PSTV Whitelist – How to play All Vita games on your PS TV with simplified steps & video
The PS TV has always been a promising device, but its many limitations made it sub par. Some of these limitations, such as the PS TV whitelist, are plain stupid: Sony decided to prevent you from playing certain Vita Games on your PS TV. The rules on which games can go into the whitelist or not seem pretty random. Although the PS TV does not have a touch screen, which makes som PS Vita games incompatible, this was never the whole story, and some games that would play perfectly well on the PS TV are not part of the Whitelist.
Mr.Gas and Qwikrazor87 have now fixed this problem, through a hack. The hack is extremely simple, and as we announced a few days ago, involves the email client on the PS Vita. The Technique should work on any firmware up to 3.52 included.
The steps are fairly simple:
PSTV Whitelist hack – The Easy way
I’m not entirely sure the following works. I’ve had mixed results with testers, and I don’t have a PSTV myself so I can’t test. Give it a try, and if it does not work scroll down for the manual way.
- Go to http://wololo.net/talk/pstv_whitelist/.
- Enter your email (the one you use on your ps vita) and click submit
- You should receive 3 emails on your Vita. One is named “Activate PSTV Writer”. Open it.
- Click on the attached picture. You will see an error message
- DON’T CLICK on OK. Instead, press the PS Button, and quit the email app.
- Open the email app again. It is possible you have to connect to your email account from scratch again, this is normal
- Open the email entitled ur0:game/launch/list_launch_vita.dat. click on the attached file (#0), and you will see the same error again
- As above, DO NOT CLICK on OK, but press the PS Button and quit the email app.
- You’re done, you should now be able to play all Vita games on your PSTV
Screenshot thanks to Rich! on neogaf
- If you also want to unlock all PSP and PS1 games, open the email ur0:game/launch/list_launch_emu.dat, open the attached file (#0), and as above, just press the PS Button to quit the app.
Thanks to xmax katsu and @Shirai1Kuro for verifying my page works
PSTV Whitelist hack – The manual way
If the system above does not work for you, try the solution below
1. Download this file: writer.eml.
2. Open that file with thunderbird or any other email client on your PC, and forward it to your email account on the Vita’s email app
3. Load the vita email app, and open the email you just sent:
Click on the attached image. You will get an error message
DO NOT CLICK OK on the error message. Instead, press the PS button and quit the app.
4. Open the Vita email app again. You might have to enter your mail account’s credentials again, this is normal. Your vita email client is now ready for the hack.
5. Download list_launch_vita.dat and rename it to #0 , with NO file extension
6. Email it to your vita’s registered email address with the following subject: ur0:game/launch/list_launch_vita.dat
To clarify again. Your email contains the file “#0”, and the subject above, that’s it.
Note: to unblock PSP/PS1 games, you can email the same file with the same process, with the subject ur0:game/launch/list_launch_emu.dat
You should now be able to run all of your digital games on the PSTV. Enjoy!
Screenshot thanks to Rich! on neogaf
for those of you who prefer a video, here’s a cool tutorial by domthybomb:
Known issues and limitations
- Not all games get whitelisted by this technique, Mr. Gas mentions that some newer games have additional security checks.
- There’s a bit of “trial and error” with this, for some reason. If the automated system does not work for you, try the manual one, and vice-versa.
- Resetting your Vita TV will remove the hack, and you’ll have to run through the steps again. However, putting the Vita TV in “sleep” mode will not remove the hack
- People have had a hard time getting the Vita email client to work with gmail. Gmail considers that client insecure. Here is how to enable Gmail on your PS Vita/PS TV if you run into issues
If you need more help, head over to this thread on our forums!
More details and hacks on our Playstation TV Hack page!
Note: we’ve been super late on this, despite it being a huge breakthrough for PSTV owners. I’ll blame my real life on this one, as I had a pretty busy week. The manual steps above have been shamelessly copied from hackinformer, via Neogaf. The tool at http://wololo.net/talk/pstv_whitelist/, however, is my work (and I totally reused some UI from psmplus thanks to Major Tom).
