's cpu to it's actual amount. Apparently Sony purposedly lowered it by a lot to make battery life better, but it runs games like Borderlands 2 a lot better with the full cpu at access
If you upgrade to only 3.65 you can still install Enso and not have to re-exploit the system on every boot. I don't think there's many games that require 3.67/68. I'm mostly interested in the Vita for homebrew and emulation, so it doesn't matter to me. And we haven't needed the Adrenaline "Easy Installer" since Adrenaline 6. Just install the VPK.
Yes, for some reason the vita guide still recommends 3.60 I think adrenaline belongs on a Vita and not pstv cuz the resolution of extremely low and a vita is dirt cheap nowadays
In my opinion I think all they would have had to do was add a patch to where if you used a PS4 controller the touchscreen on it would function like the PS Vita allowing you to play the entire library.
This is incredible. Thank you MVG for giving me a new project to tackle! Now just gotta dig up my PS TV lol. It’s at the bottom of a box in an attic somewhere
Just another example of the difference between what a console can do and what the financial department of a company wants you to be able to do with it. Keep it coming homebrew creators, you are the modern day Robin Hoods.
Thanks so much for this tutorial! I have two PSTVs I've pretty much never ever used sitting in a drawer. I got them cheap and pre-owned, and all I've done is test them and put them away. My plan was to exploit/mod one and use the other to link to my PS4 for streaming to another TV. Both are fortunately on low firmware versions. However, when I looked into it, everything seemed really complicated; not what to do, but the choice of exploits and benefits of which to use. I was scared to ruin my PSTVs, so I just put them away for a rainy day. This video is the sort of thing I've been looking for since then! Now all I need are some memory cards... no idea where to get those! :(
This is really exciting to me! I did have a PS Vita with henkaku last year but I had to sell it so the fact that I can get a cheaper alternative that I can play on my big screen is so cool! I would absolutely be instant watch more content about the PlayStation Vita Homebrew scene! Keep up the excellent work!
Solid video, dude! I still need to update my consoles to 3.65 since it comes with the added benefits of a permanent install, newer games running, and PSN access if you choose to do that. I'm curious though, why do you prefer to drop in a payload again as opposed to Enso?
just personal choice. Enso is rock solid but prefer something that doesn't permanently alter your system. Also bricks - www.reddit.com/r/vitahacks/comments/8v701k/psa_do_not_updatereinstall_360_and_then_also/
I have two PS TVs, it's kind of a lost cause. I visited these techniques about a year ago and, at the end of the day, there's just more convenient ways to play the same games on more modern consoles. The biggest disappointment of this whole PS TV story is the fact that it originally had a youtube application that suddenly disappeared. As far as I'm concerned, a youtube app at this point is pretty mandatory for any modern connected system.
Ehhhhh. I don't know. I love that youtube app, ya know? ;) The PS TV situation could have played out a lot better, and people would still be using it. Not sure what they were thinking.
thehaxfactory I'd rather not have "SMART" TV myself as they will eventually just end up like the PSVita unsupported without updates as companies want you to buy a new model. I'd rather just upgrade a cheap small box like a ROKU Express, or ROKU HDMI stick for all my streaming needs, and SONY could have taken a lot of that market share if only they had give it support, standard SD cards, and dropped the back touch pad on the VITA thus making all games compatible with the PSTV, and the ones that use the touch screen could have worked with a dual shock 4's front touch pad. So your excuse of that smart TV only cost $350 for the $K model, and the 1080p is only $150, you know what, that pays a lot of bills around my house instead of throwing it away on again something that more than likely will be outdated, and unsupported in a few years, and I would know as I was an early ROKU adopter, and recently over the past almost 2 years have had to upgrade all my ROKU boxes to express, express + and ROKU HDMI sticks while still saving my good TV's and costing less then a new 4K "Smart TV's", and that's 8 ROKU devices I upgraded for about $260 USD over that 2 year period.
MrDmoney156 agreed, plus why get rid of a good working TV with a "SMART" TV that's gonna become outdated, and unsupported in a few years. I would have loved a PS Vita on each of my HD TV's but as it stands all of them now have ROKU boxes instead, and when they become outdated, I can just replace them as needed for at cheap as $27 each while still keeping my good TV's.
Guess what I'll be doing this weekend? :D Thanks for the head's up. My PSTV is actually sitting right next to my TV, but it's not plugged up. It will be soon, though.
It's sad that the home-brew folks do more with Sony products than Sony does. Props to everybody out there creating and contributing to the home-brew scene. You guys rock!
This is fantastic - I was not aware that there is a workaround for that super expensive memory card. Knowing you can use a USB drive instead now - that's a gamechanger.GReat video, thanks for posting!
I just picked one up for 8 bucks at a flea market, not really knowing what it is. Glad to catch this video. Sounds like a great deal. Perhaps turning it into a nice portable device that hooks up to a TV...
Sony had no clue what they were doing. They were making record losses. The PS4 really saved the company. Until that point, literally every Sony division was running a loss.
The PS4 is the ONLY thing keeping Sony afloat. Their disasters with Sony Pictures and Entertainment and the Consumer Electronics divisions are proof Sony is on life support. If they don't hit it out of the park with PS5, they could be doomed. Especially with Project One X and the Nintendo Switch Lite and Pro. Hit it or quit it Sony you ain't got much time if you lose the lead.
@@deathstrike well said, they already handed over their hosting for psn over too Microsoft. That's why we see cross play on cod now. I can see Microsoft adding windows 10 to their new system and it WILL kill Sony in my opinion. Once 5g is rolled out Google stadia will be the next step after ps5 etc.
