Please, mind that, as the rom file generated by PSVgameSD has a '.psv' extension, this method and its results are totally unrelated to 'BlackFin' project. Motoharu has given his blessing for anyone to fork it and improve it. PSVgameSD is a tool that still needs some further modification and fixes. An option in PSVStrip was developed in order to reconstruct the dump quickly and make it playable.

This modified version is useful for preservation according to No Intro standards, but will leave the dump unplayable in Vita. This makes sure that No-Intro only preserves all common bytes across multiple cartridges of the same game, while at the same time staying as close as possible to the original media as it can get. PSVStrip, developed in colaboration with user ' KippyKid', is a tool that allow us to strip all data introduced by 'PSVgameSD' and null all unique bytes within a PlayStation Vita dump. However, this method was allowed in No Intro in 2019, once user ' iCEQB' provided a solution for the 'unique license file' problem (as the license file generated inside each game cartridge is different, two dumps from different game cartridge of the same game will never match). This leads to a perfect dump for preservation archival purpose.

It allow us to create a 1:1 dump from the game cartridge, that can be virtually mounted on Ps Vita, emulating the exact same behaviour as we inserted the original game cartridgeon the Ps Vita. The PSVgameSD application acts as a dumper tool as well as a virtual drive for the dumps it makes. This dumping method is based on Motoharu's tool, created in 2017.

1.1 NOTE: Compatibility with game cards that have grw0: partition.

Copy ps vita games to memory card