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Vita3K Manager

Vita3K Manager installs Vita3K and provides access to its firmware and game-install flows. It can create Steam entries for installed titles. Supply firmware and game files that you are entitled to use.

Install

Install it from the portal (the Gaming tab), or from a checkout of the repository:

bazzite-console/apps/vita3k/install.sh                         # the app, its launcher, a menu entry and a Desktop icon
bazzite-console/apps/vita3k/install.sh --no-desktop-shortcut   # without the Desktop icon
bazzite-console/apps/vita3k/install.sh --uninstall             # remove it; --purge removes its settings and log too

The launcher is ~/.local/bin/ps5-vita3k-manager; the app runs on the suite's shared Python environment.

Use it

The header shows the Vita3K version (its build number), the Firmware, Your games (the games installed) and those Available in Steam; Refresh reads everything again. Beside the title stands the app's state. Under the introduction, which links to Vita3K's release notes and to this wiki, a row of pills does the setting up: Vita3K Install, Vita3K Uninstall and Games Install. Three lines below the pills say where each stands, and then come three tabs: Your games, Settings and Log.

  • Vita3K: Not installed. or Installed., with the button to use under it. The tooltip says which build is installed, or what Install takes, and when a newer build is out. When another build than the one pinned for this version of the app is installed, the tooltip and the log say so, and Install puts the pinned one in. Uninstall takes Vita3K out again; its own folders, with the firmware, your games, saves and settings, stay.
  • Firmware: which parts of the PS Vita's firmware Vita3K has. Put the PSP2UPDAT.PUP files you downloaded in ~/Games/Vita/Firmware: once Vita3K is installed, the app gives them to Vita3K by itself.
  • Games: how many games Vita3K has installed. Games Install installs one of yours, From a file (a .vpk or .zip, or a .pkg with its zRIF license key) or From a dumped folder.

Your games

Tick the installed titles you want in Steam and press Update Steam: the app adds them to Steam as non-Steam games and takes out the ones you unticked. The games are in Steam's library under Non-Steam, on the desktop, in Big Picture Mode and in Game Mode alike. The app has no Play button: a game is started from Steam. Change Steam from Desktop Mode: in Game Mode Steam is the session itself and cannot close for the change. Steam artwork… takes a SteamGridDB API key, with which the app takes the covers from SteamGridDB. Steam in the line under the table opens Steam's library, and Vita3K settings opens Vita3K's own window, for what the Settings tab does not set.

Settings

Vita3K's settings that matter for playing, each written into Vita3K's own settings file the moment you change it.

Log

Everything the app said and did, with the time. The same lines are in ~/.local/share/ps5-vita3k-manager/ps5-vita3k-manager.log, which turns over at 1 MB (the three older files are kept). install.sh --uninstall keeps it; --purge removes it.

Vita3K compatibility and performance vary by title and are not guaranteed on PlayStation 5 hardware running Bazzite.