Every 6 six months or so there's something huge in the Vita Homebrew community, and the releases seem to be really increasing recently. We are keeping alive what sony ignored. Cheers Vita owners!
I wish this came out a month ago! I didn't realize that PSP games perfectly integer scaled to the Vita screen. Went back into the Adrenaline settings and found that you need to set it to original and turn smoothing off to get this sharp scaling (it's surprising that this combo works because when original scaling is selected it says the other graphics options don't apply). At least this video came out before I played more than an hour of FFIV with LCD3x scaling :)
It would be interesting to see someone modify this to output true 1080p, which would allow a 2x scale of PSVita games by cropping 4 pixels off, or to modify it to allow 1x scale without black borders.
Didn't see this comment when I made mine. Yeah, my local Walmart had then for $10 at one point back around 2015-ish. $10. And I didn't grab a single one 😑 Only last year did I find a terrific deal on a lightly used 1000 model Vita and I'm so glad I grabbed it. I use my Vita more than my PS4 and Switch Lite combined.
I got lucky on my timing and bought the only PSTV bundle available in the US and got some Lego game I don't care about, a brand new Dualshock 3, and the hardware (and accessories, ofc) for just $60 USD around 2015/16 lol.
Sadly now you need to sell your soul for one, the prices are too high, I have a og Psvita hacked and I used OBS to output image in my laptop and I use a ps3 controller to play games like a PStv, I wish the image output was a bit more pixel perfect but its still good enough for me.
I was JUST looking into this sort of solution for the Vita TV. I was beginning to think it was doomed to never meet its full potential. Thank you for the video! (and Cuevavirus for the mod!)
I always found the choice of a 960*544 screen interesting. By comparison, standard definition PAL content is 720*576 pixels in either interlaced or progressive, while NTSC content is 720*480. So the Vita's vertical resolution is between that of PAL and NTSC content.
Because of this video I just bought a PSTV. Now using sharp scale to play Final Fantasy tactics on It. Thanks for these types of videos. I find them interesting and informative.
Yeah not getting a PS TV when it was dirt cheap is legit one of my biggest gaming regrets, if not my biggest. I quite love the Vita and it's library but I prefer playing on the tv when possible. Just didn't think the price would get so insane as it did.
True story....My friend at the time, purchased a PS4 and at the time, they bundled the PSTV with the PS4. My friend didn't even know what it was, so i explained what it was and what he can do with it. He wasn't interested and said i could have it if i wanted it! I've had it ever since and always had 3.60 cfw on it, since it was available. The last time i messed with it, i installed enso cfw on it and on my PSvita. I haven't played with either since then. I think i may install the shape scale plug-in over the weekend to check it out...
Hi Mr Mario. Can you help me out pls?! I was dumb and trust his "just use autoplugin to set the config" and now my PSTV doenst recognize my SD Card anymore. There's no Henkaku/H-Encore Bubble or a Vitashell Bubble there anymore. The system Informations shows that i'm still on 3.65 with Henkaku. Because i haven't Vitashell anymore i can't access my vita via WINSCP to fix the config there. What can i do?! I've put a lot of work into this the last 3 days to run this and install all my games and stuff. Is there a way to repair the PSTV?!
I have a framemeister and it's sad that I can't play my original copy of Silent Hill on my original Playstation and have to put it on a PS3 or my 15-inch CRT. By the way. Thanks for your great tutorials that helped me many times to improve my gaming experience
Hey there, thanks a ton! This will help me greatly. Just a note for those trying to install this. If you have a memory card, make sure to edit the config file that's on the memory card (ux0)
Another thing of note is you can get native res video out of *any* PS Vita over USB using the UDCD-UVC plugin by Xerpi: github.com/xerpi/vita-udcd-uvc It’s as straightforward to setup as Sharpscale is for a PSTV, and just shows up as a USB webcam in windows where you can add it to capture programs like OBS easily. No viewer software needed like a 3DS or PSP.
I grabbed one simply because I wanted to play Castlevania Rondo of Blood remake on the big screen. But then I found out the game wasn't on the white-list to run. So I waited probably around a year or so before finally hacks were released so I could properly play the damn thing. Thankfully I only paid $40 at the time, when they were trying to clear the things out, haha.
