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Originally Posted by Misterpants
This could go in the gear grinder thread but probably will find more empathy here. I bought an old PS Vita a year ago and was pretty happy playing it with the few games I could find. Now my only options to buy games for it are the PS Store and games are still unreasonably expensive for a digital download of a game for a moth balled system. So now I want to get the homebrew stuff rocking on it but I am just computer savvy enough to fata up my laptop and brick the Vita. Anyone had success with Henkaku that can explain this process to me?
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Conceptually, it's just flashing custom firmware onto your device like Tomato or DD WRT on a router. The difference is support by the manufacturer and Sony doesn't support it so it's do it at your own risk.
If you flash a shoddy/corrupted firmware, then it can cause problems. Most people will try to hard reset their device if the flashing process gets stuck which ends up causing problems no different than a legit firmware if your device shuts down in the middle. Most times if it gets stuck, the PSP is recoverable. It will just take time. Research how to recover before starting a flash.
I've done this before on the original PSP. I recall it was kinda time consuming and I read and reread a ton of stuff/verified the file several times before going forward, but end result was totally worth it.