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Rinkles posted:Isn't the recent wave of homebrew ports possible because the Vita is also an ARM device? Midjack posted:Vita is ARM. Cortex A9. So emulate it on a new Macintosh. You're right, wonder why I had that in my head.. Well, Must have had it in my head that they stuck with MIPS because that's what the PSP and PS2 were, I guess
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Well it does have a MIPS processor. It's how it can run PSP and PS1 games almost flawlessly.
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Mar 25, 2021 05:47
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Yeah, I knew it had the sub-CPU for that but, even so. Sorry, Kirby brain no work so good.
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Mar 25, 2021 05:50
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Are there *any* sub $200 handhelds that run decent SNES emulation? That always seems to be a sticking point. One of my earlier memories is being disappointed in SNES emulation on my IBM Aptiva E
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Mar 25, 2021 14:11
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Marx Headroom posted:Are there *any* sub $200 handhelds that run decent SNES emulation? That always seems to be a sticking point. One of my earlier memories is being disappointed in SNES emulation on my IBM Aptiva E Yeah the RG351 and RV351 do. They are $100 (ish)
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Mar 25, 2021 14:14
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Marx Headroom posted:Are there *any* sub $200 handhelds that run decent SNES emulation? That always seems to be a sticking point. One of my earlier memories is being disappointed in SNES emulation on my IBM Aptiva E Here you go: https://www.experimentalpi.com/PiBoy-DMG--Assembled_p_16.html It can do everything up to Dreamcast and N64 with no problems
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SNOT CORN posted:Here you go: https://www.experimentalpi.com/PiBoy-DMG--Assembled_p_16.html what in god's name were they thinking with that form factor
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Mar 25, 2021 14:21
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Necrothatcher posted:what in god's name were they thinking with that form factor Nostalgia. The thumbstick looks ill placed but I'm not sure where else it would go.
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The L/R buttons on the back weird me out. Love this poo poo though: That's an Ethernet port. Where has this functionality been all my life? Edit sorry for the derail I mixed this up with the retro handheld thread. Vita wise I picked up Jet Set Radio the other day and I'm having a really loving hard time with it. The controls are at once too floaty and too precise, I can't even unlock Garam. The timer in Street levels is a serious bummer. I just want to explore these awesome environments and the game is pushing me out the door. Might give up on this and surprised it was so well received. Marx Headroom fucked around with this message at 14:52 on Mar 25, 2021 |
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Marx Headroom posted:Are there *any* sub $200 handhelds that run decent SNES emulation? That always seems to be a sticking point. One of my earlier memories is being disappointed in SNES emulation on my IBM Aptiva E the new 3ds family actually has very good snes emulation, both through virtual console injects and the port of snes9x. i recently beat super mario rpg, an SA-1 game, on there with no framedrops, no slowdown, no bs at all and i could never tolerate snes games on the psp.
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Did they ever fix the thing where you can't buy a PSN game if you've claimed it on PS Plus? I've put a ton of time into Spelunky and I wouldn't want to miss the opportunity to "own" it outside of a subscription. But my current Plus subscription runs past the rumored store closing date, so not really sure what my options are.
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Minidust posted:Did they ever fix the thing where you can't buy a PSN game if you've claimed it on PS Plus? I've put a ton of time into Spelunky and I wouldn't want to miss the opportunity to "own" it outside of a subscription. But my current Plus subscription runs past the rumored store closing date, so not really sure what my options are. The only option AFAIK is to do it on a ps4 console. You can buy stuff you've claimed via ps+ that way.
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SNOT CORN posted:Here you go: https://www.experimentalpi.com/PiBoy-DMG--Assembled_p_16.html Honestly once you get into this price range you are better off just getting something like this https://youtu.be/uo74m1F2YIA Which would blow the doors off that Pi.
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Unless you want a single unified device and not a random extra smartphone just for games that you also need to attach a controller to, sure.
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History Comes Inside! posted:Unless you want a single unified device and not a random extra smartphone just for games that you also need to attach a controller to, sure. It’s not that different once you attach a controller. It’s also more capable.
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quote:• You will still be able to purchase cross-buy content through PlayStation™Store on the web, PlayStation®App, or on PS4 and PS5 consoles and access both the PS4 version and the PS3/PS Vita/PSP versions. So really any title that's cross-buy for PS4 and Vita could still be indirectly purhcased? That's a small comfort at least, if I'm interpreting this correctly. There's a decent amount of cross-buy stuff. Minidust fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Mar 29, 2021 |
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Mar 29, 2021 19:23
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Great, so you can still trivially pirate games from Sony's CDN, just not buy them. Good times.
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You would have to make sure what you want to trivially pirate is available to pirate, tho. There's still gaps in there, majorly DLCs and jp games.
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Mar 29, 2021 20:38
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Yeah for now I think I actually have everything I want from ps3 and vita. The only thing left I want to grab is soul sacrifice delta.
