"Why don't you just hack a Vita?" 

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Agreed, hacking the Vita is very easy and simple until it isn't. I've probably done it 10 times and every time some new hurdle will present itself. But that's the fun, right? RIGHT?

As someone who's been into console modding off and on for about a decade, the reason people are such strong advocates for using text guides rather than video guides isn't out of elitism, but because text guides are *significantly* easier to keep up to date. If something in the process changes due to a system update or just the homebrew itself changing in a way that will cause the old process to either not work or damage your system, I guarantee you will continue to find the outdated video guides for the old method around for years since there's no way of updating them on RU-vid. Old text guides will stick around, too, of course, but the likelihood of the primary text guide having updated links, descriptions, or even screenshots will always be higher than a video guide which requires recording, editing, voice over, and then getting stomped by the RU-vid algorithm prioritizing the old, now outdated guides because they have more views.

I actually just modded my Vita about 4 days ago (that's how I found your video). I didn't have any of these issues at all. To anyone wanting to do this, *definitely* use the written guide. Stuff is changing and improving practically every week, so it's much better to use an up to date written guide than a video a few months old. It is good to have a video in addition to the written guide to actually see how to do some things, but don't use it as the primary. A lot of the issues he had is very likely that the micro SD wasn't set up right or something along those lines. With that being said, it is *not* the greatest retro emulation device. Like he said, for SNES or other older consoles, this isn't it. What this is *amazing* for is PSP and PS1 emulation. In my experience, both have been flawless. It is also worth noting that there is an entire generation of Vita games, many of which will probably be new to you. So for those 3 consoles, this is a no brainer. It's unfortunate he had so many issues, because now people will automatically assume it will be a miserable experience. It wasn't any more difficult than any other console for me, but just like other consoles, you have to take some time to understand everything. I'm glad I modded mine. I also agree that the community can be very annoying about pretending it's the best emulator in the world. And yes, the homebrew browser that comes with it by default doesn't work anymore. There are new ones that actually work though. Wishing you all the best!

As an avid console modder, (modded Wii, Wii U, Vita, 3DS, and a Switch.) I can say easily that the worst thing you did was relying on the video guides, almost universally the written guides, and sub reddits for these communities will have the most up to date info on these things, also don't forget that most of these communities really do just have many people who could easily help you if you just reach out to them.

Say what you want about the Vita, but that soft theme playing in the background while you navigate through your games and apps is a banger

"I don't want to read a wall of text, I'll just watch this video tutorial instead" Yeah that was your first mistake. Video tutorials are only worth following if they were brought out in the last few weeks at most. The hacking process changes constantly, so that's why everyone points towards the 'wall of text' to do it properly.

It's interesting that you had so many issues with it. I have had a flawless experience with Vita hacking personally. The biggest issue used to be reliance on the PSP N64 emulation where only SM64 ran at full speed, but since the Vita version of Daedalus released it sorted out those issues and increased performance for a lot of games

Guess I was one of the lucky ones. Found a few videos from the creator Robles Junior. Walked me through the initial mods, the PS2vita setup, then the downgrade process (needed to be on 3.60 Henkaku enzo to use Adrenaline Psp emulator which was main reason I wanted to mod mine), even the sharkfood setup to run games that need higher firmware and I don't run into any issues and still run and try new things.

Another tip: the emulation blurriness isn’t a Vita thing, it’s a Retroarch thing. The fidelity is why Retroarch has its “Filters” and “Overlay” features, to help out fidelity.

The PSN password thing I'm pretty sure is Sony making your life difficult, not the hack. I ran into the same thing trying to buy a game for my vita a few weeks ago. The resolution was to go into my PSN account on a web browser and generate a single use password for my vita and then put that in on the Vita instead of my regular password.

its always great to see someone making a video of the actual problems that happen during the hacking process. Most of this I encountered myself when I hacked mine

I had my bubbles disappear twice too, in the same exact way. I also had issues connecting it to my computer, makes me feel better seeing a video showing these same problems when i had to search for so long to fix them myself about a year ago.

