My Odd PSVita wishlist – From Emulators to Plugins
The PSVita has received quite a lot of homebrew and plugins over the last few months but I simply feel that the system could do with some more interesting homebrew. The Vita is a pretty capable system BUT there’s no hardware acceleration for homebrew yet so my wishlist will reflect this limitation.
1. Basilisk II
For those unfamiliar with it, Basilisk II is an open-source 68k Macintosh emulator. There’s a port for the PSP but the Vita would probably handle it much better due to a larger screen, more processing power and more RAM. On the PSP, you can run System 7.5.5 decently so the Vita shouldn’t find it too difficult to handle a Mac OS 8.1 installation. This homebrew is even easier to port because the PSP (and PC) versions are based on the core of UAE, which the PSVita has a port of.
2. A Solitaire port
Yes, you read it correctly. A port of one of my favourite time wasting games, Solitaire in all its glory! Not talking about an HTML5 version of solitaire you can find online but a proper homebrew that can be launched directly off LiveArena. A full fledged port with various versions of Solitaire like Spider Solitaire and Klonkide would be very nice in my opinion. Various open source ports could be found so one can easily pick it up if they have adequate SDL knowledge.
3. A plugin to use the browser in portrait mode
Call me weird, wanting to use a Vita in portrait mode but I would like to do it more often. I personally do most of my web browsing in portrait mode so being able to hold my PSVita as I would a regular smartphone is a nice feature for me. Reading news pages and Wikipedia articles become more pleasant as you won’t have a big chunk of text per line. This would also be a good way to show off taiHEN’s abilities if one of the skilled Vita devs can pull it off! No pic for this one because everyone knows how holding a PSV upright looks like. It would also be an awesome way to read Webtoons/comics on the Vita.
4. A plugin to reduce the minimum brightness level
This is mostly for Vita 1k users. OLED displays can’t be very dim. Yes, I get it BUT I don’t see why the lowest brightness mode can’t be enabled. When you have your Vita on the lowest brightness setting and you leave it there for a few seconds, it dims even further; that’s the mode I wish to unlock. Unlocking the lowest brightness mode would allow PSV 1k users to use it in the dark (i.e in bed) without hurting their eyes or being forced to use the ‘LCD3x’ filter in Adrenaline.
5. LinCity-NG
This game is an opensource game that’s like SimCity. You manage a city and all its issues while trying to make it bigger and sustainable. While city buliding games have decreased in popularity lately, having a native port that you can play on the go with a touchscreen (or even with a cursor via the analogue stick) would be amazing. The Vita could probably pull it off as it’s not a very demanding game. A port of Lincity would also be nice as it’s simpler since it’s a 2D game a la SimCity Classic.
Conclusion
As you can see, my list doesn’t contain the most well known programs but they’re quite interesting nonetheless. The PSVita, in my opinion, has the potential to become an open-source game/app powerhouse like the Pandora. Make sure you tell everybody your thoughts on what should be developed for the Vita (within reason of course) in the Comments section!
Magnifique! The only thing you listed I don’t care for is portrait browsing. Alas, these are our devices and we shall use them as we see fit!
A port of Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe and Frontier Elite would be amazing also.
And we are still waiting for USB support in PSTV…..
I think rather than support of portrait mode we should look for a browser homebrew which supports that mode too and plus other stuff like being able to download everything , java and flash support , even we can use web.telegram from it and use our device on the go
FYI, I don’t know if these are possible or not.
1) A plugin to reduce the minimum brightness level
– Definitely wanted
2) Remove the HDCP on the PSTV?
– I’m sure some people would like to stream/record their gameplay without worrying about a splitter.
3) PSTV’s USB PORT!
– Maybe it can be used as storage? It would be nice for games and other stuff and it’s cheap too! (please)
4) Remote Desktop (Become like the Steam Link)
– like Remote-play, but for PC.
5) Vita capture via USB?
– there is an app for streaming Vita to PC, but it has some delay. Could an usb connection be more stable / better?
6) Stream Vita to PSTV.
– some might say this is a little bit pointless, it would basically become a second controller like the Wii U. The you could still use the touch controls on the big TV. + you don’t have to switch between PSVita & PSTV.
Let’s see..
1) Yep, I want it too and I think it should be possible!
2) Eeeh, I doubt it as it might require a hardware hack but who knows..
3) That would be awesome! TheFlow might get it to work someday as he likes tinkering around with stuff just for fun. Maybe after he allows the Vita to be seen as a normal storage device (like the PSP)
4) Eeh, you wish to use normal Windows apps via Moonlight? I think there may be a way to do it
5) Who knows.. Might happen someday
6) I highly doubt it :/
Pretty sure you can get solitaire on the store….
There might be a version on PSN but there’s no PSN access on 3.60 and well, an open-source homebrew port of a Solitaire game that can easily be installed via a simple VPK would be much more convenient and awesome
Transport Tycoon!
USB support for PSTV will be the paradise
TheFlow confirmed that, release in February
No, luis, i think Kalash is talking about as a storage device.. like using a USB flash drive to hold all of your VPKs and stuff.
