JPeeples83
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Absolutely loving Touch My Katamari on it...minus it being super-easy to activate the touch with the dual sticks. Digging Uncharted and Monkey Ball too.
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The PS TV can now run every single app/game without restriction (via simple hack)
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SaiyanRaoh
Member
Why am I only getting one email from the Wololo site? There are supposed to be three. I followed the instructions on the site. After the one email I click the photo and exit which wipes the settings and I go back to the email app and there's no other emails.
Really cool. Gonna have to find one of those, or throw one together myself.
Considering how sales are I doubt many of the units in the supply chain will be updated past the current firmware come the holidays.
Is your monitor picky about resolution? The PSTV outputs 720P and 1080i only.
No you don't have to run it every time. If you are fine with no internet you would be fine just disabling wifi. But if you want internet you can block the servers that push the whitelist on your router.
You must be a Sony exec
Updating the firmware you mean? It's hard to say, but I'd imagine Sony will block this and restore the default whitelist in the next update. Just don't update until you hear one way or another. I went ahead and bought a couple more PSTVs so I can have the best of both worlds in the future.
Strange... Send me your email address via PM and I can hook you up.
So how exactly do you get games to work with the app.db patch? I follow all the instructions here, but I can't get any of the games that don't work to work.
Somebody earlier in the thread said that they got Terraria to run by editing the app.db file, but is there something I'm missing? The changes to the file took, because when I dump it and open it in SqliteBrowser and try the SQL code again, it tells me it has already been applied.
Somebody earlier in the thread said that they got Terraria to run by editing the app.db file, but is there something I'm missing? The changes to the file took, because when I dump it and open it in SqliteBrowser and try the SQL code again, it tells me it has already been applied.
Alright, I did everything to a T, even followed the video guide from earlier in the thread. The eMail reset worked, I did the file rename to #0, opened it in the Vita, and now the file says "done" when I check it again. But Taiko, Deemo (just checked this one to see), and Gravity Rush still say not compatible when I boot them up. This is getting frustrating, I've been in a constant loop of trying for an hour.
Edit: Tearaway will turn on, but errors out. All three of the above still refuse to even boot up. Those were what I actually wanted to play.
Alright, now Gravity Rush is working without a hitch... but Taiko won't work, period. I'm going to assume the worst and say that it's one of the newer titles that still won't work. Whhhyyyyy. :.(
Edit: Tearaway will turn on, but errors out. All three of the above still refuse to even boot up. Those were what I actually wanted to play.
Alright, now Gravity Rush is working without a hitch... but Taiko won't work, period. I'm going to assume the worst and say that it's one of the newer titles that still won't work. Whhhyyyyy. :.(
It is the device that I only use to do essential things in Destiny while on vacation or out of town. Always a little lag from hotel connections, and only good for logging on to buy or pick up things.
Remotely accessing your PS4 on a device the size of your phone. I'm sure it works better on a good connection, but have never attempted it.
Should now be able to play Netflix as well (finally) through this hack.
Cheeseman Battitude
Member
It WAS a device with even less games than the Vita.
Runs great. Just quickly loaded up both titles and so far they seem flawless. I don't think there's much or any touch shit.
Edit: I think interrogations might require back panel touch.
fvng
Member
Yup
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Wow nice work. Really tempting to get a TV for Ys now...
Curious to know this as well.
SoulUnison
Banned
I gave up on the system almost immediately when I spent more than the price of a game on a memory card, got home, downloaded LittleBigPlanet and Playstation All-Stars and had enough room left over for another VITA game and maybe a couple PSP games.
Fast-forward a week and I buy Persona 4 Golden and put it on the card, too. Another couple weeks and the mandatory patches for LittleBigPlanet and PS All-Stars have ballooned up so big that I can only keep one of them on the memory card at a time.
I felt absolutely gouged by Sony. Like I have to pay them the price of multiple games for the privilege of the ability to pay them for *actual* games.
There's a small, cynical part of me that truly believes that Sony knew what they were doing but decided that the VITA would either somehow be a success or they'd recoup their losses on their sinister memory card sham.
This is so true and so frustrating. A strong reason why the Vita was held back. If we could use normal storage cards people would have bought so much more digital content. Which I guarantee they make more profit from. Makes no sense that they stuck to their guns on the memory card pricing, a horrible move.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
The price of memory cards is probably why I haven't bought a Vita/PS TV yet despite some good sales. Well that and the aforementioned compatibility issues. Now only the memory card issue remains!
Marty Chinn
Member
Nah, this wasn't the problem.
Keep an eye on local sales and ebay.
I got a 64gb a week ago brand new for £40 on an ebay flash deal.
That's cheaper than the current 32GB price here on Amazon.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Still a crazy price though... $80CAD for a damn memory card and that's a "flash deal"?! Preposterous.
