Help with setting up Henkaku-ed Vita Correctly this time round

[boomhaueruk]

Hi,

I've managed to successfully get my Vita onto 3.68 with Henkaku. Everything I've downloaded runs fine from an Sd2vita.
Admittedly I'm stuck using vpk's as I can't seem to work out any of the  other methods of backup there are so far, but so far, so good.

But what I want to do now is play the Vita games on card I own as well - updated preferably.

Now, I'm currently using the sd2vita as the storage for games and saves. But twice now I've lost everything that was on there.
The first time when I tried to insert a Vita memory card so I could run Minecraft
The second time when I had to enter recovery mode and rebuild the database as the sd2vita wouldn't mount on vitashell on the mac or pc (or in a card reader), but would run fine anything locally installed.

The files were still there, but the database no longer knew where they were.
It's like starting all over again.

So what I want to do is start again, but this time set it up so I can;

- Run games from the sd2vita I've downloaded
- Also run games from cards that need the Vita memory card installed

I don't mind where the saves go, if they all have to go on the memory card that's just fine.

I really don't know how to go about this.
I can quite easily wipe everything and start again, but how should this be set up?
How can I run games from cards using the vita memory card - and from the sd2vita? Is there a way?

Also, if you have to rebuild the database, can you get the Vita to rerecognise everything in the apps folder?

Help!

[Badcam3]

2 hours ago, boomhaueruk said:

Hi,

I've managed to successfully get my Vita onto 3.68 with Henkaku. Everything I've downloaded runs fine from an Sd2vita.
Admittedly I'm stuck using vpk's as I can't seem to work out any of the  other methods of backup there are so far, but so far, so good.

But what I want to do now is play the Vita games on card I own as well - updated preferably.

Now, I'm currently using the sd2vita as the storage for games and saves. But twice now I've lost everything that was on there.
The first time when I tried to insert a Vita memory card so I could run Minecraft
The second time when I had to enter recovery mode and rebuild the database as the sd2vita wouldn't mount on vitashell on the mac or pc (or in a card reader), but would run fine anything locally installed.

The files were still there, but the database no longer knew where they were.
It's like starting all over again.

So what I want to do is start again, but this time set it up so I can;

- Run games from the sd2vita I've downloaded
- Also run games from cards that need the Vita memory card installed

I don't mind where the saves go, if they all have to go on the memory card that's just fine.

I really don't know how to go about this.
I can quite easily wipe everything and start again, but how should this be set up?
How can I run games from cards using the vita memory card - and from the sd2vita? Is there a way?

Also, if you have to rebuild the database, can you get the Vita to rerecognise everything in the apps folder?

Help!

It's not a good idea to try and switch between your gamecard and sd2vita. When you use sd2vita you switch from everything being on your ps vita memory card to everything being on your sd2vita memory card. this changes what is mounted from being the ps vita memory card to the vita memory card. when you tried to switch back to using a gamecard it didnt know where to look so it defaulted to the ps vita memory card and rebuilt a new database. when you switch back to the sd2vita card it got really confused. Have you tried going into safemode with the sd2vita card in and rebuilding the database?

Follow these directions to install the nonpdrm plugin and i can help you further once you got that installed! 

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[RyouBakura]

I agree with the above post. Just stick to SD2Vita. And be sure to back up your games and saves to your computer every once in a while.

I also suggest you go with using NoNPDrm. It's pretty easy to use, and you can find a written tutorial on the site. And if you would prefer a video tutorial, I'm sure Skullator and Tech James have what you need.

[boomhaueruk]

Thanks both.

OK, so the two main reasons I want to use my game cards are Minecraft and Gravity Rush.

Minecraft gets updated all the time and to be compatible with my PS3 version I need to keep updating it.

Can't do that with the downloaded version I have, assume I can with the game card like I used to.

My son likes to play the Vita version on the move, using the maps we build together on the Ps3.

Gravity Rush I just can't find a good rip of, they all crash after the 15 minute mark - as had been widely reported.

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Right, so let's get started with Nonpdrm.

BTW My Sdcard is almost full - with games and saves, but of course I can't see any of those listed as the database got listed.

Am I taking it all the saves are lost?

