/v/ - Video Games

here you go faggot.

https://archive.fo/LrFX2

So is 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim going to be in development hell and swiped under the rug? Are even the nips getting any news?

>>15606234

My guess is that it will come not long after Catherine.

Atlus has been pretty nonstop with releases, and it looks like their old habits of avoiding games they publish cannibalizing each other to continue

>>15605967

>Bloodstained is still in the chart.

Anon, I…

>my model 1000's charge port isn't working properly

>can't afford to pay for a repair

guess i'm not playing any vita games for a while.

Managed to henkaku my 3.68 several days ago. Is there a site that has a listing of all the fan translation patches?

What of game modding? Is it simple for anyone to port PC version mods to the Vita?

>>15607050

>Is there a site that has a listing of all the fan translation patches?

I presume you weren't asking about something like vndb.org and meant something that specifically tracks vita translations.

I don't believe there is at the moment but I am also aware of fewer than ten vita specific translations so I don't think a site like that would have much use, particularly when vndb could track psv translations just as easily.

>What of game modding? Is it simple for anyone to port PC version mods to the Vita?

Game modding is done through RePatch reDux. Mods are done by naming modded files with file names that the game calls.

I'm unsure of the difficulty of porting PC mods however if they use similar file setups it should be moderately doable. The Binding of Isaac has a tool that can convert mods between PC and Vita.

>>15607300

Probably because english localizations exist and many people haven't heard of the retranslation efforts even on PC

Doesn't help that they were also apparently somewhat controversial.

AlternativeZero ported them to Vita It think, or at least he did for one of them; I know he posted both on his website

>>15606527

Take it up with cuckchan, or tell OP to go see if they have a more up to date one. There hasn't been an 8ch specific Vita chart that went much of anywhere.

>>15607300

>god only knows why, are missing the ones for Neptunia Re;birth 2 and 3

Maybe fan retranslations are treated as different than ground-up fan translation? Or perhaps considering the amount of whiners that resulted in Vol 2 and 3 being [DOERRED], some of the base considers them unnecessary compared to the official release quality and maybe that effects whether such places want to raise awareness? Hell, RHDN doesn't even have a section for Vita games in their translation menu.

Anyhow, personally, I wouldn't want direct links to the shithole that is reddit on a guide specific to 8ch. However, short of making a folder/folders on mega and keeping them and the link(s) maintained, or making a site specifically to archive and host Vita patches, I guess there's waiting for RHDN to finally make a section (though it seems they don't host natively for patches bigger than an particular size, and beyond that "respect" some creators telling them they want their clicks and to direct them to their own place instead). Latter might be the quickest route, telling them they've got an entire missing system that has seen multiple patches as of now (PS3 has one of its own at only two finished patches), unless they've got a stick up their ass about it, which they well might. Then one could at least start making pages I suppose.

>>15607322

>I know he posted both on his website

I was trying to remember what link I had it bookmarked under. Site's dead now for whatever reason.

>>15607026

>crappy nude mods

>Ratchet & Clank.

I saw both of these in the same brief glance and assumed the worst of you.

>>15607354

>site's dead

Thanks for letting me know anon. I spent the last 30 minutes archiving everything on his site.

I got everything except his contact page, oddly enough thank me later :^)

http://archive.fo/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://alternativezerosubs.wordpress.com/*

>>15607476

Files are usually worth worth mirroring even if they're older versions

>>15607523

I'd actually checked Wayback Machine after seeing the site was dead and got worried upon finding that only the main page had been archived there. Beyond that though, the megas that were linked are gone. Though I suppose that's at least proof the files should exist if someone knows where to ask.

>>15607543

The megas I've checked still exist though.

>>15607555

I checked the one for Rebirth 3 (copy url from the link, and remove the archive preface stuff) and got rerouted to the main page after two loading wheels. Additionally, do note that clicking the Mega link within Archive will just take you to some other designated mega. The address is different than the actual mega link, and the one that returned for that was a mega of some .avi file which I highly doubt is the patch.