@@cfoodsmella1041 Exactly! Sony who once started the 3d gaming revolution, is now beginning to fall a big behind as it does not really have a backup like Microsoft. Even if the XBOX failed, their IP's alone and Windows 10 and their Surface tablet lines would easily keep them afloat. Nintendo needs not worry as they got 2 massive successes (Switch and Lite) and are the last of the "pick up and play" systems. And Sony? No Vita successor, no VR successor, and no other backup. As for Stadia, I like the idea and it's solid, providing Google doesn't just kick it to the curb like their other projects (Google Plus and Google Glass) and the appeal of an "any device anywhere" is very strong. Just hope that bandwidth (especially in the US) gets better as that is what is killing Stadia for all but a lucky few with good internet speed.
I still have my PS TV that I couldnt get homebrew on, so I tore it apart took a look at the internals. Years later, its now just a motherboard I use to play Vita games. What a great system!
Sony took the piss with the Vita. As if the original PSP 2000 & 3000 could be connected to a big screen tv but they took that feature away from the Vita. Don't set the bar then lower it yourselves sony. Just saw your psp iso's in adrenaline, you can use a programme on PC i believe is called PSP ISO Renamer and it renames the iso files properly for you
wow you could do that with the psp but not the vita unless pstv? woww, the whole vita/psp legacy is just a shame, when the vita came out, I loved the hardware, I didn't buy it myself, but I thought the hardware was impressive and hypothetically what everyone wanted; another stick and I think almost simultanious apps running(?) , real shame.
YASPENA Yeah you could connect the original PSP 2000/3000 to a tv but they inexplicably removed it from the Vita. And yes you could have multiple apps running simultaneously on Vita, but the game library was so small and petty compared to the og PSP. Only thing missing from the 2000/3000 was bluetooth so if you did connect it to a tv you'd have to use the psp as the controller which is a slight downfall but still better than no TV output at all. PSP go had bluetooth so it could be connected to a tv and played like a proper console but they're more expensive, have a smaller screen and from what i've read more prone to faliure
@bigevilworldwide1 So you have buy a whole new system and memory cards to play on a tv when its the same thing you already bought. No one wants to have to buy it twice, swap game cards around and keep save files synced, the vita should of had a tv port but they removed it presumably to sell pstv's, which didn't really work. Also many vita games aren't playable on pstv without CFW.
@bigevilworldwide1 That's their point. Why would you pay $100 for the privilege of connecting the device you already own to the TV. A device mind you that was falling and disliked and with the direct predecessor being able to connect while working with all the games.
If you are on Firmware 3.61 for example, update to 3.65 or 3.67 NOT 3.68. 3.68 DOES NOT have a coldboot exploit where the lower versions do. This way you will not need to run the exploit each time you turn off your system, like on 3.68 firmware.
@Modern Vintage Gamer This is awsome and i got to try this out on my vita tv. I also found one for 20$. The store had 2 so i got one for my brother. We start playing on nes and now with the emulators, we relieve the good old times. Thanks for the information.
In hindsight, I should've picked up a PS TV when I had a chance! I didn't think there would be a big homebrew scene showing up on the Vita! Great video, good sir!
Thought PSV Homebrew was dead for everyone with a Vita or PSTV over 3.65... Thanks god it is possible to use HENKAKU since July 1st on 3.65+ Thanks for keeping us up to date and greetings from Germany 👍
A year late to this but still rad! Thanks for great episode @Modern Vintage Gamer! I went out to the local retro home console game store but no luck for vita tv, online they go for $80 - $150, ridiculous!
Great video for raising awareness on your channel MVG! Its a shame that Sony left the PS TV and Vita to die. Skullator showed a whitelist hack on his channel a year ago and it works on the latest firmware 3.68.
Vita is not dead, the PSTV is. Vita is still a good system, people are whining about Vita, where in reality the whining is connected only to games and memory cards being overpriced and that's why people are saying that Vita is dead and everyone should steal... oh, sorry, I mean pirate and mod them.
I had a PS Vita with 3.65 waiting for this moment to arrive. I’ve never had the ability to play that manu awesome games in one single device. I’m no sony fanboy but I can say that the hacked vita is much more fun than a switch (imho). Great vid btw! Amazing content modern vintage gamer!
Great video with great .Mod music. Looks like if I come across a cheap PSTV I'll have to snatch it up, and give some of this a go, that is if I can find a cheap 8GB PSVita memory card, and PS3/PS4 controller. lol! Having said that the price of the memory cards, and not all the games working is what stopped me from getting a PSTV when it was new, same can be said about the memory cards for the PSVita(price of the system did not help either).
With homebrew the Vita and PSTV can use sd cards with a cheap adapter, but if you just going with the PSTV its even easier to use a USB drive. There's almost no need to have an official memory card unless you have an OLED model with no internal memory to work with.
chronossage I've heard of varying results with the adapters of some not working at all, and some working but flaky depending on the SD card used, and from the ones I've looked up on Amazon by the time you get one of the adapters, and an SD card it's about the same price as a PSVita memory card, plus on a PSVita don't they stick out the top? if so seems like they would be easy to break. having to use an adapter like this, or hack the system to use an industry standard such as a USB flash drive is just piss poor design on Sony's part.
