[POLL] WHICH HOMEBREWS DO YOU WANT TO SEE FIRST

[MysticalLiete]

Lack of convenience is certainly the biggest factor putting off both users and devs. It's really quite non-trivial to get Unity and Rejuvenate running on your older firmware Vita, messing with the keys, having the correct firmware and knowhow to transfer everything across, then having to be teatherted to a PC. We're all eternally grateful to yifan_lu for Rejuvenate of course, but it's probably a simple matter of fact that that the relative inconvenience makes it an unattracttive platform for developers.

By contrast, the 3DS scene is thriving because it's so easy for anybody to get homebrew running on the thing, even the latest firmware is exploitable.

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[zekepliskin]

then having to be teatherted to a PC. .

If you have any kind of Android device you can push ELFs across by WiFi. Works fine on my HTC One M8 running CyanogenMod 13, my Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7 running CyanogenMod 12.1 and presumably my Amazon Fire TV although I haven't tested that yet (job for the weekend). I don't think it needs root access so it should work on anything you can get the AndroidDefiler.apk across to. Most useful on a smartphone due to portability and the ability to easily create a WiFi hotspot.

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