Also checking those digits.

>>15607603

I believe what happens is that the archive can't find a mega at the right "date" and thus pulls a similar one, thinking it's related enough. At least, that's my take on it.

>Just linking/mirroring the download loses a bunch of info on how to install it and known problems, and there's also a possibility of it being updated.

That's why if someone's going to do something, it requires maintaining the whole. If the mega goes down, make another and fix the link, etc. But to do that, you still need something for people to find it through, or be able to make sue of it with. I've been annoyed of late because I found that someone had once uploaded something important to a game I like almost a decade ago, but the actual information has been long lost to time due to the site it was at going down, and scrounging archives to see if I could get back far enough (for some reason the site went from vidya/character fansite to a Japanese moonrune dating service one to not being owned anymore), only to find no one bothered to archive that particular page, let alone the images it had contained. All that exists now is hearsay from those that did see it, and considering it was official extended characterization of someone that didn't get much development in the game itself, it sounds fanfic tier at first glance compared to the game itself. So now we get wikis and such citing scans that can't be found anymore of a book pretty much no one in the west has access to because it never came out here and the uploader had to scan an import of, and might as well have not existed for all the hard proof "word of mouth" evidence has because they never bothered to keep it up and no one else apparently saved/spread it. I suppose though that this is just late night rambling; point being people need to make sure things are up-kept, kept together, and accurate, as finding something of interest but either not having the actual parts or how to properly utilize them feels like shit. Keeping mirrors and reuploading is a good practice in making sure patches and such continue to circulate; at the same time though requires the person managing them to check often that something is still workable, or have a means to get commentary from others when it isn't. While obviously a thread like this is a decent way to do so, who's to say you're not away from the ability to see it for a while? Does pastebin or whatever it is that you're trying to manage compiling vita stuff into a guide with allow for that, especially if without needing an account for replies (less requirements is always better)? I'm just saying.

Did find a lot of old late 90s/early 2000s relevant fan art in my search though. All lowish res/dimension, and some admittedly fairly shitty, but there's a sort of endearing quality about it too.

Emulators never ever

Archive all the games as much as you can. Nintenshit has been using the dmca tactic to sell you their shit emulators. Sony will follow suit .

>>15607639

>might do a New Game+ run

I hope you've saved all the equipment with +stats, few tools don't hurt either

>>15607769

NPS will offer a lot of the vita's library to someone who's archiving but it starts to get harder to find dumps of obscure games.

>>15607821

So are you planning on an "all together" sort of compilation guide; considering how confusing things used to be, I haven't really kept up on things myself, between what was adding better functionality and what was still considered safe to even use. Put off hacking my Vita myself due to it, and also changes to game rips (I think? I recall Mai or something else not being consider up to par after a certain point) making me wonder if the ones I'd even picked up in preparation before would be any good at this point anyhow. I'll admit I haven't been in these threads for some time though, so maybe I ought to give the links at the top more reading. But I remember it feeling pretty annoying in the past when the information on what to do felt real spread out.

Word of advice for the paste file on the git though, if it's your own to edit: Put an "Updated on [DD/MM/YY]" thing at the very top for better insurance of accuracy to date. I know the link to the main repository has an update listed, but it's good to keep one within the actual file too, I think.

>>15607639

>I cant take screenshots directly with the pngshot plugin

Works on my machine. Just gotta press the button combo fast enough so it captures before the PSP menu pops up.

>>15607821

>it's possible to update independently of the threads

I just submitted something. Was considering adding as section about using online on a hacked Vita, but refrained from doing so since I myself don't actually use online or connect to the PSN at all.

>>15608106

>Works on my machine. Just gotta press the button combo fast enough so it captures before the PSP menu pops up.

I can do that on PSP games (it's actually better to press the PS button first, then PS+Start) but doing it with PS1 games on POPS gave that weird shit as a result like you could see in the 4th pic. Despite that screenshot issue, running PS1 games on POPS is definitely better than with Retroarch, especially with multi-discs titles, and the PSX-Rearmed core has a bug that put the game into infinite loading after putting the handheld into sleep.

