i came to the scene from owning a cheap android gaming device (the yinlips if anyone is interested). after a year of use it failed; not bad over all for something i used daily, but i wanted a quality machine, and i knew the yinlips was kinda based on the vita/psp; and knowing nothing of the vita scene i found a good deal on kijiji and jumped in, thinking "i know the psp has a solid homebrew scene, the vita can only be better!"
after i had it i found this place, and started working on getting homebrew....i was surprised at how unhacked the vita was, but i figured it was just a matter of time; and besides my vita had come with 3 games, and i just loved the quality of the system, the buttons, the oled screen, it was love at first sight.
wasn't too long before vhbl came along and opened up my vita to homebrew (i'm old school, so a c64 emulator with analog sticks and a snes emulator was all i really needed). not long after that tn-v came along and I thought 'hear we go; a full vita hack is just around the corner'.
it wasn't meant to be however, i got my vita set up on 3.18 with talkman and moto (ps1 loader) and I thought i had everything! then the rumours of a native hack started, and the big decision: do i update the firmware and hope the native hack is the be-all and end-all vita hack? or stay on 3.18 and see what happens? i was back and forth for a while but in the end I didn't update (and boy was i happy that i didn't). Rejuvenate came and went with more of a whisper than a bang, imo a big reason for this was the scene not knowing that the unity app would work as well (i always felt we should have been informed of what was coming, not just that 'something big' was coming; i also felt that the unity app should have been investigated earlier so people wouldn't have had to give up all their awesome exploits for an unknown one) -- that being said, to date rejuvenate is the only public vita hack, and Yifanlu is amazing for having made that happen, i just wish the scene would have picked up that ball and ran harder with it.
i still love my vita, but after losing the 64 gb card, i had to think do i want to drop another $80-$100 on a new card and start from scratch; is there any hope on the horizon for newer or better vita hacks? doesn't look like much is happening here, so I think it's time to move on, with a heavy heart for sure.
i don't know if anyone else out there is still actively trying to hack the vita, or what the status is of any private work, but i think it would be interesting to know if there's anything in the works. as for myself, i've decided to move on to android (with a galaxy phone) and a bluetooth gamepad and see where that leads.
so what to you guys think? are there still vita champions out there, or have you mostly moved on to greener pastures? also, do you guys think there's value in trying to sell a vita on 3.18 with tn-v and tn-x working? or would anyone recommend just updating vita to the latest firmware and having access to the full library of vita games (are there any after 3.18 worth updating for?)
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