Commodorefan64 All the adaptors fit inside the game card slot with only a couple of the earlier versions sometimes requiring some sanding of the top corners of the adaptor to get the flap perfectly closed and only on the vita slim model. As for price you could buy and official 64gb memory card for a hundred dollars or more. But I bought a 256gb SD card, and 2 adaptors for the same price. And to be perfectly honest one of my two adaptors didn't works from the get go but I got a refund and the one that works has been fine for months now. Also you said you wanted a pstv in your initial post, and you don't even need to worry about adaptors as that has a built in USB port. So you can use way cheaper thumb driver, or even hard drives on. You just have to be careful with hard drives as the USB port doesn't supply alot of power itself so you might want a hard drive with its own power brick, or which ones others have used successfully. Some people have pstv's with 1 or 2 terabytes for storage.
My PSTV story is pretty much the same as yours. Ive had it for a couple of years, but its been collecting dust for about 2 years now. Im really excited to try and put some of this stuff on there and really revitalize this cheap little system as a nice emulation and nostalgia box!
Hi, no doubt that with this video I will use again my PS TV. I have one because was a promotion that offered the PS TV with purchase of PS4 Headset, and soon after I storage the device. Thanks for this video, I will relive the device to use console emulation.
Air Zonk... It's a Turbo Graphix 16 game or pce game in Japan, there's also Super Air Zonk. It's Bonk but in shmup style. You can play it on emulators.
Great video which introduced me to the PStv. Picked one up cheap and it's my go to for playing PS1 games. I prefer the display options of a hacked PStv compared to playing PS1 on PS3. I've had some good results using it with MClassic.
Another great video MVG. I didn't even know Sony released a VitaTV. Must had been a stillborn product when it was released here in the UK, if it ever was released here in the UK.
As far as I know, every PlayStation TV units shipped to us had 3.60 installed already. So if you have a brand new PlayStation TV, you're good to go out of the box. I love the PlayStation TV myself, I have 2: one to play legit and one for modding like this.
KoTerrors well I stand corrected. I bought 2 altogether, one I got for $30 from GameStop for the standalone, and one from Walmart bundled with the dualshock 3, 8gb card, as well as Lego the movie game and sly Cooper game for $40. Both had 3.60 but admittedly they were clearance models so they could have been later skus.
Damn man thanks for all of this. I had no clue a new exploit was out for us that upgraded our firmware too much I will definitely give it a try when I have the time.
you just answered my prayers. really wanted you to do a scope on the vita and bam there you are. thanks so much for the vid and get involved a port or two ;)
I remember when I was young, I downloaded a bunch on ps1 games, and with a soft, I could convert them to psp games. I had a lot of great games (with a cfw). But I f*cked up with the cfw and bricked the console, and I couldn't but a Pandora battery or a magic memory stick to revive it. I'd like to find a working one, even used for 20/30$. I never had the psvita, because when it came out I was 13, and I didn't have enough money
Without homebrew about 45% of the vita library is playable. With homebrew and using a DS4, does anyone have a rough estimate of how many games are playable with a reasonable amount of struggle? I’d love to get a vita, but playing them on a TV is more appealing, and I want to make sure I’m not missing out on some really cool games that won’t work on the PSTV
It was mostly only the earliest Vita games that used touchscreen gimmicks. I'd estimate at least 90% of the games past the launch window didn't bother with them and would be perfectly playable with this whitelister.
Another great video. It's funny though, I actually use my PSTV the most for the one thing you didn't cover in this video - Original PlayStation emulation. It's excellent on PSTV.
All of these third-party groups that make some products so much better, why can’t the actual company that make the product make the differences themselves and stop being lazy and money hordes.
I modded mine a few months ago with Henkaku but you've supplied additional information I wasn't aware of, ESPECIALLY with the idea of getting a USB flash drive.
Ryan A But you can't take your $2000 PC with you and play it on the move, such a stupid comparison. For example my 100$ (that's how much I got mine second and for) Ps Vita can run any emulator up to PS1, plus any Vita games I want as well.
I can't believe someone actually traded a bag of weed for a PSTV, I mean who does that? If it was a firestick, with USB adapter, I'd understand... but for a PSTV? Man, if only that guy knew he was getting ripped off... hehe. How much he was getting ripped off, depends on how big the bag is. LOL.
I've heard that into track before. It was an old MOD or S3M from back in the early demo scene days. I even used it in my old Turbo Pascal emag I used to write for the ascii art scene th-cam.com/video/ncjI1zWQwQE/w-d-xo.html
NOTE: I have some misinformation in my video , at 3:39 i suggest to upgrade to 3.68 if your firmware is higher than 3.60. The recommendation is DO NOT update past 3.65 in this instance as you will lose the ability to apply Enso
Modern Vintage Gamer don’t update past 3.60 cause you need to be on 3.60 at least to use 3.65 Enso. Otherwise the hcore exploit is out so all versions past 3.60 can do henkaku it just not permanent.
U should fix this with annotation or editing or pull vid cause that is a really bad advice..
sithseven its not bad advice. 3.68 allows you to play newer title games that require 3.68 FW. Anything below that is primarily for keeping the Henkaku Permanent. How much energy does it take to reinstall the exploit? Not much since all you do is click on the hencore bubble on 3.68 and reinstall henkaku. Within 5 sec your back on hacks. He gave great advice.
Modern Vintage Gamer That little word of mouth can definitely work wonders for the PSTV
I disagree, i feell telling someone on 3.61-3.65 to upgrade is really quite bad. No games need >3.65, psn is accessible and I think the flow will release a 3.68 safe upgrader for enzo units.
The saddest thing is that the PSTV absolutely destroys the PS Classic, even at emulating the PS1... Ironic.
i just recently got rid of the PSTV and got me a Ps3 Fat one that plays the old PS1 and Ps2 games upscaled and Smooth which is absolute Epic...
