Left 4 Dead on the Vita is cool, but not what you think
Many people have contacted me over the weekend to blog about a recent Buzz in the Vita hacking scene, regarding the following video
In this video, we can see a developer playing the famous game Left 4 Dead on the vita, controlling the player’s movements with the console. The buzz started when famous website kotaku played on words by explicitly saying the game is running on the vita.
This is not true.
Or at least, not really. The game is not running on the vita, it is running on the dev’s PC, and the result is streamed to the console, while the console’s buttons are mapped to some specific keys on the PC. If you’ve ever used VNC, that’s basically the idea.
Some people are amazed at how good it looks, and at how there is no ping, but that would be expected on a local network. Now don’t get me wrong, this *is* an impressive technical achievement, but the author of these videos never claimed he was running the game on the vita. He actually explains in other videos on his youtube profile that he is running this on his PC, with comments such as this one:
yes, all you have to do is set up port forwarding on a router.
As a matter of fact, such a thing already exists on the 7-years-old PSP, and you can basically achieve similar results using Portable VNC or PSPDisp, as shown in the video below:
Actually, if you dig on youtube, you’ll also find the PSP running Left 4 dead through PSP Disp. Does this make this video of Left 4 Dead streamed to the Vita any less interesting? No, it’s still very cool, in particular the motion sensor integration (although probably not really playable “for real”). But is it a breakthrough? Nope. I don’t remember Kotaku having a “breaking news” type of article when PSPDisp was first released 🙂 Then again, the interesting point here is that to get PSP Disp to run on your PSP, you need a CFW. That is not the case here, as everything is coded using the official playstation suite.
As far as this remote desktop application ever making it to the official playstation store… only time will tell. In the meantime, the author said he would be releasing it “soon”, which probably implies he will be releasing the source code for those of you who have the pss sdk and want to compile it. But will it ever make it to the official PSN, what do you guys think? Will Sony accept that kind of entry?
Note: I contacted the author of this app for comments but didn’t get a reply.
i think sony will announce, it becomes public in psn for $
but release it 2050 😀
Still cool, I would love seeing SkyRim running on the vita like L4D.
I would love to be able to stream games to my Vita 😀
I’ve seen similar before. Some guy on YT streamed the Wii (emulated on pc) to a psp go while also mapping the buttons. There was about a half second lag on the streaming though. It was pretty neat nonetheless.
guys, download link??
Read the damn article.
The guy has not posted the pss thing yet. He might not even ever distribute it to the web.
hi can you teach me how to install a iso recovery or other pro recovery??please
Vita? Or PSP?
PSP Disp works on 6.60ofw now
remoteplay ueses the same driver apparently as most new instal tutorials use it for this to instal psp type B driver
melfice002 said he will release this at a later date
i hope he dose
Actually Kotaku did an article when PSPdisp was first released: http://kotaku.com/5060336/mod-lets-you-use-your-psp-as-a-second-computer-monitor
But at that time it could only be used over USB and had no provision for remote-controlling the PC. It was strictly an additional small display.
Doh, my bad. Apologies to kotaku.
This guy has had no Internet activity in over 3weeks. I doubt this will be released, as I have heard his vita broke also. He seems to made a breakthrough in rdp as theres no lag.I’m working on my own version of the app and it’s incredibly difficult to code :/ but ill be sure to release it Asap
Also rules are being written right now on what can be made, pssuite forums mods say only Emulators are banned.
I knew this was only a remote type thing, but I still think that it’s incredibly cool.
Ah, why buy a 300$ console to play pc games on a pc. I never got it, what would be nice, is wat sony promised us ages ago, to use it as a secondary screen, like a rearmirror in a cargame.
But still this is a nice thing for the guy who made it, show potential.
Its the ability to play PC games with graphics not capable to run or available on said device. As well as to be able to play pc games anywhere. Vita has great controls and a screen to do that.
And Sony isn’t in charge of that, its up to developers to Incorporate that into their games. Some have it now and there’s some games coming that can do that.
Hmmmm Diablo 3 on the Vita while the GF is buying stuff over the Internet :’D
That would be nice ^^
$ony excepting it? Yeah right, at least not this early in the game but seeing how history has gone down with $ony…I’d say “heck NO!!!”.
Wololo can u explain tome how to improve compabilitie on super collapse 3 cause idk and i would like to please explain it to a noob like me here or in an email
well first you would need to know C++
(I think HBL is in C++ but I cant remember)
then just fix bugs and add learn new tricks to make HBL all around more stable
Chocogow: First of all, get the sources ( http://code.google.com/p/valentine-hbl/source/checkout ), compile them, and get the result to run on your vita. When you’re at that step, post again and I’ll help you.
is on thes website u can make urs 2 if u know how
http://www.playstation.com/psm/developer/openbeta/index_e.html
it would be really cool to get the real minecraft on the vita running on pss sdk but hopefully Notch will just realease a port for the ps vita
Notch wont relase anything. He is working on new game. And _jeb is working on pc minecraft and android port was made by Aron. And mojang did say that they probably wont make ps vita version.
()))Writen on PS Vita )
I know but i’m still hoping for that strand of a maybe which would be a amazing release this year heck i would dump $40 into it. I would be willing to wait for another year or 2 i still have minecraft on the PC.
I am considering a petition xD! maybe just maybe that would convince the port to vita I don’t even care if its not with touch capabilities haha.
Dude im srry but i dont know anycoding over C++ plz explain to me step by step or at least the basics
This is why I told you to get the sources and compile. If you can’t get that step to work by yourself, it’s not worth trying to explain the debugging process to you. So, as I said, get the sources, compile them, get the result to run on your console, and once you’re done with that, post again.
None of these step require any knowledge, just motivation. This is why it is a good first step, to see if you’re worth me spending time trying to explain to you 🙂
Ok il se what i can do
Last question in any way could this damage my psvita i know its user exploit but what i fear is that i might do something wrong and my damage or brake my sistem
You will prefer a hacked psp in order to work efficiently on VHBL. It won’t damage your ps vita but it will be painful to work without psplink.
yeah i get i know how it works and how u find ghe exploits as well im gonna have to get my old 3000 ok thx wololo il do what i can
my psp 6.35 had already iso recovery,but i accidentally reformat the memory stick,and i dont know how to install a recovery,can you teach me or help me to to this on my psp 6.35,please here is my email ardybongv@yahoo.com..thanks
Guys Check this out they are funding a game system on kickstarter and it’s a hackers playground of freedom it’s still the first day and it’s almost funded already:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console
wololo can u make remote desktop ?
I think if this makes through as an available .pss file, then everyone will be jumping out for it. its still really cool though how you can play pc games through the vita perfectly with most of the controls and have great performance without hacking it, only needing that damn playstation suite debug program. Id like to see the .pss uploaded to the web for public use, it would be AWSOME!
Hey wololo, The guy who made this said hes releasing it today.