Hacking NoNpDRM is being released this month

[KiiWii]

Maybe something like Devhook (Good old PSP Days). Im suprised something like that didnt already happen. But i also dont know if something like that is even possible on the vita

What would it achieve?

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

From what i have read online n64 and sega dreamcast emulation isn't really even that good on a pc. Maybe playable, but not good. So good luck trying to get those systems to run on a ps vita.

N64 emulation is commonly referred to as trash simply because it's not very accurate, but it runs most games with no issues. The PSP had an N64 emulator, which actually functioned fairly well for a low-spec portable. So it's definitely in the realm of possibility. Someone is developing a fully accurate N64 emulator (like higan) for PC, called CEN64, but (like higan) that will require a beefy PC.

Dreamcast emulation is more of a matter of lack of dev support, people sort of lost interest in it years ago. Reicast is the latest Dreamcast emulator that's actually (somewhat) worked on, though there hasn't been any major releases for the past year or so. But it's still a decent emulator on ARM devices which, conveniently, the Vita runs. But I don't think it has the processing power to truly pull off full-speed DC emulation regardless.

As to the announcement, I honestly have no idea what it could be. I highly doubt it has anything to do with actually developing/porting an emulator of another console. I'm half expecting a major Vita SDK update more than anything, or perhaps a new version of Vitamin based off of motoharu's work on creating complete dumps. That would be amazing, no more potato dumps and would fix those problem games like Axiom Verge not being dumpable.

If it was an emulator, though, I'd prefer a port of DraStic more than anything. Would be easily doable on the Vita, it's definitely powerful enough to run a vast majority of games no problem. Unfortunately that likely won't happen unless Exophase makes DraStic opensource, or gives The Flow the source to port it himself.

 

[kingraa777]

new vitamin would be nice with mai support

 

[Byokugen]

We need cfw updates! Game dumpers and loaders, not emulators. Set your priorities people

 

[Essometer]

3.61+ games on Enso Vitas? One can dream...

 

[YeezusWalks]

I JUST WANT A DAMN REICAST PORT TO VITA AND HOPEFULLY IT WILL RUN AT LEAST PLAYABLE SPEEDS
but hey if that doesn't happen then im ok... (i'll probably cry myself asleep)

 

[westwood]

What would it achieve?

In the PSP days, this spoofed your psp to a firmware you could choose (it loaded all the modules etc from a folder with the firmware in it). That also allowed to play newer games without having a cfw on the newest firmware

 

[KiiWii]

In the PSP days, this spoofed your psp to a firmware you could choose (it loaded all the modules etc from a folder with the firmware in it). That also allowed to play newer games without having a cfw on the newest firmware

Ah great, thanks for the clarification.

I vaguely remember devhook waaaaay back when i had a PSP on 1.50 or something, and a GTA garage exploit... I cant remember much, but thanks for the clarification

 

[stehilton94]

I think we can all agree the main thing we hope for is 3.61+ support but its also the main thing it more than likely will not be

 

[YeezusWalks]

I think we can all agree the main thing we hope for is 3.61+ support but its also the main thing it more than likely will not be

well yuh... alot of people want 3.61+ games to work but i would be good with a good emulator (C O U G H C O U G H REICAST)

 

[SuperDan]

Shenmue 1+2 is what i want reciast for LOL

shenmue 1 worked great on Reicast on my nividia shield portable ... 2 only works if you turn dynaric off .. which is a big bag of bollocks ... i ended up buying it for xbox 360 ... i bloody love those games ... !!! hidden and dangerous never worked also .. such a shame that game was so0 good

 

[Lord M]

Maybe he found that ps2 remaster is not what they actually seems to be and PSV have a Ps2 emulator inside like Ps1 on PSP

 

[KiiWii]

I think it will be rednand/emunand, or something similar now thinking on it.

Devhook in theory would also definitely make sense.

Something useful for newer FW features/compatibility.

 

[leonmagnus99]

3.61+ games , but i doubt it is that ovo

 

[Abu_Senpai]

shenmue 1 worked great on Reicast on my nividia shield portable ... 2 only works if you turn dynaric off .. which is a big bag of bollocks ... i ended up buying it for xbox 360 ... i bloody love those games ... !!! hidden and dangerous never worked also .. such a shame that game was so0 good

Beat Shenmue 1 on my S5 and played through Disk 1,2,3 of Shenmue II, before i kept reaching a crash on disk 4 which prevented me from carrying on the story. so i you-tubed the rest of the disk lol. But i own a OG xbox now so Shenmue ii is something i will replay soon and also not to mention i could use my craptop to run Shenmue 2 and then stream it to my Vita using this:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/pc-link-for-psvita-teased-–-stream-your-computer’s-display-to-your-vita-even-if-you-have-intel-amd-g.482988/
(But that wont happen for a long while since that vita app isnt even close to release yet!)

So even though i might be able to stream Shenmue via reicast from pc to vita in the near future, i personally would rather play Shenmue via a reicast emulator port on vita since that is the optimum way to play for me.

 

[CallmeBerto]

Wishlist

Fix PSN issue
Proper game dumper

Emulation has been taken care of a good bit by retroarch.

 

[Abu_Senpai]

All i can say is lets not get too hyped up about this tease since if i have noticed one thing, it is that both vita and Switch scenes over hype and then get overkilled.

Right now i am going with the assumption that this project of his has nothing to do with 3.61 games or Reicast and that way if it does happen, i will be astounded. But if it doesn't happen then welp i diddnt really hype too much about this news to begin with and thus wont feel down in the dumps about it tomorrow.

that is the best approach to take in regards to any new exploit or projects for any scene regardless of the system

 

[slaphappygamer]

Ps2 emulation? I mean, there aren't enough shoulder buttons.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

People thinking it might be 3.61+ games will be disappointed.

The main reason we can't play games on 3.61+ is because lv0 checks fail for those games, and because Sony likely changed the keys used for 3.61+ games, we would require an entirely new hack on 3.61+ that gets us access to lv0...something extremely unlikely at this point.

People mentioning an emunand-esque release will also be disappointed, purely because we don't have enough access for something like this to be feasible. We'd need a full bootloader/bootrom exploit, which (AFAIK) still doesn't exist.

 

[CallmeBerto]

One more thing

3.65 hack? agro 3.60+ games???

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People thinking it might be 3.61+ games will be disappointed.

The main reason we can't play games on 3.61+ is because lv0 checks fail for those games, and because Sony likely changed the keys used for 3.61+ games, we would require an entirely new hack on 3.61+ that gets us access to lv0...something extremely unlikely at this point.

People mentioning an emunand-esque release will also be disappointed, purely because we don't have enough access for something like this to be feasible. We'd need a full bootloader/bootrom exploit, which (AFAIK) still doesn't exist.

Shhh let me dream mannnnnn