@@SugarRainer Hell yeah dude! My only problem is that fat ps3 models are very faulty and they yellow light. And I dont know a fix either. :/
Virtual21 The Fat is cheaper and runs games better and has a blu Ray drive and can streams services. Probably not all of them anymore because of how old it is
RyanIsHungry All PS3 model have BlueRay drive.
@@ryanishungry7409 I can confirm PSN, TH-cam, Netflix, PS Store, TV apps etc all still do work on the PS3, flawlessly, with the exception of 4oD, which has always been shit and pretty unsupported by channel 4 (UK only) still works, but just, shit as always
The PS1 "Classic" really should have just been this in a PS1-themed case...
Seriously. Slap a better UI on it and ship it with some PS1 games pre-installed and it'd rock.
What made the Ps1 competitive enough to be bought over a free download of emulators?
@@nooneinpart Is it? Isn't it the other way around?
Quad-core A9 (v7-A, 32 kB I&D cache, 128 kB - 8 MB L2 cache) 0.8-2 GHz vs quad-core A35 (v8-A 1.5 GHz)
512 MB vs 1 GB RAM
quad-core Power VR SGX543MP4+ vs Power VR GE8300.
www.notebookcheck.net/PowerVR-SGX543MP4.115852.0.html
3DMark - Ice Storm Extreme Graphics 1920x1080: 2713 points.
3DMark - Ice Storm Extreme Graphics 1920x1080: 4908 points.
Though as it can run PSP and PS Vita stuff it may be more useful.
@@nooneinpart psx games run flawless on vita/tv ,psp games as well
Use 3d printer boi
I don't own a PSTV, nor have I ever heard of it, but I'm still watching this. MVG's tutorials are like tech asmr to me lmao
Oh my, tech asmr 😂.
Best way to describe it
Anyone watching this in MAY 2019, there is a exploit for 3.70
I will update comment once this exploit is patched, if it gets patched.
Edit: 3.71/3.72 has been released. There is a exploit out now. If I was you grab a vita / PS TV now!
No update?
@@treborkroy5280 not yet
New hack for 3.71 grab it at psxhax. Com
Also watching in 2019 and wish I got one of these for 40 bucks. 395 new in box, or 192 used. LOL Wow.
All versions up to 3.73 are hackable as up 10/19
Why wouldnt they just include the ps4 controller and make the touchpad on the front work in place of the rear touch panel on the vita?
Exactly what I was thinking. At the very least require the blacklisted games to have the DS4, instead of just blocking them.
It was half-assed like the PS Classic, this not bode well for the PS5
You can use it.
Aye I'm subbed to you :)
@@REACTIONGAMING100 Great to hear! Small world! :)
Just to note, I've worked on Vita development. The PS Vita TV compatibility is set by the developers (usually). So if there was ever a game that should support it (i.e without much back panel integration) but didn't, you can be sure it was possibly missed by them.
The few games I've worked on 100% work on it. I made sure of that.
What games did you create for the platform? I've been considering picking up a PS TV recently
Install Hentai, got it. Thanks.
Rusty Shakelferd already done ;)
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@Dante S. You sir have been sent to r/wooooooooosh
I remember when these things hit $10 at local stores. I hate that I didn't buy one or a hundred.
Cheapest you'll find them unopened now is about $150.
DannyWilliamH I got mine free.
I got mine for like 30 bucks
I think I saw a few new for $60 a year or two ago, now there around $150-$200 for one new.
DannyWilliamH I got mines for 80$ two weeks ago got it only for ps4 which I got yesterday gonna use it for Crunchyroll and remote play only
Got mine for like 50 with a DS3 controller, gotta love the firesale
Wow!! thanks for featuring my video, I only just found out! 😁 Great channel btw!
Tech James Your channel is so helpfull.
@@learninglinux.zenx.7593 true
I swear to god MVG, You have got to be one of the only channels that uses classic mods like spacedebris in videos, and its absolutely perfect.
This exploit give new life to my PSVita, usually my Vita stayed home, now I'm looking forward to travel with it
I wish they made the memory cards not totally expensive
Agreed to that, it's one of the main things that stopped me from getting a PSVita, and PSTV(well besides all the games that did not work).
Commodorefan64 well thats why i got the pstv
I hacked it to use flash drives
Just type the ultimate pstv hack and you will see the video
There is an alternative to that you can use a SD2VITA card
Get an sd2vita adapter v5 I have a 200gb micro SD card in my game slot works like a dream
IQuantum LifeStyle I know of them, how well do they work?
Join the scene!
^this
the man, the myth, the legend
TheFloW absolutely!! Mvg would be great on the vita scene!
Master! :O
OMG... the Man himself is here!
I actually bought two PSTVs - one to play the newest games, and another to keep on the lowest firmware I could because I KNEW it'd get homebrewed at some point. Considering I only paid $25 for one of them, it wasn't even a costly risk. Glad it's finally paying off.
Really is a damn shame Sony drops these sort of things before they even start running with them. If Sony had played their cards right, they could have figured out some way to integrate the Vita and the PSTV and beat Nintendo to the market with the whole "console + handheld at the same time" gimmick. But, Sony can't stand to put effort into anything that isn't immediately making them money.
Paying off? Lol! Where the expensive memory cards free?
Would your consider selling one? I'd pay more than you bought them for.
They wouldn't beat Nintendo. Nintendo is too big for them when it comes to handhelds. If the PSP couldn't do it (and I love my SNES Emulator on it), nothing will do it.
