• 2 months ago
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    I bought a non working oled Vita to practice taking it apart. What i learned is... the chances of me damaging my main unit is substantial enough that I wouldn't feel comfortable doing it without factory resetting it first in case I do something wrong.

    The dpad/buttons are behind several ribbon cables. I learned not to fuck around with ribbon cables. I was brave once. Too brave. Not anymore. Nope. Nada. Not worth it. Especially not when it's these whisker thin ribbon cables w the flea sized fasteners that are barely hanging on.

    The start select buttons however.. it may be possible to slide a prying tool underneath the board and lift it up just enough to slide a strip of electrical tape, or something like a bandaid, in where the start select buttons are and that would provide enough padding to make them more responsive. The start select buttons are the main reason I was doing all this, anyway.

    The L R buttons are also completely safe so I might as well do those too.

    It's a shame to have to leave the dpad alone.. but that doesn't really matter that much except for fighting games. And why the fuck would I play a fighting game.

    It's a wonder an aftermarket screen mod doesn't exist for the slim model yet. There are aftermarket screens for even the PSP-1000 (why??) to make it better. As though *that* isn't fringe. But somehow the slim Vita doesn't have something similar despite its stock screen sucking ass for years. If it ever does happen, everyone might as well throw their oled in the trash.
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      Editing … I wonder which system runs PSP games better, the PS Vita or the Nintendo Switch
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      Editing … Well the Vita is natively able to run PSP.
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      Editing … But what if the Switch is able to run those games at higher framerates and resolutions? PPSSPP is on the system, but I don't know if it's a heavily nerfed version.
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      Editing … I played some of my save files on my laptop once and was blown away at the resolution increase. I would've figured it just be the emulator doing its thing, but my car vinyls were so crisp, that I wondered if the textures were pretty decent quality to begin with and it just wasn't possible to notice on the PSP's native resolution. Still, there isn't really a comparison between having that vs. knowing you have 1:1 support with every game without graphical glitches or slowdown. (The Switch's start/select buttons and inferior volume/brightness controls are also cause for concern, but let's not get me started..)
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  • 4 months ago
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    I think all that's left for me is to try running San Andreas on Vita, which I still haven't gotten around to installing. But I was wondering, if/when I do that, are there any other games I should also install while I'm at it?

    https://www.psx-place.com/threads/android-games-running-on-ps-vita-currently-45-games-gta-sa-ff-iv-max-payne-crazy-taxi.39830/

    Oh.. umm yeah, there you go. I fuess I'll start w GTA, Max Payne, Bully, and Conduit. Baba is You is on Switch, but mebbe I get that too, bc it's not as if I'm ever gonna play it on Switch.
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      Editing … Borderlands 2. I should give that Vita version a try sometime (;
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      Editing … Don't, the vita version is unplayable. You pretty much have to have played the game on another console just to know what's going on. Defeated enemies just blink out of existence, no corpses or death animations. (P.s. I've also heard a conspiracy theory that the game runs slightly worse on the OLED model, making it so the only people who ever found the game remotely tolerable were those who bought the slim bundle when it launched)
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      Editing … I tried playing Borderlands 2 on PC, but then I found out I don't like Borderlands 2. I did hear the Vita version was patched, not to perfection, but like... improved.
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      Editing … I did eventually play Borderlands 1/2/Pre on PS3 and realized I hated them. 2 was actually my least favorite of the three. But it was still a million times better than it was on Vita. If you're gonna play a mid game, better to have it run somewhat decently at least. Plus that way you know it's the game itself you don't like and not the port job.
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      Editing … It's funny, playing Borderlands made me realize how derivative Rage was, at least in terms of story/setting. But I still preferred Rage.
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      Editing … I also preferred RAGE (and I didn't have to mute the voice acting in that one)
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      Editing … Wait, why are Sonic 1-2 and Mania not listed? Not that I care much about those particular games but it nonetheless indicates that the list is not complete.
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      Editing … Husky, I think I got more or less every official vita release covered. Borderlands, Killzone, Resistance, Unit 13, Duke Nukem.. I've tried em all. https://psnprofiles.com/ZEELLO?pf=vita been to there. done the that. All that's left for me is homebrew/emulators sadly, unless I decide to replay the same games.
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      Editing … Ah there we go. Sonic Mania, Professor Layton?! oh sheet https://vitadb.rinnegatamante.it/#/ Doom 3, Doom 64, Blood, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Wipeout Rewrite.. Bugdom, RVGL, Cuphead (surprise!!)..
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      Editing … oh hell no, the layton games require vita to be held vertically. buh bye
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    I haven't used my Switch in half a year. On the premise that it's my best device and therefore it's tucked away in my closet and used seldomly, bc I want to take good care of it.