Steps taken today;
- Removed vita memory card

- Booted and ran h-encore

- Discovered vitashell usb  still won't mount on the mac over USB.

- I can move files by FTP still, albeit incredibly slowly, so for now I used Vitashell to FTP the nonpdrm file over.

I can wipe the card and start again if we can't recover those saves to anywhere - or I've a backup microsd if that helps.

Anyway, at this stage hit a snag;

ux0:tai/config.txt

No such file. Oddly. There's a folder there called that though?

[Badcam3]

13 hours ago, boomhaueruk said:

Thanks both.

OK, so the two main reasons I want to use my game cards are Minecraft and Gravity Rush.

Minecraft gets updated all the time and to be compatible with my PS3 version I need to keep updating it.

Can't do that with the downloaded version I have, assume I can with the game card like I used to.

My son likes to play the Vita version on the move, using the maps we build together on the Ps3.

Gravity Rush I just can't find a good rip of, they all crash after the 15 minute mark - as had been widely reported.

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Right, so let's get started with Nonpdrm.

BTW My Sdcard is almost full - with games and saves, but of course I can't see any of those listed as the database got listed.

Am I taking it all the saves are lost?

Steps taken today;
- Removed vita memory card

- Booted and ran h-encore

- Discovered vitashell usb  still won't mount on the mac over USB.

- I can move files by FTP still, albeit incredibly slowly, so for now I used Vitashell to FTP the nonpdrm file over.

I can wipe the card and start again if we can't recover those saves to anywhere - or I've a backup microsd if that helps.

Anyway, at this stage hit a snag;

ux0:tai/config.txt

No such file. Oddly. There's a folder there called that though?

Make a new text file with that name in it.

[boomhaueruk]

10 hours ago, Badcam3 said:

Make a new text file with that name in it.

Any special formatting?

Is it just a text file with that one line?

[Badcam3]

37 minutes ago, boomhaueruk said:

Any special formatting?

Is it just a text file with that one line?

Just a txt file. nothing special. Can you please send me your ur0 txt file before you do anything though? thank you

[boomhaueruk]

Hi,

OK. I wiped and reinstalled my Vita's memory card and reinstalled, then setup the sd2vita using a new SD (as you'll see above I was having trouble with the old one).

This will make it easier to do installs. Hopefully I can recover those saves later from the previous sd card.

So, now I don't have a tai folder at all in ux0!

Anyway, doesn't matter, here's the ur0 txt file from tai.

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OK, what next?

 

[Badcam3]

On 9/28/2018 at 9:49 AM, boomhaueruk said:

Hi,

OK. I wiped and reinstalled my Vita's memory card and reinstalled, then setup the sd2vita using a new SD (as you'll see above I was having trouble with the old one).

This will make it easier to do installs. Hopefully I can recover those saves later from the previous sd card.

So, now I don't have a tai folder at all in ux0!

Anyway, doesn't matter, here's the ur0 txt file from tai.

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On 9/30/2018 at 3:24 PM, boomhaueruk said:

OK, what next?

 

Hi I am sorry. I have been really busy with things and haven't had time to do much here. I am taking a look at it now and I will get back to you later tonight (It is 5:35pm here)

[Badcam3]

@boomhaueruk please download this and put it in the same place as all the skprx files. I added it to the config file as well so put the updated one I am posting into the correct place and try it now.

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[boomhaueruk]

On 10/4/2018 at 11:35 PM, Badcam3 said:

 

Hi I am sorry. I have been really busy with things and haven't had time to do much here. I am taking a look at it now and I will get back to you later tonight (It is 5:35pm here)

Absolutely no problem.

Downloaded both files. What are we trying to do here -what is the process we're following?

Also, sorry, which skprx files?

The ones in ux0 (I'm not sure which ones there would be) or ur0?

I haven't been able to install nonpdrm - is this what we're leading up to?

Are you installing a different sd2vita driver with this?

Edited October 10, 2018 by boomhaueruk
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[boomhaueruk]

OK, I've assumed  you mean ur0:tai. That had 5 skprx files in it.

It looks like ux0:tai doesn't exist and I don't think you meant the root of ux0 where we have a couple.

So I've copied 

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 to ur0:tai. And replaced the config.txt there with yours.

