How to Jailbreak Your PS Vita & PSTV on Firmware 3.74 - Permanent HENkaku Ensō CFW & More!

[@ninjaperson27]

If anyone with a 1000 series vita had problems getting the "create internal memory card" to work, I would follow the written guide linked above, under the section "creating an internal memory card". After selecting the "defualt 2xxx storage configuration and rebooting the vita, you have to go your settings, down to 'format', to 'format memory card' and then make sure that only the 1gb size one is selected. Accept all the disclaimers that pop up, and then the system will reboot itself. At this point, you can go verify in the settings that it now has 1 gb storage. I got stuck because I didn't do this, and i didn't get any prompts to format a memory card.

[@rx7allday]

Thank you!!!!!

[@jasonford6679]

I was getting hung up at same spot! Thank you so much!

[@angeloalberico1699]

Legend. @mrmario2011 you REALLY need to add this disclaimer. You kind of mentioned it when you said if it asks you to format do it, but it will not ask you to format. you have to seek that out like @morvaine stated.

[@FC-qg9ld]

Very crucial step!!!

[@baribor]

Thank you so much!!! I thought I had done something wrong and got stuck here.

[@charlesrayshisleriii]

Just bought a PSTV from Japan (wanted a white one) and this guide is perfect! Can't wait for it to come in the mail

[@MrMario2011]

Have fun!

[@Sc35444]

Ebay? I’m looking too get a vita too mod

[@4sxr]

@@Sc35444 i got mine from ebay since amazon has outrageous prices on old stuff as always.

[@shadownx8475]

Excellent video, really well explained and the marked chapters make it extra easy.

[@davidkelley3890]

For anyone reading this, THIS is the way to do it. It was simple, easy, fast, and saved my PS Vita after I enabled auto boot and all my files got corrupted regardless of rebuilding the database. Go this route! Especially first timers!

[@weezeringo]

Do you recommend me to restore the system of my ps vita? And if so, should I unlink my PSN account to the device? Thanks :)

[@dolphin_muncherz7903]

Sir, me and my brothers have watched all of your videos for jailbreaking ever since we first tried jailbreaking (and successfully) the PS3, you make everything so simple and easy. Inshallah when me and my wife have a kid, I can teach them this very same thing.

[@bramvandenbroeck5060]

I got a broken ps vita from cash converters (oled 3g model) for 50 euros, the charge port was broken, and i have installed a micro usb connector instead of replacing this proprietary connector, it lives on the top now where the accessories port used to be (it wasn't used for anything anyway), i replaced the battery with a 3300mAh samsung smartphone battery, i replaced the mushy feeling shoulder buttons for nice clicky ones and i have 256gb of storage on my vita which is more than enough for me. I have this vita now for about 2 years and i love this thing! It can play the games i want, it can emulate all the consoles from my youth! I own a switch, but i always grab the ps vita just because it is so awesome! I have a soft spot for this console, and with the quality of life improvements i have made on my initially broken ps vita (which is working fine ever since, i can do everything over micro usb what the og cable can do) it is the ultimate oled ps vita!

[@ambrosiozaldua]

Oh dude you’re a legend explaining everything so good 👏👏

[@MrMario2011]

I appreciate that!

[@fugamantew]

So grateful for this video. The process is succinct and it worked like a charm. Than you.

[@tytyguy1able]

Sure am happy I kept my Vita around....amazing that it's gotten this easy to jailbreak! Hitting up your PS3 guide tomorrow!

[@plutopotamus]

This tutorial is a work of art. Just got a broken vita fixed (water damage to left ctl board and main flex, just a $20 fix). Anyways, I have never used a vita and I just hacked this one in real time to your video! I had to pause a couple of times, but often your timing was perfect where you would talk and then pick back up right when my vita was completing the previous step. Such an incredibly good video! Thanks for making these! This tutorial is still 100% flawless (for the 2000 series that I own, at least)!

[@MrMario2011]

Thanks for the lovely comment!

