

- Retroarch ps vita location how to#
- Retroarch ps vita location install#
- Retroarch ps vita location zip file#
Congratulations you have now have retroarch fully installed on your vita. Now this time instead of the ugly simple menu you should have a nice looking GUI. Then exit vita shell and start your retroarch app on n your vita. You will get a message asking you if you want to replace the files in retroarch. This is the magic file that contains the XMB GUI menu. Unzip the contents of the retroarch_data.7z and simply drop the contents of that file into the retroarch folder of the vita shell retroarch folder. Now open up your FileZilla or WinSCP and navigate to the retroarch folder in ux0. If it works with out giving you an error then open vita shell back up on your vita and press select to open up the FTP I nice more. For good measure and testing purposes I usually exit out of vita shell and open the retroarch app to make sure it works at this point. This should put a retroarch folder in the data folder of your ux0: folder in vita shell.

Retroarch ps vita location install#
Scroll to the retroarch.vpk and click on it to install retroarch. Now restart vita shell and navigate to the folder you chose for your vpk's. I have no explanation as to why it downloads in zip form but it works this way.

Once it is loaded onto your vita, change the. I used the data folder but you can create your own VPK folder if you choose.
Retroarch ps vita location zip file#
Now you want to drop the retroarch zip file into a file with in the ux0: folder in vita shell. This is really to simple to do but if you can't find full instructions it can be a pain.įirst open up vita shell then press select to open the FTP. If you haven't done this yet you can refer the H-encore tutorial here. You should also have installed Henkaku and vita shell from the H-encore app on your vita. We will get to that in a second.Īt this point you should have h-encore installed using an FTP program like FileZilla one WinSCP. This confused me quite a bit since vita shell will not open the file and install it in zip form. The first thing you will notice upon a full download is that the VPK file is in. You can find the link here.īe sure to download both the retroarch.vpk file and the retroarch_data.7z file. So first let's download a working up to date version of retroarch that works with vita shell on your PS Vita running 3.65 3.67/8 FW. So I decided I would try to write a quick easy tutorial to help alleviate some of the mystery.
Retroarch ps vita location how to#
GamersRebirth is my go to source for easy installation but his videos for retroarch are severely outdated and he completely skips over how to install the rest of the cool retroarch XMB stuff. They expect you to know exactly what do after installing the VPK. This because there's not a full tutorial explains how to do this. I spent all day today trying to get the XMB GUI installed. Once that was done I had this non intuitive menu system with in retroarch that was just ugly and used a blue screen as a back ground. I downloaded no less than 5 different files and only one was working. The first problem I had was finding a version of retroarch that actually worked. For the past 48 hours I have been trying to download and fully install retroarch with the neat lil XMB GUI menu.
