The .vpk file is basically the program, yes. You use the launcher that's added after you run the exploit to install the apps to the system as bubbles. You would need to supply your own ROMs.
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HENKaku -- Vita Homebrew and more comes to all 3.60 Vitas
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The .vpk file is basically the program, yes. You use the launcher that's added after you run the exploit to install the apps to the system as bubbles. You would need to supply your own ROMs.
SenseOffender
Member
Good to know. A lot of my games play great, and overall I'm excited. There's a lot with sound issues, though, and some games are sped up.
Just out of curiosity, weren't these emulators already optimized for Vita? Or did the devs have to do some porting to make it work with HENKaku? Is that why people are assuming they'll be optimized later?
Again, just curious, I'm not complaining, in it's current state it's still damn cool!
Melkezadek
Member
Finally got it to work. Nothing actually helps at all I think. Just gotta keep trying.
The Real Napsta
Member
I gave up for the night.
BladeoftheImmortal
Member
How exactly should this work? Because I tryto go to the website on my vita, press install, and then it gives me an error has occured in the following application and a progress bar fills up. I press ok and the website tries to reload. I feel something is off.
n/m, just got it to work.
How do I put homebrew on my Vita? Do I need to connect it to the PC the first time and use the hacked content manager?
n/m, just got it to work.
How do I put homebrew on my Vita? Do I need to connect it to the PC the first time and use the hacked content manager?
In the end, it should support the same cores as the Android build as the hardware is like an Arm smartphone.
Btw, are psx games already playable on Vita? Can you buy games officially, meaning that at least Sony made an emulator that works?
BladeoftheImmortal
Member
Just saw that. Info overload. Thanks
It's kinda too late at this point to have a huge impact. The Vita is basically dead and abandoned by Sony.
Those few companies still releasing games, though, will hopefully still gain sales from the Vita faithful.
Ruud_Luiten
Member
Ps1 and psp runs perfectly on vita <3
Then it's not a performance or hardware problem but a software problem and we should expect good performance for everything up to psx.
I think he's talking about Sony's official emulators. Like when you buy a PSX game on the PSN Store and play it on your Vita. In that case, yeah, it's really good (I don't know if it's a "perfect" emulation, though). Hopefully, HENkaku allows homebrew devs to bypass the restrictions put in place by Sony quite a few firmwares ago and we can have full access to the native PSX emulator.
Enter the Dragon Punch
Banned
That's pretty much a given considering that people had Smash64 and Super Mario 64 working on the PSP and playable.
Same issue
Enter the Dragon Punch
Banned
use them as .zip
Define playable. N64 is a challenge to emulate even on pc.
Ahh, cool
ss_lemonade
Member
The genesis emulator seems to run pretty well but audio sync is all over the place. The vita feels and controls so much better though than something like my shield portable
Enter the Dragon Punch
Banned
dunno if there's any correlation but... looks like my vita memory card has kicked the bucket
WAR recon zero
Banned
Exciting times
Vhbl works so there opens psp homebrew
Vhbl works so there opens psp homebrew
Enter the Dragon Punch
Banned
no. retroarch .vpk is under development ATM.
I see, thank you.
PSP is mips like the n64, vita is not. If anything, try to find out how emulation performs on a smartphone.
Enter the Dragon Punch
Banned
N64 is far superior on Android versus PSP
That is why this should be compared when guessing performance. The hardware is closer to smartphones than to PSP.
Does this mean the old school SNES9x on PSP is officially working again? The current Vita emulator is absolute trash :/.
In case it wasn't posted earlier, that mirror has a vpk that adds the whitelist for you. I used it, both Lumines and Wipeout worked perfectly
Which accessories are you using for your vita in that picture =o
and are they for the old or new model?
Brawly Likes to Brawl
Member
Oh well that sucks then.
Primethius
Banned
Just went with the VHBL emus for now. Don't have to worry about reinstalling after every reboot and better then the VPK ones.
Feels good to have the home brew back on 3.6. Never updating my mistake again.
Feels good to have the home brew back on 3.6. Never updating my mistake again.
No, they're talking about powering it off. It's slightly inconvenient, but it's not a big deal. It can happen either if you power it off manually or if you let the battery run out.
What is it?
WAR recon zero
Banned
Deft Beck
Member
In case it wasn't posted earlier, that mirror has a vpk that adds the whitelist for you. I used it, both Lumines and Wipeout worked perfectly
Mind you, Lumines has been patched to allow PSTV play for a while. Just click the update icon on the LiveArea when you're connected to the Internet.
Dragonslayer_023
Banned
The ftp from when you press select in MoleculeShell.
Soulja
Member
FataIChoice
Member
Just to add onto this, a .vpk is just an archive containing an eboot.bin and the live area pictures/information.
For those using SNES9x with the blank icon, you should be able to add your own image for the bubble in there.