There's also the Adrenaline plugin for the Vita, which allows you to play most if not all PSP games and homebrew. There's some video options in the menu, I found the sharpest option was "sharp bilenar without scanlines" which is basically a 2x integer scale. If you have Sharpscreen set on integer though, there's not really any difference between that and original mode. Also if you're running at 1080i with any scaling filters the framerate lowers to 30fps on all titles. Unfortunately Adrenaline adds a ton of input lag. Wish it would be improved but it hasn't been updated since last march. :/
I’m kinda a tech hoarder and I had to stop myself from getting one of these especially when they were like $30 local for a time. I have modded handhelds galore including the Vita, PSP and 3DS. All filled with games so doubt I’ll ever get around to playing them all. Still love watching you guys exploit the hell out of devices that get shunned by mainstream consumers. That thing is perfect for everything Sony retro wise. All those classic PSP and PS1 titles running near perfect in HD with such a small footprint is sweet. Add in the more modern Vita games and your set for hours of wasting time. Plus it can do movies and streaming (for a time it did) if you want to include that function.
The PSTV, when I initially bought it back in 2015, was underwhelming and was thrown into a drawer. 5 years later, after the softmods were put in, vita memory card option removed in favor of USB memory, Adrenaline, and of course, the ability to force every Vita game to work with the system, has made it my go-to when I want to play any Sony portable platform. To me, it renders the original systems as just showpieces on stands.
I originally bought mine in 2016 because I needed a new PS3 controller, and the cheapest I could get one new was in a bundle with the PSTV for 39 bucks. I thought the PSTV would just be a bonus that I would toss aside, especially since I didn't have much interest in the Vita, so I didn't really do anything with it at the time. Fast forward a bit and I discover homebrew. Now I have the PSTV setup to play all of my PSP games plus a lot of my favorite PS1 games, as well as a couple of digital Vita games I bought. So yeah by far the best part of that deal was the PSTV, especially since the controller now has a faulty left stick that drifts lol.
I picked up a PSTV a long while back and hacked it in the hope I could FINALY play PSP games on the tv without all the blur you get with a stock psp and the cable.. I was very dissapointed. This however gives me hope I can get what I orginally wanted, I shall definalty be checking this out! Awesome videos guys! thank you!
PSP with Sharpscale looks pretty good in comparison to that method, although what kills playing PSP on the PSTV is the unbearable input lag you get with Adrenaline. Using my DS4 it feels like it's around 4-5 frames.
Thanks for the video. Since I already have a PSTV (glad I hadn't tried to sell it on ebay yet, as planned), I'll tinker and play with this upgrade. However, I think i'll end up returning to playing all these games on their intended, dedicated platforms+intended displays, which I am lucky enough to have.
Very cool. Going to dig my PSTV out of whatever dusty bin it's currently residing in, and will give this a shot. The PSP through the Framemeister can look nasty, so this sounds like a good alternative for capturing.
Regarding PSP supposedly not being able to display PSP games over composite or S-Video: While this is impossible on the 2000 model, this was possible on the 3000 model. Picture quality is pretty good too (I have a new-old-stock official Sony cable).
just got around to hacking my pstv/installing sharpscale and.. in the words of the great Marc Duddleson "Wow.. did it always look this good!?" love you guys thanks for everything
I'm going to have to try this out. Funny that you mention the DVDO Edge, as that is what my PSTV is connected to now. It used to be my universal upscaler until I got a Framemeister, but I still use it for the HDMI inputs.
the PS3 has an option for actual upscaling like the Emulator PPSSPP for PSP remasters however we in the USA did not get them as they were only released in japan and the limited library of games you could play on it were not very long without issues
This is amazing! The PSTV was such a disappointment for me due to these issues. I didn't know this existed so thanks for spreading the good word. Also, it has been far too long since I've replayed Wild ARMs.
I bought last week for 55 €, it was lucky because even in Italy the price goes from 80 to 130 € and they are very rare... I also have a vita 2000 bought in April during the quarantine
I have been looking at getting a PSTV for a while now. I might have to actually make the jump finally...well, after I finally pick up an AVS of course.
Considering the price of the PlayStation TV these days, I'll hope for an unofficial, cheaper method to play these games on my HDTV. Hopefully it'll come sooner than later.
Was hoping you guys would cover this! EDIT: I installed Sharpscale and have been messing around with it since it first was released, but really needed you guys to break it down in language I could understand.
I was not aware of this. I've messed around a fair bit with Vita and PSTV homebrew in the past and the blurry mess was my main gripe. It's worth noting that most PSP games are also playable on the PS3 if people want a more accessable device. The PSTV can be hard to come by nowadays.
