Moonlight Vita updated to Alpha 3 – Now with Mouse/L2R2 support!
You know, I have to give massive props to xyz, credited by YifanLu himself for making Henkaku possible, the man could have gone silent and enjoy watching his creation grow, but he keeps developing Henkaku apps and even though he said he wasn’t going to develop Moonlight much (which even in Alpha 2, is pretty much my go to when I play on the Vita nowadays) but he keeps coming back and updating it and now, we have Moonlight Alpha 3.
What is Moonlight?
Moonlight (formerly known as Limelight) is an open source implementation of NVIDIA’s GameStream protocol. it implements the protocol used by the NVIDIA Shield and allows developers to write 3rd party clients. Moonlight Vita is one of these clients for the PS Vita.
Moonlight requires a PC with a compatible NVidia graphics card in order to stream from your PC to your PS Vita.
Moonlight for PS Vita Alpha 3
It’s a pretty big update too, giving the app much needed support for the triggers and more! Here is what xyz has to say about the new version:
Thanks to @d3m3vilurr there’s now support for mouse and L2/R2/L3/R3.
Use front touchscreen for mouse movements and actions:
- left click – one finger tap
- right click – two finger tap
- pointer move – one finger swipe
- scroll – two finger swipe
Use back touchscreen for L2/R2/L3/R3. The zone mappings are:
- L2(LT): left-top
- R2(RT): right-top
- L3(LS CLK): left-botton
- R3(RS CLK): right-bottom
So now, not only do you get support for the trigger and stick trigger buttons, you also get mouse support so you can be a badass and play actual Civilization or something like it on your Vita. At this point all we need is for xyz to go all Sony on us and give some stability to Moonlight to eliminate the occasional crashes… and maybe give the application a proper name and icon.
Download Moonlight Vita
Do I even need to recap this at this point? But as usual, just go to xyz’s github to get the latest installable vpk for your Henkaku enabled Vita, drop it on whatever folder you prefer and transfer it over FTP so you can install it using VitaShell/MolecularShell.
And why not give a thanks to xyz and d3m3vilurr over at the reddit release thread?
To install & run, please note that you will need to have a PS Vita running firmware 3.60 with the HENkaku hack. To install HENkaku, please check our PS Vita CFW page.
Looking for more? We have a full list of Emulators for the PS Vita, an up to date list of Homebrews for the PS Vita, and an All in one guide for Vita 3.60 describing everything you can do with your hacked PS Vita.
Good to see progress in this one, waiting that KODI gets to the vita too.
moonlight to vita, just add as steam short cut
I want to donate that project, how to do it?
First to write first.
Great you guys will never lose ><
second to write first
First to write first after the second first.
Zeroth! and bang! cancels them all.
hey you, yeah you, zero position means soooo last that not even got a position! so get the heck out of that chair! 🙂
I was going to say first, but since someone already said it, I’m just gonna say that im a ***.
which is the same thing..
Can I do this with a MacBoook pro I don’t understand the chip thing too stream idk if my Mac comes with one or what someone pls help
Mac sux at gaming son…deal with it
You won’t be able to do it on a MacBook Pro, GameStream requires an Nvidia GPU, the MacBook Pro has an Intel GPU, which isn’t compatible with GameStream.
wonderful. i’m 90% complete. when i see the option to remap left and right triggers to physical bumpers, i’ll be 100% complete.
you can in some games where you can select different controller layouts. Like in Borderlands 2 you can select between layouts and even swap buttons i believe, Ofcourse it would be great to do it in moonlight itself but you can also buy a triggergrip from ebay or something. that should do the trick as well
Decreasing the lag should be the most important task now, keep up the good work!
nice release sux that i am on the amd side of things. Though anyone know how to repackage the remote vita desktop client as a vpk. ITs has .sln files not velf so dont know any easy way to convert it and im not the best when it comes to coding
sln is the extension of MS visual studio ‘s project file. IF you have visual studio U can compile it to vpk
i get errors when trying to open in visual express 2013/ 2015/
The application which this project type is based on was not found
Not sure which version of vs i need and mitigation not helping
Is it possible to stream using Gnu/Linux
Unfortunately no, Moonlight/Limelight needs the ‘Nvidia GeForce Experience’ application to act as a server, which doesn’t exist on Linux yet, and considering how different the drivers are I don’t think they are going to release it any time soon, although I hope I’ll stand corrected.
took 3 versions but I finally got it working on my vita! and in Australia too where the internet is as slow as grandma in the morning! with 800kbps I am managing some pretty playable speeds, aside from a small amount of video lag, all is working great at 60fps, games like alice madness returns and cod blackops 2 are entirely playable, however skyforce anniversary weirdly wont detect the vita as a controller, still an amazing effort, thanks XYZ and d3m3vilurr !! and thanks wololo for keeping us up to date!
Ill give this release a whirl. I couldnt get the last two to work
Useless work
look I want piracy as much as the next geek, but homebrew is also quite entertaining and can do a lot of awesome stuff, piracy is inevitable, just enjoy it as it comes
already paired the device and pc and the last entry is
“stream 960 x 544, 60 fps, 4000 kbps”
but why steam is not launching ?
had the same problem, restarted my laptop a few times, set my resolution to the same screen configuration as the vita and it worked.
For me it crashes after some seconds of connection. C2-12828-1 Save Core File Succeeded.
Even tried to build moonlight myself, same error :/
Very interesting app! For the time being I’m going to stick on 3.52 to keep using TN-V for my PSP backups, but it’s cool to see all these neat little things being developed. Hopefully a rapidly growing scene can sort PSP CSOs on 3.60 Henkaku and I’d definitely upgrade – unless I re-bought that section of my library digitally first.
if it crashes is because the vita wifi sucks, try to change the channel of your router to one that is clear, this might help. i’m using it with vita tv conected via ethernet and it doesnt crash at all and im using 1280 720 60. the problem is they still need to fix the controller binding so when you use a ds3 or ds4 it actually recognize the r2/l2 and r3/l3
At the end of the day I rest assured that there are people out there much smarter than I am working on projects that will make me happy!
“At this point all we need is for xyz to go all Sony on us and give some stability to Moonlight to eliminate the occasional crashes… and maybe give the application a proper name and icon.”
Or give AMD users and way to stream their PC on it…
Stupid off-topic question. Can I manually update to 3.60? I was late to update it normal way so I guess my console knows there is 3.61 available. Can I do something?
you sure can. I just did a playstation tv via usb stick. So I know the update file is available
What could be awesome is to make dualshock compatible with vita, but no idea if its possible with henkaku):
Unfortunately no way to use Linux as a server yet…
Nice work! It works nearly flawless.
But one question i have is. It is possbile to customize the buttons? Would like to remap the l2/r2 from back touchscreen to the L/R Button.
Hope it will be possible. Cause Aim and shoot in CoD for example is really difficult via backscreen.
Best
Moshtaba