Yes, I'm still alive! The subject matter of the following update is a little old. I would have posted this update much sooner, but I wanted to speak from first-hand experience. Due to some technical difficulties and my hectic university schedule, I’ve been rather held up. But today, I have some great news – I am delighted to confirm that it is now possible to use the Whitelist hack on firmware 3.65. As you probably already know, Sony still has not removed the blacklist from the PlayStation TV. Many had hoped that they at least would unveil a new Vita at E3 with HDMI out in response to the Nintendo Switch, a hope that was fueled by leaked drawings of a prototype from the patent office. Instead, the only big news was that Undertale was being ported to the PS4 and PS Vita. But the good news, is that we know have a Whitelist hack that will work on ANY Vita firmware and we no longer have to live in fear of being locked out of the PlayStation Network. Sony's typical response to whitelist hacks has generally been to release firmware updates that prevent users from installing them. They did it with Mr.Gas's original whitelist hack by releasing 3.55, which prevented players from installing the hack via the Fail Mail option. And the Henkaku method only works on firmware 3.60. Anything higher won't work. To Sony's credit, these methods also allowed users to install Nintendo emulators and other potentially shady programs, but that's not what I'm advocating with this petition. The whitelist hack is pretty much harmless as far as hacks go. If anything, it is beneficial to Sony and should be a standard feature. But the problem with these hacks and why Sony can easily prevent them from being installed is because they need to be performed on the system itself. To prevent these whitelist hacks from being disabled, we need to install the whitelist outside the PSTV, and that’s where the latest Whitelist hack comes in. Last February, a member of Team Molecule who answers to the name of YifanLu released PSVimgTools. His program essentially allows you to manually rewrite the codes of your QCMA Vita memory card backups, and then restore this modified backup to the PSTV's memory card. This method obviously allows you to install the whitelist hack. And because it simply involves making alterations to backups of your PSTV's memory rather than the PSTV's software itself, this exploit cannot be blocked with firmware updates. Of course the rewriting the codes is not as user friendly as the previous whitelist hacks. In fact to be honest, one of the reasons it took me this long to write this update was because I kept getting stuck trying to write it. Fortunately, there is now an easier way to install the hack. In March, a hacker by the name of SilicaAndPina released a PSVimgTools frontend version, which will allow you to use the program EasyInstallers to automatically apply the whitelist hack to the backup. Thus taking away any guess work and techno fear. I made a backup of my PSTV on firmware 3.60 using VitaUpdateBlocker and QCMA, I then used EasyInstallers to patch said backup with the Whitelister app. I then restored the backup to my system. As I had hoped, the whitelist hack works brilliantly. In fact, it works better than previous versions. Whereas Henkaku needed to be reinstalled every time you powered on the console and Mr.Gas's could be disabled by refreshing the live area, the PSVimgTools whitelist seems to be fixed permanently. I can turn the console off and on again without any need to reinstall anything. I then updated my PSTV to firmware 3.65. I expected updating it to erase the Whitelist hack, but it didn’t. Uncharted Golden Abyss booted up, Spyhunter booted up, Wipeout 2048 booted up, Crazy Market booted up, younameit. I then installed Sword Art Online Hollow Fragment, which required firmware >3.60 to run. Even after installing the game and playing it on the PSTV, my blacklisted games still functioned. I then tried downloading apps from the PlayStation Store, the blacklisted games still worked. I then updated my Vita handheld to 3.65 and swapped then memory card between my PSTV and Vita and back again, the whitelist still worked. I am yet to find anything that will disable to PSVimgTools Whitelist hack. And even if I do, it’s very simply to backup the memory card again and reinstall the whitelist, especially since the PSVimgTools option works on any firmware. So while Sony has not answered our cries for 100% Vita compatibility on the PSTV, we now have a whitelist hack that won’t force us to be locked out of the online services. With some compatibility issues aside, we can now play any blacklisted Vita game to completion or near completion; we can play Vita games that require later firmware; we can access the PlayStation Store to purchase games directly; we can sync our trophies; and for those who don’t like the Dual Shock 4 we can use the PSTV’s PS4 remote play app to play PS4 games with a Dual Shock 3. My salute goes out to Mr.Gas and his old Fail Mail hack, Team Molecule and their Henkaku service, and now YifanLu for his PSVimgTools and SilicaAndPina for his frontend version of PSVimgTools. You have all helped to expand the PSTV's library by many orders of magnitude, and now no matter what firmware we are on, despite the occasional compatibility issues, the ability to play almost all Vita games on television is readily available to everyone. :) If you are interested in installing this new whitelist, I offer this tutorial video. This is the very tutorial that I used when installing the hack, and I can confirm it works - just make sure your computer has plenty of free space. Oddly, while the restored backup takes up as much space on the memory card as your unmodified backup, patching it seemed to beef the backup to twice its original size.