Lol I always had a feeling the psp had some kind of filtering going on for ps1 games. Glad I held onto the pstv, taking the games with me on the train on the vita then plugging the memory card into the tv works somewhat well.
i am a fairly new vita owner but i have found sharpscale to be useful for playing PSP games through adrenaline on the handheld vita hardware as well! adrenaline's filtering modes add some noticeable input delay (although not as bad as the ppsspp emulator in my experience), while setting adrenaline's graphics filtering to "original" and turning off bilinear filtering in the official vita settings mitigates most of the delay. however, the latter gives inconsistent results, appearing to to return to the bilinear filter every time a game is launched and the home button is pressed, bringing up the "Do you want to quit the game?" menu. opening up the adrenaline settings menu or going into power save mode for a moment and back resets the display to your desired settings, but needs to be done every time a game is launched or the home button is pressed, which isn't a dealbreaker but has become tedious over time. hopefully, one day, the input delay issues in adrenaline will be addressed, but it's not looking likely as the last commit was nearly 3 years ago :(. setting sharpscale to either fitted or integer scaling with point filtering effectively looks the same as adrenaline's "sharp bilinear without scanlines" - consistently crispy, but without the added delay. i'm still not sure exactly how many milliseconds of delay are added with adrenaline and i do not have a PSP to test against. getting rid of that extra bit of delay makes timing sensitive games way more enjoyable, and i don't have to keep opening up the adrenaline settings every time the display reverts to bilinear and doesn't reflect the set preferences.
Yeah, I was also disappointed with how the PSP looked through the Framemeister. No matter what settings I adjusted, everything just looked blurry. Went back to emulating the games on PC.
@@hucz No shit sherlock. It's not as obvious as you claim based on this post gbatemp.net/threads/how-accurate-is-psp-emulation-on-vita.412851/#post-6104275 Owned
@@roahnosh It's very obvious, anyone in the scene knows this, quit acting like you just blessed us with supreme knowledge. Nobody asked, you just needed to assert yourself and post something to feel better about shit you learned. Writing 'owned' at the end of your comment just validates how ridiculous I am making you sound, so thanks for helping me out.
@@hucz most people aren't in "the scene" and it's not common knowledge among average users that the Vita contains some PSP hardware. Besides that, you're the one getting butthurt over a simple RUclips comment.
I own the PS TV.... bought it when it finally became available in the U.S. I played a couple Vita games on it and it worked fine but I wanted it to stream my PS4 too it with the PS TV hooked too a monitor in a different room over the network....which did not work fine. Graphics and framerate was ok but the massive (controller) latency made that feature unusable. Also the biggest downside of the PS TV is that (for some reason) it doesn't support a ton of Vita games (there's a list out there of supported games online somewhere)...even though that was it's primary purpose. Long story short the thing was pretty worthless and It's been sitting in a box collecting dust for a loooong time. So I'm glad to see someone is actually doing something with it.
I recently hacked mine with Henkaku Enso running on 3.60. I was having trouble with the SD2Vita but after 2 days of trying to figure out what I did wrong, I just re-worked the hack from begining to end and now have it running fine. I unblocked games from not playing so Its definitely great for running PS1 and PSP games with the PS3 or PS4 controller. If you can hack it or sell it as its rare.
This is something I have been looking out for,for sometime. The last time I checked having a phat psp running on 1.5 CFW would let you stream games to your pc which would probably make for the best way to capture and play psp or psone games. I figured this video would be it's upgrade but it sure isn't it... Thanks for the extensive coverage anyway.
Thinking logically about the 1080i thing, surely if a bob-deinterlacing method is used, there would be no deinterlacing artefacts because it’s only 960x540 of actual Vita image.
For modded PSPs you can use a PC program called remotejoy which will display the psp on your HD monitor, and you can map the buttons to the keyboard. then use a program to convert the keyboard bindings to controller buttons if you want to use a ps3/ps4/xbox controller. I have been using my PSP this way since 2009 I'm not too sure if it interger upscales or not, but may be a good option for those with only a PSP-1000 (like me)
A little clearer, but I am noticing that line through the screen in various spots while playing Lunar: Silver Star Harmony. Will be looking forward to future releases for this plugin, though - very good stuff indeed.
This is also a big deal for those of us multisync PC CRT monitors. Especially if they unlock a 544p output mode, which PC CRT's will sync to no problem. I was already playing Vita TV games at 1080i (1088 if you count the overscanned pixels) to have the same lines-per field as a Vita, but the bilinear filter practically defeated the purpose. So integer scaling is a big deal. This is definitely going to encourage me to revisit the system.