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Mar 29, 2021 21:33
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Everyone go buy and play Taco Master, probably one of my favorite digital-only Vita games.
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https://twitter.com/thegamerwebsite/status/1377216622298030084?s=19
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lol that article Also lol at this quote:
Dear god why?
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So, surely someone is currently pulling all of the ps3 and vita games off the Sony CDN and prepping them for archive.org right? RIGHT? 
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:So, surely someone is currently pulling all of the ps3 and vita games off the Sony CDN and prepping them for archive.org right? They’re still going to be there, to facilitate people being able to download existing purchases even after the storefronts are shuttered. I expect we’ll get another deadline when they’re going to pull the plug completely in x years.
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Right but if you don’t buy every single vita and PS3 game that you might ever want to play, July is the deadline for you. Since that’s not feasible, July kind of is the deadline for obtaining the games legally
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What does buying them legally have to do with being able to use a pirated backup down the line? Because that’s the only use backups from the CDN will have at that point.
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At a certain point once a console is EOL pirating is the only answer.
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MarcusSA posted:lol that article Lmfao yeah lemme buy a Dev kit for a platform that’s been all but dead since 2015, in 2021.
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I just ordered a Neo geo pocket dev kit. Wish me luck on my future business endeavor!
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History Comes Inside! posted:What does buying them legally have to do with being able to use a pirated backup down the line? Because that’s the only use backups from the CDN will have at that point. Exactly. This august you decide you want to check out a game on the PS3 or vita that you don’t already own, modding your system and pirating it is the only option especially on vita if the game didn’t come on a cartridge
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MarcusSA posted:I just ordered a Neo geo pocket dev kit. Wish me luck on my future business endeavor! This is still a better prospect than getting a Vita kit and I like the Vita 
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The biggest actual issue is going to be the loss of DLC. I’m sure some enterprising people will come up with a solution eventually but as it is now (afaik) even pirates are gonna be kinda sol on that front.
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Healbot posted:Lmfao yeah lemme buy a Dev kit for a platform that’s been all but dead since 2015, in 2021. If there's still a profitable market for Vita games, enough to justify getting a dev kit, then why not?
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Exactly. This august you decide you want to check out a game on the PS3 or vita that you don’t already own, modding your system and pirating it is the only option especially on vita if the game didn’t come on a cartridge Then they can still be pulled from the CDN with the same piracy methods that exist today, because they’re still going to be there in August.
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MarcusSA posted:The biggest actual issue is going to be the loss of DLC.
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I suppose it's worth explaining how backups and piracy works here. I don't have a PS3, only a PSP and Vita so I can only speak for those. On the PSP there's a CFW plugin, npdrm_free, while on the Vita there's another, NoNpDrm. These plugins are actually very useful even if you only ever legitimately purchase games, so at this point if you have a PSP/Vita and it's somehow not modded, well, time to it them and install these. For the PSP, the npdrm_free plugin basically completely bypasses the DRM on download titles. This means if you have legitimate purchases on a PSP memory stick, you can swap that stick among other PSPs running the plugin and the titles just work. In fact, all you really need for an effective backup of your download titles is a copy of your memory stick. It's also possible to manually download titles as .pkg files from Sony's CDN and you can use PC tools to extract their contents to a memory stick. Pirates here, share the list of CDN URLs. For the Vita, the NoNpDrm plugin can't completely bypass the DRM, but it works alongside it. Once you have the plugin enabled, the first time you launch a legitimately purchased title on your Vita, the plugin writes out a license file to your memory stick. With the contents of your memory stick and those license files, you can then launch the same titles on a different Vita also running the plugin. So, for an effective backup of Vita titles you need a copy of your memory stick and have to launch each downloaded title with the plugin enabled to write out the license files. As a bonus, the NoNpDrm plugin will write out a license file for cartridge titles, and using VitaShell you can actually make a backup of your cartridges and then run them off a memory stick as if they were download titles. This is great because, these days, the "memory stick" is often a SD2Vita which takes up the cartridge slot. Again, for the Vita its possible to manually download titles as .pkg files from Sony's CDN, and pirates here share a list of CDN URLs along with dumped license keys. In both cases though, if nobody knows the CDN URLs/keys for things that we otherwise do know are sold on the PlayStation Store, those might be lost forever.
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well i got as far as removing the 3g modem from my vita and the first screw came out without a hitch but the second was immediately stripped so rip my vita i guess. turns out it and its lovely overpriced and unreliable memory sucked all along!!!
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Super No Vacancy posted:well i got as far as removing the 3g modem from my vita and the first screw came out without a hitch but the second was immediately stripped so rip my vita i guess. turns out it and its lovely overpriced and unreliable memory sucked all along!!! Scrape a little notch in either side and use a flat head screwdriver to do it instead. Or hold the bottom end of a ballpoint pen over a flame for a little bit and push it into the hole then wait for it to go hard again and use that to unscrew it.
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