unironically the best handheld from a hardware/ergonomic standpoint

>>740011089
>from a hardware/ergonomic standpoint
>hardware
>look at I/O speeds
lmao

>>740011032
>The English musician Brian Eno stated in 1982 that while the album only sold approximately 30,000 copies in its first five years, "everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band".

>>740011179
how is this /mu/ factoid related to PSVita?

>>740011032
In an age of pc handheld this is retarded but if any handheld from the past deserve it, its the vita. Its the strongest, has unique hardware that is actually useful (backtouch), portable, and beautiful oled screen.

>>740011462
>In an age of pc handheld this is retarded
PC handhelds are barely portable
>actually useful
>(backtouch)
?
>beautiful oled screen
2000 models are fine

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>>740011462
>has unique hardware that is actually useful (backtouch)

>>740011240
Vita also sold poorly, but it inspired many port devs.

>>740011638
>but it inspired many port devs
aside from the fl0w I don't know a single developer who became "big" after hacking PSV

>>740011462
PC handhelds aren't portable, the switch isn't either.
Vita could actually fit into any bag reasonable, and if you had an inner jacket pocket, it could fit in there fine.
3DS/Vita were the last handheld generation.

The current state of the market are just glorified tablets.

why not? people make stuff for a fucking leapfrog and gamecom and gp32x and gizmondo and probably every weirdo handheld out there that 99% of this board hasn't even heard of

>>740011748
>The current state of the market are just glorified tablets.
to be desu some Chinese portables are small enough to fit into one's pocket

>>740011879
all these platforms get have like one or two active projects just because someone is autistic and wants to do PoC Minecraft port or something
Vita's community actively ports actual games regularly

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I recently bought a 2000 model, and I’d like to know what kinds of ports people are bringing to the console. Could anyone recommend some?

To be honest, I’m still figuring out what to play on my Vita, so I’d appreciate any recommendations, whether homebrew or regular games!

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>>740011089
>ergonomic
it's incredibly unconfortable to use for long sessions aka more than an hour. That's why most people also use pic related or similar.
Or maybe you just have woman hands anon, who knows.

>>740011964
you can literally google vita homebrew ports and find websites that host a bunch of games.
basically anything that has had a decomp has a vita port, a bunch of PC games, even animal crossing on the gc has a native vita port.

>>740011964
Dungeon Travelers 2 is a game in the same subgenre as Etrian Odyssey, and equally as difficult.
Oreshika is a turn-based RPG with unique aesthetic and inheritence mechanic.

>>740012006
i have literally never seen anybody use shit like that

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why wouldnt i just buy a retroid pocket 4p/5/6?

>>740011089
i wish for one with a better CPU/GPU and more RAM.

>>740011568
what fucking game is this

>>740012251
Criminal Girls, maybe.

>>740012251
I think that's monster monpiece

>>740011568
>>740011527
Yeah backtouch was way ahead of its time. "Elite" controllers now have like four back buttons, meanwhile vita's backtouch had multi touch. I still to this day do not know what the touch pad on Playstation controllers is for or how its used. Its unergonomical

>>740011964
>I’d like to know what kinds of ports people are bringing to the console. Could anyone recommend some?
there are
>decompilation
Up until N64 get ported to Vita, most recent one being the original Animal Crossing from GameCube if you didn't know the GC Animal Crossing is actually an N64 game
>Unity
Cuphead, Hollow Knight, NITW and others. They are "demanding" ports that require overclocking for good (tolerable) performance
>Android titles
Games that were released on 32-bit Android can be ported to Vita using Flow's so_utils
most of these games are old (since modern titles are arm64), but available list is already insane (GTASA, Bully, Baldurs Gate Dark Alliance, WIP port of Black Ops Zombies, etc)
>Schizoports
there are a few ports made by autists that just want to play X on their system
most recent example is fucking Morrowind

>>740012462
Pc handheld or even high end android phones can do all of this

>>740012523
How do I play old Android games on a phone that runs Android 16?

>>740012251
https://youtu.be/Ukfukl6fmhU

>>740012573
>old Android games
Like what? Angry birds?

>>740012668
actually Angry Birds is a good example for this because Rovio killed all versions of the original game kek

>>740012708
Yeah but the point is that android is not an actually platform for distinctive games. Literally what is on android that that isn't on something else or isn't candy crush tier nonsense?

>>740012786
Monument Valley took about a decade to get ported to PC

>>740011147
fixable with IOStaging

>>740012837
>This plugin has been deemed unsafe and removed by it's developer, under the suspicion of corrupting the console's data.

