Vita Package Files (.VPK) are the format for distributing homebrew applications and some extracted pirate un-encrypted game dumps created by a (now-deprecated) Homebrew tool called Vitamin (Created by TheFloW). You can run it like so, to run through any PKG files in the same directory and output to a folder called output: GitHub - st4rk/PkgDecrypt: Decrypts PS Vita PKG files If you would like to extract a Vita PKG file you can use the tool called PkgDecrypt: PKG files - PS3 Developer wiki Extracting PKG files In order to disassemble/decompile or modify games they need to be decrypted 1.įor details of the file format used for these packages see this page on the excellent PSDevWiki: PKG format along with a user-specific license.
The games available on the Vita shop comes in an encrypted. Package files are ways to distribute the full games to be installed on Playstation Vita consoles, the contains all the assets and executables required to run the game. When reverse engineering Playstation Vita games you will come across a number of different file formats, this post will explain all the file formats and how to use them. Playstation Vita File Formats Edit on Github
