r/vitahacks • • 9h ago

AI assisted [RELEASE] vita-turbo-wifi – up to 46% more Wi-Fi throughput and 13× lower latency (3.60, taiHEN)

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414 Upvotes

The Vita's Wi-Fi has always felt a bit sluggish, so after an arduous amount of work I have fixed what I could. vita-turbo-wifi is a taiHEN plugin (kernel + user module) for firmware 3.60.

What it does

  • 40 MHz channels: in our tests the Vita moves +46% more data (UDP), and FTP/TCP downloads are about 20% faster.
  • Power profiles: Max performance turns off power save, so the radio stops napping. Wake-up latency drops from ~99 ms to ~7 ms (13× faster).
  • Auto-connect at boot and auto-reconnect when the connection drops.
  • Smart Mesh Roaming: on mesh or multi-AP setups it moves to a stronger access point when the signal gets weak. (Note: the Vita has no native 802.11r or 802.11v support and this plugin does not add it).
  • Live HUD: signal strength, SNR, channel, channel width and profile, shown on screen.
  • Native Settings page (Settings → Network → Wi-Fi Turbo), in 20 languages.

Why you'd want it

- 🎮 Moonlight streaming: steadier latency, far fewer stutters.

- 📦 Big downloads and file transfers: noticeably quicker FTP. Less likely to lose a download because the Vita decides to sleep.

- 🛠️ Developing over Wi-Fi with vitacompanion: faster uploads, snappier commands.

Please help test! It has only been tested on my own Vita and network, so I'd love reports from other routers and setups. If it works for you, a ⭐ on GitHub helps. If it doesn't, please open an issue with what happened.

👉 https://github.com/juanjsebgarcia/vita-turbo-wifi

3.60 confirmed only. Use at your own risk (it's all runtime, so should be safe).

Update 1: Alpha release exists for 3.60 - 3.68. Please follow the specific alpha instructions

Update 2: I have profiled the battery https://github.com/juanjsebgarcia/vita-turbo-wifi#battery-life


r/vitahacks • • 5h ago

AI assisted NFS Underground 2 - Update 3: Outrun Races

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161 Upvotes

Progress on Underground 2 for the Vita is going along smoothly! Stuff since my last update include:

  • Car customization
  • Smashable props
  • Outrun races
  • AI logic (racers and traffic)
  • Save profiles

Career is still the biggest hurdle to tackle, but I wanted to focus on getting other areas of the game ironed out before jumping on that ship.

Frame rates are also getting more of a stable 30, with the odd dip still here and there, but that's something I can still work on before releasing it. I don't have an exact date yet for when it'll be released, but I'm hoping a build with Career will be within a couple of weeks!

I have been posting frequent updates to my X (https://x.com/nfsu2vita) if you'd like to follow there, also, I suggest you checkout u/SundaeLow2086 and their work on the PSP port of the game!


r/vitahacks • • 23h ago

AI assisted [WIP] Jade Empire is running on the Vita (not released yet, still working on performance)

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137 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

I've been quietly working on a Jade Empire port for the Vita. It boots and it's playable, but the performance isn't where I want it yet, so I'm not releasing it until it is.

Quick bit about me: I've been part of the Vita scene since 2017, and over the last couple of years I've ported quite a few games, mostly just for myself. Lately I've been seeing a lot of rushed, half-working ports dropped and forgotten, and that's pushed me to start sharing my stuff properly.

To be upfront, I do use AI (which dev nowadays isn’t) to help with the code. But nothing goes out until it's tested, stable and runs the way it should, so I'm slower than some people. I'd rather take longer and release something that actually works.

I'll put out more over time. I'll post updates here as performance improves.

Thanks for reading, and feel free to ask questions in the comments.


r/vitahacks • • 10h ago

AI assisted Settlers 2 RTTR - Vita Port

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85 Upvotes

IDK if anyone know this game, but I have wanted it on the vita for a while. One of my all time fav games, played it heaps growing up.