>>15607815

One of the main contributors announced he was back after getting a new job contract according to his Reddit post so expect new NPS releases of niche Vita games by this end of October, and twice per month following that

>>15607367

>I'm not hacking my vita leave me alone

You're in the wrong thread. Piratefags took this over almost a year ago. Content discussion is few & far between aside of one or two entities.

>Cheapest VN

Those would be western-made indie titles. Are they good? Fuck if I know, I don't but western indies trying to break into VNs. As is, you're attempting to ask for something that is very, very taste-oriented.

>>15607367

Why wouldn't you hack your Vita faggot?

Why let Sony have control and power over you by buying over the (((PSN)))?

Moreover sales in general are decreasing over the Vita. The last sale from what I heard didn't have any Vita titles on sale while PS4 versions of Vita games did have discounts

>>15609629

What do you expect? The library matured and is vast enough for people to play things nobody else has, the advent of emulation doesn't do this any favors. It would feel pointless to share experiences. I've been playing vanillaware games but it feels like I wouldn't get much discussion out of the Vita thread and it would be better for me to make a dedicated thread for it

>>15609629

>paying for any games at all, ever

Get a load of this nigger.

>>15609629

>Piratefags took this over almost a year ago

Excuse me, but I've been here from the start.

>>15609879

I owned Dragon's Crown as a cartridge before I hacked the vita and played through it. I wish they would have added the dark elf as a character.

> PLAYAN

on my Switch and a modded 3DS. Haven't really thought much about the vita in a long time, nor have i seen any reason to, other than the fact that it's gonna die in a few months.

> WANTAN

The SRW games that are in english, too bad the one i really want is a fucking PS4 exclusive, really don't want to buy a PS4 for any reason.

> BUYAN

I bought a second vita with a 2.01 firmware, kind of just tempted to hack it, and then sell it off so i can just buy the few physical games i really want. I already own all the games i wanted beforehand, and all of the fan translations are either going to be either lacking subtitles for the moon babble voice acting, games i could get elsewhere, unfinished, or of visual novels, not very appealing either way.

>>15607354

>Hell, RHDN doesn't even have a section for Vita games in their translation menu.

Not because there isn't any, per se. It's more because current gen shit is verboten there.

>>15610398

You could create those types of posts, it's not like people are adverse to discussing games.

The biggest barrier to discussing games is that the Vita is very close to the end of it's life and has been for a while, especially for the Western audience and there aren't many new games to discuss.

>>15610398

I think you can get Utawarerumono 1 n 2 for cheap on vgp if you havent already played.

>one of the guides recommend OclockVita over VSHMenu

Did something change, or does it need updating?

>>15610438

Depends on what you want or need. VSHMenu is based on OclockVita but has a bigger feature set. For me OclockVita is enough to get the job done, I don't need any of the crap VSH offers.

>>15610411

If anything,, being able to pirate everything easily is probably one of the reasons these threads aren't completely dead yet. With easy of accessibility there a much better chance of people trying out new games and discussion occurring.

>>15608108

>Ideally it'd be anonymously editable though, can pages be set that way like on Wikipedia?

I'm honestly not sure. My contributions were to threads made here, as they'd take games and descriptions people wrote and add them themselves for those that didn't feel like having a name out there.

Should also state that they do have an existing Vita page, albeit a small one. I think at one point there was an idea to add guides and such, beyond just the games, to try to increase usefulness, but it doesn't seem like that happened.

>There's nothing to lose by trying. I say try contacting.

Beyond that, the other option is maybe GameFAQs as apparently that original poster's account is still up and occasionally active from what I've seen, but I'm not sure if the site allows direct messaging (which I certainly can't see without registering, and I'd rather not make an account if it turns out there's no DM system). Hell, it wouldn't shock me if they've been asked before about reuploading such many times already and never did; ten years is a long time. I suppose you're right though, that trying something for it would be better than not.