I hacked my latest Vita sometime last year and followed the Vita hacks guide. I feel like a lot of what you went through could've been avoided had you read the guide. I understand that you need the video guide but it was worth reading the hacks guide because it covers everything and is up to date. The homebrew shop IS broken though. At least for me it is but luckily you don't need it to install homebrew. Yeah, whoever said it was easy was definitely lying but i guess if you do stuff like that often, it won't seem very difficult.

Gotta say: The Vita had the best Dpad and buttons I've had the pleasure to play with to date. I super wish someone would come out with a Controller in this style.

ok... bro you honestly made this so much more complicated then it actually is. i dont understand how you had so many issues with such a straight forward procedure. not all games work seamlessly but for the majority work great. im happy i hacked mine.

I'll bet 99% of this would have been avoided if this guy would just read the text guide instead of following a video that's like three firmware versions outdated

I can always count on wulf to literally never turn off bilinear filtering for gba games. Its not scalin foo, its default on half of all emulators ever

This was painful to watch. When I hacked mine I just had to go on a website on the vita browser and it would automatically install vitashell.

I modded my Vita & installed the SD card adapter 3 years ago. I don’t remember the steps of the process but I recall it was pretty straightforward. Since then I’ve only used it occasionally to play PS1, PSP, & Vita games with resolution & overclock mods. I’ve never had an issue with it since, however I’ve also never fiddled with new mods and features since the initial setup.

I love my vita now that it's set up, but I completely agree with you. The two hardest parts were getting my psn account set up on the vita, and getting vita deploy to work. I love playing sonic mania and retro arch on the thing, but it is not a seemless process

The reason why gba looked so bad on the vita is probably because you probably had bilinear filter turned on + non-integer scaling. The best thing to do with retroarch on handhelds if you don't want the letterboxing that comes with integer scaling is to use a shader preset called sharp-bilinear-simple found inside the interpolation folder in the slang shaders. It will first do a integer scaling to the closest multiple and then use bilinear scaling from there to fit the screen resolution. It will be just a little bit blurry while retaining pixel perfect ratio instead of the warped pixels. Also, did you tried the snes9x 2005 core for the snes or the regular snes9x (or bsnes) core? because the 2005 is the one with the best performance so is what people use for handhelds

Dude I don't I don't know what you were doing wrong, but a simple RU-vid video and a follow-up written guide had me running nicely 😂

I think a lot of people have covered this already, but the way you went about hacking your vita was all wrong. Like you I enjoy watching video tutorials because I like to visually see what to do, and that’s what I did for my first go of Vita hacking. I too had many problems with getting it to work right and eventually months later, I just flashed the system and restarted again. This time around I used the vita hack guide and it worked flawlessly, I had no hiccups in getting it to run because everything has been made fairly easy to setup. I don’t think it’s fair to call it a bad hack and say that you are disappointed in the people who recommended this hack to you because you’re the one who didn’t set it up properly. The vita is an amazing portable hack that allows you to play a wide variety of games with little problem.

I will fight back a little bit I always like the video mod guides because it shows you on screen what is happening and what things are supposed to look like generally. I recommend Mr Mario 2011 and mvg for the most part if the text guides aren't doing it or you are getting confused 👍

I had literally none of these issues doing this on my Vita.. sorry it didn't work out for you Bahb, but I hope this doesn't discourage people from trying this. It's super rewarding when you get it set up properly, even though the use cases for it are outdated with all these super easy aio emulators coming out ✌️

Honestly the issues faced in hacking the Vita in this video seems like user error. The Vita was the first device I ever hacked and what got me fully into homebrew and emulation scene. Following the Vita Hacks guide site holds you hand to the point that its nearly impossible to find oneself in a position where they have no idea what went wrong. I get that watching a video guide can be more comfortable and helpful, but a lot of them work under the assumption that viewer have some knowledge going in which can lead them to leaving out information that may seem obvious to some but essential info for others to know.

i modded my vita in 2019 (first console mod i ever did) and i remember it going pretty smoothly. i used it mainly to play psone, psvita and psp games, plus a few game boy games and that worked perfectly. the only issues for me were the limited memory (though i still had an sd card from when they were still affordable) and that you had to reinstall the hack through a menu each time you powered on the console. i like my vita a whole lot and i still play it every once in a while

I wish this video saved me from hacking my vita, I went through most of the issues you’re going through, i’m sorry you lost most of your vita apps, and thank you for your video on this

"no I'm not gonna shave my head, I got a Vita right here" The betrayal

I literally followed the vita guide like everybody should do and it worked fine no issues. Was downloading backups within 20 minutes of turning my vita on

Sounds like a skill issue tbh

Interesting. I couldn't imagine my vita not being hacked at this point its been hacked so long. 1000 model plus being hacked with literally any game I want on it and more, and that beautiful OLED screen? Chef's kiss.