[Coury] For PSP games, I run scaling mode in "Integer" and scaling Algorithm in "Point." That should look nice if you have the official download on the system. If you're going to be booting it with Adrenaline, go into the Adrenaline settings and set Graphics Filtering to "Original", smooth graphics to "No" and set your screen scale X and Y for both PSP and PS1 to "1.000"
I don't make it very far into your videos before I hit the like button. And then as it plays I find myself going down to it again and again, noticing that I already hit it. There's so much good in them, and now I'm going to have to do this. I remember when I bought the PSTV, it was because I needed a ps3 controller, and buying a pstv pack with a controller and several games was actually cheaper. Sure the controller had lower build quality--but its battery didn't.
Do not mess with us Vita fans
We literally cannot let go
Every 6 six months or so there's something huge in the Vita Homebrew community, and the releases seem to be really increasing recently. We are keeping alive what sony ignored.
Cheers Vita owners!
Love Vita and proud owner of Vita Island
Too late imho. A lot of these hits were much earlier in the PSP, homebrew was the reason the PSP was so popular.
@vpn rockies the whole ps2 library? No that would take years to do........select popular games however perhaps on a poll would be the best way to go
Man I want one of these so bad I just don't want to spend a couple 100 on it. I was playing my vita yesterday
Oh wow I was just thinking of looking into the state of PSTV improvements so this is way beyond what I was hoping to find. Excellent!
The entire Vita scene is incredible and amazing new things seem to release weekly.
I wish this came out a month ago! I didn't realize that PSP games perfectly integer scaled to the Vita screen. Went back into the Adrenaline settings and found that you need to set it to original and turn smoothing off to get this sharp scaling (it's surprising that this combo works because when original scaling is selected it says the other graphics options don't apply).
At least this video came out before I played more than an hour of FFIV with LCD3x scaling :)
It would be interesting to see someone modify this to output true 1080p, which would allow a 2x scale of PSVita games by cropping 4 pixels off, or to modify it to allow 1x scale without black borders.
The PSTV was such a steal when stores started clearing them out. The new setup looks great, Coury!
Retro Tech Select I still remember getting one for 20 bucks when they were getting cleared out!
Didn't see this comment when I made mine.
Yeah, my local Walmart had then for $10 at one point back around 2015-ish.
$10. And I didn't grab a single one 😑
Only last year did I find a terrific deal on a lightly used 1000 model Vita and I'm so glad I grabbed it. I use my Vita more than my PS4 and Switch Lite combined.
I'm still kicking myself for not picking one up when I saw them in every target/walmart for 20-40 bucks
I got lucky on my timing and bought the only PSTV bundle available in the US and got some Lego game I don't care about, a brand new Dualshock 3, and the hardware (and accessories, ofc) for just $60 USD around 2015/16 lol.
Sadly now you need to sell your soul for one, the prices are too high, I have a og Psvita hacked and I used OBS to output image in my laptop and I use a ps3 controller to play games like a PStv, I wish the image output was a bit more pixel perfect but its still good enough for me.
Wow, now I’m really glad I picked up the PSTV while it was affordable online.
I was JUST looking into this sort of solution for the Vita TV. I was beginning to think it was doomed to never meet its full potential. Thank you for the video! (and Cuevavirus for the mod!)
Thank you guys so much for this! I have an HDMI splitter to use with the PSTV but man will this help my captures look so much cleaner.
I always found the choice of a 960*544 screen interesting. By comparison, standard definition PAL content is 720*576 pixels in either interlaced or progressive, while NTSC content is 720*480. So the Vita's vertical resolution is between that of PAL and NTSC content.
Because of this video I just bought a PSTV. Now using sharp scale to play Final Fantasy tactics on It.
Thanks for these types of videos. I find them interesting and informative.
I kinda regret not picking one up when they were dirty cheap and no one wanted them :|
Got one for 70 in October :/ had to get that chance
I grabbed a used one for $20 a few years ago, the prices nowadays are just stupid.
Yeah not getting a PS TV when it was dirt cheap is legit one of my biggest gaming regrets, if not my biggest. I quite love the Vita and it's library but I prefer playing on the tv when possible. Just didn't think the price would get so insane as it did.
True story....My friend at the time, purchased a PS4 and at the time, they bundled the PSTV with the PS4. My friend didn't even know what it was, so i explained what it was and what he can do with it. He wasn't interested and said i could have it if i wanted it!
