There are still remaining issues with the VHBL port of Super Collapse 3 that I couldn’t solve yet, I am still investigating: the Duke3d engine is crashing (Duke3d, zombie crisis), Daedalus seems to be crashing when loading roms (I probably won’t investigate this, as Daedalus is slow on VHBL no matter what), Geometry War Portable crashes at startup, Picodrive will crash if you press the “select” button, etc…

So, still lots of incompatibilities of course, but this is getting better, and I sure hope you guys will enjoy snes9xTyl. Interestingly, I had to hook sceAudioOutput with sceAudioOutputblocking, which led to a terrible performance result on the PSP, but is not that visible on the vita. Once again, the superior hardware of the Vita is helping us out.

While I’m at it, here’s a tip for those who didn’t know: if you press start and select simultaneously while in a homebrew, you will be taken back to the VHBL menu. This is useful for games that don’t have an exit button. you can also change this key combination in the VHBL hbl_config.txt file.

Oh, and stay tuned, as in the days to come I plan to announce a fun VHBL contest with money prizes. Nothing’s final yet, but people who are not programmers will be able to participate as well

Download

Download this new release of VHBL on the vhbl page, as usual

Ok, so, first of all, many thanks go to Zethfox and Mike, who have driven 95% of the improvements to Wagic since the last release. Many thanks also go to the other devs of the Wagic team who contributed to this release. As usual, we bring an insane amount of changes in this version, but let me introduce Wagic to those who don’t know about it yet:

What is Wagic?

Often compared to commercial games for its replay value and quality, Wagic is a heroic fantasy card game, in which you fight as a wizard against the computer. As you win battles, you unlock new game modes and earn credits that allow you to improve your army. Wagic is community driven and entirely customizable: you can create themes, mods, new rules, or even new games (check for example Knights VS Dagons on our forums, a game strongly inspired by strategy games such as warcraft). Wagic is available in several languages (English, French, German, spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Serbian), and open source. It currently runs on the Sony PSP (as well as on the PS Vita if you have VHBL), Windows, Linux, maemo, meego, Android (phones and tablets), and iOS (iPhone, iPad).

Changelog

Almost 1000 new cards were added to this release thanks to the work of Zethfox and Dr Solomat. This means we now have more than 9400 unique cards in the game. Among these cards are the long awaited Planeswalkers, as well as a few new sets. We also dramatically improved the Android and iOS ports, especially the deck editor. Check the changelog below for more details

• Close to 1000 new cards, Wagic now supports more than 9400 unique cards, including (finally!) Planeswalkers support, and Dark Ascension
• (iOS/Android) replaced some psp specific shortcuts with buttons for the touch screen. This makes the deck editor, in particular, much more usable
• (iOS/Android) more intuitive way to scroll cards left and right in the deck editor, which should make it easier to build a deck
• On Android, it is now possible to choose if you will download the game files on the internal memory or your SD card (experimental)
• Many bug fixes, and minor gameplay improvements on all platforms (too many to describe them all)

More Info

Remember that in addition to the news in this blog, you can find more Wagic news on twitter and facebook thanks to Leungclj

Download

If you enjoy Wagic, please consider a donation. Thanks in advance!

Alternatively, if you like Wagic, please spread the word! An article in your blog, a post about this release in your favorite gaming forum, a video on youtube… everything helps!

download here

The link above takes you to the download page where you can choose the correct archive depending on your platform
As usual, enjoy this new release of Wagic!

Now comes the stressful moment for me: releasing the VHBL files publicly, and cross fingers that it works correctly on everybody’s Vita.

It is worth mentioning that, as for our previous releases, members of the /talk forums knew about the game’s name up to one week in advance, which gave most of them enough time to get the game without any issue. I want once again to thank the community for being able to keep the secret, although it didn’t go without issues. Way too many people talked about the release publicly on our forums, despite the message on the forum clearly stating not to. We appreciate the support, but next time, if you want to say “thanks”, say it with a PM . There were also a few leaks on a few websites, we are in the process of tracking down the sources of the leaks, and making sure these people will not get access to future Ninja releases.

