Hacking Super excited about VITA TV- usb support

[Aneesh India]

How many of you are here are excited?

http://wololo.net/2017/02/09/theflow-teases-support-external-usb-drive-pstv-vita-tv/

hopefully it will let me play all backups from a 64gb flash drive.

i just cant wait for it and does anyone knows whats the release date?

 

[Deleted User]

i just cant wait for it and does anyone knows whats the release date?

the developer has not given any release date, and people who have asked for details without thinking twice about their question have been met with funny (if sarcastic) replies.

 

[ma16v3]

Stoked. Any chance we know what the largest supported capacity will be? The largest card you can get right now is a 64GB card. I'm hoping for larger, since 2.0 drives at that capacity are dirt cheap. If supported, I'd splurge on a 2.0 128GB flash drive.

Probably goes without saying, but external harddrives that draw power over USB are probably not going to be recommended, so either flash drives or external drives with separate power, yes?

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

I was planing to upgrade my ps4 HDD and use the 500GB one with my vita tv

But now i have to download all my games on ps3 then WIRELESSLY COPY IT ALL TO THE SYSTEM.

That can take weeks.

 

[ma16v3]

I was planing to upgrade my ps4 HDD and use the 500GB one with my vita tv

But now i have to download all my games on ps3 then WIRELESSLY COPY IT ALL TO THE SYSTEM.

That can take weeks.

On the bright side, once loaded, you can make a backup of the drive to your PC and quickly reload it to another drive if something goes wrong.... Assuming Vita formatted storage is readily readable by your OS(presumably Windows).

 

[Aneesh India]

Stoked. Any chance we know what the largest supported capacity will be? The largest card you can get right now is a 64GB card. I'm hoping for larger, since 2.0 drives at that capacity are dirt cheap. If supported, I'd splurge on a 2.0 128GB flash drive.

Probably goes without saying, but external harddrives that draw power over USB are probably not going to be recommended, so either flash drives or external drives with separate power, yes?

agree with you. atleast a 64gb flashdrive can support upto 35 games on an average thats like wow

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

On the bright side, once loaded, you can make a backup of the drive to your PC and quickly reload it to another drive if something goes wrong.... Assuming Vita formatted storage is readily readable by your OS(presumably Windows).

Umm no is not. Psvita uses ENCRYPTED FILE SYSTEM. Is the reason why people been upset with it mostly and the fact that stuff like this exist.

 

[Burnt Lasagna]

As far as I'm aware, nothing was said about loading games.
Yes, Vita Shell can see it and (presumably) copy files from it, though game launching from USB is another thing entirely.

 

[bnolsen]

I would be very concerned about power with a spinning disk. If it pans out that we can use usb flash to store and play both vita and psp games this would be ideal and might actually warrant a 128GB purchase. Tonight I checked a used games store and they have 3 nib psvita tv bundles (dualshock 3 + lame lego game) for 69usd each...

 

[metroid maniac]

As far as I'm aware, nothing was said about loading games.
Yes, Vita Shell can see it and (presumably) copy files from it, though game launching from USB is another thing entirely.

Snippets from recent VitaShell commits make it look like it will clone a skeleton filesystem to the USB drive and then mount it as if it were the memory card.
It looks like you'll be able to load games from it no problem.

 

[Burnt Lasagna]

Your right,
https://github.com/TheOfficialFloW/VitaShell/commit/5d6368541430ca04fd055b42f7031df7f182a446
Exciting stuff!