@@fabolousninenine30 I don't know, maybe if they spend some time working on it more they could do something good but only time will tell.
All they really need to do is keep the new Vita or whatever it would be called the same style/shape and just upgrade the chip to 5G and get rid of their cards and instant success!!!
Imagine if they re-released the PSTV not only as a vita but also as a streaming box for full console games. It would sell pretty well
Good stuff! I was excited to buy mine and then never used it due to the memory card cost xD
EposVox If you hack your system you can be able to use your sd card with an adaptor that goes to the game card slot. The sd2vita adapter is worth it.
Yaya, that adapter only came out like last year.
I've seen some cheap ones on amazon used and their great so far
Oclockvita is really good! It lets you increase your vita's cpu to it's actual amount. Apparently Sony purposedly lowered it by a lot to make battery life better, but it runs games like Borderlands 2 a lot better with the full cpu at access
If you upgrade to only 3.65 you can still install Enso and not have to re-exploit the system on every boot. I don't think there's many games that require 3.67/68. I'm mostly interested in the Vita for homebrew and emulation, so it doesn't matter to me.
And we haven't needed the Adrenaline "Easy Installer" since Adrenaline 6. Just install the VPK.
Yes, for some reason the vita guide still recommends 3.60
I think adrenaline belongs on a Vita and not pstv cuz the resolution of extremely low and a vita is dirt cheap nowadays
I am one of those few people that actually loved the Vita's UI. It was quirky and unique and the system music is memorable too.
In my opinion I think all they would have had to do was add a patch to where if you used a PS4 controller the touchscreen on it would function like the PS Vita allowing you to play the entire library.
Looks like I may need to dust off my "Persona 4 Golden player" and put it to use
This system is absolutely phenomenal. I still use mine regularly for great RPGs and visual novels.
This is incredible. Thank you MVG for giving me a new project to tackle!
Now just gotta dig up my PS TV lol. It’s at the bottom of a box in an attic somewhere
Just another example of the difference between what a console can do and what the financial department of a company wants you to be able to do with it. Keep it coming homebrew creators, you are the modern day Robin Hoods.
I love how emulation adds so much extra life to dead and unsupported games, these games will never fade away, great work 🤘🏼
Just got my first PSTV and came straight here to start wrapping my head around modding it!
Thanks so much for this tutorial! I have two PSTVs I've pretty much never ever used sitting in a drawer. I got them cheap and pre-owned, and all I've done is test them and put them away. My plan was to exploit/mod one and use the other to link to my PS4 for streaming to another TV. Both are fortunately on low firmware versions. However, when I looked into it, everything seemed really complicated; not what to do, but the choice of exploits and benefits of which to use. I was scared to ruin my PSTVs, so I just put them away for a rainy day. This video is the sort of thing I've been looking for since then! Now all I need are some memory cards... no idea where to get those! :(
This is really exciting to me! I did have a PS Vita with henkaku last year but I had to sell it so the fact that I can get a cheaper alternative that I can play on my big screen is so cool! I would absolutely be instant watch more content about the PlayStation Vita Homebrew scene! Keep up the excellent work!
Solid video, dude! I still need to update my consoles to 3.65 since it comes with the added benefits of a permanent install, newer games running, and PSN access if you choose to do that. I'm curious though, why do you prefer to drop in a payload again as opposed to Enso?
just personal choice. Enso is rock solid but prefer something that doesn't permanently alter your system. Also bricks - www.reddit.com/r/vitahacks/comments/8v701k/psa_do_not_updatereinstall_360_and_then_also/
PSN access without ban? How?
No one ever got banned using a hacked Vita... so the answer to how is how to even get banned on the VIta :D ?
I'm still waiting with my Enso 3.65 Vitas and PSTV. Having to use Mai dumps is a huge negative in my opinion.
@Jake why would you use Mai Dumps if there is the NPS or PKGj
Thing I love about the PS TV is it's form factor, I'd truely love to see an Android TV box with the same shape and connectivity as of the PSTV
6:45 HEY! That reminds me of the "Letter Bomb" exploit on the Nintendo Wii! :D
Some legit nostalgia hit me from that music, Amiga forever!
I have two PS TVs, it's kind of a lost cause. I visited these techniques about a year ago and, at the end of the day, there's just more convenient ways to play the same games on more modern consoles. The biggest disappointment of this whole PS TV story is the fact that it originally had a youtube application that suddenly disappeared. As far as I'm concerned, a youtube app at this point is pretty mandatory for any modern connected system.
The TH-cam app wasnt great. A much better method which still works is to just use the browser
Ehhhhh. I don't know. I love that youtube app, ya know? ;) The PS TV situation could have played out a lot better, and people would still be using it. Not sure what they were thinking.
thehaxfactory Not everyone has the cash to get a 4K Roku television and the PlayStation TV could've been their cheaper solution
thehaxfactory I'd rather not have "SMART" TV myself as they will eventually just end up like the PSVita unsupported without updates as companies want you to buy a new model. I'd rather just upgrade a cheap small box like a ROKU Express, or ROKU HDMI stick for all my streaming needs, and SONY could have taken a lot of that market share if only they had give it support, standard SD cards, and dropped the back touch pad on the VITA thus making all games compatible with the PSTV, and the ones that use the touch screen could have worked with a dual shock 4's front touch pad. So your excuse of that smart TV only cost $350 for the $K model, and the 1080p is only $150, you know what, that pays a lot of bills around my house instead of throwing it away on again something that more than likely will be outdated, and unsupported in a few years, and I would know as I was an early ROKU adopter, and recently over the past almost 2 years have had to upgrade all my ROKU boxes to express, express + and ROKU HDMI sticks while still saving my good TV's and costing less then a new 4K "Smart TV's", and that's 8 ROKU devices I upgraded for about $260 USD over that 2 year period.
