[Annelies]

A developer by the name of xerpi has recently discovered a user mode exploit in the PlayStati... [Read More]

[dafank]

another spaniard doing good stuff

[Persian McLovin]

Awesome, can't wait to see what comes of the PS Vita hacking scene in it's lifetime!

[malex]

You know I don't think I'd ever buy a Vita and break my boycott against sony, but sometimes I do think of twisting my rules... I mean if I buy a second hand console I'm not really supporting those d*ouches' at sony HQ.

It's a really nice piece of kit, just a shame it's a phony product.

[phantomdibb]

Originally Posted by malex You know I don't think I'd ever buy a Vita and break my boycott against sony, but sometimes I do think of twisting my rules... I mean if I buy a second hand console I'm not really supporting those d*ouches' at sony HQ. It's a really nice piece of kit, just a shame it's a phony product.

As long as sony dont recieve the cash for the console its win win. Just get second hand one, i dont think there are that great tho, needs more games. Also better quality games out of the 10 or so games ive got or played only a few were actually worth playing. (thats including psn downloads)

[v8s10]

Originally Posted by malex You know I don't think I'd ever buy a Vita and break my boycott against sony, but sometimes I do think of twisting my rules... I mean if I buy a second hand console I'm not really supporting those d*ouches' at sony HQ. It's a really nice piece of kit, just a shame it's a phony product.

That's why I bought a broken one on eBay for just over $100. Fixed the USB port, I had to play uncharted, but hated the thought of paying Sony $250 + tax for a new one.

[SuperDre]

it's still the psp-emu part that is hacked, but the ps-vita itself is still unhacked.... but then again, due to the ps-suite sdk, there is no reason to hack it, you can create and run homebrew natively due to it....

[Squarepusher2]

Originally Posted by SuperDre it's still the psp-emu part that is hacked, but the ps-vita itself is still unhacked.... but then again, due to the ps-suite sdk, there is no reason to hack it, you can create and run homebrew natively due to it....

PS Suite SDK is a purposely gimped slow piece of crap - it has been purposely designed so that no emulator of any kind can ever be made playable with it. (unless you like sub-1fps performance)

It's next to useless for any serious homebrew application due to the way it handles video/audio and the fact your code has to be in C# - ie. you're in managed code sandbox land with the wonderful garbage collector and all 'cleaning up after you' because oh jolly - memory management is oh so difficult if left up the coders - we can't have that - instead, we have to train more people how NOT to code. This and the wonderful virtual machine (CLR) will bring your performance down even further. Again, lovely 'homebrew' SDK they dished out for the mases - I can wipe my arse with it - not only is it not even a patch on the real SDK at all, but you can't even write Android/iOS-quality apps with this - at least on Android I can use the NDK to be able to run my C/C++ code from within Java with pretty good performance.

So no, there 'would' be a reason to hack it - but still, wake me up when this goes beyond VHBL - I still have an old PSP so I won't be needing a Vita for old PSP homebrew anytime soon.

[malex]

Originally Posted by phantomdibb As long as sony dont recieve the cash for the console its win win. Just get second hand one, i dont think there are that great tho, needs more games. Also better quality games out of the 10 or so games ive got or played only a few were actually worth playing. (thats including psn downloads)

Originally Posted by v8s10 That's why I bought a broken one on eBay for just over $100. Fixed the USB port, I had to play uncharted, but hated the thought of paying Sony $250 + tax for a new one.

I'm not even looking at the games that are available now, or will be available later... I'm jut thinking of a replacement portable emu powerhouse to replace my aging psp, maybe get some portable N64 gaming :D

But as @Squarepusher2 pointed out, it'll need to be hacked for that to happen. If I do see one at a bargain price I'll jump on it though, I can always just keep it tucked away 'til I find something to do with it.