    Meanwhile I've been treating Vita as my shit device and therefore I allow myself to use it all the time, even after touching food.

    I believe this philosophy is hardly controversial and I'm sure you all relate to it to some degree whether you're willing to admit it or not.

    The hilarious part isn't that, it may be the fact that the Vita is objectively a much better device than I had given it credit for. It may even be better than the Switch.

    For context, I once started a demo of a certain horror game on Switch, but booted out of the game almost immediately because it was literally too dark to see anything, but at the same time I didn't want to change the brightness setting bc I was happy w the current setting and getting it back to the way it was would have been a hassle.

    In fact I've actually used the capture button to screencap the brightness slider in system settings on more than one occasion. The very fact that I used the retard button in this way makes it two different system functions crossing over in a way that hilariously neurotic and also deeply depressing.

    The Vita does not have this problem. I can hop back and forth between brightnesses easily via dpad presses and it's easily done from the quick menu. Ended up playing the Vita version of the exact same game no problem.

    What makes this funnier is that even the PSP despite being the master class in everything else ranks slightly worse than Vita in this regard bc your only choices are either 4 brightness toggles w no visible slider, or a brightness plugin w 100 increments which as you would naturally expect is somewhat laborious to adjust between high and low.

    This makes Vita the brightness king. Which is ironic considering its screen was the thing that made the system unusable on stock firmware.

    You cam apply this logic to volume too btw. PSP is of course the gold standard. Switch is once again the worst, unless you count the 3DS family which still use the same god forsaken method that the Game Boy used.