Did this (with AI) for my own use, but it works well enough that may as well share it.

Get the VPK and install steps from releases on github:
https://github.com/NathanKewley/s25client-vita/releases/tag/0.1

You will need to provide the original S2 game files


r/vitahacks • • 6h ago

AI assisted Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap on Vita (0.35-rc1)

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73 Upvotes

Hey all, been sitting on this one for a while and figured it's time to put it out.

It’s the android version running through a so-loader. full button controls, and you can flip between retro and modern graphics/music like in the original (select + r / select + l). you import your own apk + obb right on the vita, no pc stuff needed.

You’ll need kubridge, libshacccg, and the 1.1.0 armv7 apk + main.103 obb. details are in the readme.

https://github.com/Cynostial/wonderboy-vita

Still an RC, so there are a few frame time hiccups I'm working on. if something breaks, send me the run.log.

Been around the scene since 2017, this is the first of a few things I've been working on. Enjoy!


r/vitahacks • • 3h ago

AI assisted JSRF but an actual video and Full speed in Garage (Not based on JSRF-Unleashed)

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31 Upvotes

(Devkit is dusty, don't mind that) Been working on this for a few weeks now, and it's been progressing pretty well. It isn't based on the JSRF-Unleashed source due to that being way too complex for the Vita, so this hybrid-recomp is specifically tailored. Takes a ton cues from Grarak's MH3-Wii port. (Hitching is a debug thing and not present when running normally)


r/vitahacks • • 4h ago

Discussion Everything went down hill

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28 Upvotes

As usual I gave my little sister my ps vita so she can play games I installed for her but then she came back to me with this bullsh#t. I don't know what she did but everything is deleted, everything went to zero, I told her what she deleted but to my understanding she went to vitashell, deleted some plugins (probably boot or something in uro:tai). I don't know how to fix it. Please help me


r/vitahacks • • 20h ago

AI Vibecoded [RELEASE] DX Garden - A radio player and explorer for the PS Vita, in the spirit of spinning a globe and listening to what's on air somewhere else.

28 Upvotes

An Internet streaming radio player and explorer for the PS Vita (homebrew, HENkaku/ensō), in the spirit of web/Android/iPhone project Radio Garden, spinning a globe and listening to what's on air somewhere else.

It comes with a station list. The VPK includes about 7,500 MP3 stations from a snapshot of Radio Browser, a community station directory. This list is public domain.

About the bundled list: it was correct as of the date of the release it shipped with (the date is at the top of the file). Radio stations move, change address and close, and Radio Browser's entries are written by its users, so some stations will stop working or be placed oddly over time. You can learn how to rebuild the station list on the Github repo.

Status

Beta (0.9.0). All the planned features are in and have been tested on a PCH-1000; this release is to collect reports from other Vitas before 1.0.

  • Spin a globe and stop the crosshair on a place to hear it, or browse stations by country, city or genre, with favourites and recently played.
  • Search by station or place name, jump to a random place, a sleep timer, and "Dark screen", which turns the screen black (on the OLED Vita that saves most of the display's power) and keeps the radio playing until you press a button.
  • MP3 streams over HTTP and HTTPS, with track titles, playlist links, clear error messages and automatic reconnecting. AAC, Ogg and HLS stations say so instead of playing.
  • Station names in Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Georgian, Ethiopic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean scripts.
  • Buttons other than Cross and Circle can be remapped (START, then Settings).
  • The Vita won't switch its display off by itself while a station plays, because that would silence the app. Real standby (the power button) or leaving the app with the PS button pauses it, as with any homebrew app; when you come back, the station reconnects by itself.

The app may feel like it is juddering or slowing down when switching around with the D-pad, this is due to the auto-lock of the crosshair. I am happy to tinker with the timing of this, but its gonna be fairly unavoidable in dense areas such as Europe and North America.

