Vita Hack Rejuvenate – How to run your first homebrew

The vita hack Rejuvenate was released this week, and is the very first native hack for the PS Vita. People might be confused as to what they need in order to run their homebrews, so here’s some quick how to.

Requirements to run Vita Hack – Rejuvenate

• you need to be approved as a PSM Publisher. If you’re not a PSM Publisher, a friend of yours with a PSM publisher license can generate the required keys for you (see official documentation). If you don’t have friends, stay tuned: ways to bypass this limitation will be revealed soon.
• The current version of Rejuvenate works on Vita firmwares 3.00 to 3.51 included
• You need the PSM Dev Assistant app installed on your PS Vita. Compatible versions are 1.11, 1.14, 1.15
• The tools require a Windows computer for now
• Because of the need to have a USB connection to your Vita to run homwbres, Rejuvenate is not compatible with the PS TV as of today.

you need to have the following software:

• Rejuvenate 0.2
• .NET Framework 2.0
• .NET Framework 4.0
• Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable
• Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable
• PSM_SDK_1.21.02.exe (333MB) (installation for that last one is not required, you only need the files!)

Install and Run your first Rejuvenate homebrew

Please note that YifanLu is providing all the steps as clearly as can be in his readme, with several troubleshooting steps that we reproduce below.Read those if you run into an issue and before asking for help, this could save you lots of time!

1. make sure you have the prerequisites installed (see above)
2. Extract the Rejuvenate 0.2 zip to a folder on your windows computer.
3. Copy  PSM_SDK_1.21.02.exe to the current directory and runSETUP.BAT. Follow the instructions. You will need to do this only once. The setup will:
   1. Extract the PSM SDK
   2. Install the PSM Driver (this will require admin permission)
   3. Ask you to enter your PSM Dev Assistant version number (reminder, this is currently only compatible with 1.11, 1.14, 1.15)
4. Connect your PS Vita to your PC, and run the PSM Dev Assistant.
5. To run homebrew, drag your homebrew elf file INTO “run_homebrew.bat” (as of now, only the provided “Hello World” file works)
   1. Note: I initially got a “connection error” when doing this. Running the “Ballblaze” Demo through the PSM Dev Assistant, then trying again, seemed to “unblock” the issue

And you’re good to go!