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PlayStation Vita / PSTV Updating your Firmware (OFW) There are a few ways to update your Vita / PSTV. If you have non-retail hardware, go to Manually Updating a Development Kit. To perform an update with the… Updated Original Xbox Getting Started There are five main ways to exploit your console. For software mods, there is the ENDGAME exploit, the game save exploit, and the hotswap method. For hard… Updated PlayStation 3 EBOOTs In order to RTM (Real-Time Mod) with a DEX debugger such as TMAPI or CCAPI, you must first convert a game's EBOOT to a debug EBOOT. If you are using CEX w… Updated PlayStation 3 Custom Themes, Fonts, and XMB Waves Themes are the background and icon design on your XMB. While there are many you can buy from PSN, you also have the option to use a custom modded one or c… Updated PlayStation 3 Backup Injection This guide allows you to run disc-based PS3 game backups and PSP backups, and to unlock timed trial demos ("C00 demos"). This method is similar to the out… Updated Xbox 360 RetroArch RetroArch is a front end for a collection of emulators (or "cores") which was ported to the Xbox 360. While usually the latest version can be obtained by … Updated Audio & video RetroTINK-2X Family/2x multiformat This is a wiki mirror of the discontinued RetroTINK-2X Pro Multiformat Firmware Updates page. Upgrading firmware on the RetroTINK 2X-M is no longer suppor… Updated Original Xbox Xbox Gamepad Tester (TestLaunch) TestLaunch is a menu which allows you to test the functionality of controllers. This tool allows you to test various components of your controller. You ca… Updated Xbox 360 XK3Y ODE The XK3Y, also known as X360KEY, is an Optical Drive Emulator (ODE). This device sits between your DVD drive and motherboard and can serve up ISO files fr… Updated PlayStation 3 ATRAC3 Sony games use a proprietary audio codec called ATRAC3 (.AT3) which is used for game sounds on the XMB and coldboots. It is possible to create your own cu… Updated Xbox 360 Matrix Programmer The Matrix programmer is an inexpensive device used to read/write to Xbox 360 NANDs or – with some modification – program glitch chips as well. It works i… Updated Xbox 360 JTAG/AUD CLAMP + Open Tray Use this JTAG (or R-JTOP) wiring if the Boxxdr method doesn't boot, you receive E79 errors, or you have issues with HDMI. This method may cause your DVD d… Updated Original Xbox XeniumOS XeniumOS is the BIOS that comes with Xenium chips and runs on OpenXenium. It can also be run standalone on a HDD as an application, though it is primarily… Updated Original Xbox XCBR XCbr-v0.1.1-xbox.zip allows you to read comics in .cbz format. Place the comics in the "comics" folder inside of xCBR. Updated Original Xbox TestLaunch TestLaunch is a menu which allows you to test the functionality of controllers. This tool allows you to test various components of your controller. You ca… Updated Original Xbox SmartXX This page details information related to the SmartXX series of Xbox Modchips. ED on a chip is a small Linux BIOS with a built-in FTP and Telnet server mad… Updated Original Xbox LiveInfo Used to review or modify EEPROM backups, LiveInfo is a Windows-based tool initially developed by Team Assembly, with a final Beta 3 release put forth by Y… Updated Original Xbox Game Save Exploit This article will walk you through softmodding your Xbox via the game save exploit, and installing your dashboard and initial apps through Rocky5's Xbox S… Updated Original Xbox Enigmah-X Enigmah-X is an application that switches your EEPROM region to either PAL or NTSC. This is useful because using NTSC region allows your Xbox to output at… Updated Original Xbox DVDROM Flashing Any non-Xbox IDE DVD drive can be used in the system, but it will only be able to read burned media and the Xbox will no longer be able to detect a disc i… Updated Original Xbox Boot Animations A custom BIOS will allow you to modify the boot animation and various other settings through a config file or BIOS editing. Two builds of the same tool ar… Updated PlayStation 3 Coldboots A coldboot consists of the logo and sound played when your console is booting up. The unmodified version displays "PS3" and plays an orchestra sound effec… Updated Genesis / Mega Drive Genesis Controller on SMS Games Most Master System games are fully compatible with a Sega Genesis controller. There are a few that don't work with Genesis controllers though. The reason … Updated Game Gear Game Gear Exclusives A large number of Game Gear games were adaptations of Master System games, with some changes being made for the Game Gear's smaller screen resolution and … Updated