Hardware Mod a PSVita Nyko Dock.

Raibakuoh

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Hi everyone, I hope you can help me to decide and choose what to do here.

Found a PS Vita Nyko speaker charge-base for $20 bucks, so I assume it could be used as a dock for stream the PSVita screen to the PC.

The thing is, it acts just like a charger, you put the console and it just charges, can't access PSVita on file explorer or make UDCD-Usb work, the dock uses the same port as Fat PSVita to charge the console and power it's own led and speakers. (On a side note don't know if mine it's faulty or I don't know how to use it, but I can't hear anything using just the Vita connector, it has a 3.5mm jack port, using it the Speakers works with the vita or my cellphone, but you can't dock the vita with the 3.5 jack on it...).
So, I opened it and and remember I don't know that much about electronics, sure learned how to sold in mid school and stuff but here im lost.

So I have those options:

1.-Use it just as a charger stand and continue with my life.
2.-Rip its guts, drill a hole on it and paste the male 3.5 jack and a PSVita charger and use it like that with a PC but bye bye to the speakers.
3.-Rip it apart, bought a Raspberry 3A+ (Or maybe Zero doesn't seems that I could alocate a normal 3B/4B in there) then use it as a nice VitaDock, losing the speaker too.
4.Repeat part 3, but somehow use the speakers, don't know what add-on bought to use speakers on a Raspberry, that also could be put there, or tell me if there's other set of speakers I could use being that the space and form is already there.

Sorry for my english.
 

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If you're looking for playing your vita on the tv, your best bet would probably be a PSTV tbh.
There's mods out there that let you seamlessly transfer your memory card with your saves and games back and forth between the vita and the PSTV, effectively letting you use your vita like a nintendo switch.

As for the dock, the only cool mod I could think to do with that would be to upgrade the internal speakers. Modding it for a raspberry pi vitadock isn't worth it imo. I've tried the vitadock setup a few times with a pi 3b+ and it felt like there was a hardware bottleneck or something on the videout due to the constant stuttering
 

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