VitaShell

VitaShell
General
Author	TheFloW
Type	File Browsers
Version	2.02
License	GPL-3.0
Last Updated	2020/01/19
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VitaShell is an alternative replacement of the PS Vita's LiveArea. It offers you a file manager, package installer, built-in FTP and much more.

This homebrew was an entry of the Revitalize PS Vita homebrew competition and won the first prize. HENkaku's molecularShell is also based on VitaShell.

Features

• Launch homebrews (however, most of the homebrews cannot exit to VitaShell).
• Read and write to pspemu (the folder starting with ms) and cache0.
• Read vs0:data/external (the folder starting with sd), vs0:sys/external (the folder starting with sd), app0, music0, photo0 and sa0.
• File browser with copy-paste, delete, rename, new folder. Press square to mark an entry.
• RAR/7ZIP/ZIP support.
• Text viewer.
• Hex viewer (press square when you are in text viewer, press square again to switch back to text viewer).
• Photo viewer (beta state).
• Built-in FTP supporting all directories (press Select).

User guide

How to use an USB flash drive as Memory Card on a PS TV

• Format your USB flash drive as exFAT or FAT32.
• Launch VitaShell and press Triangle in the home section.
• Select Mount uma0: and attach your USB flash drive. You can now copy stuff from/to your USB stick.
• Once uma0: is listed under the partitions, press Triangle again and choose Mount USB ux0:. This will copy important apps like VitaShell, molecularShell, and other files.
• Your USB flash drive is now acting as a Memory Card.
• To sync all your apps on your USB flash drive, press Triangle and choose Refresh livearea. This will not refresh PSP games.
• If you wish to revert the patch, press Triangle and select Umount USB ux0:.
• Note that this patch is only temporary and you need to redo the procedure everytime you launch your PS TV.

Obtaining decrypted game assets from NoNpDRM rips

• Use NoNpDRM to create backups of your games.
• Open VitaShell and update it to latest version possible.
• Go to ux0:app/ (or ux0:patch/) folder, using D-Pad select the GAMEID directory of a chosen game you want to obtain assets from and press Triangle > Open decrypted.
• Press Select to open FTP server (switch it under Start key if you have USB connection chosen).
• Using FTP client on PC, connect to vita, then guide to ux0:app/GAMEID/ (or ux0:patch/GAMEID/). Make sure you open this folder and download all its contents to PC.
• (Optional) After you are done downloading, check if files are indeed decrypted if hex of eboot.bin file, starts with SCE then you decrypted files correctly.

Customization

You can customize those files:

File	Note
colors.txt	All colors adjustable
archive_icon.png	Archive icon
audio_icon.png	Audio icon
battery.png	Battery border icon
battery_bar_charge.png	Charging battery bar
battery_bar_green.png	Green battery bar
battery_bar_red.png	Red battery bar
bg_audioplayer.png	Background for audio player
bg_browser.png	Background for file browser
bg_hexeditor.png	Background for hex editor
bg_photoviewer.png	Background for photo viewer
bg_texteditor.png	Background for text editor
context.png	Context menu image (Can be any size. Suggestion: It will look great if you add alpha channel to your image)
context_more.png	Context menu more image (Can be any size. Suggestion: It will look great if you add alpha channel to your image)
cover.png	Default album cover
dialog.png	Dialog menu image (Can be any size. This image file will be stretched by VitaShell to fit the dialog box. Suggestion: Don't use motives, as it will not look good with wrong proportion.)
fastforward.png	Fastforward icon
fastrewind.png	Fastrewind icon
file_icon.png	File icon
folder_icon.png	Folder icon
ftp.png	FTP icon
image_icon.png	Image icon
pause.png	Pause icon
play.png	Play icon
settings.png	Settings icon
sfo_icon.png	SFO icon
text_icon.png	Text icon
wallpaper.png	Wallpaper

Theme setting: VitaShell will load the theme that is set in ux0:VitaShell/theme/theme.txt (THEME_NAME = "YOUR_THEME_NAME")

General info: You don't need to have all these files in your custom theme, if one of them is missing, the default image file will be loaded instead.

Dialog and context image: If these files are not available, the colors DIALOG_BG_COLOR and CONTEXT_MENU_COLOR from colors.txt will be used instead.

Multi-language

Put your language file at ux0:VitaShell/language/x.txt, where the file must be UTF-8 encoded and x is one of the language listed below:

• japanese
• english_us
• french
• spanish
• german
• italian
• dutch
• portuguese
• russian
• korean
• chinese_t
• chinese_s
• finnish
• swedish
• danish
• norwegian
• polish
• portuguese_br
• turkish

VitaShell does automatically load the language that matches to the current system language.

If your system language is for example french, it will load from ux0:VitaShell/language/french.txt.

Languages files are available in the l10n folder of this repository.

Screenshots

Compatibility

Tested on:

3.18 VitaTV with 1.05 Unity
3.50 PS Vita with 1.06 Unity

Changelog

v2.02

• Reverted PSM refresh due to crashes.

v2.01

• Added ability to refresh PSM games. Thanks to KuromeSan.
• Added support for FW 3.57 and 3.73 Thanks to RealYoti.

v2.00

• Added support for FW 3.72.

v1.99

• Added support for FW 3.71.

v1.98

• Improved "Refresh LiveArea". Thanks to TheRadziu.

v1.97

• Added support for symlinks which enables ability to set and show bookmarks and recent files. Thanks to abertschi.
• Added a few shortcuts: left+[]: show bookmarks, left+/: show recent files, left+O: QR scanner.
• Fixed bug in ad-hoc dialog where X is always the enter button.

v1.96

• Added ability to skip pages in file browser and SFO viewer using L/R triggers.
• (QR download has been temporarily removed and will be reimplemented later).
• Added ability to move files between partitions by copying&removing.
• Fixed bug where the option to disable warning message was not saved.
• Undone usb changes because people reported an issue with vpk installation with it.

v1.95

• Added option to disable warning messages when installing vpks.
• Fixed bug in USB connection, where your Memory Card could be corrupted.
• Fixed line breaks in SFO files and long names will now scroll.
• Fixed compatibility with udcd_uvc.skprx thanks to xerpi.

v1.94

• Added ability to umount all partitions that you can mount.
• Fixed crash when using StorageMgr.

v1.93

• Added xmc0: to partition list and added ability to mount xmc0:.
• Fixed ux0: mounting bug where it wasn't detected that the gamesd has already been mounted.

Full list of changes can be found here.

Credits

Original credits:

• Team Molecule for HENkaku.
• xerpi for ftpvitalib and vita2dlib.
• wololo for the Revitalize contest.
• sakya for Lightmp3.
• Everybody who contributed on vitasdk.

If the project has been helpful to you and you want to support its development or just to say thanks to the author, you can support them through Patreon.

External links

• GitHub - https://github.com/TheOfficialFloW/VitaShell
• VitaDB - https://vitadb.rinnegatamante.it/#/info/21
• Wololo - https://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=114&t=44890