I've had it ever since and always had 3.60 cfw on it, since it was available. The last time i messed with it, i installed enso cfw on it and on my PSvita. I haven't played with either since then.
I think i may install the shape scale plug-in over the weekend to check it out...
I got one secondhand on Mercari for $9 a few years ago thanks to a few coupons. One of the best deals I've ever gotten.
Silent Hill's resolution change being life and death? I truly felt that.
Hi Mr Mario. Can you help me out pls?! I was dumb and trust his "just use autoplugin to set the config" and now my PSTV doenst recognize my SD Card anymore. There's no Henkaku/H-Encore Bubble or a Vitashell Bubble there anymore. The system Informations shows that i'm still on 3.65 with Henkaku. Because i haven't Vitashell anymore i can't access my vita via WINSCP to fix the config there. What can i do?! I've put a lot of work into this the last 3 days to run this and install all my games and stuff. Is there a way to repair the PSTV?!
@@RaGe2306 Follow the guide again, it's pretty easy to get back to the Bubble being there.
@@ChrisKola i fixed it in the meanwhile. :)
I have a framemeister and it's sad that I can't play my original copy of Silent Hill on my original Playstation and have to put it on a PS3 or my 15-inch CRT.
By the way. Thanks for your great tutorials that helped me many times to improve my gaming experience
Great episode Coury! I’ve been loving my Vita 2000 lately. Just finished Gravity Rush last night and had a blast.
amazing work from the mod community and MLiG as always to bring attention to the work being done here!
The pixels are very uneven when fitted scaling is used with nearest neighbor scaling. I fully understand Sony's choice of using bilinear here.
Got myself a Vita TV a few months ago. One of the best buys I’ve made in ages!
Finally! Was eager to see you guys dissecting this homebrew. Great job, guys!
I was just thinking that I needed to watch a 20 minute video that stops every 3 minutes to play an ad. Great work!
What ads?
Add an Mclassic to sharpscale to turn 544p into 1088p. (then you can crop out the empty space and downscale it by 8 pixels to make it 1080p)
Hey there, thanks a ton! This will help me greatly.
Just a note for those trying to install this. If you have a memory card, make sure to edit the config file that's on the memory card (ux0)
I literally just fixed my vita's broken screen today and you guys go and upload this, what a surprise
Another thing of note is you can get native res video out of *any* PS Vita over USB using the UDCD-UVC plugin by Xerpi: github.com/xerpi/vita-udcd-uvc
It’s as straightforward to setup as Sharpscale is for a PSTV, and just shows up as a USB webcam in windows where you can add it to capture programs like OBS easily. No viewer software needed like a 3DS or PSP.
A video that has both Valkyria Chronicles and DOAX gets a thumbs up. Always.
Welp, now kicking myself even harder for skipping those fire sale Vita TVs.
Same, and it was that Lego movie bundle.
I grabbed one simply because I wanted to play Castlevania Rondo of Blood remake on the big screen. But then I found out the game wasn't on the white-list to run. So I waited probably around a year or so before finally hacks were released so I could properly play the damn thing. Thankfully I only paid $40 at the time, when they were trying to clear the things out, haha.
They were 20 bucks in 2015 in case anyone is wondering.
@@roahnosh Damn. I never saw them quite that low in England. But now a new one is about £120
I bought the LEGO movie bundle one way back when for like $40... and now they are fetching like $150 on eBay!
There's also the Adrenaline plugin for the Vita, which allows you to play most if not all PSP games and homebrew. There's some video options in the menu, I found the sharpest option was "sharp bilenar without scanlines" which is basically a 2x integer scale. If you have Sharpscreen set on integer though, there's not really any difference between that and original mode. Also if you're running at 1080i with any scaling filters the framerate lowers to 30fps on all titles.
Unfortunately Adrenaline adds a ton of input lag. Wish it would be improved but it hasn't been updated since last march. :/
Still waiting for RGB 211.
Great vid so far tho.
A voltar and mlig video in one day awsome 😁
I’m kinda a tech hoarder and I had to stop myself from getting one of these especially when they were like $30 local for a time. I have modded handhelds galore including the Vita, PSP and 3DS. All filled with games so doubt I’ll ever get around to playing them all.
Still love watching you guys exploit the hell out of devices that get shunned by mainstream consumers. That thing is perfect for everything Sony retro wise. All those classic PSP and PS1 titles running near perfect in HD with such a small footprint is sweet. Add in the more modern Vita games and your set for hours of wasting time. Plus it can do movies and streaming (for a time it did) if you want to include that function.
