VitaCord – PSVita client for Discord released!
The PSVita has quite a decent variety of homebrew but occasionally something we weren’t expecting pops up. This time, it’s VitaCord which is a client for the popular chatting service called ‘Discord’ by /talk user ‘JhonDoeA’.
What’s VitaCord?
This is a Discord client for the Vita that’s not completely finished so not all features are available. Currently, you can do this stuff with the client:
- You may select a server/channel from a list of your channels
- It works with Discord’s 2 Factor Authentication
- You can read the last 50 messages in the channel you’re in
- You can send messages to the channel you’re in
- More in the future!
Current UI while chosing the channel
The GUI is relatively primitive but this may quickly change as developer ‘Arkanite’, who’s developed VitaPad++ amongst some other homebrew, has some cool suggestions with libvita2d for the homebrew. In my opinion, it’s quite awesome to see such a client on the Vita because it could make the Vita a decent platform to send messages to people.
Right now, using the browser to send messages to others is a tad clunky and Skype doesn’t even work on 3.65 and it won’t work with Microsoft accounts. I seriously hope that the UI suggested by ‘Arkanite’ gets implemented because that would make this homebrew a good messenger for the Vita. Maybe we’ll a version for Facebook/Twitter to replace the outdated versions on PSN for who has them.
Arkanite’s suggestions
How do I get it?
It’s pretty simple to get it via VitaDB. The easiest way is to use Vita Homebrew Browser but if you want, you can just download the VPK to a computer and install the VPK by copying it over to your Vita via USB/FTP. Make sure you report any issues to developer ‘JhonDoeA’ and don’t nag him too much to hurry up! The developer ‘JhonDoeA’ also thanks Arkanite, Rinnegatamante, xyz, dave, noname120, T3CHNOLOGIC, XandridFire and SKGleba amongst others for their help.
Download link (GitHub – 1.04 as of this post): https://github.com/devingDev/VitaCord/releases/tag/1.04
/talk post: https://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=116&t=48189
Damn, that’s awesome!. I’ll give it a try when I get the chance.
This is AWESOME ! Great job and a thank you to the devs !
heh, my clan just joined discord…this will be useful
Pretty damn neat. Won’t be able to use it myself since I’m on 3.65 but it’s still really cool to see stuff like this coming out for the vita in terms of homebrew. I dunno if it would be possible but if someone found a way to make a vita friendly web frontend for discord then that would be pretty neat as well since that would just run through the browser so you wouldn’t need to be on 3.60 just to use stuff like this. I mean I dunno if that’s even possible with how discords API works but who knows. Either way neat stuff!
Idk but we could have in a near future an alternative server to play online games like Marvel vs Capcom, Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale and others. I believe that some devs have thought about that and I hope it’s just a matter of time.
Hey that’s cool!, great job!…
Thanks for the article, Aurora. Looking forward to future updates.
@Aurora , Can you change my name in the post? It’s spelled “T3CHNOLOG1C” not T3CHNOLOGIC. It’s spelled properly on the vitacord GitHub as well, just for a bit of proof.
Is riot next?
It still lacks audio and image viewing…… All you can do is text and the in system auto sleep still kicks in…. You have to be logged into the PC to set up everything first. Do not expect too much from this yet. It is going to take a lot of work. It is a nice proof of concept initial public release though. I look forward to more development on this app. Perhaps the vita could be useful to the VOIP gaming community again.
Download link (GitHub) Is broken
https://github.com/devingDev/VitaCord/releases/latest
Here the link always latest I hope