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Revision as of 03:24, 1 June 2022
Developer | Sony |
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Type | Handheld game console |
Generation | Eighth generation |
Release date | 2011 |
Discontinued | 2019 |
Predecessor | PlayStation Portable |
Emulated | ~ |
The PlayStation Vita is an eighth-generation handheld game console by Sony, released in Japan on December 17, 2011, and in North America on February 15, 2012. It had a Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore at 333MHz (Boosted to 494MHz when Wi-Fi is deactivated) with 512MB of RAM and 128MB of VRAM. It had a Quad-core PowerVR SGX543MP4+ GPU, which can push 133 million polygons onto the screen every second at a clock speed of 200MHz.
Emulators
Name | Platform(s) | Latest Version | FLOSS | Active | Recommended | |||
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PC / x86 | ||||||||
Vita3K | git | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | ||||
Consoles | ||||||||
Vita2hos | Alpha 0.2 | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
- Vita3K (compatibility)
- Can already run homebrew titles and some commercial games. The emulator uses Vita dumps in the
.vpk
file format.
- Vita2hos
- An open-source compatibility layer that redirects the module imports of Vita executables to jump to routines that implement the same behavior, by using native Horizon OS services, like the one exposed by the original PlayStation Vita OS modules.
Only able to load simple test homebrews such as vita-8.
Emulation issues
RPCS3
The RPCS3 developers once considered adding Vita emulation support, going as far as displaying a simple 'Hello world' and a basic atomic test sample.[1] However, Vita development was completely halted since then and focused exclusively on PS3 emulation down to the website's branding. A Patreon post admitting as much asked users whether they are still interested at all in Vita emulation. Significant further developments on Vita coming from RPCS3 aren't very likely considering the general lack of developer interest, and those who are (like frangarcj) went on to join Vita3K. The RPCS3 project has since removed Vita support from the codebase.[2]
See Also
References
- ↑ PS Vita emulation progress. emunewz (2014-11-02)
- ↑ Remove Vita emulation (Nekotekina). GitHub (2018-02-09)
External links
- PS Vita Dev Wiki
- Wiki for homebrew development on PS Vita (Official site)
- Development tools for PS Vita development (APIs)
- PSVita Reverse Engineering Tools (Solely used to aid in homebrew / plugins / hacks development)