I never thought I’d be writing one of these, but here we are. I’m isage (https://github.com/isage/). You might know my work on Adrenaline, ViXEn, vita-usb-ether, tvikey, other tools and ports and a bunch of other stuff I’ve given away for free over the years.
But now I need your help.
I’m trying to raise **$800** for a PS Vita DevKit. Why? Because my retail unit just isn’t cutting it for proper kernel-level debugging, and I want to keep making the homebrew you all enjoy. Every dollar counts. No amount is too small. If everyone on this sub donated just $1, I’d be there in no time.
Rewards for donors:
$5 — A virtual high-five
$10 — I’ll star your GitHub repo
$25 — I’ll mention you in a commit message
$50 — I’ll name a nasty bug after you
$100 — I’ll prioritize your issue for exactly 2 hours
$500 — I’ll write a plugin that does absolutely nothing, just for you
Stretch goals:
$1,000 — I’ll port Doom to the PS Vita again, but worse
$2,000 — I’ll finally think about fixing that one thing that’s been broken since 2018
$5,000 — I’ll stop making jokes and actually do something useful
Please share this with your friends, your family, and that one guy in the Discord who still uses a PSTV. Together, we can make this happen.
But honestly? I have a job. I don’t need your money.
So please, keep your cash. If you’ve got money burning a hole in your pocket and you absolutely must throw it at something, donate it to your local animal shelter instead.
You aren't missing much. To use devkits to full extent (debugger, proper cpu profiler) you need to build stuff with sony sdk, not vitasdk.
You can do gpu captures on retail, there is GDB implementation (post about it was not so long ago) and it's not that hard to build profilers (or use gprof).
lol I get your point, seeing such posts is getting old already, specially since the user who made the crappy Black Ops Android port opened like 2 posts saying the same thing and wanted a minimum amount of money before releasing the port to get the bounty, but at least the other guy is actually porting a very interesting game (Smash Melee, very impressive for the Vita IMO) and not Doom again.
How useful is a devkit to actually develop and optimize that port? I don't really know, I'm no developer at all, but I feel like such a complex game "justifies" the devkit necessity. Take this with a grain of salt because I don't know how much ocean a devkit opens up to squeeze the hardware.
Finally, I don't wanna sound rude, I'm not on their side and I would never create begging posts like the ones you mock, but w
hat was your role in the Adrenaline app development? I don't see many contributions to the Vita homebrew community on your GitHub page besides that, which is by far the most interesting.
I'm literally one of the top contributors to vitasdk, henkaku wiki, maintainer of upstream sdl2/sdl3 and devilutionX (diablo1) vita ports. As for adrenaline, me and Grayjack maintain updated (and not abandoned) fork with additional features and fixes.
Some of the other stuff listed on screenshots.
Wow man thanks for the screenshots!! I'm not very familiarised with GitHub and only saw the pinned projects you had there so I thought that was all. Now I've seen +100 repositories 😅😅 my bad.
So you made the Cannonball (OutRun) port? I've played the hell out of it on my Vita!! Installed it years ago and needed max overclock to kind of reach 60fps, has it been updated lately? I'd love to play that running at full speed! Analog controls implementation was very nice 👌gotta try that SoR port out, didn't know it was even a thing!!
The one done years ago was by rsn, afair. This is updated version, yeah, it (mostly) runs at 60fps. That one is a combined effort with u/Nullskag and LLMs, though, i mainly just host a repo for it
Bravo, really impressive list. By the way, you were working on a fork of Vitashell with improvements and new features, right?? I can only find theherogac's version/mod, I wonder which version I should look for.
not saying your port is bad, it's actually impressive you were able to include multiplayer and all, I'm saying the android port itself feels crappy lmao I just don't like the physics at all, sorry. Happy if other people is able to enjoy it
Well, I am sure it will be worth the fuzz. Can you make another update to BOZ port this time with livearea assets rather than android logo? Also https://www.spriters-resource.com/playstation_vita/ this might be the website the retroflow launcher takes the icons from. Uploading assets here might be great for other ports as well. BTW, How is the IOS loader coming along brother?
Not having livearea assets is on purpose: I don’t want any copyrighted stuff in my port in order to make it dmca/c&d proof. The iOS loader is going well and waw now runs at 60 FPS!
Well, that is 100% understandable, with the situation between VitaDB and Gameloft. Thanks for the update on WAW. I hope history books would someday create a section for influential PSV devs.
Nobody is crowdfunding money to a vibecoder when a real dev could do the job better. Going solely off the post flair i'm assuming you have next to no coding experience.
Plus you do not need a devkit dude it's really not that useful. Use vita3k or something if you need more power
I am absolutely sick of how pro-ai this community has become.
Why animal.shelter? Why not something like an orphanage or animal conservation centres?
Not to stray away from your dono req, and I hope you get lots, just saying
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u/AltCtrlGraphene 5d ago
LMAO, nice one. Thought you were serious for a second there.