How to add more homebrews, emulators, or roms to the PSVita using psp game saves & QCMA

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How to add more homebrews, emulators, or roms to the PSVita using psp game saves & QCMA

Post by hackinformer » Wed Jun 29, 2016 9:56 pm

Adding more homebrew, emulators or roms via FTP can take awhile when adding big files or maybe you have experienced problems with stuff getting transferred and showing up corrupted or it just doesn't work. There's always another way to add more stuff to your vita then just FTP, you can use QCMA on the pc and put stuff on the Vita with psp game save.

First, you will have to install QCMA on the pc for this to work since it can transfer folders to the vita in a psp game save where cma can't do this.

Download QCMA: http://codestation.nekmo.com/qcma/0.3.9 ... _0.3.9.exe

Once you have QCMA installed on your pc, you will need to go where the PS Vita directory is located on the pc. If you can't find it just open up QCMA and go to the setting and it will tell you where it keeps your PS Vita files.
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Then go the psavedata folder as that's where your psp game saves are kept that you can transfer back and forth to the vita. Now you can use any psp game save to do this with if you don't have one you can use this one.

Download psp game save: https://mega.nz/#!1VxWxaDB!ed_XAT2Juoyk ... FnMww1msqY

Now that you have a psp game save, put it in the psavedata folder on the pc, then you can add a folder inside of it for example SNES roms, then just place all your roms in that folder you want to transfer. Once you are done adding want you want, make sure you refresh the database on QCMA so the vita will see the new stuff added.
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Like normal connect the vita to the pc, then in cma navigate to the save data, PSP/other, pick your game save you just added stuff to then transfer it to the vita. Depending on how big it is, it could take a little bit.
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Notes:
( If you're on lower FW like 3.35 - 3.57 you can use vita update blocker to bypass it asking you to update by entering the proxy vita update blocker will give you, then go into the setting/network of the vita and save it. Then launch the ps store, it won't go into the store but you will see vita update spoof it. Now connect it to the pc and QCMA and it won't ask you to update.)
Download Vita update blocker: http://hackinformer.com/2015/07/18/tuto ... e-blocker/

(For Lower FW like 3.20 & below you might need to manually change the FW settings in QCMA, by going to the setting in QCMA , picking the other tab, then pick Manual and the FW your on. Then quit QCMA and restart QCMA for it to take effect. You can still use vita update blocker to bypass it ask to update or you can put you vita in plane mode and connect via USB. )
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Now that it's done transferring, you can use Ark, VHBL, or TN-V with pspfiler, the one menu, or 138menu to move the roms out of the savedata folder in the vita. Now you can either move them to the emulator rom folder or you can leave them in the game save as most emulators can dig through the directory of the vita and run it right from the savedata folder.
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