Say did you see Krejlooc's question here? Sorry if it's been answered before but I'm not 100% sure:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=180042406#post180042406
Yeah the very next post is me answering it lol
fvng
Member
Last time they removed an advertised feature they lost lawsuits. They'll just patch the problem
Actually wouldn't surprise me if they pulled the app. In March they removed Maps and Near. And then there was Youtube, though the blame there falls on Google who updated the API and I guess both parties didn't want to bother with the day or so of dev time to implement the new one.
I tried to work on this earlier. Got the version.dat and list.dat files. Too bad they're encrypted. I think it checks the PSN ID if the game is allowed to be downloaded. I don't think a simple whitelist can fix this. I hope I'm wrong.
Poop!
Member
Yeah, it is what kept me from the system. The memory cards were easily the Achilles heal of the system and whomever approved them should have been fired.
Cheeseman Battitude
Member
How do they know you've done it?
SavoryCade
Member
It's probably been confirmed already, but delisted and blocked PSP/PS1 games work fine if you were able to download them to Vita back when Sony accidentally left the floodgates open. Phantasy Star Portable 2, R-Type Delta, Crash and Spyro all worked perfectly.
SoulUnison
Banned
Wait, like, truly "they're deleted from your system" removed? Because I just used my Vita a couple days ago and Near was definitely still there. I actually poked at it for a minute thinking "Wait, wasn't this supposed to be discontinued at some point?" It even still functioned as I remembered and was capable of updating and everything.
I might be pretty behind on system updates, though.
Removing Maps, though... I know people who actually bought the 3G version of the Vita because they aren't "smartphone" people but they wanted a basic portable GPS and they were going to buy a Vita, anyway. That was definitely an "advertised feature," too.
They had the lawsuit because of deceptive advertising with the Vita. Honestly, they repeated the same mistakes when promoting the PlayStation TV that they could easily be hit with another class-action. I'm guessing that the PSTV's low install base doesn't make it seem very lucrative though. Who knows. Maybe it's still around the corner.
OrangeAtlas
Member
So is Uncharted unable to be beaten with this hack, because of the gyro and camera gimmicks?
Shift Breaker
Member
The gyro should be fine using the controller, but I can see the camera being a gameplay killer.
fvng
Member
sony never bothered to capture gyro data from the dualshock when used with the pstv. I don't understand why things are said on this board with such confidence based solely on an assumption
I tried playing through Uncharted and can't. You get to a part just after meeting Chase where you need to cross a slippery log. Because the gyro sensors don't work, you fall to your death and can not pass that section. Up until then, it was fine.
OrangeAtlas
Member
Well that's a shame. Alright, thanks guys. Can't wait to try this out later!
7DollarHagane
Banned
i am using a kinivo hdmi splitter so that might be causing it.
Even if you get past that part, there's a part where you have to hold the system up to the surface of the sun to show a hidden message. Same with Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation.
Man, Taiko Drum Master V version still doesn't work. I am very sad about this!
editL Even after updating my app.db using this FAQ
http://hackinformer.com/PlayStation...w_to_install_the_pstv_whitelist_patch_v2.html
The game will still not run. People elsewhere seem to be implying this doesn't work for most cartridge based games. bahh
editL Even after updating my app.db using this FAQ
http://hackinformer.com/PlayStation...w_to_install_the_pstv_whitelist_patch_v2.html
The game will still not run. People elsewhere seem to be implying this doesn't work for most cartridge based games. bahh
JStein0222
Member
PS TV related question - when moving memory card between vita and ps tv, is there any way to prevent the whole "rebuilding databases" thing? Annoying that it always messes up all the menus and such
Make the icon placement match on each, and they don't reset.
You can't prevent the rebuilding database thing though.
gingerbeardman
Member
use this site to send the emails: http://wololo.net/talk/pstv_whitelist/
read about it: http://wololo.net/2015/09/26/pstv-w...es-on-your-ps-tv-with-simplified-steps-video/
JStein0222
Member
Oy I have a 64gig card almost filled so this is a task
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Derp, that is why I should have gone to bed much earlier. xD Thanks!
Yeah I had a similar issue getting the app.db update to work, except with downloaded games. Someone in the thread got Terraria to work doing it, but it still refuses to work. Doesn't make any of my other games that are still blocked work either. Dunno if I did something wrong, or if there's an issue with the tutorial, or what.
Finally got the chance to do this today, and everything went smooth.
As someone who owns a Vita and a PSTV, all I ever wanted the PSTV for was to be able to capture video of Vita games without spending 500 bucks on a modded Vita.
So now I can keep my PSTV offline for that, and download any new stuff on the actual Vita.
As someone who owns a Vita and a PSTV, all I ever wanted the PSTV for was to be able to capture video of Vita games without spending 500 bucks on a modded Vita.
So now I can keep my PSTV offline for that, and download any new stuff on the actual Vita.