[@vincentmarcellino7183]

Thank you so much. Kept trying to get Adrenaline running and lamented the terrible experience I'd have trying to connect it to my PC AGAIN just to downgrade. Had no idea there was a downgrader included in my CFW

[@ISAK.M]

I love watching your tutorials just to have something to watch XD

[@MrMario2011]

Based

[@cyphaborg6598]

Just amazing how this turns a PSTV into so much more. Kudos bro.

[@MrMario2011]

Love it!! This truly opens up the Vita in more ways than one.

[@vincentschumann937]

Thanks a lot man, saved me the headache of looking for certain firmware version vita to buy

[@manosgouzibas8045]

Something important i noticed. If you have slow connection and automatic sleep is lower than the downloading time, it will freeze the console and you have to reboot and redo this process

[@WalrusStu]

This makes me want to wipe my Vita completely and start fresh since there have been so many improvements all around!

[@MrMario2011]

Definitely a nicer starting point now for anyone modifying their Vita in the current day!

[@gamespittahh]

@@MrMario2011 would I be able to update to offical 3.74 from a jailbroken 3.73 version without the risk of getting banned?

[@jeromievalenzuela2190]

always appreciate the time you take when a new method is put out to teach and fully explain.

[@MrMario2011]

Glad to help!

[@emlyndewar]

Fished my PSTV out the drawer recently and caused some issues trying to get 8bit controllers working. As always there’s a MrMario guide to help me go back to a clean hacked system. :D Sold my Vita 1000 recently, but the PSTV is just so small/nice.

[@MrMario2011]

Glad it worked!

[@Calistenics_Life]

just got a vita 2k and my first time doing stuff like this really easy thanks bro!

[@MrMario2011]

Nice work!

[@ashoreashore-e7r]

@@MrMario2011 dear one small question any games i try to add from vpk file its give error 0xfffffffe

[@Mewpher]

I tried doing it but the Henkaku menu doesn't display in the setting option after installing it. Have this happened to somebody?

[@melaniegalbraith4668]

I'm having this issue too can anyone help?

[@BradYeti97]

Literally, come straight to this channel for ANY console hacks/mods. For anyone reading the comments, this is the "be-all, end-all" for modding tutorials!

[@usenamer3635]

I accidentally upgraded to version 3.74 and I couldn’t figure out how to downgrade it. Now I can mod my vita. Thank you

[@MrMario2011]

Have fun!

[@Sinfulhype]

Shark food isn't staying open

[@cxllxm9373]

Find a fix?

[@chuko3213]

Found it yet?

[@melaniegalbraith4668]

THIS!!! what now?

[@chuko3213]

@@melaniegalbraith4668 and click on the first video. It’s what fixed it for me

[@chuko3213]

@@melaniegalbraith4668 just search up PSM fix. It worked for me

[@MrScienceman2000]

After years of waiting Vita scene to improve I finally decided grab one. I got PS Vita 1000 for 120e with Persona 4 Gold, Persona 4 Dancing all night and Sly Cooper Thieves in time and softmodded it with this guide. Still waiting my sd2vita adapter to arrive so can have more space on Vita. Vita has reached near optimal state on modding, coldboot exploit for almost all models (expect very late revisions), has plenty of good homebrew, modding is easy. Funny that this is my first handheld console and somehow did get one any handheld console over 20 years

[@MrMario2011]

Have fun!

[@HoangNguyen-jc8jo]

Very very detailed guide! Big thanks from Vietnam!

[@MrMario2011]

Glad it was helpful!

[@DarkWestern]

The psp2 dev site doesn't work on my vita :< The page looks completely different from the one in the video, and I get an error of "ERROR: Could not corrupt the JSArray"

[@jaysondocot1870]

Worth it video. Thanks for sharing brother 😊

[@g_pimp_515]

Think you so much man the First Tutorial That explains it detailed

[@TS-mz9dz]

Thanks for the great video! I am getting this error when I install VitaDeploy - Failed: 0x804101C8. Do you know of any resolution on this?

[@willsxx1]

Make sure you have javascript checked/enabled in your browser settings…dont ask me how i know….😅 Thanks again MrMario on another great tutorial, i think i have watched you for the OG xbox, PSP, PS2, Sega Saturn, and maybe some more I’m missing…lol…you truly are the “Modfather”! 🐐😎

[@MrMario2011]

Good to know!