Thanks for the video. I only bought the PS TV, so I was unaware of lack of features. That, and I only played a few Vita games on it.
The PSTV, when I initially bought it back in 2015, was underwhelming and was thrown into a drawer. 5 years later, after the softmods were put in, vita memory card option removed in favor of USB memory, Adrenaline, and of course, the ability to force every Vita game to work with the system, has made it my go-to when I want to play any Sony portable platform. To me, it renders the original systems as just showpieces on stands.
I originally bought mine in 2016 because I needed a new PS3 controller, and the cheapest I could get one new was in a bundle with the PSTV for 39 bucks. I thought the PSTV would just be a bonus that I would toss aside, especially since I didn't have much interest in the Vita, so I didn't really do anything with it at the time. Fast forward a bit and I discover homebrew. Now I have the PSTV setup to play all of my PSP games plus a lot of my favorite PS1 games, as well as a couple of digital Vita games I bought. So yeah by far the best part of that deal was the PSTV, especially since the controller now has a faulty left stick that drifts lol.
Same. Just broke it out after modding my Vita, and realizing it's awesome. Paid 24.99, got it home, threw it in a drawer until a week ago.
Thanks for the video. Very insightful. I own a Vita and a PS TV, but i did not use that plugin on the PS TV yet so this comes in handy.
What an amazing, detailed, and comprehensive breakdown!
been waiting for something like this for ages! thanks!!
I picked up a PSTV a long while back and hacked it in the hope I could FINALY play PSP games on the tv without all the blur you get with a stock psp and the cable.. I was very dissapointed. This however gives me hope I can get what I orginally wanted, I shall definalty be checking this out! Awesome videos guys! thank you!
PSP with Sharpscale looks pretty good in comparison to that method, although what kills playing PSP on the PSTV is the unbearable input lag you get with Adrenaline. Using my DS4 it feels like it's around 4-5 frames.
This was really informative! Thanks for your continued experiments on how to play the classics!
Thanks for the video. Since I already have a PSTV (glad I hadn't tried to sell it on ebay yet, as planned), I'll tinker and play with this upgrade. However, I think i'll end up returning to playing all these games on their intended, dedicated platforms+intended displays, which I am lucky enough to have.
Very cool. Going to dig my PSTV out of whatever dusty bin it's currently residing in, and will give this a shot. The PSP through the Framemeister can look nasty, so this sounds like a good alternative for capturing.
Oh, this is sooooo awesome! Thanks for raising awareness for this, guys.
I'll give this a shot in a couple of weeks. I haven't use my CIB PS TV in years. This has peaked my interest for real!
Regarding PSP supposedly not being able to display PSP games over composite or S-Video:
While this is impossible on the 2000 model, this was possible on the 3000 model. Picture quality is pretty good too (I have a new-old-stock official Sony cable).
just got around to hacking my pstv/installing sharpscale and.. in the words of the great Marc Duddleson "Wow.. did it always look this good!?" love you guys thanks for everything
I'm going to have to try this out. Funny that you mention the DVDO Edge, as that is what my PSTV is connected to now. It used to be my universal upscaler until I got a Framemeister, but I still use it for the HDMI inputs.
I love your Content so much. Thanks for helping me with older consoles.
Now if only 4K TVs had nearest neighbor upscaling
I wish the PSTV was still found for $20 at Best Buy 😔
the PS3 has an option for actual upscaling like the Emulator PPSSPP for PSP remasters however we in the USA did not get them as they were only released in japan and the limited library of games you could play on it were not very long without issues
I am so glad I just hacked my PsTV. It's worth it just for the PsP games alone.
This is amazing! The PSTV was such a disappointment for me due to these issues. I didn't know this existed so thanks for spreading the good word. Also, it has been far too long since I've replayed Wild ARMs.
0:13 you ever just leave your psp on the soil to grow?
I left mine out for a couple weeks and suddenly it became a Vita
Now I just have to find a PSTV that isn't ludicrously over priced!
They are usually $100 - $150 on eBay. And that's usually the cheapest price.
I bought last week for 55 €, it was lucky because even in Italy the price goes from 80 to 130 € and they are very rare... I also have a vita 2000 bought in April during the quarantine
I would like to see a list of the games featured on this video, as some games looked quite interesting and I don't know their names.
From which point on?
I have been looking at getting a PSTV for a while now. I might have to actually make the jump finally...well, after I finally pick up an AVS of course.