    Granted, all this doesn't make the Vita library any better. But then again neither it does for the Switch. In the end maybe it's all about making do with what's there. The journey only really ends because you wanted it to.
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      Editing … I bet you are someone who eats his least favorite food first and then the tastiest food gets cold before you even start eating that.
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      Editing … I can hardly relate to any aspect of you at all Rocky.
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      Editing … I had thought about demoting my Switch to expendable console but I know it wouldn't even be very good as one. Battery life, comfort, durability.. fails across the board. The launch Vita is like the game equivalent of one of those "rugged" Kyocera smartphones designed for going rock climbing underwater or whatever.
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      Editing … There's a new sony handheld apparently.
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      Editing … Oh lol. Is is that thing that will be essentially a remote play device like the wiiU?
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      Editing … I hear it streams over wifi and will cost 299. (edit: ok, it's 199) When I tried PS4 remote play there was input delay, constant connection errors, and the screen would get constantly blurry or riddled w artifacts whenever there was any decent amount of action on screen. I find it ludicrous Sony would release a device that could do *only* this.
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      Editing … Oh, I overlooked the significance of nodley's comment. They actually announced it. That's something. I only knew what I knew bc of a rumor/leak. It's better I check out the reveal to see if anythng changed. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2V28weUGoo
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      Editing … It's like Sony exactly knows what makes a successful handheld and then decides to do the opposite. Plus you can now buy overpriced headset and earbuds as well. I really don't get the point of it. When I'm at home I would rather just use the tv anyway. If this was 100 euro's I could maybe get why some people would want it but 200?....meh..nah. Oh lol the earbuds are 200 euros too! They should just do a proper handheld.
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      Editing … I feel the exact same way about Nintendo consoles klem.
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      Editing … Nobody takes their handhelds outside, Klem. Even if they did they would just look like a manchild. But there's still no reason anyone would rather have the game streamed. It's just a vastly worse experience. Like even if you absolutely needed a handheld to have PS5 level graphics, it would've been better if it was a portable PS5 and the only reason it wasn't was to lower the cost. Granted there's the PS Link thingie. If it works anywhere near as well as the Wii U did then Sony maybe has something on their hands, but that's a big maybe. (I'm still vague on how Nintendo achieved that. It wasn't via wifi which certainly had something to do with why it was so good) I like the part of the video where the presenter admits it was a closed room demo. So there's even the chance Sony rigged the devices to be able to achieve results that wouldn't be possible using retail units. But not that it matters. He would obviously lie about the latency so he doesn't get fired.
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  • 7 months ago
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    Wow the Vita hack really is super simple now. I hacked my Vita a couple weeks back and that enabled me to actually use a micro SD and download my 168 legal Vita games I own/got from PS+ over the past 18 years or so. Initially was going to emulate some stuff and try getting the Android games to work but have just been content playing through the library I didn't realize I had cause I only ever had like 10 games on my shitty Vita card at a time over the years.
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      Editing … Oooh sounds exciting. :-D I always liked the idea of the vita. Never got one because it seemed like Sony was not giving it a lot of support.
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      Editing … I hacked my Vita this year too. If you have DBdownloader (should come w the hack) then you should be able to get the batteryfixer app. All you have to do is run it once, and doing so "resets" the battery. I noticed a huge difference. My battery not only lasts much longer than it did before, but my battery gauge is more accurate as well. From VitaDBdownloader you should also be able to get apps that disable the lock screen and home button LED. I also have Vitabright 2.0 which lets you lower the screen's brightness beyond stock settings, but that I had to install manually via USB.
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      Editing … I still have not gotten GTA San Andreas to work but I'm wondering if I should even bother. I think it's positively mad that the screen was to be awake for the entire duration of the download and install. That's ok for ultility apps w small filesizes such ae the ones I mentioned above, but not for like, entire PS2 games.
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      Editing … I recommend these games: Gravity Rush, Unit 13, Sonic Transformed, Need for Speed Most Wanted, Injustice, Under Night in-Birth, The Treasures of Montezuma 4, and King Oddball. That last one is only like 24 MB so definitely get it.
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      Editing … Gravity Rush looked great. I played it a bit on a demo vita. It was cool though I didn't really care for the comic aspect of it. The actual game play was pretty tight from what I remember.
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      Editing … Yea I played through Gravity Rush way back when, never got around to the sequel though. Maybe I'll have to revisit it. Everytime someone mentions it though I think they're talking about Gravity Crash and get confused.
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      Editing … And thanks for the homebrew/hack recs. I briefly popped into the DB but there's so much in there wasn't sure what was good and the few things I downloaded needed extra steps or were shit but I gotta delve deeper when I got the focus.
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      Editing … Oh fuck me I forgot Fez. xD But it seems you're already familiar with that one.
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      Editing … When using my Vita, I can hold down the home button to bring up a menu containing volume and brightness sliders. But I was wondering- did I install something to get that, or is it stock? I remember when I first got a Vita in 2015 or so it did not have volume slider, and I specifically remember posting on a forum wishing it did bc the volume buttons are inconveniently located. I think it was added at one point, either Sony added it in OFW, or CFW adds it by default. Explojin do you have a volume slider there? There should be two I think, one for music volume and the other is called master volume, as well as the one for brightness.
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      Editing … I thought I'd go to youtube to find my answer bc people post tutorials for really obvious shit from time to time. xD But instead I stumbled on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUc4efIENIo so apparently it *is* possible to get PS1 and PSP games on the main home screen. Good to know.
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  • 10 months ago
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    Thanks to CFW all games are free but I'm losing the motivation to even download anything on this piece of trash. Everything I've tried playing on it so far is either bad or worse, excluding games I already knew were good bc I've played them long before getting CFW.

