This is the original source code of PROVita (ARK-1) by Coldbird, Hrimfaxi and Neur0n, creators of the PRO and ME CFW for PSP.
FOR ARCHIVAL PURPOSES ONLY
PSP Emulator Custom Firmware ARK for PSVita 2.00-2.02 by Team PRO
Instructions :
- Go into the ARK folder
- Choose your region and copy the savedata to your '\PS Vita\PSAVEDATA\XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX\' folder
- Transfer it to your PSVita using CMA
Features:
- PSX game support (soundless so far, our sound plugin is too glitchy for public use at the moment)
- ISO/CSO game support
- NoDRM Engine for decrypted dlc playback
- MS-SpeedBoost (most noticable on games like soul calibur)
- Stargate Game Patches (fixes several anti-cfw games)
- Customizable Main Menu
- Plugin support
- Recovery support
- ISO-cache support (speed up ISO gaming)
... and much more!
Donations : We are always happy to receive donations, but do not enforce them. Should you like the software that we provide, please consider buying our team a beer or two at...
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About yMenu: Default menu, created by Yosh - for more details see http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=12131 Special thanks to ind3x-gosu for his custom theme!
About PROShell Recovery: While triggerring the exploit press R to enter the PROShell minimalistic launcher menu! This menu can be used to sort out or launch corrupted icon EBOOTs.
About Plugins: To load plugins, place a plugins.txt file in your savedata folder containing lines as: mode,path,1
- Mode can be either umdemu (for isos), game (for homebrews), or pops (for psx)
- Path is the absolute plugin's path
- And then 1 for enabled, or 0 for disabled
Warning! Never put any additionnal spaces or anything between commas
For instance :
umdemu,ms0:/PSP/SAVEDATA/NPEH00020DATA00/plugin.prx,1
pops,ms0:/PSP/SAVEDATA/NPEH00020DATA00/plugin2.prx,0
game,ms0:/PSP/SAVEDATA/NPEH00020DATA00/plugin3.prx,1
Credits :
- Dark_Alex for the initial M33 CFW who guided us mentally through several CFW generations by giving good examples on how to patch Sony OFW.
- VirtuousFlame: For the ISO Loading Code, Custom PSX EBOOT Support, PSPCipher and most of the CFW related code.
- Coldbird: For Proshell, and all his CFW related code & Vita redesign of PROCFW.
- Yosh: For the initial sceWlanGetEtherAddr leaked kxploit, yMenu, other kxploit related things and various pieces of code.
- thecobra & frostegater: For precisions about this kxploit.
- neur0n for his syscall execution in kernel mode, several bug fixes and other CFW related code.
- ardi for his umd4homebrew to enable UMD in homebrews.
- Zer01ne for the initial Uno exploit discovery.
- All our testers.
And last but not least - Sony for making wonderful, however very locked down, portable gaming handhelds.