I decided to hack my Vita, after years of it gathering dust. Just downloaded some emulators and a couple of exclusives. What games do you reckon I should attain to get the most out of it? I'm a big RPG guy, so some obscure/overlooked titles would be awesome.
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The emulation on it kinda sucks, it isn't a powerful console. PS1 has all the mainstream RPGs but PSP and Vita have some niche gems.
Why are you idiots lying? Tell me you never owned a Vita without telling me you never owned a Vita. GBA games run near perfect on the Vita. With the gpsp core via retroarch, shit runs great. I can even underclock the CPU to 222mhz and it still runs full speed with the normal 2x filter. Same goes for SNES for the most part, but for games that use the super FX chip, there's lag here and there, but I'd say a good 95% of the library plays full speed with no problems.
Don't undermine the Vita's emulation. The Vita is a excellent retro emulation machine. Certainly better than those generic chink shit handhelds.
nah it's shit, and you only think it's great because you dont own one if those generic handhelds you talk shit on.
ps1 emulation is frickin terrible without l2/r2. the analog sticks and back touchpad are terrible replacements, and trigger grips dont feel good at all (and arent even made anymore).
snes emulation is unacceptable, even if it mostly works. almost anything will perform better than the vita. theres no reason you shouldnt be able to get near flawless snes emulation in current year.
the one thing i will give you is that gba emulation is pretty good. people memed about it being shit because dynarec was broken for a long time, but as soon as that was fixed, emulation worked great the vita became one of my favorite gba systems. still not better than the recent 3:2 rk3326 devices.
i dont think a vita is a bad purchase, but if you are getting it purely for retro emulation, there are some possibly better options. you can get a new rg351mp for around the same price as a vita, and have a much better experience with snes and ps1, and a slightly worse experience with gba (due to the screen). if you just want gba, the rg351p would be even less.
>nah it's shit
wrong and wrong. those generic handhelds fricking suck and you're an idiot if you buy them.
ps1 emulation is good as it's not even emulation, it's running natively through adrenaline, and you can just use a grip for l2/r2 and them being not made anymore isn't a valid complaint, you can just grab one for either the 1000 or 2000
>snes emulation is unacceptable, even if it mostly works
Like I said, 95% of the library runs full speed. I've been chipping away on my snes backlog on my vita, and so many games I've tried run at full speed. It gets the job done.
>3:2 rk3326 devices
these things look ugly and bland as frick. no thank you
>but if you are getting it purely for retro emulation,
The vita also has the benefit of its own library. Vita emulation is still at its infancy so there's alot of meaning to owning an actual vita.
I would only consider getting a chinkshit handheld for Saturn, N64, and sixth gen console emulation. Everything else, the Vita gets it done fairly well.
yeah, i must be an idiot for preferring these devices i own more than the vita which i also own.
im aware the ps1 shit is native, but trigger grips or right stick are shit solutions and you dont get emulation features. good trigger grips are going to be like $50 minimum on top of the ~$150 you would spend looking for a used vita. the grips kinda ruin the portability of the device and you cant use cases/sleeves anymore. ps1 is just a better experience on most of these other chinese devices.
im not against the vita as an retro handheld, but i wouldnt reccomend it to someone who doesnt already have one (as a retro handheld; i think the vita is overall a good buy because of psp games and indies, but those are not retro). there are now chinese handhelds that have better ux than the vita.
tl;dr i think the vita is perfectly fine if you already have one, but going out and buying one for /vr/ games exclusively might not be the best option
anyways, i think i should answer op
>pokemon romhacks
they go great with handheld emulation. if you want to return to something familiar, try altered emerald or roaming red. if you want something completely new, try gaia or prism.
>mario tennis power tour
cozy tennis jrpg-lite. this, animal crossing, and katamari are my go-to comfort games. heavily recommend it if you like simple sports games.
>suikoden and suikoden ii
theyre classics and they work pretty well on the vita.
>The vita also has the benefit of its own library
Yeah, generic anime panty quest RPG #456546456 and uh....
You're on the board that shills the Saturn constantly, are you surprised?
>still not better than the recent 3:2 rk3326 devices.
The biggest of which are 3.5 inches so have less real estate than the Vita even with black bars.
>needs additional triggers
cringe
Not quite an RPG, but definitely grab Muramasa Rebirth and all of its DLC. The DLC is exclusive to the vita and it’s one of the best games on there.
