Launch List

The PS Vita Launch Lists are some SPKG files downloaded from Sony servers by the PS Vita OS, to be used as whitelists to allow, and consequently disallow specific games and contents. There are four known Launch Lists and they were updated various times.

URL

http://vitacl.<LAUNCH_LIST_TYPE>.dl.playstation.net/vitacl/<LAUNCH_LIST_TYPE>/j/<LAUNCH_LIST_FILENAME>.dat

• LAUNCH_LIST_TYPE: xx or ww. The difference between xx and ww is maybe PS Vita versus PS TV.
• LAUNCH_LIST_FILENAME: list_launch_vita, list_launch_emu, list_launch_teleport or version_launch.

Structure

After decryption a launch list has the following structure: TODO

Types of launch lists

Lists URLS:

.list_0_version:0000000125.list_0_url:http://vitacl.ww.dl.playstation.net/vitacl/ww/j/list_launch_vita.dat
.list_1_version:0000000111.list_1_url:http://vitacl.ww.dl.playstation.net/vitacl/ww/j/list_launch_emu.dat
.list_2_version:0000000001.list_2_url:http://vitacl.ww.dl.playstation.net/vitacl/ww/j/list_launch_teleport.dat

Whitelist for PSP and PS1 games:
vs0:data/internal/launch/list_launch_emu.dat -> encrypted
ur0:game/launch/list_launch_emu.dat -> decrypted
http://vitacl.ww.dl.playstation.net/vitacl/ww/j/list_launch_emu.dat
http://vitacl.ww.dl.playstation.net/vitacl/xx/j/list_launch_emu.dat

Whitelist for Teleport (?PS TV and PS3 link?):
vs0:data/internal/launch/list_launch_teleport.dat
?ur0:game/launch/list_launch_teleport.dat -> decrypted?
http://vitacl.ww.dl.playstation.net/vitacl/xx/j/list_launch_teleport.dat

Whitelist for PS Vita games on PS TV (since System Software version around 2.61):
vs0:data/internal/launch/list_launch_vita.dat -> encrypted
ur0:game/launch/list_launch_vita.dat -> decrypted
http://vitacl.ww.dl.playstation.net/vitacl/ww/j/list_launch_vita.dat
http://vitacl.ww.dl.playstation.net/vitacl/xx/j/list_launch_vita.dat

Whitelist for ?some specific versions of PS Vita applications?:
vs0:data/internal/launch/version_launch.dat -> encrypted
?ur0:game/launch/version_launch.dat -> decrypted?
http://vitacl.ww.dl.playstation.net/vitacl/ww/j/version_launch.dat
http://vitacl.ww.dl.playstation.net/vitacl/xx/j/version_launch.dat