>>740012862
works on my machine, also the data corruption is likely related to retards doing something else and then blaming IOStaging on it
there's a noticeable difference of seconds when I'm loading in OpenMW

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>>740012462
>Morrowind
Yoooooo thanks for letting me know anon. I've been wishing for a Vita port of Morrowind since the very fucking start. Now I have my weeb RPGs, my VNs and fucking Morrowind all on the same handheld in kino OLED. Basado. God I fucking love the Vita.

>>740012215
Honestly it's just because there's a handful of vita games that are hard to emulate. Still though, at the price, a retroid 5 is fuckin' amazing considering it can run low maintenance steam games.

>>740013091
>there's a handful of vita games
Like what? And do they matter?

>>740012939
fair warning, OpenMW experiences some tight memory tolerances
expect to see a lot of loading screens
lowering texture resolution will help significantly

It had unrealized potential, I think there's a dedicated group who wants to witness it since Sony didn't

Can it emulate PS2 games yet, if ever? I'd get one if it could do that.
Since I'm trying to move away from pc it would be a great last piece for everything I'd need. Hacked 3ds, hacked Sony system for PS1/PS2/PSP, and a Switch 2 for modern Nintendo/JRPGs.

>>740013105
Little Big Planet. Uncharted GA, Killzone Mercenary, Silent Hill BoM. Some of them are ok, but really I think people are just curious about the back touch pad's implementation.

>>740013108
I'll use the optimization patch. Having mod support is sick.

>>740012181
there are other, smaller ones that look nicer but it's almost mandatory if you're planning on using the vita for more than 10 min and you don't have woman hands

>>740011032
Will someone backport this to the PS3?
https://youtu.be/ZQFMpfFLMJk

>>740013418
latest OpenMW comes with MOP and Atlas pre-baked so no need to grab them
>>740013330
not happening, highest you can go is Dreamcast and DS, and DC emulation is spotty at best (Rinne refuses to fucking update it and there's no sign of a proper Flycast port yet despite the fact that builds for it are accessible through the git actions tab)
DS emulation works pretty well for the most part, been enjoying Re:Coded again

>>740013330
>Can it emulate PS2 games yet, if ever? I'd get one if it could do that.
the best it can do is Dreamcast
some PS2 titles have ports, though

>>740011032
>still has an active community that ports games to the system
From development perspective the device is really fun. Not too weak to be unable to run most open sourced stuff. Not too powerful to run it w/o any work. You still sometimes have to fuck around with memory management, CPU optimization and IO performance.
Device itself is pretty interesting. Two touchpads and a gyro can be used creatively (although those gameplay experiments are still somewhat rare).
Tools and community are pretty great too.
Had lots of fun with Vita while I was making HBs.

>>740013512
>>740013630
Oh well, maybe that rumored new Sony handheld will be the answer assuming it's real unless it's a fuckhuge brick like pc handhelds
I'm sure sony will abandon it and leave it to the modding community too

>>740013659
>while I was making HBs.
did you make anything public or were you just dicking with vitasdk?

>>740013512
>latest OpenMW comes with MOP and Atlas pre-baked so no need to grab them
Gotcha. Now I wanna see Daggerfall on the Vita. Maybe even Oldblivion.

>>740013696
it's 100% going to be a fuckhuge brick
we've regressed because nigger devs don't know how to optimize anything anymore

>>740011964
Try Quake 1. It has a amazing vita port with gyro aim. Very smooth controls, runs like a dream in full res with 4xMSAA. It supports the billion Quake mods too.

>>740013495
lol I was asking the same about Minecraft Enhanced
the GTA trilogy is a mix of re3/miami (that got DMCA'd by Take-Two/Rockstar) and Flow's San Andreas Android port. I'm not sure how one would even begin to port this to whatever the hell is available on PS3

>>740013696
PS6 Portable is going to be... PlayStation 6 but Portable

>>740013724
Daggerfall Unity has a bounty on it but nobody's bitten the hook. Oldblivion is never going to happen.
If you want to try another RPG of the time, go play the Arx Libertatis port, that game is fucking wonderful.

>>740013843
I've played Arx but never beaten it. Ironically my last attempt was on the Xbox. Good game for sure. Also I meant the mod for Oblivion, Oldblivion. I think I remember that running on half a gig of RAM.

>>740013923
unless Oblivion gets a OpenMW-style port that supports OpenGL, it's not happening

>>740013703
Released and still on vitadb.
Fun fact is that I've managed to build a somewhat decent portfolio and experience with vita porting and got a gamedev job thanks to it.

>>740013769
Isn't the non-PS2 classics PS3 version of San Andreas based on the Mobile port?

