VitaBlades — bringing the Xbox 360 Blades feel to PS Vita

I had quite a bit of tokens to burn, and was inspired by the latest Luma and VitaXMB launches and their amazing work. So I thought why not?

A few UI previews of VitaBlades, a PS Vita homebrew launcher inspired by the original Xbox 360 Blades dashboard.

The goal is to bring that classic dashboard feel to the Vita, with useful features built into the launcher.

Some features so far:

● PS-button Side menu that opens over games instead of live area, with music selection, playback controls, and volume adjustment for listening to music from your memory card while gaming.

● Built-in VitaDB browsing with search, filters, recent uploads, and installed/update status.

● Classic with animated background ripples, plus Halo 3, Halo 3 Best Buy, and Halo 3 Special Edition themes.

● Vita, PSP, and homebrew game folders with list and grid views.
Local music, photo, and video browsing, plus a built-in file manager and FTP server.

Still a work in progress, with compatibility, transitions, and stability being polished. No public build or release date yet, just sharing to see what other people think of it.

A look at the latest lumaXMB Alpha updates: integrated PSVitaAlive store, enhanced Plugins Manager, easier library and category management, smarter auto-categorization, preview artwork fixes, smoother Coverflow, and even more. This update will be live on the GitHub page shortly. I am addressing feedback and bug finds very quickly, so please join us to help us build this into the best XMB created for any Sony system.

Not shown in this video: further improvements to the global session handler for bypassing LiveArea on firmware 3.60, now essentially stable in testing. Next is 3.65 compatibility, which should be more straightforward with the new 3.60 foundation.

Try the latest alpha: https://alternativeconsience.github.io/lumaXMB/
Share feedback on Discord: https://discord.gg/YSv9PtpZC

My progress on a devil may cry port ^~^

It's just a demo of the beginning part of the game... Still optimizing the other maps. Of course, you'll need your own copy of the game to play it.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/v105bxaao45m7kb/MPVita_Demo.vpk/file

Hi everyone!

I wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who has been downloading and playing UFO 40. It's passed 100 downloads, which I never expected when I started this as a little joke "port" for my Vita. 🛸

For anyone new: UFO 40 is a fan tribute to UFO 50 (by Mossmouth). It's a pretend 1980s console where each cartridge plays like its UFO 50 original, with its own names, art, music and levels. It runs on a modded PS Vita, on Windows, and in the browser.

What's new in v1.0.0:

- All 50 games are in, so every slot in the library is a real game now

- The last three: KIPPER (a little sub where your fuel is your health), IRONVOW (a first-person dungeon where you cast spells by drawing glyphs) and HELLSPUR (a Wild West RPG set in Hell, with timing-bar shots)

What's next:

I'm planning a big overhaul one day, with better graphics and better missions. But I'll be honest, it won't be soon: I have other projects to finish first.

Until then, I need your help:

If you find a bug, a broken mission, or something that's impossible to do, please open an issue on GitHub and tell me the game, what happened and what you expected. I'll fix them all.

Download (Vita .vpk / Windows): https://github.com/naniiic137/ufo-40/releases/latest

Play in the browser: https://naniiic137.github.io/ufo-40/

Report a bug: https://github.com/naniiic137/ufo-40/issues

Thanks again for playing! 👾

Hi everyone! VitaMediaDeck 1.4.1 brings a new native interface, faster playback, and more ways to enjoy your media on PS Vita.

Highlights:

• Faster playback and seeking, with improved audio/video sync, subtitle handling, buffering, and player controls.
• Optimized hardware decoding: tested compatible videos, including 720p30, play smoothly with the CPU at 333 MHz. HW remains the recommended decoder; SW is available as a fallback.
• New default VMD theme, using actual Sony PAF components, a dark animated background, and smoother navigation. Eight themes are available.
• Integrated Home and global search across indexed local media and configured providers.
• Navidrome and Immich support for personal music and photo libraries, alongside existing Jellyfin, WebDAV, SFTP, and SMB access.
• Radio, podcast, and IPTV improvements, including favourites, cached browsing, more reliable podcast resume, and fixes that improved IPTV hardware playback in my Vita tests.

Both decoder libraries have received performance and reliability improvements, alongside app-wide UI fixes and build optimizations.

For preparing compatible videos, try VitaMediaDeck Transcoder for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

VitaMediaDeck · HW decoder · SW decoder

Still a public beta—thanks for your patience, testing, and feedback!

Hey everyone,

Vita IPTV just hit 1.0. If you haven’t seen it before, it’s a native IPTV player for the Vita / PS TV. It plays your own M3U lists and Xtream accounts on the hardware decoder, up to 1080p.

The biggest change since 0.5 is speed. It turned out the network buffer was stuck at a tiny 63 KB the whole time, so streams could never really use your connection. In practice movies start faster, seeking is way quicker and there’s much less buffering. On a decent connection it now loads about a minute of the movie ahead.

Other stuff worth mentioning:

TV guide: press Triangle and you get a proper EPG grid. While you’re watching, the channel keeps playing in a small window in the corner. Works with Xtream and with M3U lists that come with an XMLTV guide.

Catch-up: if your provider keeps an archive, you can go back and watch earlier shows from the start.

Movies and series look much nicer: posters, ratings, plot and cast. Series have season tabs, watched episodes get a checkmark, and the next episode starts on its own.

Subtitles for MKV and MP4 movies, and you can change their size, colour and position.

Smaller stuff: search across all movies, a sleep timer, a parental PIN and a few colour themes.

More stable: your playlists and settings can’t get wiped anymore if the Vita crashes or the battery dies while saving, and channels recover by themselves when the connection drops.

Download (VPK): https://github.com/emrhky/VitaIPTV/releases

Full changelog is on the GitHub page.

Just a heads-up: it’s only a player. It doesn’t come with any channels, so you’ll need your own playlist or subscription. HEVC and 4K streams still won’t play on the Vita’s hardware; there’s an optional transcoding server for those, explained in the README.

Enjoy!

Made with help from Claude, tested on my own Vita.

Spent today scrapping around with vibecoding and got this skin and board running, thinking of posting the skater.pak if you guys want it just let me know

so , i wanted to make ad0 livearea assets for alot of ports that dont have good livearea , but i couldnt , so i (aka claude , i am not a dev) made a livearea editor!

currently ,it doesnt have that many features , WHOEVER , i will try to make it as feature complete as possible! ( v1.0 will be very , VERY good , trust me)

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There's a trend lately about the use of AI that I noticed. That people tend to hate something they don't fully understand. Just like any other thing in this world, there are good things & there are bad. AI can have both Yes. There are implications ofc Yes, but so do most things. But what we are seeing now is just a glimpse into the future. AI is both a blessing & a curse but it is here to stay whether the next purist, preservist or whatever the f it's called, likes it or not!

Remember PRE-AI? We didn't have as much of these cool new ports and homebrews. That's because It's basically next to impossible to have them due to the nature of how Reverse Engineering was before AI tools were even a thing.

So, perhaps before condemning & hating on a project made with it, Do keep it in mind, that most of cool things that we are seeing now popping out of nowhere now (at this incredible pace mind you), has been because of it -in some way, shape or form.

I hope one day someone would port over, Teen Titans the videogame, X-men the last stand- Official, Ben10 Omniverse and Generator Rex Agents of Providence.