Basically either 3DS or Vita, depending on whether you want NDS/3DS games or PSP/PSV, apart from that they both basically play anything "under" that, I kind of consider them Like A Pokémon Gold/Silver. I love both of them and modded my "Forever 3DS" and "Forever Vita". Currently waiting for my odin lite so I have GC on the go and then I'm basically settled

I recently dug out my 1st gen Vita after it sitting in a drawer for a few years, and found out the OLED screen died. Bought the replacement parts to fix it, and considered getting a 2nd gen to travel with when I don't have my Switch. The memories came flooding back when I witnessed your frustration. It took me a solid 3 weeks back in 2017 to get mine working properly, and it wasn't long after that (a year or less) that I had to re-do basically everything and start from scratch. I LOVE my Vita, but I think that's just nostalgia speaking. I had 2 PSPs throughout the course of my childhood, and got the Vita some time later ~2013...That being said, I hope and PRAY that when I get the screen fixed within the next few weeks that it's still set up and working, because if not it may go right back in the drawer. lol.

The really big issue I had was simply getting my vita to connect via the native connection app. It kept disconnecting after I put in my PS network credentials. Someone suggested simply re-formatting the device and singing into my PS account upon initial setup. After that, everything was smooth sailing for me. Great device for emulation.

I'm surprised you had so many issues modding your Vita. I did mine over a weekend watching tutorial videos and I'm an idiot. I overclocked it, enhanced the resolution, changed the boot screen, menu backgrounds and music, added an app that let's me download any Vita, PSP or PS1 game for free as well as adding a 512gb micro sd card unf the game slot to store them all while using the Vita 32gb memory card to store all my retro games. Easy peasy.

Wulff, I have to keep it real with you. I love your videos, but you really did bad on hacking your Vita and made crucial mistakes right from the get go. You should only ever refer to written text guides if you want to hack anything, since they are always most up to date, easy to maintain and will mention edge cases and possible problems. I should know; I installed CFW on two separate Vita 1000 Models with no issues, and got an SD to Vita for both as well and they work flawlessly. And whenever something did not work, it was due to me making an error. So in the End, everything works. Vita Games, PSP Games, Adrenaline, PS1. Emulators (even N64) and Homebrew Apps. And even Plug-ins, Tweaks and Game Loaders. And I believe this is the experience that most people had when installing Homebrew on their Vita. So, without pointing my finger at anything or anyone, your experience looks to be the unfortunate exception.

Every sound in this video sends me directly back to 2013. I miss my Vita...

1:1 experience I had doing this project. It is the perfect psp emulator or psvita game player. I did not bother expanding the memory, just deleted games as I installed new ones.

I'm surprised wulf had this much trouble the modding scene has streamlined the process a lot to where you barely have to do any work now and somehow wulf managed to avoid all of that lol... while videos are good, the text guides are easiest and always up to date

Yeah, the big mistake here was setting up hacks before setting up the SD2Vita. If you install all the homebrew etc. on the card, then you can seamlessly switch between carts and hacks.

Jus modded an old vita i picked up i have 1/100 the experience of this guy yet i had 0 issues following the text guide

I had one issue were my vita crashed and when it reset all my apps were gone. So I took the SD card out and put it back in to "reset the database" . It worked and I got all my apps back and no other issues. It has happened a few other times but I think it's due to the cheap sd2vita cart I purchased. Otherwise hacking it was simple for me and I had no other issues. I don't use it for anything other than psp, vita, and ps1 games. Which is what it's great for. Good video tho, subbed and liked