Considering the price of the PlayStation TV these days, I'll hope for an unofficial, cheaper method to play these games on my HDTV. Hopefully it'll come sooner than later.
Was hoping you guys would cover this!
EDIT: I installed Sharpscale and have been messing around with it since it first was released, but really needed you guys to break it down in language I could understand.
I was not aware of this. I've messed around a fair bit with Vita and PSTV homebrew in the past and the blurry mess was my main gripe.
It's worth noting that most PSP games are also playable on the PS3 if people want a more accessable device. The PSTV can be hard to come by nowadays.
Lol I always had a feeling the psp had some kind of filtering going on for ps1 games. Glad I held onto the pstv, taking the games with me on the train on the vita then plugging the memory card into the tv works somewhat well.
i am a fairly new vita owner but i have found sharpscale to be useful for playing PSP games through adrenaline on the handheld vita hardware as well!
adrenaline's filtering modes add some noticeable input delay (although not as bad as the ppsspp emulator in my experience), while setting adrenaline's graphics filtering to "original" and turning off bilinear filtering in the official vita settings mitigates most of the delay. however, the latter gives inconsistent results, appearing to to return to the bilinear filter every time a game is launched and the home button is pressed, bringing up the "Do you want to quit the game?" menu. opening up the adrenaline settings menu or going into power save mode for a moment and back resets the display to your desired settings, but needs to be done every time a game is launched or the home button is pressed, which isn't a dealbreaker but has become tedious over time. hopefully, one day, the input delay issues in adrenaline will be addressed, but it's not looking likely as the last commit was nearly 3 years ago :(.
setting sharpscale to either fitted or integer scaling with point filtering effectively looks the same as adrenaline's "sharp bilinear without scanlines" - consistently crispy, but without the added delay. i'm still not sure exactly how many milliseconds of delay are added with adrenaline and i do not have a PSP to test against. getting rid of that extra bit of delay makes timing sensitive games way more enjoyable, and i don't have to keep opening up the adrenaline settings every time the display reverts to bilinear and doesn't reflect the set preferences.
The PSTV improvent but actually i was to thinking about that just more any game console like PS2,PS3,PS1,PSP and PSVita.
Yeah, I was also disappointed with how the PSP looked through the Framemeister. No matter what settings I adjusted, everything just looked blurry. Went back to emulating the games on PC.
Fyi: The Vita has the mips chip inside and it can run PSP games semi-natively.
thx captain obvious
@@hucz No shit sherlock. It's not as obvious as you claim based on this post
gbatemp.net/threads/how-accurate-is-psp-emulation-on-vita.412851/#post-6104275
Owned
@@roahnosh It's very obvious, anyone in the scene knows this, quit acting like you just blessed us with supreme knowledge. Nobody asked, you just needed to assert yourself and post something to feel better about shit you learned.
Writing 'owned' at the end of your comment just validates how ridiculous I am making you sound, so thanks for helping me out.
@@hucz "so thanks for helping me out."
You're welcome :D
@@hucz most people aren't in "the scene" and it's not common knowledge among average users that the Vita contains some PSP hardware.
Besides that, you're the one getting butthurt over a simple RUclips comment.
new to the channel, instantly loved the video, subbed!
Would love to see you cover the 1080p @30hz plugin that was released awhile back (probably the hardest plugin to track down).
Heck yeah! New MLIG!
Best theme / Intro music ever.
Digging the shopping district background noise lol
Got super lucky and scored one of these bad boys for $19.99 clearance at Wal-Mart. Still my favorite find, the thing is awesome even unmodded.
Could you put the list per minute of the games shown?
Looks like my PSTV might get a use case now!
Wondering if the third-party prices for PSTV might dip a little bit now that Persona 4 Golden is on Steam
Hopefully, the Vita version of P4G dips just a tad. I didn't pick it up during the $20 used time and now CV has inflated the price three times that.
I love my PSP. I just wish it came out in a better time in my life and I would have collected more games.
Yes OMG a new RGB episode!!!
Great video, man!
I own the PS TV.... bought it when it finally became available in the U.S. I played a couple Vita games on it and it worked fine but I wanted it to stream my PS4 too it with the PS TV hooked too a monitor in a different room over the network....which did not work fine. Graphics and framerate was ok but the massive (controller) latency made that feature unusable. Also the biggest downside of the PS TV is that (for some reason) it doesn't support a ton of Vita games (there's a list out there of supported games online somewhere)...even though that was it's primary purpose. Long story short the thing was pretty worthless and It's been sitting in a box collecting dust for a loooong time. So I'm glad to see someone is actually doing something with it.