MrDmoney156 agreed, plus why get rid of a good working TV with a "SMART" TV that's gonna become outdated, and unsupported in a few years. I would have loved a PS Vita on each of my HD TV's but as it stands all of them now have ROKU boxes instead, and when they become outdated, I can just replace them as needed for at cheap as $27 each while still keeping my good TV's.
"at the bottom of my office drawers, never to be used again"
*Puts it at the topmost drawer*
But it’s at the bottom of that drawer. He never said ‘bottom drawer’.
@@Brinta3 mfw joke
Nice! My dad works in the army so we have to move a lot and we’ll stay at hotels for short times so I can use this at them
Man i wish I had known about the possibilities of these before the price exploded. Def worth the $30-$50
Guess what I'll be doing this weekend? :D Thanks for the head's up. My PSTV is actually sitting right next to my TV, but it's not plugged up. It will be soon, though.
It's sad that the home-brew folks do more with Sony products than Sony does. Props to everybody out there creating and contributing to the home-brew scene. You guys rock!
By the way, did you know that you can play PSP and PS Vita-related fighting games on your PS TV/PS Vita TV with a PS3/PS4 arcade stick?
This is fantastic - I was not aware that there is a workaround for that super expensive memory card. Knowing you can use a USB drive instead now - that's a gamechanger.GReat video, thanks for posting!
About the external memory, you can get an "adapter" to use microsd in the cartridge slot...
I think a back story of the ps vita homebrew scene would be an interesting topic to explore. Keep up the great videos.
I now want a pstv. So glad they finally got around that limitation.
Time to play Windjammers!
Get it before it gets super expensive
Yeah, I should. We all know that this video will make the device go up $100 on eBay.
MightySquirrel Spoke to soon... it definitely reached up there now! especially on Amazon.com it's going for $110 - $154.99
@@MrDmoney156 its about almost 200$now
I just picked one up for 8 bucks at a flea market, not really knowing what it is. Glad to catch this video. Sounds like a great deal. Perhaps turning it into a nice portable device that hooks up to a TV...
Sony:
2013: Launch the PSTV
2015: Release TVs run Android
Sony had no clue what they were doing. They were making record losses. The PS4 really saved the company. Until that point, literally every Sony division was running a loss.
They lost over $4.5b with the PS3
The PS4 is the ONLY thing keeping Sony afloat. Their disasters with Sony Pictures and Entertainment and the Consumer Electronics divisions are proof Sony is on life support. If they don't hit it out of the park with PS5, they could be doomed. Especially with Project One X and the Nintendo Switch Lite and Pro. Hit it or quit it Sony you ain't got much time if you lose the lead.
@@deathstrike well said, they already handed over their hosting for psn over too Microsoft. That's why we see cross play on cod now. I can see Microsoft adding windows 10 to their new system and it WILL kill Sony in my opinion. Once 5g is rolled out Google stadia will be the next step after ps5 etc.
@@cfoodsmella1041 Exactly! Sony who once started the 3d gaming revolution, is now beginning to fall a big behind as it does not really have a backup like Microsoft. Even if the XBOX failed, their IP's alone and Windows 10 and their Surface tablet lines would easily keep them afloat. Nintendo needs not worry as they got 2 massive successes (Switch and Lite) and are the last of the "pick up and play" systems. And Sony? No Vita successor, no VR successor, and no other backup. As for Stadia, I like the idea and it's solid, providing Google doesn't just kick it to the curb like their other projects (Google Plus and Google Glass) and the appeal of an "any device anywhere" is very strong. Just hope that bandwidth (especially in the US) gets better as that is what is killing Stadia for all but a lucky few with good internet speed.
I still have my PS TV that I couldnt get homebrew on, so I tore it apart took a look at the internals. Years later, its now just a motherboard I use to play Vita games. What a great system!
There is also a port of AM2R for the PSVita/PSTV. Imho this is the best way to experience the Metroid II fan remake on a big screen.
So awesome! I just picked up a PSTV and dint even know about all these exploits that are available. Definitely going to dive deep!
Sony took the piss with the Vita. As if the original PSP 2000 & 3000 could be connected to a big screen tv but they took that feature away from the Vita. Don't set the bar then lower it yourselves sony.
Just saw your psp iso's in adrenaline, you can use a programme on PC i believe is called PSP ISO Renamer and it renames the iso files properly for you
wow you could do that with the psp but not the vita unless pstv? woww, the whole vita/psp legacy is just a shame, when the vita came out, I loved the hardware, I didn't buy it myself, but I thought the hardware was impressive and hypothetically what everyone wanted; another stick and I think almost simultanious apps running(?) , real shame.
YASPENA
Yeah you could connect the original PSP 2000/3000 to a tv but they inexplicably removed it from the Vita. And yes you could have multiple apps running simultaneously on Vita, but the game library was so small and petty compared to the og PSP. Only thing missing from the 2000/3000 was bluetooth so if you did connect it to a tv you'd have to use the psp as the controller which is a slight downfall but still better than no TV output at all. PSP go had bluetooth so it could be connected to a tv and played like a proper console but they're more expensive, have a smaller screen and from what i've read more prone to faliure
damnnnnn !