[@Joshua-hf5ui]

I gotta ask how..

[@willsxx1]

@@Joshua-hf5ui i found after trying to reach that site on multiple try’s that the “JavaScript enabled” was not checked, after i checked it everything worked as MrMario instructed 😎

[@ΓεώργιοςΒατουσιανός]

It doesn't open henlo keeps showing me Google search

[@shennelgordon7214]

Mine keep saying unsupported real firmware 😔

[@brngrofdeth]

Thank you once again. You are a great man. Love and blessings from Ontario Canada. Happy New Year!

[@MrMario2011]

Happy new year!

[@nathanvella960]

Thank you for the updated guide! If you have an oled model with no memory card but have an sd2vita. You can skip creating internal memory card. I got a little confused and messed up the install ..Oops xd. I was not sure how to replace the 1gb partition with sd2vita, I later realized you can just replace near with vitadeploy, then setup sd2vita and then install the perma-update and other apps.

[@Claasic]

so awesome , thank you Mr Mario, i will be using this tutorial soon

[@MrMario2011]

Have fun!

[@Damienkpruitt]

This was the 3 time I tried it I actually have a list of problems 1.) my PS store will not work 2.) I lost all my game progress 3.) vita deploy disappeared so I can’t download any games even if I wanted to 4:) my wifi will not connect (I act fixed that) Does anyone have any advice please it would help me so much

[@mokMan23]

honestly, this is super cool! just found out there's a new exploit for the vita. upgrading rn

[@MrMario2011]

No you can't? That's why you have to downgrade to 3.65 or 3.60, those are the only two Enso compatible firmwares.

[@mokMan23]

@@MrMario2011 oh, mb. misread the title as enso being compatible with 3.74

[@unispekt]

Hi if you don't see the 1gb after making one on the internal card, just go to format and format the sd card

[@AODANGELof]

This was driving me crazy, thanks! If anyone is having issues with this, go to settings->format memory card, it will ask you are you sure you want to format it? Say yes and it'll restart, then my virtual memory card appeared!

[@Dylan-if4di]

Thanks!

[@MrMario2011]

Welcome!

[@FuryMarthy]

Absolutely beautiful tutorial, everything worked out fine, thanks a lot. Great work.

[@MrMario2011]

You're welcome!

[@favian3380]

​@@MrMario2011 I have firmware 3.50 should I update my ps vita before modding?

[@wanderer9569]

I type the website, but it tells me if i want to unlock my vita. I click unlock, and I get all kinds of error messages, and i see no henlo site....

[@bokz-1933]

Everything is in detail. Tnx bro💯😁🤘

[@MrMario2011]

No problem 👍

[@Vanilla_mnrd]

Hello, can anyone help me? When I try to download shark food, the application opens and closes a microsecond later. I have tried to download it manually on pc but my psvita file does not display. thank you for your help

[@alexanderlicht6458]

same here

[@cxllxm9373]

@@alexanderlicht6458find a fix?

[@cxllxm9373]

Were you able to fix it?

[@marissagarcia7998]

Same here 😢

[@mr.alienjumper7153]

And shark food didn't do automatically instalation and it not come back by it self to vita dB and can not update all this files in that app

[@alaina_plays_games]

VitaDB Downloader doesn't seem to work correctly for me, it actually fails to install those 2 files that it does before it opens Sharkfood

[@TheBalloonTwister]

You got a sub excellent tutorial 👌 👍

[@MrMario2011]

Thanks for hanging out!

[@andretetting1021]

Great video, could you still use the Vita to stream PS4 if you jailbreak it?

[@ehrenmayer5804]

So happy I found your guide as I dusted off my PSTV got it up and going with your video. Thanks for all your wonderful content. Do you know if there is a vita-udcd-ubv ported for PSTV? I was able to play my Vita on my Quest 3 with that wonderful plugin and wondering if I could do the same for my PSTV.

[@MrMario2011]

Doubtful, since that's a bit redundant on the PSTV which already has HDMI output.

[@ehrenmayer5804]

@@MrMario2011 figured as much and thanks again.