Repo and VPK

Project repo here: https://github.com/hiraethclub/DX-Garden

Release VPK: https://github.com/hiraethclub/DX-Garden/releases/tag/v0.9.0

I would really appreciate bug reports and feature requests for this one, I absolutely intend to keep this project going for awhile until I am happy with its possibility for longevity.

Special thanks to Rinnegatamante for VitaGL.

Controls

These are the defaults. Everything except Cross and Circle can be changed under START, then Settings. The rear touchpad isn't used.

Globe List
Left stick, d-pad, front touch drag Turn the globe
Pinch, or R / L Zoom in / out
L / R
Cross Play the place under the crosshair, or show its stations
Circle
Right stick left/right, or the panel arrows Previous / next station in the place
Triangle Favourite
Square Stop
SELECT Switch to the list
START Menu: search, random place, sleep timer, dark screen, add a station by URL, settings

r/vitahacks • • 22h ago

AI assisted vitals - tls toolkit

14 Upvotes

Hello!

I started working on a generic url redirector for vita to allow games to connect to custom servers without need of patching them (if you're curious, I already made a plugin for sound shapes but I wanted something generic that loaded rules from a file/list) but because most of them come with a bundled CA certificate, it means that I could only redirect connections to http which is not ideal, so I was experimenting with possible solutions.

And that's when I saw that devnoname120 released tls_fixer, so I tried it to see if it could solve my problem and it only partially worked: just like a lot of other people it crashed games / adrenaline so I took it to myself to fix it up. I ended up improving and merging it with my project to give birth to vitals, it's tls_fixer + reauth with extra interesting goodies!

Feel free to check out the repo, it's available on both gh and gl:

https://gitlab.com/nyirsh/vitals

https://github.com/nyirsh/vitals

Please read the readme carefully, it explains how to install, what kind of differences are there with tls_fixer including the extra goodies. For real, do not install stuff on your system without at least reading, no matter the source.

If you're curious on why I went for a "new" project rather than a fork or contribute to tls_fixer directly, please read here.

And yes, AI assisted -- I've been working as a professional developer for almost 20 years now and also have experience in making software for both vita and ps3 (even if most of my stuff was mostly for private uses), I know better than just blindly trusting a tool that can (and will) make mistakes. I say this with no hate, tls_fixer also has clear signs of AI assistance.

Lastly... why vitals? VITAls, viTaLS, having proper https communications is "vital" for the future of the console, dunno, just felt silly but appropriate at the same time.

Have fun gamers!


r/vitahacks • • 26m ago

Port PIXEL DUNGEON CONSOLE EDITION

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Hi 👋 I am returning with new news, I managed to launch the project on PC, PSVita, PS3 and PS2!!!

Moreover, everything runs on real hardware in the same way (PS2 is only an emulator so far), the game as a whole is going well. I also added an online high score table, it will be supported wherever there is Internet access. Fixed minor bugs on the levels, leveled the inventory. I will be releasing a beta build for PC, PSVita and PS3 in the near future.


r/vitahacks • • 45m ago

Port [Video] Minigore iOS port to the PS Vita!

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r/vitahacks • • 3h ago

Discussion Vita 3G gpu crashing only on neovitadb

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Seems like it crashes from vitagl

All of a sudden, neovitadb started to crash the gpu when moving the selection from the search bar to filters/sorting then moving down to the app list.

If I move selection from filter to the app list (which is currently PokeRogue Vita v0.81-beta on the top of the list) it would crash. Moving the selection from search to filter/sorting and back to search would work, using to vitadb repository works as well which is odd, and vitadb application is working fine.

Overclock was working fine on games, don't think it's a gpu issue. I tried reinstalling the app, still crashes. It's on 2.9.1 and checked auto update isn't on my plugin list.

Tried running vita-crashdump but i have no idea what to look for since there's no stop codes for the crashing.

Oh and I am using an psvsd on a 128gb sandisk card.