>>740012462
Where do you get decomps for the vita these days? The homebrew store doesn't even have basic shit like Mario anymore.

>>740014015
what've you ported? nta but i'm interested in trying it out

>>740013330
>Can it emulate PS2 games yet,
>yet
Buddy it ain't happening, stop asking.

>>740014085
VitaDB
you have to supply your own files, easily compileable if you can follow basic instructions

>>740014157
>Dark Alliance has a vita port
Thanks bro. You made my day.

>>740011089
this, thread
the superior handheld
if steam can manage to create something like this, nintendo will cease to exist

>>740014081
Yeah people have been porting mobile games to the Vita since they share the same style in hardware as, now old, mobile phones.

>>740014015
damn that's nice, Vita Islanders ftw
are you willing to tell what your ports are?
>>740014081
I think so? It's somehow buggier than the original mobile port with no mod support so lol
not sure about 3 and Vice City
>>740014085
>The homebrew store
who the fuck even *remembers* homebrew store? Use vitadb
the only thing it's missing are gameloft ports (DMCA'd) and some oddballs like Cannon Fodder

>>740011032
the device itself was solid, sony was just retarded making their own "special" sd card that weren't all that special just very expensive.

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You guys still have your vitas after all these years of no games?

>>740014229
think my favorite port of all time is either OpenMW or Arx Libertatis
they just make sense
favorite emulator definitely gotta be DSVita, that shit's insane

>>740014262
anon he's talking about San Andreas on PS3
>same style in hardware
iirc PS Vita uses iPhone 4S CPU lol

>>740014276
>who the fuck even *remembers* homebrew store?
Haven't used my vita in at least 2 years.

>>740014309
literally does not matter. the problem is the device itself was expensive as fuck, as were the games, and its native library was fucking terrible.

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>>740014343
anything with the Apple A5 chip, as that incorporates the Cortex-A9 core, the PS Vita's CPU.
it's technically a generic part

>>740014365
I've been a Vita owner for over 5 years and Homebrew Store was already "outdated" back in 2020-2021

>>740014343
It uses a ARM Cortex-A9. Which out of all things wasn't used in any Apple product.

>>740011032
>look up new ports
>Simpsons hit n run
blessed homebrewers

>>740014385
>the problem is the device itself was expensive as fuck
sony could've fixed this with a price drop or a new model (like 2000) or something
memory cards + lack of any onboard storage were death sentence that Sony never bothered to fix properly
>and its native library was fucking terrible.
[citation needed]
...like really, only cunts that use leaked SDK know how awful it might be
>>740014478
afaik source code for Hit & Run got leaked specifically by vitachads that wanted the port of the game lmao

>>740014385
native library is kino. Soul Sacrifice is the best game.

>>740014095
Strategy games mostly, since I love them.
SDL is the easiest starting point to familiarize itself with SDK, toolchain and their capabilities. Nowadays libc is pretty complete, stuff can be build right away and you just have to figure out controls and other platform related quirks.
Few years ago you had to re-implement a lot of basic libc stuff in the process.. which was kinda fun too I guess.

>>740014276
>not sure about 3 and Vice City
3 and Vice city are PS2 Classics so it's just emulation so in that case it would need to use RE3/REVC.
>>740014262
Vita hardware looks great on a TV if you know what to do.
https://youtu.be/EyNqB6_fsDM

>>740014608
>it would need to use RE3/REVC
not sure if anyone would bother with porting a DMCA'd project to CELL these days

Back when I had a vita all I had was corpse partys, p4g, vlr, gravity rush. No games portable

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oh yeah, for the guys who want a Monster Hunter on Vita, there's either FU or P3rd through PSP emulation, or Frontier's official port
it requires you to find the english patch, pull out the .elf using vita-fself, hex-editing your server's IP into that, and patching it back into the EN patch's eboot.bin.
it'll work with Erupe just fine since that project has PSV support, and I've been able to get to G-rank and beyond with it (picrel is sadly a PC screenshot but you get the point)

i had the plan to make a guide on it, but I'm too lazy, it's still in the initial draft

>>740014603
were you the guy who ported homm3? that was a pretty solid port
>nowadays libc is pretty complete
i feel like the homebrew scene is being revitalized again, what with some bounties and new updates to VitaGL

Lmao I wonder how Tamriel Rebuilt runs on the Vita?