FYI Ur0 is 1.50gb and ux0 is 116.50gb (so it's the sd2vita card)

If I now reboot and install henkaku though as usual, it now crashes on exit. Black screen.

Was that meant to happen at this stage?
Have i copied them to the right place?

Apologies, I genuinely am not sure what we're aiming at, so maybe I'm interpreting the instructions incorrectly.

 

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[boomhaueruk]

I'm a bit worried I've messed up my Vita, isn't ur0 the internal storage?
If I now can't launch after henkaku, what can I now do?
Was I meant to have made a tai in ux0?

Hopefully, what I've done is correct and this is just the middle stage of some process!

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On 10/5/2018 at 4:18 AM, Spookycam3 👻 said:

@boomhaueruk please download this and put it in the same place as all the skprx files. I added it to the config file as well so put the updated one I am posting into the correct place and try it now.

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Hi Spookycam, 

OK, I think I figured out what you meant.

So, I had a better evening this evening and had a look at the config file I sent you!

It mentions;
ur0:tai/storagemgr.skprx
ur0:tai/nonpdrm.skprx
ur0:tai/noavls.skprx

So when you said, put this in the same place as the skprx files, you meant the same as the ones in my config file.
Now, I hadn't even realised I had those plugins. I didn't do them so they must have been there before. Hence the confusion.

So you did mean ur0:tai.

Cool!

So - I realised what I had to do to recover my Vita (which once I added ur0:tai/gamesd.skprx and your edited config.txt would go black screen once I ran h-encore and installed hekaku, then did exit) was to go into h-encore and "reset taihen config.txt"!

This reset config.txt to the blank version, removing the entries for plugins!
(I'm learning!)

I then edited my own config.txt (get me), so the only plugin it loaded was gamesd.skprx and tried again.

It now read;

"# For users plugins, you must refresh taiHEN from HENkaku Settings for
# changes to take place.
# For kernel plugins, you must reboot for changes to take place.
*KERNEL
ur0:tai/gamesd.skprx
ur0:tai/nonpdrm.skprx
ur0:tai/noavls.skprx
# henkaku.skprx is hard-coded to load and is not listed here
*main
# main is a special titleid for SceShell
ur0:tai/henkaku.suprx
*NPXS10015
# this is for modifying the version string
ur0:tai/henkaku.suprx
*NPXS10016
# this is for modifying the version string in settings widget
ur0:tai/henkaku.suprx"

I figured you wanted nonpdrm there and I couldn't see noavls making an issue.

Nope - same issue. It seems as soon as I try and load games.skprx is black screens when you try and run h-encore and install henkaku, then exit.

For the moment I've rolled it back so we've got;

Let me know what to do next. Any ideas why gamesd.skprx is causing an issue?
Or is that ok for some reason?

I am trying to help myself, but I'm getting a tad lost still.

[Badcam3]

3 minutes ago, boomhaueruk said:

Hi Spookycam, 

OK, I think I figured out what you meant.

So, I had a better evening this evening and had a look at the config file I sent you!

It mentions;
ur0:tai/storagemgr.skprx
ur0:tai/nonpdrm.skprx
ur0:tai/noavls.skprx

So when you said, put this in the same place as the skprx files, you meant the same as the ones in my config file.
Now, I hadn't even realised I had those plugins. I didn't do them so they must have been there before. Hence the confusion.

So you did mean ur0:tai.

Cool!

So - I realised what I had to do to recover my Vita (which once I added ur0:tai/gamesd.skprx and your edited config.txt would go black screen once I ran h-encore and installed hekaku, then did exit) was to go into h-encore and "reset taihen config.txt"!

This reset config.txt to the blank version, removing the entries for plugins!
(I'm learning!)

I then edited my own config.txt (get me), so the only plugin it loaded was gamesd.skprx and tried again.

It now read;

"# For users plugins, you must refresh taiHEN from HENkaku Settings for
# changes to take place.
# For kernel plugins, you must reboot for changes to take place.
*KERNEL
ur0:tai/gamesd.skprx
ur0:tai/nonpdrm.skprx
ur0:tai/noavls.skprx
# henkaku.skprx is hard-coded to load and is not listed here
*main
# main is a special titleid for SceShell
ur0:tai/henkaku.suprx
*NPXS10015
# this is for modifying the version string
ur0:tai/henkaku.suprx
*NPXS10016
# this is for modifying the version string in settings widget
ur0:tai/henkaku.suprx"

I figured you wanted nonpdrm there and I couldn't see noavls making an issue.