    The icing on the cake is that when downloading homebrew (which includes fangames like AM2R and android ports like Sonic Mania and Max Payne) the screen has to be on for the entire duration of the download. Putting the screen to sleep *actually pauses the download*, if it doesn't interrupt it altogether forcing you to start over. That.. that is not even how technology works!! Believe it or not this actually applies to PSP games too. Literally the only thing that will download in the background are official Vita games. (which in my case is all i really care about anyway.. but still! egads!)
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      Editing … I always wondered about the vita. How does it feel like to tickle the console's rear sometimes? Or did they stop making games using that feature?
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      Editing … It's practically a footnote in the Vita's feature list. It's seldomly used. I've seen exactly one game use the feature well, that being Touch my Katamari, but it barely changes the gameplay. And maybe one minigame in Little Deviants, which is this really awful minigane compilation aside from that one minigame. I largely want to avoid all touch features to be honest. I even installed a plugin that skips the Vita's lock screen. (which requires touchscreen to unlock. Wtf sony?)
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      Editing … hehe so you have to tickle your vita to turn it on? That's great.
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  • 1 year ago
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    I found my good PSP! Let's goooo

    Can't find my 128 GB microsd though, so I can't proceed with my Vita. (I took it out of my Vita after failing to CFW the first time, GENIUS MOVE now I have no idea where I put it, and imagine trying to find something this small. It could be literally anywhere.)

    Wondering if I should buy a new microSD instead of waiting until I find my old one. This almost seems like a good idea.. if I wait too long then the current CFW tutorials might become obsolete.

    But anyway... I have a spare PSP and a bunch of disassembled PSP-3000s I can put together to make a third PSP. (But not more than that, bc I have only one spare battery not already in a PSP) I can give two of them to my brother's two sons when they grow a little older. So long as he doesn't have another kid that is. The second kid kind of mucked things up already, I can't give them my 3DS XL anymore bc I only have one. xD

    He's gonna have a third kid isn't he...
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  • 1 year ago
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    Sure, why not.
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  • 4 years ago
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    Want a Vita that feels more like a PS3 controller? Try the HORI Remote Play Assist Attachment. The shoulder buttons press levers which put pressure on parts of the rear touchpad. And this is used to add buttons to the system.

    I don't know how it does it, but it works. I imagine that I could play PS3 games on this now, but man this is weird.
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  • 5 years ago
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    Tell me some good Vita RPGs
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      Editing … Freedom Wars!
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      Editing … Oh, you said good, not "amazing"
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      Editing … I've never played any, but there are a ton of good PSP ones
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      Editing … Come on guys, I thought you were hard-core gamers? Vita must have more than Freedom Wars whatever that is.
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      Editing … Freedom Wars
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      Editing … Freedom Wars!
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      Editing … So, Freedom Wars?
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      Editing … Great idea. I hear there are other RPGs you can play too, but I'll have to get back to you on them. Folk often say Persona 4 Golden is one of the best there is.
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      Editing … Most of the Vita RPGs are very very niche and I don't really fit into many of those niches, so it's hard to recommend stuff. I mean there's Persona 4 Golden but I'm that one weird-ass guy that prefers the original so I never recommend it to people. A lot of people like Demon Gaze though, if that's your thing. Also Freedom Wars.
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      Editing … I own a Sword Art Online RPG that I still haven't played, think there's at least a couple of those on the system. Dunno why I'd play it now that it's been ported to PC though. Keyboard and mouse baby, when can I get Freedom Wars too? Or Freedom Wars 2.
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  • 5 years ago
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    Calling all Vita experts, your nodley needs you. How do I hack this thing? How do I emulate on this thing?
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      Editing … What firmware update are you on? This should help http://wololo.net/vita-cfw4dummies/
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      Editing … The latest one, I updated it this morning.
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      Editing … ahhhhhhh that's not good that's bad um maybe someone'll come up with a hack later, the Vita's got a good fanbase, and Sony's pretty much done with it
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      Editing … Fuck. I should have researched before I did that. I've had it 2 days though and had 15 minutes only to play on it, I've factory reset it and updated it, that's it.
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      Editing … The mistake makes sense, your modded systems are all ones without this sort of issue, right? Hopefully there'll be a new workaround.
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      Editing … Good news, there is some hacker that claims to have cracked the latest patch, but doesn't want to release it until Sony discontinues the Vita--something they announced they were doing at the Tokyo Games Show.
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