The whole Ys series is on there. Ores Gula is an exclusive and is pretty good. Ar Nosurge Plus. Stranger Over Sword City.
Also, make sure you get Adrenaline for ps1-psp games, PKGj for DLC, and RetroArch for almost everything else. It’s a great little console once hacked. I’m sure you’ll enjoy it.
They have the biggest case of sour grapes I’ve ever seen. I’ve been playing my backlog on my vita for years and adore the thing. It’s perfect for damn near everything that isn’t the sixth gen and beyond.
Oh! And Gundam Breaker 3 Break Edition. It’s cuhrayzee virtual toy battles and has a ton of customization. It also has a fun little VN story to go with it. PS4 version is obviously better, but for a free Vita game it’s a nice one to have on there and play on the go. I mostly only play /vr/, but every now and again I’ll play Breaker 3.
>Gundam Breaker 3 Break Edition
Hell yeah, it's an awesome game. Gundam Extreme Versus Force is awesome as well. No regret on my part on importing both of those games as well as SD Gundam G Generations.
Good shit my boy. I truly love the Vita. It's my favorite handheld of all time.
>Ores Gula
what
Autocorrect
Oreshika*
>GBA games run near perfect on the Vita. With the gpsp core
stopped reading there, homosexual
He thinks fullspeed = perfect. I guarantee you he doesn’t play most games to completion, and just replays the same dozen games he’s been playing since childhood. ALttP resets after rescuing Zelda due to gpSP setting off the game’s anti-piracy. The Legacy of Goku games also don’t work for the same reason. Mode 7-esque sections in games run insanely fast, like the overworld in FF6 or Swanky’s Dash in DKC3. GBA is the drizzling shits on Vita. And I say that as someone who loves their Vita, but uses a New 3DS for SNES and GBA.
This meme wasn’t even funny in 2014.
I played through legacy of goku 3 recently, and while gpsp via retroarch had some issues here and there bugging out and clearing the save, it was completeable. The main menu not running audio at full speed sucked but wasn't a deal breaker.
GBA on vita sucks generally though. I can't understand people who say any emulator or platform is satisfactory if the audio is glitching out or the game isn't running full speed. Full cope for not having the actual system.
Low standards. I had low standards when the PSP was the best option for portable emulation, but it's not 2010 any longer.
The Vita can't event run SNES games dude. How about you stop lying.
I have a PSTV, which has better emulation capabilities since it can be modded to tolerate higher overclocking, and I have to attest to the emulation capability not being too great. The obvious 8 and 16 bit consoles run fine, but everything else is a mixed bag in terms of performance, especially so given the wonky resolution making it difficult to fill the screen with integer scaling of standard 240p/244p resolutions.
That said it's become my preferred method of emulating PS1 games, and the semi-native PSP playback also makes it highly desirable for those games as well.
I haven't even touched any Vita games on it since I only use my PSTV for PS1 and PSP games, and I've owned the thing for a year or so.
>I have a PSTV, which has better emulation capabilities since it can be modded to tolerate higher overclocking,
Both units support the same frequencies. The only difference is that there's no reason to underclock the PSTV, since it won't affect battery life.
>The obvious 8 and 16 bit consoles run fine, but everything else is a mixed bag in terms of performance
SNES isn't great depending on the game.
>especially so given the wonky resolution making it difficult to fill the screen with integer scaling of standard 240p/244p resolutions.
It's an excellent resolution for GBA, which is why I was disappointed it didn't run well. By the way, Sharpscale is essential if you want good video scaling.
>That said it's become my preferred method of emulating PS1 games, and the semi-native PSP playback also makes it highly desirable for those games as well.
>I haven't even touched any Vita games on it since I only use my PSTV for PS1 and PSP games, and I've owned the thing for a year or so.
I don't use my PSTV very much, but I'm torn between my PSP and Vita for portable PSP and PS1 games. On the one hand the Vita controls are incredible, on the other it suffers input lag and chunky 2x scaling.
Source on that wallpaper?
just google "cringe"
Not finding it, any other ideas?
I Googled it and it brought me back to this post.
Not as funny as the other anon.
Amazing stuff that Googled. Brought you back to your own post before you even posted it. What will they think of next.
