VitaOrganizer 0.4 out, fixes a lot of stuff
It feels both rewarding and ungrateful to have to write an article about an update to a very useful application, for a couple of reasons: it is a sign that developers are very active and actively keep updating their work in accordance to bug reports and user feedback. The other reason being that it feels completely pointless to have written about its release just 48ish hours ago when a new version gets released so soon after. All-in-all however, it’s a win-win situation for everyone so I’m just going to keep hoping this happens more often.
So developer soywiz has updated his VitaOrganizer application to 0.4 and the changelog actually mentions a ton of important stuff that got fixed:
- Improved row selection
- Supported translations (please, go to github if you want to translate to your own language)
- Show file in explorer/finder
- Show PSF dialog
- Version column useful for homebrew
- Repack : Compression 9 + Remove duplicates + Make it safe (for backups done with older versions of vitamin, or homebrew done with older versions of vitasdk or without -s but that do not require special permissions)
- Queue tasks (not displaying yet, but already allows to queue)
- Added menus that will provide more features in future versions
- Lots of internal improvements
For those of you that missed it last time, VitaOrganizer is a fully-featured cross-platform (it’s coded in java and deployed as a .jar file, so it should work on Linux/Mac/Windows as long as you have Java installed) application that allows you to manage, catalog and transfer .VPK files over FTP. Among some of its feature are the ability to remotely check which VPKs are installed on your Vita and check information like their version just so you know if the version of your homebrew is up-to-date to the ones you download. It is also extremely useful if you happen to have a smaller card and want to install VPK files directly without having to spend double the space on your card. It’s a must-have application for anyone serious into homebrew at this point, if you ask me.
If you want to help with VitaOrganizer, developer Soywiz has also has this up on his GitHub for those interested:
VitaOrganizer supports localization. It uses the default ResourceBundle java system. It includes intelliJ support. You can edit/create:
resources/com/soywiz/vitaorganizer/Texts_*.propertiesfiles in order to translate the application. You can edit those files easily using intelliJ. More information: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/2016.2/editing-resource-bundle.html Texts are referenced into intelliJ easily and allows to find back references.In order to test several languages, you can launch the JVM with the following arguments:
-Duser.country=ES -Duser.language=es
Download VitaOrganizer
To get your hands on the newest version of this application, all you need to do is go to the soywiz’s GitHub or grab it directly from this link that he has kindly supplied for everyone. If you do happen to encounter any bugs or issues you feel might need to be reported, remember to do so in the issues section of his GitHub.
I want to thank Twitter user and Wololo reader PSICOGAMER for tipping me off on this, since I was out all day and couldn’t check anything during that time.
Enjoy the release and happy homebrewing!
r-ra eu sou primeiro agora ha-ha
First woohoo!
Nope! missed it by a hair
First and we need psp loader not organizer 🙂
This app is amazing thanks, any thought in adding support for backing up and transferring vita game saves?
This I like.. backup Psvita games is not neccessary tool because CMA is there. But save data for Psvita game is likely better.
how to fix java heap size error?
Buy more RAM?
this app is incredible, I’ve run into a couple issues in version 0.3 but overall its been great! thanks for the good work
It’s a pretty sweet application. I would love to see if they could port it over to Android in the future, once it’s running pretty well on PC that is. A portable file manager/install system would be ideal for the VITA.
does the send in 1 step function use compression 9 + remove duplicates + make it safe?
This app is amazing! Great work!
I’d like to give two suggestions:
1 – Scan subfolders looking for .vpk. I like to separate the vpk in categories, like “Homebrews”, “Apps”, etc. And this will lead to my second suggestion;
2 – Get the folder name where the .vpk’s are to create categories, thus making it easier to organize.
But once again, this app is great!
Tips:
Write a blogg post (or a “page”) about Vita Organizer (and other awesome Vita tools) that you can link to every time a new release is made, and then just write about the new features. 🙂
Then you can also, from the Vita Organizer page, link to all releases of the tool, if someone wants to follow the development 🙂
Is there a guide to how install VPK using Vitaorganizer ? Can’t seem to recognize the VPK on my PC.
hint:
you have to create direcotry called organizer in ux0: to make it work
ux0:/organizer/
how to:
1) on PC: run vitaorganizer-0.4jar
2) on Vita: run molecular shell (VitaShell needs to be in version .95)
3) on Vita: create directory organizer in ux0 ( ux0:/organizer/ )
4) on Vita: start ftp by pushing “select”
5) on PC: put ip address in field, and press connect (my vita was showing 192.168.0.237:1337, but I’ve used only ip without port so 192.168.0.237 )
6) on PC: click “connect” button
7) on PC: select folder with VPK files
8) on PC: click refresh
9) on PC: select game you want to install, right-click and select “Send data to Vita”
10) wait till it finishes
11) on PC: select “send promoting VPK to Vita”
12) on Vita: in shell go to ux0:/organizer/ and select directory of your game, start installation
done!
I will try this one
this worked brilliantly over ftp but out of curiosity can this work over usb potentially?