Early proof of concept homebrew shows Vita apps booting on Nintendo Switch

AlexMCS · Mar 7, 2022

Yep. Saw this a few days ago.
The final name will be VINE, bet on it.

Deleted member 194275 · Mar 7, 2022

I saw this news everywhere, but I didn't got if the concept is to flash an OS that run vita apps or if it will run straight from the stock switch os as the "horizon" name implies

KiiWii · Mar 7, 2022

Looking forward to this progressing

diggeloid · Mar 7, 2022

This is a cool idea. Even though the translation layer could potentially add some performance overhead, the gap between a Vita and Switch is so huge that it likely won't matter, especially compared to the alternative that is emulation. This same concept could also work to port Vita games to PC and phones without emulation.

This is the same concept as Wine/Proton, i.e. the thing Valve is using to make Windows games run on Linux, except the Vita OS is orders of magnitude simpler and smaller than Windows, and the entire set of existing software is tiny, so there's a much higher chance of achieving perfect compatibility.

AxlSt00pid · Mar 7, 2022

lokomelo said:
I saw this news everywhere, but I didn't got if the concept is to flash an OS that run vita apps or if it will run straight from the stock switch os as the "horizon" name implies

To put it in very simple terms, this homebrew acts as a translator between vita instruction calls and switch instruction calls afaik

So it'd be like having a Spanish speaking person and a Korean speaking person talking to eachother via a 3rd person that acts as a translator for both of them

And iirc this homebrew still can't translate propietary Sony calls like certain graphics initializations or something along those lines

Deleted member 42501 · Mar 7, 2022

Very clever concept and I wish the developer all the best with it.

seseiSeki · Mar 7, 2022

relauby said:
explains the GitHub.

I think you mean the readme inside the GitHub repository. "the GitHub" is just a place to store repos, it can't explain what this homebrew application does ^^

Justinde75 · Mar 7, 2022

if this ends up working out like that yikes I feel bad for the vita

Dr_Faustus · Mar 7, 2022

Justinde75 said:
if this ends up working out like that yikes I feel bad for the vita

I wouldn't, Sony already walked away from the Vita years ago and most of the fans keeping it alive are mainly doing so because its a damn decent handheld to mod and emulate games on, its also cheaper than a Switch is.

Justinde75 · Mar 7, 2022

Dr_Faustus said:
I wouldn't, Sony already walked away from the Vita years ago and most of the fans keeping it alive are mainly doing so because its a damn decent handheld to mod and emulate games on, its also cheaper than a Switch is.

I more feel bad for it because I actually really like the vita and it didnt deserve to fail like that

slaphappygamer · Mar 7, 2022

There is only one vita!

XRellikX · Mar 7, 2022

slaphappygamer said:
There is only one vita!

Vita La Revolution!

RAHelllord · Mar 7, 2022

If this fully releases I hope someone makes a switch lite shell that makes it look like the Vita successor that we will never get.

Marc_LFD · Mar 7, 2022

That's really cool.

For me, I'm only interested in about 60 games the Vita has since the majority are JRPGs and I'm not too much into that.

Switch owners may get to play the OG God of War 1 and 2 before PS4/PS5 users do.

such · Mar 7, 2022

Justinde75 said:
if this ends up working out like that yikes I feel bad for the vita

If Sony failed to kill Vita, this won't kill it either.

sley · Mar 7, 2022

Very cool but even better if they manage to run commercial games on this

smf · Mar 7, 2022

Very interesting, will look forward to this in a couple of years...

lordelan · Mar 7, 2022

This is basically what Nintendont is doing on Wii (U) consoles and I always hoped something like this would happen to 3DS on Switch since both are ARM based. The more surprised I am that this now happened to PS Vita first.

Flame · Mar 7, 2022

homebrew does what Nintendo and Sony dont.

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