Sold mine earlier this year because I needed the money for rent. I loved that thing, I miss it all the time. It was my Persona and SMT machine, so many hours…
I still pull my Vita out like once a year to play something. Before the Steam Deck came along, this was my favorite handheld. Especially because I love JRPGs and the library for the genre is/was impressive.
Unfortunate that Sony didn’t give the Vita the support it needed to be successful.
I was unironically a massive fan of the PSTV, it was literally just a box with the internals of a Vita that you plugged into your TV. It was absolutely fantastic to be able to carry around a tiny console to hotels to get a proper gaming experience
Never had one, but repeatedly thought about getting one because of portable emulation. Nowadays there are better options for that, but the Vita itself is still a really nice little machine. At least for now, I’m happy with my Switch tho.
I’m always the annoying guy praising how good the Vita is.
One of my favorite thing about it is how repairable it is! The screws are even color-coded! Changing anything is ridiculously easy. (Changing the screen is a bit harder but you can change the whole front shell which includes the screen very easily)
imho ruined by its memory card. If it was with a real memory standard, it could be used to watch media on the go. (it can play media, right? Or it’s strictly for gaming?)
You can play media off it, but the cards were proprietary, expensive, and prone to failure, especially the big ones. I’ve had the 64gb card get corrupted a few times.
I keep mine charged to play Castlevania Symphony of the Night occasionally. And gravity rush. A shame they don’t bring out a successor but I think Nintendo has cornered the market unfortunately
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The only game I had for my Vita was Persona 4 Dancing All Night, but I played the shit out of that game. I miss it. No idea where my vita wound up.
Nice do you play minecraft on vita by any chance?
Man, I used to have PSP back in the day, and I loved it.
And now, I am kinda pondering, on buying a PS Vita, for some emulation. And I think I sure will do that. Just… gotta get money first…
Sold mine earlier this year because I needed the money for rent. I loved that thing, I miss it all the time. It was my Persona and SMT machine, so many hours…
I still pull my Vita out like once a year to play something. Before the Steam Deck came along, this was my favorite handheld. Especially because I love JRPGs and the library for the genre is/was impressive.
Unfortunate that Sony didn’t give the Vita the support it needed to be successful.
I was unironically a massive fan of the PSTV, it was literally just a box with the internals of a Vita that you plugged into your TV. It was absolutely fantastic to be able to carry around a tiny console to hotels to get a proper gaming experience
Only issue was games with touch controls.
Never had one, but repeatedly thought about getting one because of portable emulation. Nowadays there are better options for that, but the Vita itself is still a really nice little machine. At least for now, I’m happy with my Switch tho.
I’m always the annoying guy praising how good the Vita is.
One of my favorite thing about it is how repairable it is! The screws are even color-coded! Changing anything is ridiculously easy. (Changing the screen is a bit harder but you can change the whole front shell which includes the screen very easily)
imho ruined by its memory card. If it was with a real memory standard, it could be used to watch media on the go. (it can play media, right? Or it’s strictly for gaming?)
They have adapters now so that you can use any microsd card.
You can play media off it, but the cards were proprietary, expensive, and prone to failure, especially the big ones. I’ve had the 64gb card get corrupted a few times.
Timeless design
It came out at the wrong time, but it is amazingly well designed. I’m looking at mine right now.
I like the design so much, in fact, that when it came time to buy a handheld PC I got the GPD Win4. Guess why.
I keep mine charged to play Castlevania Symphony of the Night occasionally. And gravity rush. A shame they don’t bring out a successor but I think Nintendo has cornered the market unfortunately
I STILL want one of these so bad. Wish they weren’t so expensive as I just cannot justify spending so much on such an outdated piece of tech :(
I still think of this every time
Wait till you see what the mod scene has done with it
Checking out how to install CFW now, haven’t seen everything that can be done yet though.
Can you recommend a good resource for homebrew etc?
Apps are available as .vpk files. There is a database.
https://vitadb.rinnegatamante.it/
Mostly I install stuff with the app-store style browser for that repository though, not manually downloading the files.
The actual modding process is extremely streamlined nowadays.
Wait, so if I factory restore and update it, I can install CFW straight from the browser?!
Yup
Also, guide site: https://guide.psp2.dev/
And you might want to get one of these and few hundred gig micro sd: https://www.ebay.com/itm/314591086242?hash=item493f1706a2:g:EPkAAOSwE7BkYIaY
https://retrogamecorps.com/2021/04/27/ps-vita-guide/
Somewhat exhaustive but I think this is a good resource
While I do like that content creator, if you’re hacking you should use the vita.hacks.guide as even he references in the first paragraph
RGC is great about showing everything you can do once you’re done installing CFW.
Fair point fair point