Anyone have a Vita, and like it?

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ViRGE

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I just have a hacked PSP, love it for emulators.
A PSP is arguably better for emulators than a Vita right now. The Vita can run most PSP homebrew, but the Vita doesn't emulate the PSP's second CPU (which was dedicated to the OS), so homebrew that's crafty enough to use that second CPU (such as SNES9x) ends up running slower. Plus being in PSP mode means that applications can't address the higher resolution of the Vita's screen, never mind the real capabilities and performance of the hardware.

The only thing the Vita really has going for it here is the analog stick.
 

gorcorps

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A PSP is arguably better for emulators than a Vita right now. The Vita can run most PSP homebrew, but the Vita doesn't emulate the PSP's second CPU (which was dedicated to the OS), so homebrew that's crafty enough to use that second CPU (such as SNES9x) ends up running slower. Plus being in PSP mode means that applications can't address the higher resolution of the Vita's screen, never mind the real capabilities and performance of the hardware.

The only thing the Vita really has going for it here is the analog stick.

The key phrase hopefully being "right now". I'm hoping that a decent community remains for the Vita and figures out how to get some emulators running natively (NOT through psp mode). Not sure how tough it'll be for them, but where there's a will there's a way.
 

ViRGE

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The key phrase hopefully being "right now". I'm hoping that a decent community remains for the Vita and figures out how to get some emulators running natively (NOT through psp mode). Not sure how tough it'll be for them, but where there's a will there's a way.
That would be UVL, but UVL is a "done when it's done" kind of thing, assuming Sony doesn't patch it out first. The biggest holdup there is that along with trying to figure out the inner-workings of the Vita, you have to contend with the fact that you need to write a software development toolchain practically from scratch.

In any case, Sony's security is good enough these days (now that they know how to implement ECC) that there's a good chance we'll only get one shot at this. After which we'll have to choose between remaining as an "old world" Vita that can run homebrew, and a "new world" Vita that can run new games. Users are already facing this with PSP mode kernel hacks; DoA5+ and newer games cannot run on firmwares that can be kernel hacked.
 

stalin123

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I have ended up using mine just for music since my MP3 player said goodbye to world. But I am pretty sure you won't be disappointed if you would like to play some games.