PlayStation Vita

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PlayStation Vita
Developer: Sony Computer Entertainment Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Released in JP: December 17, 2011 Released in US: February 15, 2012 Released in EU: February 22, 2012 Released in KR: February 11, 2012 This console has a hidden developer message. This console has unused music. This console has unused text. This console has revisional differences. This console has a prototype article

The PlayStation Vita was Sony's second handheld console, and the successor to the immensely-successful PlayStation Portable.

While it enjoyed success in Japan, it was overall a commercial failure, with one contributing factor being the high price of its proprietary memory card (for instance, a 32GB Memory Card cost $120, half the price of the system itself); adding insult to injury is that commodity SD cards can be used through third-party adapters alongside jailbreaking the console.

The Vita hardware also formed the basis for the PlayStation Vita TV, released internationally as simply the PlayStation TV in an attempt for Sony to wash their hands off the tainted Vita moniker.

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Prototype Info

Hidden Developer Message

Present at 0x00007630 in secure_kernel.enc/secure_kernel.enp:

Congratulations! At lash you get the plaintext of the Ps Vita Secure Kernel!
I'm confident that you never see this message though, ha-ha.

This message was added somewhere between firmware versions 0.995.070 and 0.996.070. The last sentence was removed somewhere between firmware versions 0.996.090 and 1.000.071.

Unused Text

Present in second_loader.bin at 0x00016A0.

Donate2Fukushima

This was added in firmware version 0.996.070, and removed in 1.000.071.

Early Music

To do: Upload the final music, compare it to the versions heard here and give proper names to these files

In firmware 0.099.070, there is a slightly different version of the home menu music. It is an ATRAC9 file named home.at9 and it is located in vs0:data\internal\bgm\shell.

This is also true for the music for the near app. The file, named bgm001.at9, is located in vs0:app\NPXS10000 instead of vs0:data\internal\bgm\shell named near.at9 alongside the other ATRAC9 files like the final.

Hidden Copy/Paste Feature

To do: Add a link to the plugin.

There is an copy and paste feature hidden in the system software. The feature was actually present in very early versions of the PS Vita firmware but starting somewhere around firmware version 1.06, it was disabled for an unknown reason, though it can be re-enabled using a taiHEN plugin on a jailbroken Vita.