>he fell for it
If you’re an RPG guy, you’re probably going to want to stick to PS1 RPGs via Adrenaline. SNES and GBA are extremely underwhelming on the Vita, and obscure/overlooked titles tend to not emulate well. Snes9x 2005 and gpSP are its best performing cores and both are ancient and rampant with incompatibilities.
>I'm a big RPG guy
I’ve been playing Tales of Eternia. The PSP version, though. Better audio quality and battles run at 60fps.
GBA games look really good on the Vita screen, it's such a shame that the performance is ass.
Just use your phone.
I accidentally wiped all the data from my Vita in my attempt at hacking it about a year ago. I'm so fricking moronic boys.
Yeah, it’s better to watch a couple videos on hacking whatever particular hardware you are before actually attempting it. You should feel completely comfortable with the process before jumping in.
Did you brick it, or just delete the date?
just deleted the data. It's like, half done, but I forget what step I was at. I accidentally selected formatting the Vita memory card rather than the micro SD card. I remember the root directory numbers were reversed or something.
Are you sure you didn't set it to boot from your SD card and all of the data is still on the memory card but you forgot to copy it to the new boot drive because that is what it sounds like to me.
Yeah, it was probably that. Boneheaded move on my part.
Similar story for me. I bought my vita back in 2017 and it was gathering dust until last month when I hacked it.
Now I use the thing on a daily basis. If sony wasn't made by a bunch of morons, a PS Vita 2 could have been a real contender for the Switch. Just the fact that the Vita is much more comfortable to play on and has a better software and hardware (no fricking drift) always makes it at least on par with the switch. Too bad it didn't have enough support from devs.
>(no fricking drift)
Just you wait.
You can try the port of the 3D version of Final Fantasy IV.
https://github.com/Rinnegatamante/ff4_vita
https://www.mediafire.com/file/vsukmbimm7b2t70/ff4.zip/file
The vita is pretty nice for GBA, great screen and button layout, and powerful enough hardware to run almost everything well with mgba.
The GTA homebrew ports are pretty cool too if you're into those.
Why is PS Vita homebrew so unstable, bros? I'm almost always getting error C-12828-1 with homebrew apps (GTA, Baba is You) and before I factory reset and rehacked it recently adrenaline straight up didn't work.
The vita is weird as frick and is really underpowered by today's standards. It's crazy what people have gotten to run on it at all
>I'm a big RPG guy
Is the Vita really that shit? I've got mine and an SD2Vita laying about though I need to re-hack it.
Probably can't be fricked though if it's not even doing SNES well.
It can do SNES at full speed for 98% of the games with retroarch, get the piglet version so you can use the bilinear shader and have even pixels.
You can maybe run snes9x 2005 in retroarch.
ignore the tards
it can run psp and most ps1 games just fine
i use my vita for that
play what you want- grab iso off cdromance and have at it
im doing symphony of the night
why so many hatred for the vita? i know this is /vr/ and shit but still.
PSV is great but also underwhelming
It didn't have the legendary community the psp had
That community worked magic (N64 and full speed GBA back in the day was frickin great)
First party vita games were fine.... It just lacked a real home run imo
The back touch thing is literal autism
-worse it auto maps on PS1 games
I hate my switch. I think it's shit. I think Nintendo sucks. Most of their games are mid and their fanbase are worse than qanon or anti vaxxers... However, I always find a reason to play my switch, unlike my vita
it was those memory cards, man. I remember paying around $80 for a 16gb card. The decisions Sony made around that system fricking baffle me to this day. It's like as soon as Sony saw the 3DS was gaining popularity they just dropped it.
They were selling the Vita at a massive loss. Sony tried to make their money back through their absurdly expensive memory cards.
I have to use the full 444 MHz to run fricking SNES
Wtf is up with that
However oled looks better than LCD on portables always
Retroarch is by default 444mhz stupid clueless troll, you oc to 500mhz..
moron. If you think a vita needs 444 MHz to run a 3mhz console, you really are inbred
The 333MHz PSP fails hard at emulating SNES.
>used PS vitas cost $150 - 200 in my country
>used XL 3DS readily approaching $200 - 250 territory
>even a basic b***h 2DS or original psp is now $120 - 150
GEE I'M SURE WELL HAPPY THAT EVERY MAJOR CONSOLE MANUFACTURER DECIDED TO ALL STOP MAKING HANDHELDS AT THE SAME FRICKING TIME
The Chink handhelds are going to stay the same price and get better so who cares?
Yeah and they’re going to keep breaking in under a year.