You have a very well explained guide, up to date with everything you have to know. You deliberately ignore it because you didn't want to read it, they even tell you how to properly use SD2vita, so hacking it is not hard at all, you just made it hard for yourself. With that said, yeah, trying to play anything that isn't a vita, psp or ps1 game, is not gonna give good results ;-;

I modded my Vita back in like 2018 I wanna say, and it was definitely easier to do considering I just wanted to use it to play PSP and Vita games, but it was still a bit of a hassle to fumble back and forth between my Vita and laptop. Still was worth it in the long run tho, especially considering how the PS Store is handled now.

best youtube intro, the only one i don’t skip. it’s not in my face and screaming like most youtubers trying to grab 10yos attention. it’s calming

Never seen your content before. Loved the video. Definitely going to check out more. I will say that whenever you are modding or homebrewing a device, you should check the text doc. Videos are not updated. Text docs are. Thanks for the video!

After watching I can only say this was embarrassing…

As a Vita owner for 9 years now, I can say it definitely has its flaws. However, I found myself modding it relatively recently and I could do almost anything I tried on it, including playing N64 (DS unfortunately ran really, really bad though). But I say that the hype about jailbroken PS Vitas is totally justifiable. The amount of games you can play on it, and the amount of unique features it has... All of that and the fact that it's relatively small makes it my favorite handheld of all time.

I found the hacking process complicated as well, but after that, I found using a hacked Vita even more complicated. The old PSP homebrews just don't work the same like it does on a native PSP, and Vita homebrew isn't as developed as it is on PSP. I don't regret hacking my Vita, but the benefits are pretty limited outside of playing Vita, PSP and PS1, aka what you could already do with a stock Vita (though the hacked version gives you more options like overclock)

To fix the log in issue you have to turn of 2-step verification on your psn account then log in, you also need a plugin. As for peacewalker idk what happened there I've had perfect emulation with adrenaline. Be sure to raise the clock speed for the vita to help emulators work better in general. I also use the mGBA emulator for gba instead of retroarch, it gives you those crisp pixels and better emulation.

I had the complete opposite experience, modding my vita was 100% smooth, absolutely no hiccups, and I have 100+ GB worth of games on the system and I love it so much. However, I haven’t really touched emulation, only playing PSP and Vita games. If you are considering getting a Vita, my advice is 1) don’t even consider it if you don’t want to hack it, buying the memory cards and physical games is super expensive, and 2) only do it if you see a bunch of Vita exclusives that you are dying to play (especially since Vita games are still nearly impossible to emulate, you kinda need a Vita/PSTV to play them).

Wow. I don’t know how you managed to mess that up so bad. I haven’t had half these problems with my 2 vita’s. I was looking forward to seeing this video. And seeing you find how good the vita is for this stuff. But yeah, I suppose if you don’t follow a proper guide, you can have these problems.

I think the vita and 3ds are both somewhat complicated, but if you have moderate experience with file explorer you should do just fine. the icons disappearing could have been resolved by refreshing the livearea. Also, auto plugin 2 works well to manage everything and pkgj works for games.

I jailbroke my Vita on 3.60 the day that Team Molecule initially released the means to do so and I still use my Vita regularly. I have never experienced any of the issues demonstrated here. The biggest difficulty I had was down to the fact that my Vita's memory card died (a common occurrence) and I needed to transition to an SD2Vita, but my Vita is also an OLED model and doesn't have internal storage. I hacked together a custom build of Henkaku that included the kernel plugin for SD2Vita and wrote code that would automatically mount the SD2Vita at an early stage of the bootstrapping process. It worked out perfectly well in the end and since Enso was available at this point, I haven't had to go through the jailbreaking process again since then. I don't like to use Retroarch, but there are multiple cores available for various systems and some are known to have more issues than others. Other issues with emulation stem from the Vita's GPU, which is notoriously difficult to utilize. There was no standard graphics library such as OpenGL or Vulkan for the GPU (the official SDK includes the means to facilitate this, but legally, no homebrew developer is allowed to use it), for example, and so achieving proper graphics acceleration has been a challenge for a long time. It has improved with the work of some developers that have become familiar enough with the GPU to be able to create an OpenGL wrapper library, but it isn't perfect and some homebrew projects haven't been updated to take advantage of the wrapper library. PSP and PS1 on the Vita are great, so I'm not sure why you faced issues with Peacewalker, but I didn't hVe any of those issues. The Nintendo 64 emulator is not perfect by any means, but it works wonderfully for most of the games I play and I've never had it crash on startup. Homebrew on the Vita isn't without its issues, but this really seems to be a classic case of PEBKAC. I would suggest reading the more up to date guides as opposed to following a RU-vid video. Might be a good idea to try to drop all the negativity as well; you clearly went into this whole process with a negative mindset because of the comments you received, but that's just petty. Yes, there are cheaper and easier to use alternatives out there for retro emulation, but the Vita is a unique and fairly high quality device. It's the only device that can play the extensive library of games available to it, both natively and via homebrew, on a single device.

