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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

PS Vita: Debug firmware and settings

Here is some more debug firmware news. Visiting Gamescom some very fine gentleman stumbled upon a PS Vita running debug firmware 1.69.1. The video below showcases the many neat features one can find, but the firmware does come with a rather interesting security feature. Every 90 days you are required to enter a new activation key and failing to do so would render your PS Vita useless as it will refuse to boot.




About PS Vita Debug Firmware:
Our good friends The Z and npt were at Gamescom this week, and found out that the Vita they tried had a 1.69.1 Debug firmware.

Features include:
  • A Package Installer (this apparently needs to run through CMA in order to copy packages), which, as the name implies, allows to install (unsigned?) packages.
  • Download content to the console without having to go through CMA.
  • Choose which server to download Updates from, an option to fake a 3g network from wifi (to test 3g functionality)
  • A possibility to fake lots of parameters (such as free disk space, etc…)
  • Options to change key bindings (in particular X and O can apparently be exchanged)
  • Change region settings

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