Homebrew catalog for PSVITA/PSTV and PSP.
VitaDB went offline on 31.07.2026. This started as a backup of it and kept going from there. Everything VitaDB had is here, plus a lot that arrived later.
Metadata, icons, screenshots and trailers, served as static files over GitHub Pages at
https://drdecki.github.io/VitaHomebrewDB/.
The metadata comes from a local client cache (ux0:data/VitaDB) captured on 2026-07-31,
the last state of the database before shutdown. The plugin and PC tool catalogs were
recovered from the Internet Archive. Download links were then resolved individually, either
to the author’s GitHub release or to an archived copy of the original file.
Every entry keeps its original curated metadata: name, version, author, description, changelog, requirements, category, release date and download count. None of that can be rebuilt from a repository.
CATALOG.md lists every entry with its author, version and download.
| | Entries | With a working download | | — | —: | —: | | PSVITA homebrews | 1013 | 1013 | | Plugins | 123 | 123 | | PSP homebrews | 126 | 126 | | PC tools | 27 | 27 | | Total | 1289 | 1289 (100%) |
The table above counts the catalog as it stood on 2026-07-31. Another 141 entries have been added since, from VitaDB, from the authors themselves and from the wider scene; those are listed separately in ADDED.md.
30.7 GB in total.
| Asset | Recovered |
|---|---|
| Metadata | 100% (1289 entries) |
| Icons | 100% (1456) |
| Data files | 0 missing |
| In-game trophies | 28 sets |
Nothing is missing right now. WANTED.md fills up again if a link breaks or an entry turns up without one.
| Path | Contents |
|---|---|
apps.json |
PSVITA homebrews |
psp_apps.json |
PSP homebrews |
minimal.json |
id, titleid and hashes, for the update daemon |
icons/ |
app icons, <sha256>.png |
icons.zip |
all icons as one archive |
screenshots/ |
recovered screenshots |
preserved/plugins.json |
plugin catalog |
preserved/tools.json |
PC tool catalog |
WANTED.md |
entries whose download is still missing |
The plugin and tool catalogs live under preserved/ because the original client never listed
them, they were separate sections of the website. Same schema as the others, so a client can
read them the same way.
Every entry carries a direct download URL in its url field, so a client does not need a
redirect endpoint. Most point at a release asset on the author’s own repository; what the
authors no longer host is mirrored here, either on the mirror release tag or, for small
files, served straight from GitHub Pages. A few sit on archive.org items. Every URL is
checked regularly and all of them answer. Entries that only exist as a nightly build are not
added, see REMOVED.md for why.
Download counts are frozen at their 2026-07-31 values, because static hosting cannot count. Sorting by popularity still works, it just describes the day the site went down.
Known consumers: VitaForge by josephinoo, and VHDB by myself. If you build another one, open an issue and it can be listed here.
Nothing. Every entry has a working download, and every screenshot, trailer, data file and trophy set VitaDB carried is here. None of it still depends on the old webhost.
Themes are unaffected. They have always been hosted separately at CatoTheYounger97/vitaDB_themes.
Open an issue with a link to a tagged release, or say so on Discord. Author, version and a one-line description help, but a link on its own is fine. Everything else is read out of the VPK. Nightly builds are not allowed, see REMOVED.md for why.
Entries are added by hand, not automatically.
The scripts are in this repository: add_app.py adds an entry, build_db.py regenerates
minimal.json and icons.zip, stats.py and mkindex.py rewrite the README tables and
the listings, mkwanted.py rebuilds WANTED.md.
VitaDB was created and run by Rinnegatamante. The catalog is his work and that of every homebrew author in it. This repository just keeps it reachable.
Thanks to FundedBlade for pointing at the GameBrew wiki and the PSP homebrew library on archive.org, which closed over a hundred gaps, and for tracking down sources by hand; to LiEnby for keeping an old cbpsdb mirror alive; to devnoname120 for finding PSVitaStuff; and to Cimmerian-Iter for pushing to verify every recovered file against the size VitaDB recorded.
If you are an author and want your application removed, open an issue and it will be taken down.
The scripts in this repository (build_db.py, add_app.py, stats.py,
mkwanted.py and the rest) are MIT licensed, see LICENSE. Use them
however you like.
The catalog itself is not covered by that license. Names, descriptions, changelogs, icons and screenshots belong to Rinnegatamante and to the homebrew authors. This repository only keeps them online and claims nothing. Clients are welcome to use the JSON files, and any author who wants their work removed can open an issue.
If you build a client or another catalog on this data, please link back here. It is a request, not a condition, since the metadata is not mine to license.
Spare-time project, free to use. If it saved you a homebrew you thought was gone, there is a Ko-fi.