Awesome will test it soonish.
Awesome! I gotta try this soon. Great article, wololo. Thanks.
Would this whitelist mod get the talkman travel tokyo game loaded on PS TV so you could potentially load the past exploit using it?
Bless your heart.
is there going to be an easy way like this to install custom themes?
Wonder how long till they patch this lol
Am I the only one not receiving the e-mails?
I am not receiving the emails either.
“You should now be able to run all of your digital games on the PSTV. Enjoy!” Does that mean this only works with games downloaded from PSN, not physical games?
Works fine with physical games, for me.
I did get my other physical games to work. Apparently it’s just Neptunia Re;Birth1 that doesn’t work.
Great article thanks. Also PSTV writer can be used to prepare Vitas for e-mail writing too i suppose.
about damn time. Will this work with a dualshock 4? How do touch screen based vita games that were previously whitelisted perform on the PSTV?
You press the left or right stick and a digital hand will appear with which you can “touch”.
hohohoho mery xmas first
1st?
First,and finally i can try gravity rush on the big screen.
Its alot of fun but will be better when gravity rush hd comes out next year for ps4
thkx wololo XD
now playing cod blops declass
cant wait for a zombie hack tho
works like a charm xDDD
so when uve whitelisted …
and ur playing cod blops declass …
how do u get past the tutorial …
when the tut needs u to touch touchscreen …
and it seems impossible without a button remap.
but ds3 or ds4 doesnt do it.
sixaxisremap.lprx ?
Partially works.
I was able to launch Disgaea 3, but I was unable to launch Hatsune Miku Project Diva f.
I guess the whitelist itself needs some work.
It worked for me But not for Dengeki Bunko
That’s weird, I can launch PD F even without using this hack
correction: it works with ds4.
if u go to hold ps button
then click use touchpointer on game.
Does the email have to be attached to a PSN ID that needs to be signed in or can it be any created email and not signed into PSN?
Awesome. Tried and worked successfully. Thanks mr. Gas and qwikrazor very much.
I have tried to get the emails sent to a hotmail and a yahoo account and I am not having any success when I am waiting for them to appear while signed in on a broswer.
Tried The Same Thing With Hotmail and Outlook and i dont get the mails… the Second Version of the hack dont work for me…
Now some way to whitlist all PS3 games to allow remote play to vita, I know the problem comes from the PS3 firmware but perhaps there is some way to get this working from psvita modification
Says my email addresses are invalid. I’ve use multiple addresses and get the same thing.
Please tell me this is the way to run all pirated Vita games finally:():():():():()?
No. This is a way to pay PS Vita only games on a Vita TV / PS TV.
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so with rejuvenate and a whitelist and a webkit …
and alotta bubbles ofc xDD …
can we now reverse windows78910
till we got code we can clean
to run on psvita, playstationtv ?
same for ubuntutv ?.?
cheers
greet post
ps. or would a cartridge writen for an operatingsystem be better ?
Netflix works. Should I hold off on streaming anything? Don’t want to be shown online with Netflix on pstv.
Netflix isnt even available in my country and I’ve installed it and set it up. The GUI works really slow but movies play fine.
Am I the only one getting “invalid email address” ??
The PSTV finally has a use! Does this write to the console or the memory card? I mean if I swapped cards would it reset?
Gravity Rush on the big screen is awesome, thanks so much
The automated system didn’t work for me. Neither did the manual one (using Thunderbird). The writer email appears to work – I receive the error and shut the app. The other two emails both arrive with a “done” underneath the attachment. When clicked they do nothing.
Any suggestions? I’ve formatted both internal and external memory and completely restored the system. Are you guys sure this works with 3.52?
same problem with my pstv 3.51.
yeah same on 3.52 and the first email works but when going in for second one i click it doesnt do anything … “using hotmail”
Boo
Touch screen works fine with DS4 and use R3 to emulate rear touch screen and even L3 to emulate front touch pad. While can make somethings difficult it is possible to play all this way.
