Hi!It is nice to be one of the members of this website, this is my first thread. Frist, please forgive my poor English, I'm from China and I like to collect some Dev kits. I got this Dev kits from one of my friends, he just left from a game company. When I receive the Dev kit, I found is different from the other Dev kits that shown on the Youtube, it was activated and it can run retail games. I don't know how to use other function and I don't know when it will expire, I hope can get more information, if anyone familiar with this device, please tell me about it.And I will try to explore more function about this Dev kit.
Hello, You can ask to @PixelButts, he can probably help you on this Your English is as good as mine so no worries about that
I remember a button combination to reset the battery for unlimited activation, I forgot it though. You can check the activation in debug settings. PS: Pictures don't seem to be loading. EDIT: Try using PS Button + Power + Start + Select when turning it on, then set the date to a very old date (like 1999/01/01)
Thanks bro, do you have any recommended website that I can upload the picture? I'm now trying to install the development software to have a look the active information.
Nope````````There are some develop account on the machine but I can't access it because the system version is too low. UPDATE:After the update and connect to a computer, it shows the expire date. But````````` SONY are you serious?
Yep```but that is for developers, I means can dev kit run custom software or dump games``````you know what I mens.
Okay so very there's a ton of misinformation let's clarify some things 1) the activation can be messed with. If this was activated via a real activation file from a dev studio then someone is gonna be in trouble if caught 2) the activation of this kit can be messed with anyway via taihen so it may be just a matter of taihen messing with it for that length 3) there is little to no use of having a vita devkit as the retail counterpart does almost everything it can do (so if you have a PSTV and Vita you basically have everything it can do except for app_home loading) 4) your English is fine 5) if you have a kit post first because there is a constant watch to find any firmware below 0.996 and if you had such a kit and updated it you then lost all value in the item (and it was on 1.80 so it doesn't matter but be careful about updating) So let's get the tough ones out of the way Did a dev studio activate it with an activation file or was it activated via homebrew/modding (henkaku/taihen/homebrew VPK)
OP said they got it from a friend who left a studio pix so one would assume its legit activated. EDIT: oh right and yes taiHENkaku will run fine on it.
I don't know actually, this dev kit already activated when I received it, and I don't have any .afv flies. I heard some news said SONY only provide a 30 day license to developers so I guess maybe it was activated by hacking or some tricks.