PS Vita Revitalize homebrew competition: pencils down, entries are in
This is it, the deadline to submit your entries for the Revitalize PS Vita homebrew competition is today! As a reminder, there’s $1000 in cash prizes, attributed as follows:
- $400 for the best entry *
- $300 for the second best entry *
- $100 for Wololo’s favorite open source entry (this can be cumulative with one of the 2 prizes above)
- $100 for the best color emulator (think 8 bit or above, no gameboy/gameboy color)
- $100 for the best non emulator homebrew
For all prizes (except my personal open source choice), we will be running a vote on our /talk forums. The entries with the most votes in each category will win the prize*.
Revitalize Competition: the entries
Here are the homebrews that have been submitted for the Revitalize competition:
- Procedural Planets, by Primer0
- VitaShell, by TheFlow
- BreakVeetOut, by dal3boy
- VitaQUAKE, by Rinnegatamante
- ReversMe, by TheFlow
- VitaTester, by SMOKE
- Tactic Miner, by wonre
- Touchbrick, by MisterAlex
- LUA Player Plus Vita, by Rinnegatamante
- Vitalua, by Stary2001
- Snes9xVita, by skogaby
- NeopopVita, by frangarcj
- SMSPlusVita, by frangarcj
(Note: there was another entry, NES4Vita, but Smoke has asked us to remove it from the competition as he is not planning to support it moving forward)
Please give me a few days to set things up for the votes, and stay tuned, I’ll announce when the voting starts, and how long it will last, in the next few days. Thanks for your patience!
* The mods team and myself reserve the right to pick a different winner for whatever reason, included but not limited to suspicions of people cheating in the voting threads.
Well that is a disappointing amount of homebrews considering there is so much money up for grabs…
Vitashell by a mile!
I was intending on submitting a home brew to the competition but unfortunately I did not make enough time for myself to complete it. Hopefully I will still finish it anyway and submit it to the forums for all to enjoy!
I think I deserve the prize more than the people in the competition themselves as i haven’t Mack any non good PS vita homebrews. All this homebrews didn’t rised to the level of the true homebrews (The homebrews we want I mean). It’s the middle East thinking about the competition
if i could code i would do my own things to share it but unfortunatly this sux. such litle ppl for that money..
and the winner is?!?! well, there is no winner XD, with the native rejuvenate app I would love to see some real stuff like nulled ported, or a deadalus 64vita
I hope this isnt the money pot which was meant to go to a native vita hack?
Because you are shooting yourself in the knee if you give out money to these entries.
Enough with the self pity. Only proper homebrews schould be accepted and the trash schould be laughed at
Strongly agreed.
The interest in hacking a device is almost always driven by greed and ambition. All the consoles hacked that I know, were hacked in one of two scenarios, one is that the console doesn’t have much security and can be somewhat easily hacked by enthusiastic people. The other scenario is that the hackers have a huuuuuuge economic interest in breaking its security and they spend all their effort and money into it. Unfortunately for us, Vita isn’t any of those scenarios, is hard to hack and a failure as a product without installed user base. So, if the few people working on jealbreaking the Vita doesn’t come with something soon. Then $1000 on the pot wouldn’t do much for the scene.
Well the only homebrew which deserves to win is either VitaShell or VitaQuake. Everything else is just trash. Lots of ports and hello world apps…like VitaTester, I can’t imagine what the developer of it thought about. Who the heck releases a real simple hello world program in a dev contest??
Is it possible to still run .SLN files that people have made with PSM on rejuvenate
No. I want for another Vita Homebrew competition, this list is just atrocious. Or this competition needs to have a postponed due date.
I think if here were a step to step tutorial on the new vita sdk we’d see REAL results.
Also this isn’t fair for the people who will port N64-Wii emulators to Vita. WHAT BENEFIT WILL THEY GET if there is no competition?
With all respect to the authors (there ARE several good homebrews on the list, after all), this is very disappointing… I think that this just proves that Rejuvenate won’t really take off until it’s TRULY a PORTABLE exploit for a PORTABLE gaming device.