I have fully never had any of these issues with my hacked vita. It's been a beautiful smooth process for me the whole way, and the easiest and best way to emulate PSP and especially PS1 games. Truly sucks that things didn't work well for you

The problems with Adrenaline surprise me. I've never had a single problem with any PSP or PS1 games played through Adrenaline and I've played a LOT of PSP games on my Vita. One of the things about hacking a Vita is that there are some really great Japan-only games that you can patch with fan patches and play in English. Of course the same is true for playing PC versions of, say, Trails in the Sky FC, but there's something nice about having it wherever I am. I would never suggest this for anyone who isn't going to get some enjoyment out of lots of dicking around and figuring out the ways things fuck up. Which, lemme say, I do NOT. I struggled with it. Thank god for the Vita piracy Discord.

You made this hard for yourself. When I modded mine it took about 10 minutes. After that I got the stuff I wanted and no issue.

I honestly love Game Boy Advance emulation on my vita and I think with the proper filters and bios files in Retroarch, the games look even better than on the original GBA (which I do own). I thoroughly enjoyed playing several games like metroid fusion and mother 3 to completion, with no hang-ups in gameplay whatsoever. So for my personal experience emulating games on the Vita, I am totally in love with it and still use it to this day. My condolences though to anyone who has not had the same experience.

The password thing is specific to the latest firmware and not a hack related issue. You have to get Sony to generate a new passcode via the QR code specifically for the Vita and enter that into the Vita rather than your standard password. This is an issue on stock firmware too based on new measures by Sony.

I think you couldn't login to PSN due to user error. Recently Soyn introduced new login hurdles on old devices due to security concerns (better than killing them admittedly). The "Device Setup" password is something different than the regular 2FA password you might be used to. This is now confusing even without any mods. You can obtain it on the PSN website.

Modding your vita is definitely worth a shot especially all the porting thats happening right now. Just CAREFULLY follow the intructions and your good to go.

I didn’t have half as many issues as what you did. I followed Blaine’s tutorial and installed pkgj and adrenaline and retroarch and everything plays pretty decent and pkgj is so good being able to download pretty much whatever vita game that u want directly onto the system using that app

Never had any of these issues with my Vita. I followed a few video guides and got it up and running with everything I wanted in about a day. That being said I only ever recommend this for people who already own a Vita, I wouldn’t go out and buy one to do this, theres plenty of options that will do what it does for cheaper and a whole lot easier.

Did this two months ago, first hack I ever attempted. Was on the newer model Vita and the process took no more than 30 minutes. Sucks you had such issues but I had the opposite experience - it could not be more simple to do. And I’m a tech n00b, legitimately only started in IT about 2 years ago. Did this following a friend’s advice. It was my go-to emulator until the Steam Deck arrived recently.

I’ve done it before and it did it very nicely. I didn’t have any of the issues you did, however I used a PCH-1001 with the OLED model.

The error with the sd2vita could easily be fixed by copying over all of the files from the internal drive/mem card and then swap the ux0 and uma0. But sometimes you may just have to redownload.

As someone who's been using a modded vita for years, I think the hype was much more warranted back when most of your emulation handhelds were largely incapable of running anything more complicated than PSOne. At that point, having a handheld that ALSO played vita and psp games was incredible. Now, the vita and psp catalog is still awesome but you can have stronger dedicated emulation handhelds. It also takes forever to download games from PKGj, though it's still pretty sweet

i hope bob is ready to fight an entire awkward community of ps vita modders

I’m among the lucky ones to follow the instructions for jailbreaking the Vita, without headaches. Now it’s a very versatile system!