Nope - same issue. It seems as soon as I try and load games.skprx is black screens when you try and run h-encore and install henkaku, then exit.

For the moment I've rolled it back so we've got;

Let me know what to do next. Any ideas why gamesd.skprx is causing an issue?
Or is that ok for some reason?

I am trying to help myself, but I'm getting a tad lost still.

I'm not getting notifications for a lot of things. Come to the chatbox on the main site page so I can help you 1:1 live. I am usually available

[boomhaueruk]

Spookycam3 👻 Today 10:11 PM

do you have finalhe on your vita?

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:11 PM

no

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:12 PM

Out of interest why do I need gamesd.skprx

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:12 PM

Rather than installing the Sd2 vita through the method I was using before?

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:12 PM

Which was...give me a sec....

 

Spookycam3 👻 Today 10:13 PM

@boomhaueruk gamessd.skprx is needed to mount the sd2vita adapter

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:13 PM

TF.Card.Plugin.Tool.ENG.vpk

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:14 PM

Yes, it was mounting before. Remember I had all the games running of it.

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:14 PM

The issue came when I swapped it out with a game card.

 

Spookycam3 👻 Today 10:15 PM

@boomhaueruk hmm never heard of that vpk tool. it seems to do the exact same thing though.

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:15 PM

I used TF.Card.Plugin.Tool.ENG.vpk to install the sd2vita. Installed some vpks. It was all rosy...

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:15 PM

Well I can just use it again, see if that installs the plugin?

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:15 PM

give me a minute and I can run it.

 

Spookycam3 👻 Today 10:16 PM

so you can access that app?

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:17 PM

Sure, I've reset the config.txt in tai again, so we're back to square one

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:17 PM

Give me a minute or two. I'll run and see where we are.

 

Spookycam3 👻 Today 10:17 PM

@boomhaueruk try this

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Spookycam3 👻 Today 10:18 PM

that might fix the issue

 

Spookycam3 👻 Today 10:18 PM

I linked you to the 1.0 version before.

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:18 PM

Ah, ok.

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:18 PM

Give me a minute or two.

 

Spookycam3 👻 Today 10:19 PM

seems that the 1.2 and up has 3.68 support

 

Spookycam3 👻 Today 10:19 PM

okie dokie

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:23 PM

moment of truth

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:24 PM

Yup. That's better. I can now reboot and it looks like it's loading gamesd

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:25 PM

So I can install henkaku and exit. Great.

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:25 PM

Ux0 is showing as 116 gb, so I'm assuming that means it's now picking up the sd2vita as well.

 

Spookycam3 👻 Today 10:25 PM

 

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:26 PM

OK, what's next.

 

Spookycam3 👻 Today 10:27 PM

@boomhaueruk one sec

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:27 PM

 

 

Spookycam3 👻 Today 10:28 PM

@boomhaueruk so you have your games on the SD2vita memory card but they are not showing up anymore right?

 

Spookycam3 👻 Today 10:29 PM

I might be thinking of someone else

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:30 PM

That was a separate problem, but yes. I did have the games on the old card.

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:30 PM

I kind of had 2 problems! 1 - The games got lost

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:30 PM

2 - I wanted to play games off card and be able to swap out and back.

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:31 PM

This memory card that's in the sd2vita is actually blank. I have the other one.

 

Spookycam3 👻 Today 10:31 PM

@boomhaueruk you can't do the second one but I might be able to help you with the first one.

 

Spookycam3 👻 Today 10:32 PM

@boomhaueruk honestly your best bet is to just start fresh at least imo

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:32 PM

Which is fine.

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:32 PM

I'm ok to start fresh. But a question. Let's say I want to play minecraft - and i need the update.

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:32 PM

I have the game card. But it needs access to make a save game to a ps game card.

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:33 PM

How do you do that? If you get a downloaded version - a vpk say - and put it on the sd2vita, it then wants to save a game

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:33 PM

But there's not enough internal space on the vita.