[@skyler9872]

Why is it when i downgrade it says could not load kernel module

[@brianstuntman4368]

I modded my Vita about 3 years ago, but to my shame haven't really touched it in the last 2 years. With all the latest modding advancements, I feel so out of the loop and would like to return my Vita to stock and start from scratch. Is this possible, or even necessary? This guide is great, but I'd love to see a companion guide for people in a similar situation to me...😉

[@MrMario2011]

If you really want to start from scratch this is what I did: Uninstall Enso from the Enso app, restore factory settings to system, update firmware.

[@LouDominquez21]

This was also going to be my question. I have a 100 and pstv that will get some attention later.

[@HeartPliz]

In a similar situation Havent touched mine in probably two years. Currently on 3.68 I believe with henkaku, but my sd2vita doesnt work at all, or all the files on it say file corrupt. So is it better to just upgrade to 3.74 or just figure out from where I am?

[@STILLONTOP]

Same Situation jailbreak 3 years ago. Haven't touched it since. Should I Redo everything and Follow your Steps. Great video btw

[@vexween784]

I tried using vita db for sharkfood but before it finished installing it ran out of storage so I used sd2vita and now it will only start the installation for sharkfood which then opens for like 2 seconds and closes before I can even read the error message

[@sylgamingph]

awesome! easiest guide ive followed

[@MrMario2011]

Glad to hear!

[@yam4052]

Great guide! Just wondering: does this affect SD2Vita installation at all? Just wondering if the old method of installation is still viable. Thank you for the guide and have a good day!

[@MrMario2011]

Nope, if you follow this on a stock Vita, afterwards you can then follow my YAMT video to get up to speed on storage.

[@beanvan99]

@@MrMario2011 thank you, I have to reboot and use henkaku every time. So if I just reboot and “start fresh” (not booting up henkaku) will this work as normal?

[@golgorider]

My PS Vita didn't come with the Near app, but restoring the app brought it back.

[@incrediblejoe5doddy_boi755]

ngl I never comment on videos but thank you my guy 🙏

[@MrMario2011]

You're welcome!

[@chrisreu-974-38]

Excellent the best guide ! (sorry i'm french)

[@MrMario2011]

Glad it helped!

[@cheerygold8109]

Best teacher ever You helped me a lot thanks

[@MrMario2011]

You are most welcome!

[@yoboirecruit4250]

Soo I kinda have a problem. I completed the 3.65 downgrade but vita deploy doesn't exist anymore. Help?

[@FMG_MADLOO87]

Many thanks just done my 1st Vita using this

[@MrMario2011]

Enjoy it!

[@erenskii]

22:58 at this point i need help bcs i dont have a pc and on my vita i can not leave the vitashell app can smn please help me ?

[@MrRodrigues520]

This looks so good that I might do a fresh reinstall on my Vita and VitaTV. Just one question, can I do all these steps without an external memory card? Just with the internal 1gb created?

[@MrMario2011]

Yep!

[@rangerv1]

I am doing it and it’s refusing to install vitadepoly and henkaku doesn’t appear

[@FightCain]

I have a PSVita 1000 model. I did everything as listed on 5:00 but after updating, my Vitadeploly is listed as "vdep" and after downgrading to 3.65, my "vdep" reverts to "near" app, even though it is still named as "vdep". (it's been factory resetted multiple times before). (what I did is install Henkaku -> change near to vitadeploy -> vdep to unlock the hidden internal storage -> format storage -> I see the 1GB -> install henkaku -> install vitadeploy -> downgrade) Did I do something wrong?

[@sponge8406]

23:33 winscp doesn't have a new session tab and when i click new tab it doesnt show up my ip adress on the vita

[@DESIGNYOURLIFR]

Excellent Guide but I run into a problem.when I try to install the home brew app,went step by step and for some reason it freezes and stays in that state never opening the shark food app. any idea what the problem is? Any suggestions would help,Thanks.

[@Jonofthekings]

Same and following in hopes for some advice.

[@valg.3152]

Love the way you described everything in detail. First time doing this I have a question how do you get the power circle icon on the screen?