I did this too, just had the driver issue, but now it is working just fine 🙂

I only did mine so I could actually fit all of my digital Vita games on a micro SD card because of Sony's awful memory card situation with the system. That alone hurt the Vita so bad.

They're typically two people that I trust when it comes to modifications of any of my consoles or future hardware and that's Mr Mario and modded warfare they have really great tutorials and when I followed their tutorials I really never ran into any hiccups My adrenaline app runs my PSP backups of my personal collection perfectly My N64 ports do run kind of crappy but not not bad The Mario 64 port that I compiled was great it ran great and all the emulators I mean I don't really necessarily pay attention to picture quality but they ran perfect for me and I personally in my personal experience have not ran into any issues with games being too laggy regardless to the N64 emulator because that's kind of a given that you have to have high end hardware to successfully run every single N64 ROM so I'm not sure if yours is just a different experience than everybody else's but I've had a very positive experience with hacking my Vita

I’m so glad you made a video on this lol. It took me over six hours to hack my Vita (it was my first hack ever tbh) and I was forever making adjustments to it.

The channel Retro Game Corps recently put out an updated video guide which is pretty simple to follow. My friend used it and I'll be using it once my Vita arrives. :)

It's a shame Sony gave up and killed the Vita😔 their greed is what cause all of this due to their proprietary memory cards BS

I get that he is more of a visual learner but someone like myself, who had never messed with modding consoles (or anything for that matter) did this as my first mod and had no problems whatsoever by watching a few videos of the process beforehand to understand what I was getting myself into and what all was needed before even starting the mod. I got all of my materials and followed the vita hacks guide while a video played picture-in-picture as a visual example for each section. Not a single problem or experience, though I use mine less as a retro emulator other than for PS1 and PSP games along side Vita games.

I did some of these mods to my PSTV earlier this year, and I had the same issue as you trying to setup the SD2VITA for more storage. I have a 32gb Vita memory card installed, but was hoping to use a 256gb SD card with the SD2VITA, but it didn’t work out. The PS1 emulation is fantastic through Adrenaline, but that’s about the best part.

I just hacked my PS Vita and had everything set up the way I wanted and it's my favorite emulator device. For the most part, I didn't have any trouble hacking by watching YT guides. I mainly play Vita, PSP, PS1, and GBA games. I also have Half-Life, GTA 3, & Vita Fighter. The device is beautiful and has really good-quality software and hardware.

I've been modding systems for years, and I am SIGNIFICANTLY more intimated by 3DS modding than Vita modding. With the Vita it really wasn't difficult to understand; with the 3DS it was all I could do to follow it step by step, and I still don't feel like I know what I'm doing there outside of installing CIA files.

Very glad I got my vita before this video! Wulff Den tends to spike prices when he talks about something. Also I agree completely with all of what you said about modding it!

Funny, I can relate to every issue you ran into. The easiest to fix is the login one, recently you can't login on ps3 or vita with your password, you have to generate a new password for your vita through your pc or phone and use that instead of your regular password.

I've never had any of these problems. Except when jailbreaking the Vita, there was some problem with mine and I had to do the hack manually. Everything that program does in a few minutes took me more than half an hour.

How did he mess this up so bad? Hacked mine like 4 years ago and the only issue I had was getting the backend psn store thingy to download games. Probably the prettiest way to play GBA games though.

The vita was a masterpiece still holds up today as one the best handhelds only beat by steam deck

i can relate. I modded my PSTV with no issues and a friends vita with little issues but nothing major. when I modded mine I had issues a lot. took me a while to get it done tho.

Hey - The Homebrew store still works, you just have to wait about 1-2 minutes for it to load everything sometimes! Especially on the first boot.