 

Spookycam3 👻 Today 10:34 PM

@boomhaueruk you can't do not try to use a game cart with the ps vita when you are using the sd2vita.

 

Spookycam3 👻 Today 10:34 PM

its either one or the other.

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:35 PM

Ok, forget the game card. Let's say I get a VPK

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:35 PM

I want to update it. That's out too?

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:36 PM

Or can I get a mai, i think it's called? Or something?

 

Spookycam3 👻 Today 10:36 PM

you can't update vpk games as far as I know but you can update nondprm games

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:37 PM

Right, so I need a nondprm version of minecraft. ok. Let's say I have that.

 

Spookycam3 👻 Today 10:37 PM

do you know how to install nondprm games?

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:37 PM

Is there no way to have a ps vita memory card in at the same time as a sd2vita and save games to it?

 

Spookycam3 👻 Today 10:38 PM

@boomhaueruk no. everything is going to be stored on the sd2vita. the sd2vita is the new memory card now

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:38 PM

I downloaded mai dump tool once. I didn't get into it, but I reckon it's like a file moving tool and you're just shifting folders, right?

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:38 PM

I wonder why minecraft won't save games to the sd2vita.

 

Spookycam3 👻 Today 10:38 PM

@boomhaueruk mai dump tool is for vpk games only

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:39 PM

Everything else did.

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:39 PM

ah. Well, I'm sure I can figure out installing nondprm games. Recovering a save file from the old card would be nice though.

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:39 PM

Bugger, that also means I'm shafted for Gravity Rush.

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:40 PM

Cannot find a working vpk. They all crash after about a stage in. Annoyingly I actually own the cart.

 

Spookycam3 👻 Today 10:40 PM

for nondprm games all you do is put the game itself in the ux0:app folder and the dlc in “ux0:addcont/[GameID]/[DLCFolder and for updates put them in ux0:patch/[GameID] then press the triangle button and then press Refresh Livearea

 

Spookycam3 👻 Today 10:41 PM

@boomhaueruk yes the vpk game does not work but the nonpdrm version will

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:41 PM

Great. I'll start looking for minecraft. Maybe the nonpdrm version won't try and save to a memory card.

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:42 PM

Ok. wonderful. So all that's left you could help me with is recovering a save game from the old sd2vita.

 

Spookycam3 👻 Today 10:42 PM

@boomhaueruk the sd2vita is the new memory card so it will be saved to that. you can and should always back up your games/saves onto qmca too so you dont lose anything

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:42 PM

Actually, I might have an inkling of that myself.

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:42 PM

No, honestly, every other game - and I had about 20 installed - was saving fine. Minecraft would not even run. It kept complaining.

 

boomhaueruk Today 10:43 PM

But the nonpdrm version...who knows.

[Souls]

Could anyone help me downgrading my vita to 3.68 ?

I actually have 3.69 and cant run Henkaku on it.

How can i Downgrade?

[RyouBakura]

@Souls  You're on your own.

 

[MobCat]

To put it a little less bluntly @Souls as far as I'm am aware there is no way at this time to downgrade any firmware on the vita. It's not totally impossible like the switch just highly impractical / not really a thing that needs to be done. At this point the vita is almost 100% pwned so I would just wait for the 3.69 hacks to become public, just don't update your vita any more and try and disconnected it from the internet if you can.

[Ravenstorm]

No worries Flow already said ALL firmwares will be supported in 2019, so just hang tight~

[RyouBakura]

Also, remember to disable auto update. I remember that was a thing in the Vita.

[MobCat]

3 minutes ago, RyouBakura said:

Also, remember to disable auto update. I remember that was a thing in the Vita.

Yes disable auto update in settings -> System -> Auto-Start Settings -> and uncheck Download Update File for System Software
And enable fw spoof in Settings -> HENkaku Settings -> and check Enable PSN spoofing and Enable Version Spoofing then go down to Spoofed Version and open it  and change it to 3.70 as that is the newest fw press the enter thing and then back and the reboot the vita to make sure it's using all the new settings and you should be right.
if your super paranoid abort not updating there are DNS update blocker you can do but i'm not a fan of those (just cos) and theirs always airplane mod >__<