@bigevilworldwide1
So you have buy a whole new system and memory cards to play on a tv when its the same thing you already bought. No one wants to have to buy it twice, swap game cards around and keep save files synced, the vita should of had a tv port but they removed it presumably to sell pstv's, which didn't really work. Also many vita games aren't playable on pstv without CFW.
@bigevilworldwide1 That's their point. Why would you pay $100 for the privilege of connecting the device you already own to the TV. A device mind you that was falling and disliked and with the direct predecessor being able to connect while working with all the games.
Just bought one today. Been using a 1000&2000.
So far loving it. It’s excellent to be able to play some titles on a big screen.
When you connect a psp with an AV cable to your tv, it works, but it's a very small screen.
The music brings me back to those 80’s office training videos. :)
If you are on Firmware 3.61 for example, update to 3.65 or 3.67 NOT 3.68. 3.68 DOES NOT have a coldboot exploit where the lower versions do. This way you will not need to run the exploit each time you turn off your system, like on 3.68 firmware.
it only takes like 20 seconds or less. hardly worth stressing over.
@Modern Vintage Gamer This is awsome and i got to try this out on my vita tv. I also found one for 20$. The store had 2 so i got one for my brother. We start playing on nes and now with the emulators, we relieve the good old times. Thanks for the information.
In hindsight, I should've picked up a PS TV when I had a chance! I didn't think there would be a big homebrew scene showing up on the Vita!
Great video, good sir!
I've owned 3 PSTV and sold them all cuz they wouldn't play a few games I wanted and I didn't see a Vita homebrew scene happening lol
Lol, I've got one for 25€ exactly for that reason
Thought PSV Homebrew was dead for everyone with a Vita or PSTV over 3.65...
Thanks god it is possible to use HENKAKU since July 1st on 3.65+
Thanks for keeping us up to date and greetings from Germany 👍
I'm so happy I left mine on 3.65
A year late to this but still rad! Thanks for great episode @Modern Vintage Gamer! I went out to the local retro home console game store but no luck for vita tv, online they go for $80 - $150, ridiculous!
Great video for raising awareness on your channel MVG! Its a shame that Sony left the PS TV and Vita to die.
Skullator showed a whitelist hack on his channel a year ago and it works on the latest firmware 3.68.
Vita is not dead, the PSTV is. Vita is still a good system, people are whining about Vita, where in reality the whining is connected only to games and memory cards being overpriced and that's why people are saying that Vita is dead and everyone should steal... oh, sorry, I mean pirate and mod them.
Left to die is not the same as dead 🙄
I had a PS Vita with 3.65 waiting for this moment to arrive. I’ve never had the ability to play that manu awesome games in one single device. I’m no sony fanboy but I can say that the hacked vita is much more fun than a switch (imho). Great vid btw! Amazing content modern vintage gamer!
I use the PSTV to stream my PS4 on another room, it's like having a second PS4.
Have I been living under a rock this is the first time I hear of the PlayStation tv
Better than my snes classic. Also prefer this over the pi3. Makes a great little living room emulation box.
THAT GENESIS EMULATOR FOR THE PS2 SONG AT THE BEGINNING GIVES ME CHILLS
Great video with great .Mod music. Looks like if I come across a cheap PSTV I'll have to snatch it up, and give some of this a go, that is if I can find a cheap 8GB PSVita memory card, and PS3/PS4 controller. lol! Having said that the price of the memory cards, and not all the games working is what stopped me from getting a PSTV when it was new, same can be said about the memory cards for the PSVita(price of the system did not help either).
Commodorefan64 just hack it to use a flash drive simple
No need for paying 8gb for the price or 32gb flash drive
(Or even 64gb)
With homebrew the Vita and PSTV can use sd cards with a cheap adapter, but if you just going with the PSTV its even easier to use a USB drive. There's almost no need to have an official memory card unless you have an OLED model with no internal memory to work with.
chronossage I've heard of varying results with the adapters of some not working at all, and some working but flaky depending on the SD card used, and from the ones I've looked up on Amazon by the time you get one of the adapters, and an SD card it's about the same price as a PSVita memory card, plus on a PSVita don't they stick out the top? if so seems like they would be easy to break. having to use an adapter like this, or hack the system to use an industry standard such as a USB flash drive is just piss poor design on Sony's part.
Commodorefan64 All the adaptors fit inside the game card slot with only a couple of the earlier versions sometimes requiring some sanding of the top corners of the adaptor to get the flap perfectly closed and only on the vita slim model. As for price you could buy and official 64gb memory card for a hundred dollars or more. But I bought a 256gb SD card, and 2 adaptors for the same price. And to be perfectly honest one of my two adaptors didn't works from the get go but I got a refund and the one that works has been fine for months now. Also you said you wanted a pstv in your initial post, and you don't even need to worry about adaptors as that has a built in USB port. So you can use way cheaper thumb driver, or even hard drives on. You just have to be careful with hard drives as the USB port doesn't supply alot of power itself so you might want a hard drive with its own power brick, or which ones others have used successfully. Some people have pstv's with 1 or 2 terabytes for storage.
My PSTV story is pretty much the same as yours. Ive had it for a couple of years, but its been collecting dust for about 2 years now. Im really excited to try and put some of this stuff on there and really revitalize this cheap little system as a nice emulation and nostalgia box!
Damn, should've jumped on this earlier, goes on Amazon for over $200 now...smh
Hi, no doubt that with this video I will use again my PS TV. I have one because was a promotion that offered the PS TV with purchase of PS4 Headset, and soon after I storage the device. Thanks for this video, I will relive the device to use console emulation.