Many thanks go to thecobra for this release, he found the exploit and did the VHBL port, I just tweaked it for the EU version of the game. I’d also like to mention that this game exploit had been sent to me years ago by WosRet on the lan.st forums, so thanks go to WosRet as well.

Download

If you want to thank thecobra for his work, please use the paypal button below.

If you want to thank me for the release process, please donate to the Red Cross, depending on your country they accept paypal.

Download on the VHBL page, as usual, and please report success or failure!

Note: Sources for the exploit and additional code for the vhbl port will follow shortly in our svn

Wagic is an Heroic Fantasy card game with a mix of luck and strategy. You can find details here.

If you don’t want to help finding the bugs and/or prefer to wait, the public release should happen soon enough.

Without going too much into details (which I will do for the official release), this version finally adds official support for Planeswalkers, and many improvements in the interface for touch devices (Android/iOS)

I’ll also do proper thanks for the official release, but want to already thank Mike for organizing the beta, and Zethfox who did a huge part of the changes in this new version of Wagic.

Check it out here

If you have ideas of apps or games you would like to see on the vita and/or Android, think you have the skills to do it, and, who knows, hope you might get rich by selling it on the psn store, check their official page here:

http://www.playstation.com/pss/

(wow, I’m blogging two days in a row about cool stuff that Sony is doing, what’s wrong with me lately?)

Even though there is no new homebrew compatibility, I’m sure this will be a welcome update for those of you who are using this exploit.

Downloads

download on the VHBL page, as usual

Source: wth on /talk

• A “Notification Alert” option will be added to Settings, so you can toggle alerts on or off
• “After 10 minutes” will be added to the time options under Power Save Settings
• An Arrow icon will now appear when PS Vita finds new activities in the LiveArea
• Caps Lock will be supported in the On Screen Keyboard

Needless to say, if you are using VHBL for either Motorstorm or Everybody’s tennis, until we know more about this update, I recommend that you do not update, and that you use open CMA. That is, if you don’t have a critical need to use PSN services, of course.

Source: playstation blog

Thanks to Kade and thebudds for the tip!

Fear not, as developer SILENTGame comes to rescue you, with PS Vita Homebrew preparer, an app that does most of the work for you. Note: version 0.2 released recently fixes a critical bug that prevented the zips from actually working.

How to use

1. Download PS Vita homebrew Preparer here
2. unzip and run from your windows machine
3. Select a zipped homebrew
4. click on the big “Prepare PSP homebrew game” button
5. Done, now you can copy the game to your CMA Data folder (remember, it is actually recommended to use Open CMA), and from there copy it to your vita, and install it from VHBL

A Nice tool indeed, and I sure hope that some updates will make it even more convenient to use (possibility to choose an unzipped folder containing one or several homebrews could be nice).

don’t hesitate to say thanks to SILENTGame on his release thread here!

The new version will work either if your console language is set to French or Spanish (worked for French only), which is a bit better than what we had until now, and the stability of loading the exploit and VHBL has been improved a bit with this version.

No new homebrews compatibility though, only the exploit has been updated.

Downloads

download on the VHBL page, as usual

Source: wth on /talk

Geometry Wars Portable, which was also not working for some reason, is now working fine.

I’m sure other games are now compatible, but I didn’t test everything of course. Sadly, I still couldn’t get gpsp to work, but I heard some people are getting it to work fine through the Motorstorm exploit, if you do, please feel free to share links!

VHBL is a homebrew loader for the Playstation Vita. It allows you to run fanmade games as well as emulators on the PS Vita.

Download

download on the VHBL page, as usual.

Please note that I have only tested the JP version, and not the other ones, please report success/failure, thanks!

PS: thanks to pyong who gave me the motivation to update the svn!

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