And any chance of getting an easy to install PSP/PS1 whitelist? And just tested Talkman Tokyo it works fine and exploit loads up as well.
Considering that still not all games will work with this method – is there a list of games that will remain unplayable (I assume it’s shorter than the list of games working) ?
piotrekhenry,:(:(:(:(:(:(
It worked no problem
Played Danganrompa on my PSTV for dozens of hours. Trying ot launch Tetris Ultimate appearently killed the hack. Danganroma was from a retail card whilst Tetris was a download.
I hope there will one day be a permanent solution for this – because its plain awkward that games actually work on the PSTV but Sony simply disabled them…so I don’t really get the point. Isnt it actually contra-productive to effectively shrink and limit your customers or players? I am visually impaired, so playing Danganrompa on my TV was one heck of an eye-saver 😛
waiting for psp custom bubbles!<3
Mortal kombat Test OK!! Netflix work but online with psn
any form online without updating?? sorr my english
I could suck the gas out mr.gases *** thanks for this i am donating now well i did so a few days ago but i will again suggest all you a munches leaching do so.
This website is *** with the moderation of comments that isnt involving ohh im first or 2nd third or forth ***.
Thats awesome.
I went and got a PSTV today and did this and it worked fine.
Now to test out some games.
For anyone that didn’t know, the Dualshock 4 CAN use both front and back touchscreens. Use the touchpad with 2 fingers and you will see a white hand and a red hand. White hand is front vita touchscreen and the red hand is the back vita touchscreen.
(I’ve read a few people asking this and using L3 and R3, when if you have a DS4 you just use the touchpad, its easier and faster)
Is there a bypass in order to not update when running netflix on the pstv or even with crunchyroll? Am getting bs about updating and i know there is a way on a ps3 cfw to bypass the bs of having to sign in on sony in order for them to monitor what you think what you watch and how you live your life i believe it was called NOPSN.
Stupid question but will this work with downloaded games and will I risk getting my PSN banned?
Netflix is now unlocked on my Vita TV.
Is Assassin’s creed 3 liberation compatible with this hack?
I got a PSTV after hearing about this hack to play some Vita games – an idiot question though, can I still safely get digital games downloaded? If an update comes out that breaks the hack, how can I get PSN games onto my vita TV without taking it online – or am I stuck with physical games?
I’ve tried turning off the Vita TV using the Home button on my DS4 and selecting “Power Off”. For some reason the hack still works and I’m still able to run Uncharted (Physical copy) without restarting the email steps.
Funny thing has happened with my PSTV (EU version, VTE-1016), the hack has worked fine, perfect even, heck, better than expected.
I noticed in the notes that after a reboot the hack should disappear, well no matter how much I reboot mine and switch between Vita Memory Cards (An 8GB and a 16GB using the same EU PSN Account if that’s any use) the hack just doesn’t seem to go, games that shouldn’t run still do. Not that I’m complaining at all! But it seems like something to mention considering the predicted behaviour is for it to reset the database after it powers down.
Uncharted and MGS Collection HD works even after powering off my vita. Both were physical copies.
My god MY GAMES WORK!!!!! Holy *** Netflix is working too!!! Thank you guys so much I love my vita TV now
Tested the Easy way guide on my PSTV and so far it works fine.
Well its deasd, the new update killed it
At time of writing 10/2/2015 I can still watch netflix on 3.51 PSTV. As long as I don’t turn off the system and don’t exit the netflix screen and always put it in stand-by I can continue to watch netflix. It’s a little slow at times but works just fine I’m very happy with this hack so far.
Now dumping games and game backup installing that’s what I want see even if there isn’t that many games on PSvita that are worth playing but being hacked like my PSP and PS3 is a god send.
Why can’t you just use charles proxy to redirect the list_launch_vita.dat?
This is the perfect blog for anybody who hopes to understand this topic.
You realize a whole lot its almost hard to argue with you (not that I personally will need to…HaHa).
You certainly put a fresh spin on a topic that’s been discussed for many years.
Great stuff, just great!