I recently hacked mine with Henkaku Enso running on 3.60. I was having trouble with the SD2Vita but after 2 days of trying to figure out what I did wrong, I just re-worked the hack from begining to end and now have it running fine. I unblocked games from not playing so Its definitely great for running PS1 and PSP games with the PS3 or PS4 controller. If you can hack it or sell it as its rare.
This is something I have been looking out for,for sometime.
The last time I checked having a phat psp running on 1.5 CFW would let you stream games to your pc which would probably make for the best way to capture and play psp or psone games.
I figured this video would be it's upgrade but it sure isn't it...
Thanks for the extensive coverage anyway.
Then what would you suggest instead? Clearly what MLiG is promoting isn't for everyone and is highly inconsistent as well.
Thinking logically about the 1080i thing, surely if a bob-deinterlacing method is used, there would be no deinterlacing artefacts because it’s only 960x540 of actual Vita image.
PSP still impresses me but the omission of a right analog was kind of a bummer. Reminded me of player FPS games on Dreamcast.
For modded PSPs you can use a PC program called remotejoy which will display the psp on your HD monitor, and you can map the buttons to the keyboard. then use a program to convert the keyboard bindings to controller buttons if you want to use a ps3/ps4/xbox controller. I have been using my PSP this way since 2009 I'm not too sure if it interger upscales or not, but may be a good option for those with only a PSP-1000 (like me)
I bought my Vita TV on a sale for £30 new. It came with a voucher for a psn game bundle. All in all a great deal for the price
How does this compare to the "sharp bilinear filter" mode in Adrenaline for PSP/PS1 games?
A little clearer, but I am noticing that line through the screen in various spots while playing Lunar: Silver Star Harmony. Will be looking forward to future releases for this plugin, though - very good stuff indeed.
I am glad I kept my PSTV. Might have to try this out.
Thanks you guys. You are awesome. We love you.
The gamma at 14:10 on the right image is really off. Definitely too high.
The PlayStation 3D Display has a proper PSP zoom mode and is probably the best way to play PSP discs on an external screen.
I put my tv in a boot loop trying to install storagemgr. How do I get out of it?
Wow! Might have to finally get a softmod on my PSTV now!
thank you very very much for this lovely detailed information video....
Still waiting on the internal resolution PSP mod
I TOLD you all the PSTV was worth picking up when it was sold for nickels!!!!!!
What did they use to be sold for? I was lucky enough to find one for $80 mint, complete in box last year on marketplace. I see they run $100+ now
I bought mine for $30 back in 2015. They really were dirt cheap then.
"We will NOT show you how to hack your vita! But here's MrMario's video...." XD
Mr. Mario 🙌
This is also a big deal for those of us multisync PC CRT monitors. Especially if they unlock a 544p output mode, which PC CRT's will sync to no problem.
I was already playing Vita TV games at 1080i (1088 if you count the overscanned pixels) to have the same lines-per field as a Vita, but the bilinear filter practically defeated the purpose. So integer scaling is a big deal. This is definitely going to encourage me to revisit the system.
What's the "Check Please" sticker @ 1:49?
This video is so helpful! I was wondering what settings you recommend in Sharpscale for Dissidia?
[Coury] For PSP games, I run scaling mode in "Integer" and scaling Algorithm in "Point." That should look nice if you have the official download on the system. If you're going to be booting it with Adrenaline, go into the Adrenaline settings and set Graphics Filtering to "Original", smooth graphics to "No" and set your screen scale X and Y for both PSP and PS1 to "1.000"
@@mylifeingaming Thank you!!! Aand 1080i in official settings?
you can actually record your vita screen thru obs and a plugin it basically recognizes the vita as a webcam
yees! More love for the PS Vita!
What would be the correct settings for games of:
Playstation Vita
psp
ps1?
Quick note - if you're using a USB device as your main memory card (i.e., usbmc), the Sharpscale config app seems to be buggy, and crash on startup.
I don't make it very far into your videos before I hit the like button. And then as it plays I find myself going down to it again and again, noticing that I already hit it. There's so much good in them, and now I'm going to have to do this. I remember when I bought the PSTV, it was because I needed a ps3 controller, and buying a pstv pack with a controller and several games was actually cheaper. Sure the controller had lower build quality--but its battery didn't.
I have my PSP hooked up to my TV with composite cables and I can assure you, it will play PSP games through my TV this way, I do it all the time lol.