PS Vita: Adrenaline goes open source, TheFlow takes a break
Hacker TheFlow released Adrenaline v3 for PS vita a couple days ago. The popular ePSP CFW brought the long awaited full support of PS1 games with sound, which bridged the gap with ePSP features on older firmwares such as 3.18.
A few hours after the release, TheFlow has fixed a few annoying bugs (doubletap bug + Adrenaline menu after enabling/disabling wifi), but, more importantly, he made Adrenaline open source. He also released version 3.1 today, while announcing he was taking a break from the scene.
Adrenaline is probably the most complete ePSP CFW to be open sourced. PSP Custom Firmwares do not emerge out of thin air nowadays, and parts of them are the result of reverse engineering of past CFW code: people familiar with past PSP Custom Firwmares such as M33 or Pro CFW will recognize familiar folder names and structures in the cef folder. But it would be interesting to see how much could be added to Adrenaline from projects such as ARK, or the recently open sourced M33, the grandfather of all ePSP Custom Firmware.
Download Adrenaline source (developers)
You can get the Adrenaline v3 source code from the developer’s github here. Please check the readme for details and a link to donate to TheFlow for his continuous work for the Vita scene.
Download Adrenaline 3.1 (end users)
You can download Adrenaline from the developer’s github here. Please note that you will need a PS Vita running firmware 3.60 in order to run HENKaku and Adrenaline.
Source: TheFlow
Please don’t refer to this project as open-source, as it has been released under the GPL v3 license, making it free software. The difference between free software and open source software is that open source software only gives the reader the permission to read it, not to modify and redistribute it.
https://twitter.com/theflow0/status/853338818451255296
Tell that to TheFl0W too I guess.
Interesting, just reading into the terminology now.
Technically Adrenaline is both open source, and free software. If I’m understanding it correctly the correct term would be FOSS – Free (and) open Source Software
but hey, this is a hobbyist blog, I wouldn’t be too hard on their use of these terms – I wouldn’t have known the difference if I hadn’t googled this just now.
o·pen-source
adjectiveCOMPUTING
denoting software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified.
got this from *GOOGLE*
sooooo yeah……… if im wrong then please tell google to change it LOL
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You’re not wrong, you just don’t understand what Richard or Alex are saying
https://askubuntu.com/questions/78958/is-there-a-difference-between-free-software-and-open-source-software
well deserved vacation for u TheFlow 😀
~Who says he could take a break! Get him back here! There’s still plenty more he could do 😛
Only joking … Remarkable work as always TheFlow
Love ya, bro! Thanks for this!
I wouldn’t call it full support for psx, because there are a handful of psx titles that are not compatible with 6.61, and popsloader will not work
Experiencing problems when playing Valkyrie Profile. When entering Arkdain Ruins starting Chapter 5, Adrenaline stops and has an error. I thought V3 would fix it but still hasnt.
anyone here experiencing joystick issues.. sensitive touch screen.. saving and loading state took long..
nope nope nope sorry but my issue was only with res on pstv and someone helped me find solution must set pstv to 720p….
Good. Great software was presented… And maybe first?