14:18 what game is in the screen?
Air Zonk... It's a Turbo Graphix 16 game or pce game in Japan, there's also Super Air Zonk. It's Bonk but in shmup style. You can play it on emulators.
Great video which introduced me to the PStv. Picked one up cheap and it's my go to for playing PS1 games. I prefer the display options of a hacked PStv compared to playing PS1 on PS3. I've had some good results using it with MClassic.
excuse me but what is mclassics?
"ON THE PLAYSTATION TV " You said it some many times on the video I am becoming crazy already omfg
I still use it and this device saved me a tons of travels.
You should try the SD2VITA card
Flash drive is better
Another great video MVG. I didn't even know Sony released a VitaTV. Must had been a stillborn product when it was released here in the UK, if it ever was released here in the UK.
As far as I know, every PlayStation TV units shipped to us had 3.60 installed already. So if you have a brand new PlayStation TV, you're good to go out of the box. I love the PlayStation TV myself, I have 2: one to play legit and one for modding like this.
ah interesting. Mine is a JP version which came with a lower FW out of the box
KoTerrors well I stand corrected. I bought 2 altogether, one I got for $30 from GameStop for the standalone, and one from Walmart bundled with the dualshock 3, 8gb card, as well as Lego the movie game and sly Cooper game for $40. Both had 3.60 but admittedly they were clearance models so they could have been later skus.
Damn man thanks for all of this. I had no clue a new exploit was out for us that upgraded our firmware too much I will definitely give it a try when I have the time.
I remember when this came out and a few years ago my dad considered getting one to stream Tv shows, we settled on the Amazon fire usb stick.
you just answered my prayers. really wanted you to do a scope on the vita and bam there you are. thanks so much for the vid and get involved a port or two ;)
I remember when I was young, I downloaded a bunch on ps1 games, and with a soft, I could convert them to psp games.
I had a lot of great games (with a cfw).
But I f*cked up with the cfw and bricked the console, and I couldn't but a Pandora battery or a magic memory stick to revive it.
I'd like to find a working one, even used for 20/30$.
I never had the psvita, because when it came out I was 13, and I didn't have enough money
So much missed potential it is unreal. Great video mate.
Without homebrew about 45% of the vita library is playable. With homebrew and using a DS4, does anyone have a rough estimate of how many games are playable with a reasonable amount of struggle?
I’d love to get a vita, but playing them on a TV is more appealing, and I want to make sure I’m not missing out on some really cool games that won’t work on the PSTV
Rei Senpai you should be able to pay any game that doesn't require the camera. There's only a handful that does.
It was mostly only the earliest Vita games that used touchscreen gimmicks. I'd estimate at least 90% of the games past the launch window didn't bother with them and would be perfectly playable with this whitelister.
downphoenix well ac liberation does on its before last sequence /:
And don't forget about gyroscope
You can't play uncharted on your ps tv
bedo's adventures fortunately that game is playable on current gen systems so that's the way to go with that. Uncharted is a loss though.
RoseWolfz Prime can that be played on a TV?
Another great video. It's funny though, I actually use my PSTV the most for the one thing you didn't cover in this video - Original PlayStation emulation. It's excellent on PSTV.
MVG: “Now both bukkake and hentai...wait...”
I remember using this for like an hour and now I see a reason to use it for thousands.
All of these third-party groups that make some products so much better, why can’t the actual company that make the product make the differences themselves and stop being lazy and money hordes.
That music on the start, I respect
Is there any Kodi build for this?
TheDutyPaid yup looking for this too
You are better of getting a Raspberry Pi for Kodi
I modded mine a few months ago with Henkaku but you've supplied additional information I wasn't aware of, ESPECIALLY with the idea of getting a USB flash drive.
I traded my pstv for a bag of weed. Totally worth it lol
ClutchGamez no but i can on my $2000 pc and with a bag of weed
You could have gamed on the pstv for a long time, then smoked it after it breaks down. Better luck next time.
Ryan A But you can't take your $2000 PC with you and play it on the move, such a stupid comparison.
For example my 100$ (that's how much I got mine second and for) Ps Vita can run any emulator up to PS1, plus any Vita games I want as well.
I wonder how many marijuanas he snorted?
I can't believe someone actually traded a bag of weed for a PSTV, I mean who does that? If it was a firestick, with USB adapter, I'd understand... but for a PSTV? Man, if only that guy knew he was getting ripped off... hehe. How much he was getting ripped off, depends on how big the bag is. LOL.
Kick-Ass video! You got excited to try it on my Vita, before I look into getting the TV!👍
They're so expensive now...
Great video. Have a playstation tv that I've never taken out of the box. But now I have a weekend project
500gb 7200rpm hdd.. completely full XD. Homebrew stuff/psvita/psp/nes/snes... much more
Ohh and hey 2019 viewers!!
Had a PS Vita for the first time for a week before gifting it to a friend. Had a great time with it and the GTA 3D era game ports :D
I've heard that into track before. It was an old MOD or S3M from back in the early demo scene days. I even used it in my old Turbo Pascal emag I used to write for the ascii art scene
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Damn the homebrew scene opened up the ps vita tv price back to retail price around 200 dollars.
No Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Prime killed this device
It had Hulu. Not anymore though, they pulled support in March.
Even using the browser?
@@lesterparedes8358 3ds doesn't have hulu now either and I uninstalled mine
The PSTV is a great little console. Thankfully I managed to snag one on amazon for $60 over christmas
"The system will reboot your system again" -MVG 2018
I would love to see more vita content. Keep it up