Vita:Creating Game Backups

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Exclamation-triangle-fill.svgCircumventing DRM mechanisms and/or creating backup copies of games and media for personal use is a right granted only in some countries. It is your sole responsibility to stay up to date with the law in your respective country. The information provided within this wiki is solely educational and its editors take no responsibility for the use or misuse of this information.


To run your own games on your computer, install your disc games onto your console, or create mods; a dump of your games will be needed.

Follow the instructions on Vita:Installing Plugins to install NoNpDrm plugin and launch the game you wish to dump.

  1. Launch VitaShell
  2. Press Start and set [USB device] to [Game Card]
  3. Press Selectto enter FTP (see Vita:Transferring Files with FTP)
  4. On your PC file browser, go to gro0: -> /app/
  5. Copy your game folder /TITLE_ID/ to a location on your PC
  6. Go to ux0: -> /nonpdrm/ -> /license/ -> /app/ -> /TITLE_ID/
  7. Rename the .rif file to work.bin
  8. In your PC game backup folder, go to /TITLE_ID/ -> /sce_sys/ -> /package/
  9. Copy work.binto the /TITLE_ID/ -> /sce_sys/ -> /package/ folder on your PC
  10. Transfer the game backup /TITLE_ID/ from your PC to the  ux0:/app/ folder on your PS Vita memory card
  11. Press Circle on your PS Vita to exit FTP/USB mode
  12. Go back to the VitaShell root directory list
  13. Press Triangle and select [Refresh LiveArea™]
  14. Exit VitaShell and launch your game from the LiveArea