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Chovy-sign
Chovy-sign
General
Author	SilicaAndPina, dots_tb, Motoharu
Type	PC Utilities
Version	2.0
License	GPL-3.0
Last Updated	2023/04/26
Links
	Download
	Website
	Source

Revision as of 05:33, 29 April 2023

Chovy-sign is an application that allows you to convert PSP and PS1 ISOs to be playable on unmodified PSVitas. This tool was developed by a few different people, such as KuromeSan and RupertAvery, who contributed to the creation of the tool and its various components. The tool requires a valid (official) PSP or PS1 license to work, and it is recommended to use specific games such as Petz Saddle Club, LocoRoco Midnight Carnival, or Ape Quest Starter Pack.

Chovy-sign was primarily created to allow PSP emulation on the PS Vita. The latest PS Vita firmware, which is 3.71, has rendered all previous hacking techniques useless, and unless you’re on a previous firmware version, you can’t play the PSP titles themselves. The authors of the tool have publicly stated that they don’t support piracy in any way, and you should only use it if you have officially purchased the titles or own UMDs.

How To Use

There are two ways to use chovy-sign: if you have a hacked PSVita or if you don't. If you don't have a hacked PSVita, you'll need to copy the game to your PC using Content Manager and then open chovy-sign and click the ""Get Keys"" button. You'll then need to select the ""EBOOT.PBP"" method and click on the game. After that, the RIF and KEY fields should populate, and you are good to go. If you have a hacked PSVita, you can still use the unhacked Vita method if you would like, but Content Manager is not the fastest way to transfer files.

Media

HOW TO Play PSP ISO's On PS VITA 3.71! NO CFW/ANY FIRMWARE! - (Tech James)

Screenshots

Notes

One notable aspect of chovy-sign is that it uses a custom implementation of PSVIMGTOOLS, which runs faster and is more accurate to the .psvimg format. Furthermore, chovy-sign now shows a progress bar while signing the declaration of independence and has fixed a bug where your CMA directory wouldn't be found automatically.

It is important to note that deleting the PSP demo used for chovy-sign would give you errors when opening the PSP games you put on the Vita. This issue predates chovy-sign and even henkaku and has to do with the PSP bubble cloning trick. It has been around since 2014, and there isn't really anything you can do to prevent it. Games made with this are ""clones"" of the original ""base game,"" so if you delete any of them, it actually deletes the license.rif, which breaks all the other ""clones"".

Changelog

v2.0

Completely rewrote the entire thing
Added PS1 Support
Added key generation from rif using act.dat and idps.
Made a command line version also.

beta03

CHOVY-SIGN.exe now has an icon!
Non-MINI's now show the #ChovyProject logo on bootup
Created my own version of PSVIMGTOOLS which runs faster and is more accurate to the .psvimg format
"Get keys from CMA" is now LIGHTSPEED
Now shows Progress Bar while signing the declaration of independance
CHOVY-GEN.exe is now intergrated into CHOVY.DLL
Fixed a bug where your CMA directory wouldnt be found automatically.

beta02

Now works on 32-bit windows PC's
MINI's games ISOs now show the "MINIS" boot screen
Caught some execptions that wherent previously caught.

beta01

First Release.

Credits

SquallATF (for "PspCrypto" and "PBPResigner", and making PS1 Game signing possible, And discovering a bug in __sce_ebootpbp handling that makes it possible to use multi-disc games.)
Li: (for writing the original chovy-sign, Developing the GUI, finding the original psp bubbles method and, Sfo.NET A Simple SFO Parser,
Writing the PS1 Disc Compresison algorithm, making it possible to use custom ISOs, Writing C# Implementation of PSVIMGTOOLS, Being transgender)
dots-tb (for chovy-gen (__sce_ebootpbp signing)
Sony Computer Enterainment: (For at3tool)
yifanlu & xyz for the original psvimgtools.
Mathieulh (Found psp signing keys?)
Motoharu (For helping dots with __sce_ebootpbp)
Davee (For finding the PS1 Signing Key)
xlenore (For PS1 Cover Art)
RupertAvery (For their fork of DiscUtils to add PS1 Support)
SquallATF's PBPResigner and PSPCrypto were derived from : xdotnano (PSXTract)
swarzesherz (sign_np)
tpunix (kirk_engine)

External links

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 ==How To Use==
-There are two ways to use chovy-sign: if you have a hacked PSVita or if you don't. If you don't have a hacked PSVita, you'll need to copy the game to your PC using Content Manager and then open chovy-sign2 and click the ""Get Keys"" button. You'll then need to select the ""EBOOT.PBP"" method and click on the game. After that, the RIF and KEY fields should populate, and you are good to go. If you have a hacked PSVita, you can still use the unhacked Vita method if you would like, but Content Manager is not the fastest way to transfer files.
+There are two ways to use chovy-sign: if you have a hacked PSVita or if you don't. If you don't have a hacked PSVita, you'll need to copy the game to your PC using Content Manager and then open chovy-sign and click the ""Get Keys"" button. You'll then need to select the ""EBOOT.PBP"" method and click on the game. After that, the RIF and KEY fields should populate, and you are good to go. If you have a hacked PSVita, you can still use the unhacked Vita method if you would like, but Content Manager is not the fastest way to transfer files.
 ==Media==