[@MrMario2011]

Use a PSTV

[@kalosz1985]

most of the guide is fine, only the section describing how to create a virtual memory card has an error. you forgot to add in this file the part responsible for formatting the card after its creation. only then is it visible in the system

[@Balonyoutube]

Thx man you earned a subscriber 😜😜

[@imast0na]

Im abit confused, is this permanent jailbreak? Because you didn’t tick to install enso under itsl

[@hondomania]

My sharkfood won’t work, everytime I open vitadb it just reinstalls sharkfood then doesn’t work

[@cxllxm9373]

Found a fix yet?

[@SomeDudeOnYoutube89]

Same issue, can’t figure out how to fix it.

[@hondomania]

@@cxllxm9373 have not yet but was able to transfer data with ftp server works for now

[@melaniegalbraith4668]

Hi I love following your tutorials as they are really good, I managed to mod my psp a while back and now I'm trying to mod my vita I'm running into loads of issues, firstly when I get about ½ way through this video, basically vitaDB, shark food doesn't open and I can't go any further, I don't have a PC so just trying to mod through vita but I've spent all of yesterday trying over and over step by step but get stuck at sharkfood? Please help, is there another app besides sharkfood? Thanks

[@sansloscheletro3488]

Hello. I did this but when my firmware went back to 3.65 all my games were deleted but in the memory card is like they are still installed. Do you know how to fix without formatting my psvita and re-install the mod again?

[@MrMario2011]

You could try to go into VitaShell and use the "Refresh LiveArea" option.

[@sansloscheletro3488]

@@MrMario2011: thank you, i already formatted my PsVita because i saw that downgrading my firmware made me lost all the save files i had of every game, i don't know why. Fortunately i had just started these games so it doesn't really matter to me

[@cylotron]

I tried this on a Vita 1000 w/ a SD2Vita adapter and a 512GB microSD card. I can get on the 3.65 firmware and get everything installed, but every time I reboot and try to open any of the apps, it keeps saying they are corrupt and I have to restart the process all over again.

[@sabianwarner5316]

The timing of this video is funny to me, as I just modded my vita a couple days ago lol

[@MrMario2011]

Pretend this was 2 days ago LOL

[@Sc35444]

Where did you get your vita? Do you think ebay would be a nice place or no? New too this

[@sabianwarner5316]

@@Sc35444 Im from the UK and got my vita from a shop called cex. They sell second hand tech, and the one I got was in really good condition. Althoug getting it from ebay wouldnt be aweful, you just dont get any warranty on it.

[@VexX6]

Great tutorial, just wondering when installing vita games should I go with vpk files or the nodrm files?

[@MrMario2011]

NoNpDrm

[@Loukoumakias]

As always, thanks for the videos and tutorials. Would you recommend doing that on a PS Vita with my main PSN account?

[@MrMario2011]

Always a ban risk is what I tell people.

[@Mr-faris070]

Everything works fine until downgrading, my psvita when its downgrading it becomes blank screen after like 3 mins

[@damiongee-tf8eu]

how to fix???

[@semaj6308]

i followed all steps but im hitting a roadblock where henkaku settings is not showing up! i am using pstv and i have no idea why this is

[@sofiane.bifout]

Vita DB is not installing for me Shark Food is running then closing automatically Any tips how to fix that ?

[@sofiane.bifout]

@@AsianTaco yes i formated my vita and tried again It worked

[@Joshua-hf5ui]

As someone inexperienced with this kinda thing, I feel confident up to the point of using plug ins. Would these be essential to perform ?

[@MrMario2011]

Plugins are absolutely essential to pair with HENkaku.

[@Joshua-hf5ui]

@@MrMario2011 Ah okay 😅

[@aregar1]

Hey there MrMario, hacked my Vita back when 3.65 Enso first came out. I haven't really messed with it much since. Is it worth it to update to the newer versions? Been a while, I don't even know how the update process even works or what I'm supposed to do.

[@MrMario2011]

You don't update the firmware on the Vita after it has been modified, HENkaku and Enso don't need updating either. At this point you can really just update other stuff on your Vita. So updating plugins, upgrade storage with YAMT, install iTLS-Enso for online capabilities, use VitaDB Downloader for homebrew, etc.