>>740014682
The team that did the GTA Trilogy enhanced ports is from Russia, then again RE3/REVC and the Vita port of San Andreas were made before the DMCAs

>>740014748
either I was on an old version, or it would not boot at all
trust me, I tried

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>>740011568
>>740011032
It's the most powerful true-handheld by the official hardware makers before the whole "Hybrid Home Console/Handheld-PC" trend, and that makes it the best place for ports, along with the entire PSP and Vita library, and fan-translations and nude-mods.

>>740014787
>The team that did the GTA Trilogy enhanced ports is from Russia,
PG Team just do big mods for games, they aren't capable of actual software development

>>740014848
>not using Fruitpeel to have a custom 'naked' variant just behind the lockscreen sticker

>>740014897
I will make such a theme if someone gives me the source.

>>740015036
https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Fruitpeel_Vita
only got this
it's seperate from the theme

>>740014848
I don't like theming my VIta because standard menu music is just insanely good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2mvXaqpUxY

>>740015147
I kinda hate it. I installed the Garou Mark of the Wolves theme, and it's the perfect music to have before launching a game.

>>740013105
God Eater Resurrection and Rage Burst, Dragon's Crown, Disgaea 3, and migu games are also examples of things not exclusive to the Vita but are great as the only good way to play them on the go on native hardware. It's also been pretty comfy bouncing my saves back and forth between my vita and ps4 and sometimes ps3.

>>740011089
>ergonomic
No, the fuck, it isn't. Not with those shitty back touchpads getting in the way of you properly holding the fucking thing.

>>740011638
>inspired many port devs.
There's only one person doing the ports, though?

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how good is Katamari on the Vita?

>>740011032
If only we knew how good we had it back then. Sony did everything they could to sabotage it, but even with that in mind it still has better first party support than what's come since.

>>740015742
Thankfully most games dont use them

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I almost exclusively play retro games and the vita is my choice. new handhelds are far more powerful but they always have garbage ass membrane buttons, speakers anywhere but the front, and that stupid retard nintendo style rounded brick ergonomics.

>>740017818
>speakers anywhere but the front
just buy earbuds lol
that's how I game on my Vita

>>740015686
the first two have a native PC port

>>740011032
Kinda sad I'm going to be retiring my oled soon. With persona 4 remake and ps4/psvita emulation all the games i care about are becoming obselute for the vita.

>>740018584
well they are still portable, right?
Can't have that with 'Eck

>>740011032
Having games actually helped it but it had many other hurdles that Sony itself put up

>>740011032
genuinely a fantastic device but it had almost nothing worth playing and sony killed it for the crime of not being t3h #1 cons0Le evar!1! best robary

>>740018584
I still value native playback over emulation. I know emulation is really good now, but those microstutters or the slight audio delay irritate me. Play on the real thing and I always feel like "oh! It's smooth"

>>740011032
Just because something flopped doesnt mean its bad thing.

Man I should force myself to finally fix that sd card issue with my modded one.

I skipped the vita because I was angry about my psp breaking twice.
The first time I had put it against a vase on our kitchen table and was watching anime on it when my mom picked up the vase and the psp fell over.
And just from that it broke and coulnd't be turned on anymore.
I sent it in for repair and when I got it back, they had left dirt under the screen. Also, just three weeks later it broke again, this time seemingly for no reason.

And now used ones are half the price of a new Thor, is there a reason to use the Vita instead?

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>>740011032
My OLED Vita is still the sexiest and premium small handheld I own
Still feels good just to hold it

>>740020991
>The first time I had put it against a vase on our kitchen table and was watching anime on it when my mom picked up the vase and the psp fell over.
why the fuck were you using a goddamn vase as a stand?

>>740020991
>is there a reason to use the Vita instead?
you get everything the PSP does + whatever the Vita has in terms of games, homebrew, etc.
so there's no reason to get a PSP

>>740021221
>so there's no reason to get a PSP
tbf it can be used for UMDs (if you still care about them...) and buttons are kinda bigger on PSP models
also PSP Go is neat

>>740021168
Not sure if I worded that well, I didn't put the psp onto the vase, I leaned the psp against it so it would stand slightly angled to make it easier to watch videos on it while I ate breakfast.

In hindsight that might've been careless, but I didn't have a proper stand and expected a portable device to be more durable I guess.

>>740011032
>how
it's a comfy and fun system.

>>740014235
>if steam can manage to create something like this, nintendo will cease to exist
kek

>>740020991
psp was junk compared to the vita you missed out but also not really

only issue vita had was early oled burn in and memory price gouging from sony which isn't the devices problem

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>>740011089

weebmachine for uncs

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>>740021980
Okay Deadweight

>>740011089
if it just had L2/R2 and clickable sticks it'd be perfect
The touchpad with the paddle button casing is an ok workaround but clunky