I think that Katsu's HDMI MOD is fake

[DS_Marine]

Maybe you are confusing it with the firmware files being the same?

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[Acid_Snake]

I've done custom builds of GCC, libz/mpc/mpfr/gmp/newlib/png/jpeg/ogg/vorbis/gif/ungif/, firefox/chrome/, and many many other things. All of these are poorly structured, poory written, poorly configured, full of bugs and unsafe techniques (the list goes on). I tip my hat for the fact that open source projects can sometimes be decent references for learning, but they are generally inferior to commercial products in every way. This coming from a person who uses only freeware products.

I've done many works for commercial closed source apps for some companies and I can tell you they also do this a lot. Take a look at the DOS source code (it was leaked and it's illegal so I'm not gonna link to it), it has some badass stuff but it also contains many dumb pieces of code. Believing that open source is worst written than closed source is in itself a fallacy. You can read and compare many sources for every open source programs out there, as you have the code available, but you can't say the same for all closed source apps. I also know from experience that programs that aren't written using OOP or namespaces tend to be badly structured, and being that most programs you pointed out are written in C, where we barely have those two things, it's only common sense that there will be some garbage in it.

I know how to use Linux, that was never the issue. The problems I had were drivers failing (eg. applications would flicker, flash objects would crash, 3D applications could barely pull 10fps, audio pops, etc.). System updates caused 3 out of 8 of those to crash (no fault of my own there), many of the programs I tried to install depended on packages that could not be found with the Software Center or Yast, so I had to manually hunt them down only to find that there was often no support for that library on the operating system at all. Which would be one thing if it was something like an obscure file format handler, but no, it was for common things like MPEG audio, Flash, and Java.

all the things you point out to me sounds like a linux distro from 10 years ago, where open source drivers were not half done and companies gave two sh*ts about linux, thus making inferior products. With the rise of Android, companies like nvidia, AMD and such have been forced to make better drivers and more optimized codecs. I've been using ubuntu 12.04 on this computer for two years now and have had no crash at all, audio quality is far beyond what I get with windows, the OS loads faster, graphics is just as good, the OS seems like something fitted specially for me as I've been able to fully customize it, and so and so on. Also, don't expect to get into linux and have everything given to you automatically, expect messing with system files, software packages, recompiling code, to overall customize the installation. But like I said, you are just lazy cause that's what windows creates, lazy programmers and people who fear messing with the system.

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[codestation]

I've done custom builds of GCC, libz/mpc/mpfr/gmp/newlib/png/jpeg/ogg/vorbis/gif/ungif/, firefox/chrome/, and many many other things. All of these are poorly structured, poory written, poorly configured, full of bugs and unsafe techniques (the list goes on). I tip my hat for the fact that open source projects can sometimes be decent references for learning, but they are generally inferior to commercial products in every way. This coming from a person who uses only freeware products.

So magically closed source commercial products are better than free software? I hope that one of your reasons isn't that paid developers always produce better code since you mentioned firefox and chrome, both financed by Mozilla/Google respectively. BTW, most freeware is closed source, i hope you meant free software else i can assume that the rest of your comment is unfounded since you can't differenciate the terms.

[Infinite Chalupas]

I've done custom builds of GCC, libz/mpc/mpfr/gmp/newlib/png/jpeg/ogg/vorbis/gif/ungif/, firefox/chrome/, and many many other things. All of these are poorly structured, poory written, poorly configured, full of bugs and unsafe techniques (the list goes on). I tip my hat for the fact that open source projects can sometimes be decent references for learning, but they are generally inferior to commercial products in every way. This coming from a person who uses only freeware products.

So magically closed source commercial products are better than free software? I hope that one of your reasons isn't that paid developers always produce better code since you mentioned firefox and chrome, both financed by Mozilla/Google respectively. BTW, most freeware is closed source, i hope you meant free software else i can assume that the rest of your comment is unfounded since you can't differenciate the terms.

No, I definitely meant open source, I know the difference. and yes, Firefox and Chrome are among the evils I speak. Firefox always has enormous memory leaks so I've never been able to keep it open more than a few hours. It's also slow to navigate at times. And Chrome (while fast) is especially erroneous for the project structure. I dare you to try building the Chrome source code. Have fun.

Also, fyi, for anyone reading, neither is the best browser, they're both just the most common ones used. The best browser I've ever used (and am still currently using) is called Maxthon. It's a commercial cloud based browser that syncs between devices. I start browsing on my laptop, close the lid, walk away, and continue what I was doing on my phone.

Performance-wise, it's faster than Chrome. The rendering is better because it uses 2 different rendering engines to ensure pages are always displayed the way they were meant to be, and according to information I've gathered from various sites, it has the best HTML5 support of any browser on the market. Includes gestured navigation, a built in note-taking application and rss client, the ability to download videos from website (except Youtube because of *** google does, but there is an addon that still allows you to do it), a force-fast forward button for videos (useful for skipping ads), and the ability to pop videos out of webpages so you can watch videos side by side.

The only thing Maxthon lacks is a good library of plugins, but it's really easy to develop for. Only took me about a half an hour to make a simple test plugin.

[Acid_Snake]

Firefox always has enormous memory leaks so I've never been able to keep it open more than a few hours. It's also slow to navigate at times.

I will not deny that, but firefox is not meant to be lightweight, it's meant to have tons of features, and that takes up memory. Chrome, although lighter, is imo much more unstable (I've had all chrome tabs crash on me simply because some independent java program crashed).

The best browser I've ever used (and am still currently using) is called Maxthon.

never tried or even heard of it so I can't make a proper opinion of it.

Firefox and Chrome are among the evils I speak

talking about a product in a pure subjective manner doesn't make it evil, but it does make your opinion less important.

[The Z]

Maybe you are confusing it with the firmware files being the same?

They are using the same firmware update packages. The PSP 1000, 2000, 3000 and E1000 all used the same firmware update file, so it is no surprise that all PS Vitas are using the same update file aswell.


Edit: Chrome runs every individual tab in a different process, thats why it is faster than firefox (which runs in 1 process). Would still not recommend chrome.

[jd20dog]

some people say that psvita-tv has the same motherboard as the classic psvita, maybe we could see where the hdmi pins are connected?

Who said that? Because it's false. The motherboards are very different.

Can't remember who, but it was said some time ago...

it has the same chip-set not the same motherboard.
several of the onboard chips are the same

it was on what his names diss-assimilably research notes



@ Infinite Chalupas:: sounds more like hardware issues with Linux then software
in the great words of a song"every computer os sucks"



as for marketing katsu's work, if someone would rather pay me to mod theyre vita, instead of fragging it, ild take $20 as a service fee
same as with the good old days with Pandora batteries , ild charge $20 and people would line up to have me flash theyre psps....used to sit at the door of radio shack and have people buy the old gow psp 2000's just so i could mod it for them when they walked back out

service fee is just a service fee after all, the sofware was free but people still preferred to pay me to mod the psps...


now what was the topic again?

[dmaskell92]

Just because the software is free, doesn't mean you shouldn't get paid for installing it for non tech-savy people. I charge for the installation fee only, never for freeware.

[codestation]

Locking this because it doesn't matter if is fake or not. Katsu has decided to not make this public and that should be respected. We don't need polls or blog posts putting pressure on him.