Dont you guys work or have anything else to do other than wish list for vita?
You act like the author of this article is doing nothing but writing articles for this site. Does anything that some other person does in their own life not involving you affect you in anyway at all especially negatively?
All I want is quake3 ported. Hot dam that would be nice.
It would be cool if someone could port AM2R to the Vita.
It would be cool to open Jazz Jackrabbit 2 or Heroes Might & Magic III on PS Vita. I hope that is possible.
Cps3 full speed/ emulador DREAMCAST.
My Dream
A remap plugin like macrofire for psp should be great ! I wish to remap the rear touchpad to a phisical button.
I’d like the option to shut off bilinear filtering in PSP games on PSTV.
For whatever reason, Sony removed this option from the PSTV (it’s forced on), despite vanilla Vitas having an option to shut off filtering.
UNDERTALE port. Won’t happen but sounds cool.
EDIT: My god, Toby is making that…
Someone already (very silently) released a Spider Solitaire port over at GBATemp last year:
http://gbatemp.net/threads/henkaku-homebrew-the-listing-of-all-vpks.436535/page-7#post-6620514
I want multiplayer on PS TV for all emulators ! 🙂
how about this….
to be able to stream ps TV to a ps vita.
That way you can have a MODDED and HACKED psTV while still playing on the vita instead.. you can still be connected to the internet and the psn store, you get the best of both worlds. Simple to create.
I would love to see an unofficial ps4 remote play that bypasses the psn check for registering. This could be a port of the android ps4 remote play or just an open source ps4 remote play.
We need a better internet radio streaming service or home brew app ported to PSvita like what is available for Movian on PS3. I love listening to talk radio but I cannot manually select a specific station on shoutcast with adrenaline so the PSP emulator is not helping here either. I really want to stream my favorite crazy people and conspiracy theorists and political leaks like wikileaks, what is secretly happening in Washington to try and create laws designed to harm us under the guise of protection and the coverups of real news under the guise of it being called fake news. Having to use remote play on my PS3 uses a lot more power than is necessary just to achieve this goal. I hope that there is either a internet radio station app like the ones for Movian for the Vita or a media player that does streaming like porting KODI or Movian or a similar one to the PSvita. What I am asking has nothing to do with piracy. I could care less about games. I use my Consoles just for home brew and console exclusives which I paid a small fortune for on vita upon learning it was hacked and on the PS4 upon learning their is a CVE that makes the PS4 Pro hardware useful for homebrew apps. Of course, There is nothing public about the exploit and no one has dumped the keys needed to sign homebrew apps that do not lead to piracy so It probably wont happen for a long time. I just want internet radio with stations of my choosing like in Movian. I know the Vita is not popular and hacking it means little to most devs as they do not even like it all that much for the most part.
If you wanted to get ambitious as a Dev out of curiosity, a plugin for the VSH that allows radio streaming through the internet to the station of your choosing would be even better! Also it would be cool to have a plugin for playing Serious or XM radio if you have an account but that is probably asking too much. Media players and Internet radio streaming are the most important uses of the PS family for me outside of other homebrews.
Other homebrew Requests are an overhaul of the default VSH GUI so we have our beloved XMB back as the default selection system. It would also be wonderful to have a more feature rich media player built into the VSH that is simplified like we have for the PSP. In fact, using a plugin to emulate certain PSP system files like the VSH would probably be possible thanks to TaihenKaku now which may make coding for this easier in the long run as less work would be needed..
I’d very much like a type of vitaOS that has everything on one screen. I don’t enjoy the scrolling, and the bubbles make me feel like a derp. Like having 20 bubbles on one screen, or some sort of start menu. You know what? Just rewrite the entire OS it’s bad, and didn’t get a design award like the previous sony systems.
I agree with DarkWave0. A new GUI for PSvita would be heavenly. Even an app that replaces the GUI that loads on boot from the plugins list that runs an XMB style user interface would be orgasmic. The vita has plenty of potential but very little is going to be realized until the PSVita OS is fully decrypted as some encryption schemes left do hold us back as I understand it. I think there are two kinds left at the time of this post.
I got this dang Vita for Uncharted Golden Abyss and for hacking it because Emulators with 2 analog sticks and or Metal Gear Solid 3 Portable (with additional “third party L2-R2 trigger button touch pad adapter” is nice.) (Too bad the Vita never had “L3 and R3” buttons either. I am told pairing a PS3 or PS4 controller to the Vita makes that possible though.)
NEVER MIND! F00D_ got owned so I think only one encryption scheme is left now. We have access to rewrite the boot loader and maybe the OS at this point. The problem is finding a coder whom actually wants to spend the time fixing the PSVita now.
OMG!!!! Now that XYZ gave us son “F00D_ for thought”, can we please get a dedicated hacker/ talented coder to bring Android OS and the PS3 OS to the PSvita? I would happily alpha or beta test any of those if someone would be so kind as to work on it.. I am really sick so I have nothing but time to tinker and sleep.