Maybe I lucked out, cuz I didn't really run into big issues when I did mine lol Did you try using different cores on retroarch? Sometimes they can make a noticeable difference, though yoshi's island has always been a mess in emulation. And I think part of the reason why people like the hacked vita so much is because it can play retro games, along with psp/vita games, while on a solid handheld with great buttons and controls.

there is the "vita deploy" method that i used and was pretty simple. I learned about this method on Retro Game Corps youtube channel

I don't have a vita, but the psp was such a easy console to mod. And I absolutely love it, still using it rn. Trying to complete silent hill origins

Bro.. you just save my day, i just bought Vita couples month ago

I followed the video guides of Tech James multiple times. They always seemed to be up to date. I never ran into any issues or experienced the issues you had. But I a 100% agree to never get a Vita to play retro games and better get one of the awesome retro handhelds!

I modify and repair PSPs and PS Vita's for a living and can tell you the PS Vita's are amazing devices, 1000 or 2000 models. The N64 emulation is great with all popular titles and can even run lesser known titles with a little tweaking. Retro emulation through Retroarch is amazing you just need to use the right cores for best emulation quality, with the cores a use everything is perfect. PSP and PS1 emulation is flawless. PS Vitas have built in emulation for the platforms due to the Sony Shop, where they sell the actual ports of the games, making the quality of emulation amazing. These devices are tricky to get set up sometimes, that is where I come in, though once set up these devices cannot be beat. Playing music, watching movies, and games can all be done with them. I use my Vita for watching movies mainly, because I have the OLED model the screen quality is the best that I own. Plus Vita emulation is not all too well on other devices, and the Vita has a fairly strong library of exclusives. Just sharing my two cent, however I am a little disappointed with this video due to my love with these devices.

After unhacking the old hack from my V1, I used _Retro Game Corps_ text and video guides to do it the newest way. Everything took ~1 hour and it's perfect. Used PKgJ to DL and install back-ups of my library overnight onto my SD2VITA card.

From my experience, you did EVERYTHING the really hard way. You don't need to disable the SD adapter to play game catridges, YAMT doesn't work that well unless you know what youre doing. The best option is the app that changes what SD card it will read (memory card or SD adapter) so you can change the current storage and play the catridge. You probably didn't downgrade the firmware and used the non permanent hack. 3.70+ are firmwares known for having issues with Adrenaline and can cause many glitches, errors and freezing the console. 3.60 and 3.65 are two firmwares that have almost no compatibility problems and is better to downgrade to them. With Peace Walker, you just had very bad luck or the eboot/bin was corrupted or even the saevfile was corrupted OR it was caused by the problem mention above The 2SA is Sony's fault and not the Vita's, it is very buggy and works half the time Retroarch isn't the best emulator for the Vita. There are better options for emulation on the Vita You didn't mention any of the games that are being ported to the Vita like Fallout 2, Sonic Mania or old games like Caesar III In short, you did everything wrong and just blamed the Vita. It isn't as easy as the 3DS sure, but you gave it little to no brain nor time.

Hearing you had a lot of problems really shocked me because I only had maybe 3 issues, and all of them were because I didn't toggle an option of some sort. I did only use the Vita website to do the hack, so maybe that had something to do with it?

I truly cannot even explain to you how much I love this video. I hacked my vita a couple years ago expecting greatness that everyone talks about. And as you said it was h*** it truly was not fun to do and after it was done it'd never worked great at all. Wasn't my 1st time with emulation wasn't my 1st time hacking anything and it just doesn't work right. I have seen a few emulation videos for these retro retro consoles and I always think the same thing as your video well why not just use a vita. Well it's good to know that the other consoles work much better than what I thought was the best which absolutely sucks. I appreciate your blatant honesty your bluntness and keep doing what you're doing.

It's been 10 years, and I still love my Vita. Play on it every day. Sure, they're mostly Vita, PSP and PS1 games, but i've beaten a couple of Pokemon titles there as well without any problems.

I've tried "hacking" basically all of the consoles that could be somehow hacked and I still stand by the fact, that Vita is the easiest one to run homebrew/retro games on. There is nothing else on the market with the same specs, excelent screen (1000 series) and support from the fans. Just don't be lazy and read a few articles and follow the guides. It takes an hour or two at the most and it's ten times easier to manage after hacking it than Switch or 3DS. Unfortunatelly the first video of yours that I've downvoted as half of the things you mention are half-truths. Especially when you metion that you need a computer to hack the Vita, so you could just go on and emulate the games on the PC itself? Sorry, but that's just stupid. You buy Vita for portability and superb battery life.