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I modded my PS Vita so I can run Steam Link on it. Works great! It's done by using Moonlight/Sunshine.
I'm not using a PS Vita, but I recently moved from pure Steam Link app to Moonlight and Sunshine (amd GPU) and I'm flabbergasted at how well it works so fucking better than Steam Link. It's like being in front of your main monitor.
That is so cool! Didn't know this was possible. Is there any lag?
Slight lag but it's quite unnoticeable. I'm amazed it even works lol
If you haven't already, 100% look into software modding it, you'll thank us later!
Apologies for being lazy
I have a vita that ultimately stopped working, and gets stuck in a boot loop (original os, no modding/tampering done). Do you think it's hardware related? Or could I still flash a new os on that puppy.
I wanted to guy a Switch, and I am debating if I want to mod now and get an older model, or buy a new one and wait for better methods. Or... I could install one of the modchips on it
Or you can get a Steam Deck and play Switch games on that 😉
I was thinking of online play as I got my 3DS 1 year ago for that, but I just remembered that it now costs monthly for subpar service. Honestly, you are making me thinking about it more now about what I wanna get.
I sold my PSP years ago and now have a modchipped switch. With the release of android for it, I can play most PSP games on the PPSSPP emulator. Some games have issues, but even the God of War games run at full speed. It’s definitely not as small as the PSP or Vita. I’d recommend getting the OLED model and using a mod chip, as that’s probably the only way to hack it. Nintendo really locked down the later versions
Dude, Vita is my daily driver. My advice? Mod the ever living fuck out of it! It's well past end of life. And Sony doesn't seem to give two shits that I'm playing online on a hacked and spoofed version, on a game I didn't pay for.
I love my modded Vita. It's a perfect little handheld emulation machine.
Please someone tell me you remember SOMA and it being an incredible game?
Still use mine on the daily. It's particularly great if you can play Japanese games
Oh yeah... I was still very much into console wars at the time it released, rooting for the Vita against the 3DS, haha.
I ended up importing it from HK to get it a few months (perhaps mere weeks even) before launch and I even made unboxings, reviews and news "coverage" on YT at the time. I loved that handheld to bits.
I don't have my day one console anymore, but I do still have one (hacked 2000 model, I'd love to get a Hori grip for it but those are way too expensive nowadays...).
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)
Never had the PS Vita. But I had the normal PSP Slim which was an amazing handheld!
I had the fat one and loved the bumps, made it so comfortable I couldn't touch my friends' slim. Miss it a lot but last time I tried it had a terrible stick drift. Wonder if they're still available somewhere
I've recently started playing on my PSP slim again, it's a neat wee device especially when loaded up with 32gb of games, a 12ish hour internal battery, and a USB-C port so I can charge it with the same cable as my phone!
Had a ton of great first-party releases back in the day, it emulates everything up to the PS1 and some DOS games like Fallout pretty well, and the homebrew scene is still quite active - the CFW/launcher I use gets new features every few weeks and a few of the games like NZ:P still have regular updates.
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 love the Vita! It just feels so right in the hand, and the clicky d-pad/face buttons are the best. I like it so much that around a year ago I ported one of my favorite indie games to it.
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.
Loved my Vita, but they were so stingy with those memory cards. Out of spite I never upgraded my storage so only ever had like 2 games on it at a time lol.
Mod it, get an SD2VITA, I have a 512Gb sd in mine.
Oh cool, TIL! Will check that out!
I got mine off.....Amazon(👎)
Don't listen to the reviews that say it doesn't fit and that's why it's a garbage product.
These people are idiots.
The SD2VITA goes into the gamecart slot, not the memory card slot.
It even says so right in the instructions that come with it.....
Timeless design
I remember playing Lego games on one of these when I was younger. Absolutely legendary console
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 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 :(
Praise be the Vita. It's name means life and so it will live in our hearts forever.
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 was in college at the time and I regret not buying it. It was not that popular in my neck of the woods
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.
Should I buy a PS Vita, or a PSP? Thinking about getting another retro console and I'm not sure which one to get.
Vita. Once you mod it, which is easy and recommended, you can play any PSP game on it you might want, on a slightly bigger screen, with much better controls.
You can get a mint condition Japanese PSP-1000 for about a quarter of the price of a Vita! If you solder in a 5000-6000 mah battery you can get some 14+ hours of gameplay between charges! You can also fit a ton of games on a cheap 64-128gb microsd with a $3 adapter, and adding a USB-C port so it charges with the same cable as everything else is pretty easy!
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..