PS Vita Magic Reader - Firmware File Extractor Tool

PsDev is back with another release for the PS Vita called Magic Reader. This script allows you to extract certain files from a PS Vita PUP (firmware file). He plans on adding more features in the near future to this new application. Continue reading for PsDev's official announcement.

Made this script in about 10min. It extract the Magic ASCII, PUP Version and License.xml from a VITA PUP here is the script.

Right now the script is stupid and doesn't do much, I plan on adding a full PUP dump and a SFO/PSF dumper.

#!/bin/bash

# PsDev 2012. this script extract the PUP magic.

#Edit from PsiColio

#Will be adding on more stuff for it to extract in time...

# File names to extract from the PUP

Extract=( "Magic" "PUP_Version" "license.xml" )

#length starting from the offset and it ending in the offsets total length

length=( 0x8 0x10 0x724B4) #how many long the file is how much to copy, for example the Magic starts at 0x0 and the length is 0x8 bytes.

#offset of the Magic, Version and License

offset=( 0x0 0x9FF 0xC00 ) #where the file dump begins in the hex.

cont=0

printf "____________________________\n"

printf " PsDev \n"

printf " PUP READER \n"

printf "____________________________ \n\n"

for file in "${Extract[@]}" #tells it for a file look in Extract = the the file names

do

printf "____________________________ \n"

printf " %s\n" "${file}" #file name

printf "____________________________ \n"

printf "offset= %s\n" "${offset[$cont]}" #tells offset of file

printf "length= %s\n" "${length[$cont]}" #tells total offset length of file

printf "%s\n" "${cont}"

dd if=$1 of=$file bs=1 obs=1 skip=$((${offset[$cont]})) count=$((${length[$cont]}))

cont=$(($cont+1)) # make sure the usage is "./Magic-reader.sh PSP2UPDAT.PUP"

done

I added a lot of comments to it, just to make it more clear on what's going on. Also added a offset and length teller for the hex and then the rest of the edit of course

How to:

Make a new file named "Magic-reader.sh"

Run "chmod +x Magic-reader.sh" to give to execution permissions

Now in terminal run it. "./Magic-reader.sh PSP2UPDAT.PUP" It will output the three files in the folder/location the scripts located in.

Example out Terminal LOG:

./Magic-reader.sh PSP2UPDAT.PUP
____________________________
PsDev
PUP READER
____________________________

____________________________
Magic
____________________________
offset= 0x0
length= 0x8
0
8+0 records in
8+0 records out
8 bytes (8 B) copied, 0.0153084 s, 0.5 kB/s
____________________________
PUP_Version
____________________________
offset= 0x9FF
length= 0x10
1
16+0 records in
16+0 records out
16 bytes (16 B) copied, 0.0528894 s, 0.3 kB/s
____________________________
license.xml
____________________________
offset= 0xC00
length= 0x724B4
2

Introduction/PIC by tthousand