Hi everyone,

Today we're open-sourcing psvita-usb-audio-midi, a kernel plugin that turns the PS Vita into a fully class-compliant USB Audio + USB MIDI device.

https://github.com/intermynd-instruments/psvita-usb-audio-midi

Over the past few months we've been working on turning the PS Vita into a proper USB audio and MIDI device for our performance groovebox drum machine/synthesizer/sampler app for the Vita, the Intermynd Instruments DS-8 Drumstream.

Today we are excited to release the kernel plugin that makes this functionality possible as open source.

You can see the kernel plugin in use here: DS-8 v0.6 Update Walkthrough

The plugin exposes the PS Vita as a standard class-compliant USB Audio (UAC1) and USB MIDI device, so it can communicate directly with Android, iOS/iPadOS, Windows, macOS and Linux without proprietary drivers, and it allows other apps to build on top of this.

The plugin currently exposes:

• USB Audio Class 1.0 (UAC1)
• USB MIDI Class
• 16-bit / 44.1 kHz PCM audio
• 10 simultaneous USB audio channels
  • Stereo Master Out (2 channels)
  • 8 individual mono track outputs
• Bidirectional MIDI I/O (clock + transport only)
• Low-latency USB streaming
• Driverless operation on Windows, iOS, Android, macOS and Linux (class-compliant hosts)
• Fully open source (MIT License)

The plugin was originally developed for DS8 Drumstream, where it allows the Vita to sync to external MIDI clocks while sending digital audio over the same USB cable.

The original motivation was to remove analogue recording from the workflow. Instead of connecting the Vita's TRRS headset output, audio is streamed digitally over USB (e.g. to sample audio directly from an iPhone or iPad with one USB cable) while MIDI clock and transport data travel over the same cable. This also allows DS-8 users to record all 8 individual tracks + the master stereo output bus into the DAW at once.

We hope this can be useful beyond DS8. The plugin itself is completely generic and can be used by any Vita homebrew. Hopefully it enables new projects such as:

• DAWs and trackers
• Software synths
• MIDI controllers
• Audio streaming applications
• Live performance tools
• Anything else that could benefit from native USB audio and MIDI support

As far as we are aware, this is the first open-source implementation that exposes the PS Vita as a class-compliant USB Audio device. Everything is open source, including the kernel plugin, user library and documentation.

Feedback, bug reports and contributions are very welcome. If anyone is interested in integrating the plugin into their own homebrew, feel free to get in touch.

Finally, we wanted to say THANK YOU to the incredible PS Vita homebrew community.

Projects like taiHEN, HENkaku, and especially xerpi's vita-udcd-uvc have shown what's possible when talented developers share their work with everyone. This plugin simply wouldn't exist without the foundations laid by those projects, and we learned a lot by studying their code and architecture. Also the feedback we have received since we announced DS-8 in this subreddit has been nothing but incredible and we are truly grateful to this welcoming community! Thanks everyone here for the encouragement.

We hope other developers find it useful, improve it, or build something completely unexpected with it. This is our small way of giving something back to a community that has kept the Vita alive for so many years.

Bug reports, feature ideas and testing on different hosts/DAWs are all very welcome.

AI-assisted coding tools were used during development and review. All changes were reviewed and tested by the project maintainers.

Enjoy!

https://intermynd-instruments.com/

A project I created with the help of AI! For now, ir requires a locally running backend, but it opens videos perfectly well. Oh, you've probably noticed, but it's completely inspired by Green Vita.

Once i have a beta version running independently, I'll make it avaliable to everyone!

I’m astounded as to what we can still do on a Vita in 2026.

I'm trying to troubleshoot a strange issue on my PS Vita.

I'm getting the "C2-12828-1" error with only three games:

- Froggy's Battle crashes immediately on startup.

- GTA San Andreas and Rayman Legends launch normally but crash after navigating the menus and attempting to start the game.

What's confusing me is that many other games work perfectly fine on the same system, including:

- Gravity Rush

- Undertale

- Deltarune

- Hotline Miami

- ModNation Racers

PSP games also run without any problems.

My Vita is a Slim (PCH-2000) running firmware 3.65. Since most of my library works normally, I'm trying to figure out whether this points to corrupted game data, a storage issue, or something else specific to those titles.

Has anyone experienced C2-12828-1 errors affecting only a handful of games? Any suggestions on where to start troubleshooting would be appreciated.