[@jjssll466]

Really helpful guide. I followed all the steps on my 1000 vita with the 8GB memory card. And it was working fine! Now I want to run Sd2vita but removing the normal 8GB card obviously loses all the apps. I'm not sure where I start over from!? Thanks

[@Silveralchemy]

I got all this to work, except for game downloads. Every time I try to download anything I get error codes about not being able to connect to the server. Any ideas?

[@xxbullriderkillx9301]

Vita deploy is not downloadiing for me "could not open file for write, is ux0 present? FAILED 0x80010013"

[@FearfulEntertainment]

keep getting "could not corrupt the JSArray" when trying to jailbreak

[@Maddman1515]

Same

[@demonstrick666]

Any chance that my Vita denies the sharkfood part of the Homebrew section? It kept failing after a split second into each time it auto opened sharkfood after the download

[@cemetery895]

I did this on my Vita first then my PSTV, everything is fine on the Vita everything works. But using the same cartridge/sd on my PSTV doesn't show any games which always only show on my handheld why is that?

[@Jonofthekings]

Appreciate the detailed breakdown! This is one of the best tutorials I have ever seen! On a side note, following the process but sharkfood seems to crash. Any help would be appreciated!

[@LoudMime]

did you get a work around on this?

[@Jonofthekings]

@@LoudMime Hey I figured it out. Just deleted the programs and restarted the steps and everything worked on the 2nd go. Only issue I am having is the NW error message but I am looking into it now.

[@pdbsstudios7137]

I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM

[@lokomoko008]

For mine it doesnt do the vita db on its own. It downloaded and installed sharkfood but does not open it

[@djmavz6]

Thanks for the tutorial! I had one question: If I do this with a psvita memory card but want to switch to a SD2Vita memory card afterwards, can I just switch them or is there something else I need to do? Thanks!!

[@infinity1063]

My PlayStation vita is already Jailbroken but isn’t updated, so I can’t access my PSN it’s 3.73 but when I downgrade I can’t get in

[@MrMario2011]

Following this video should help. You need to be running Enso and install iTLS-Enso to get online.

[@infinity1063]

@@MrMario2011 Thank you I will try.

[@infinity1063]

@@MrMario2011 when It the website looks different for me and doesn’t take me straight away I figured it out

[@infinity1063]

For any one struggling before you exit hold the right top

[@michaelflowden6496]

Is there an FAQ concerning having/creating a PSN account for this? Will it still be possible to do on say old stock vita/pstv. Or remove ones account after modding and putting in a new one before selling to someone else when one has played all there is to play on it?

[@jakegitteskent]

Thank you so much dude!!

[@MrMario2011]

No problem!

[@i9INE]

Hey guys, can’t get passed installing henkaku. Everytime i exit the page to install that and vitadeploy my vita restarts and I’m caught in a loop. Any suggestions?

[@Deefoz]

part of the VitaDB install process isn't working. It reccoments i connect to a PC to download an asset manager... with a URL that give me the 403 error

[@jonahguitarhero]

i love the ps vita and its homebrew scene, so seeing this new exploit making the experience much easier, is really awesome

[@marcelocaballero8128]

When I try to download the updater it says "Could not load the kernel module!" how do I fix this?

[@DJS0RR0W3]

mine wont let me download itls or vitashell or anything idk why can anyone help please

[@ShredMaster709]

same idk what to do

[@Groesjeboy]

i Have a few questions, I a noob to hacks 🙂 i already hacked my device a few years ago Im on 3.60 ( 2 chinese letters ) - 10 I have Henkaku enso built 2017-7-29t05;13:01Z Do i have any advantage to update to a newer version ? and if so how should i do that i did saw in enso the option to uninstall hack . Should i uninstall that hack before following this video ?

[@favian3380]

Do you know if I need any more plug-ins to run gta san andreas? Also should I update ps vita to newest firmware before jailbreak?

[@MEMZ085]

When I opened sharkfood it turned black and restarted

[@yairrdz]

Would this work for Japanese 2k vita?

[@MrMario2011]

Yes