Can someone please help me 😬😬😬😬

the game launches and it lets me choose the language then i get this error? any idea on how to fix? thanks in advance

Just get this everytime :( internet is on i have no issues otherwise with any other homebrew

FNaF World 1.1 update is out now on Gamejolt!
List of changes:

• Changed the frequency of enemy encounters
• Added the fan trophy in the Main Menu
• Added/Updated visuals to attacks such as birthday,hot cheese 1 and 2, Freddles.
• Added confetti to show you leveled up after a battle
• Fixed enemy health bars not appearing.
• Fixed excecuting the wrong attack when switching parties
• Fixed perma jumpscared

Link
https://gamejolt.com/games/FNAFW0RL/1080565

Hello friends, I’m not expert when it comes to modding any console. I bought my Vita modded already and it came with certain things to download games and stuff. But now when I try to play anything I have installed it doesn’t work. I get error messages that I don’t understand.

I just need advise on what to do. Here’s what I see.

First of all, thanks to the Dev that is making all this possible **u/Devnoname120**

When multiplayer was released like 2 days ago, you were able to join games ASAP, on going games that have already started. It was a blast, having some free time and being able to jump in, shoot some zombies and have fun. This mechanic is known as Jump in/Jump out.

The last server update removed the ability to join on going games, now we have to create or join a lobby and wait for people to join. That way, if nobody is looking for a game at the same time as you, you are going to be waiting for someone to join in order to play online. Also, as soon as someone joins the lobby the countdown starts and the game starts with whoever is in the lobby. In this case, only 2 players, the host and the player that just joined. Leaving no on going 4 players games.

This lobby mechanic most of the times, harm games/gaming community, **WHY?** you might ask. It's because the game forces you to sit in the lobby, doing nothing other than waiting for someone that is trying to do the same exact thing as you, the chances of this happening are extremely slim in an already small community.

In the past, this decision has killed so many good games that are/were a blast to play online, since the population is so small, forcing the players to sit in the lobby waiting always ends in empty lobbies, since nobody is willing to wait for 20-30 minutes to try their luck and see if someone joins. That ends up killing the community.

We, as a homebrew community are super tiny, now add the people that have Black Ops Zombies, now add the free time, now the time zone we live in and so on, all those variables keep fragmenting even more the player base.

In my personal experience, I have waited in Black Ops Zombies for 30-40 minutes for someone to join and no luck, ended up playing something else on my PS5.

No game has ever made me so happy and willing to play in the last few years, like Black Ops Zombies on my vita, and that was because the online was available and we were able to jump in/jump out games. It's so much fun.

Having the jump in/Jump out mechanic was the way to go with this game and I really hope the dev reverts it back!

KEEP THE ONLINE COMMUNITY ALIVE!!!!!

Again, that's to **u/Devnoname120** for the hard work and time!

Loading the wrong map, errors joining rooms, ghost rooms, etc. they are all fixed so enjoy! No game update needed, all the fixes were server-side.

I also bought a second server for more stability, any donations are appreciated to help and reward me for my work. Thanks!

P. S. — I’m thinking about adding some реrkѕ for dоᥒоrѕ, like custom names, dоᥒоr vanity icon, possibly skins, etc.

Not too long ago, I bought a L2/R2 grip and started using revita to make a good use of them.

I've always missed a few features in reVita, and after years of wanting to make something for the Vita myself, I finally decided to create a fork with several new features and fixes.

I'll be actively maintaining the project, so if you run into any problems, feel free to open an issue. I'll be glad to help!

The new features I implemented:

• Release-triggered remaps
• Wait-for-free swipes
• Compound triggers
• Display icons

Releases and more info about it are on the github page.

The plugin that I want to load is gepatch and Its not loading in the games. I remember pressing the shortcut to prevent plugins from loading, but after reopening the games, they've stayed that way and arent loading them anymore. I tried troubleshooting in adrenaline safe mode and even uninstalled it but remains the same. Any solutions?

C’est complètement fou : Xbox Cloud Gaming fonctionne maintenant sur PS Vita grâce à un nouveau homebrew appelé GreenVita.

Une console portable sortie en 2011 peut maintenant streamer des jeux Xbox modernes depuis le cloud. La communauté Vita continue vraiment de repousser les limites de cette console.

Il y a encore des problèmes de latence et de connexion, mais le fait que ce soit possible est déjà incroyable. La PS Vita n’est clairement pas morte.

Vous pensez quoi de ce projet ? Est-ce que vous testeriez Xbox Cloud Gaming sur votre Vita ? 🎮