>Just curious what, and there's definitely nothing wrong with trying to document things for other people. Hell, I refer to my own thing fairly often when trying to remember a little detail.

PS2 set up for HDD Loading. I didn't like having to go back and forth between a bunch of different resources to figure out if something was missing, or to double check that something was correct, so I started to stitch the basics together as a text file, along with my own observations from doing the process myself. And again, unfortunately winhiip seems to have much better documentation and existing guides than the likes of hdldump, and I suspect that the issue feeds into itself (winhiip has more documentation because more people use it because its had more documentation, etc).

>>15609982

>It's more because current gen shit is verboten there.

That would be acceptable if they didn't have a preexisting 3DS section (albeit with nothing inside, and I know that like the Vita it's had at least a few patches finished). I mean, I can get that PS4, Xbone, and Switch may or may not even have translation efforts at this point, but the Vita's same generation as the 3DS, both of which having still been getting occasional digital releases. Is that just a general policy there, waiting until a system is completely phased out to allow pages and stuff to be made for games pertaining to them to avoid stepping on the system owners' toes for the official library?

>>15610532

>Is that just a general policy there, waiting until a system is completely phased out to allow pages and stuff to be made for games pertaining to them

Thats the general policy of many sites that consider themselves more legitimate/archival/informative in nature. Just looking around at these rom sites, you'll see that they try not to touch anything thats a ps3 or xbox360 and beyond. You'll get more ballsy sites like Nicoblog to test the waters. That place still has vita games, but took down all of their 3ds games apparently over legal threats.

>>15610581

There are few things more hurting to me than seeing nicoblog getting anything taken down

most every rom can be found in other places but their prepatched, undubbed, fanslated and modded ROMs as well as romhacks were the best shit around that you can't really find anywhere else

Fuck jewtendo; Nicoblog would be the only site I absolutely could not stand to see go down no matter what and I pray they'll be around for at least several years longer

>>15610967

Two main issues with Nicoblog:

>Bigger games usually being split into multiple downloads (and multiple ad page redirects to access megas if you can't block)

Granted, I've seen worse executed game download sites, but still.

>Purging of hentai VNs and the like from their catalog

Aside from those I like them and their offbranch they moved their "retro" stuff to. And while I suppose some other sites will take up the banner of those that called it quits in time (the way said retro branch seems to now be looking for roms from multiple regions instead of just one or two NA or PAL ones), losing NB right now wouldn't be a good thing. Going to worry if Nintendo tries a VC for Gamecube games, because you just know there's going to be another wave of DMCAs or C&Ds on what places remain. At the very least though, there's the added buffer that aside from small sized games, NB doesn't directly host shit, the way EP did, which might have been a big part of why they were a top priority. That, and inbrowser emulation.

>>15610713

>At least in this case anyone can make an account and contribute

I tried to see how it would go and you ignored me ;_;

>I require hackability as a prerequisite to any game systems I pick up

I feel like we've talked about this before but it's the same for me. Using a vanilla console makes me sick. It's so much better when you actually have the freedom to do with it as you please. Transferring files to PC alone is a massive pain without Vitashell.

>>15610967

I download some undubbed Ys PSP game off nicoblog but it was still just the English dub when I tried. Needless to say, I don't trust them one bit. >>15611328

>the way EP did

The way EP still does

FTFY

Did Monster Monpiece not get a Western physical release? Only ones I find from eBay are Japan imports.

>>15611625

Unless I'm mistaken, Monster Monpiece didn't get a western release at all until the PC version came out.

>>15611625

Nope, game only ever got a PSN release, and it was bashed for being censored at that.

>>15611625

Digital only. Can't recall if Limited Run has done a physical copy at some point or another.

>>15611718

>>15611649

>>15611634

Well, damn, then I wonder if it is worth importing a copy if there is a translation patch, or if there is an uncensor for the PSN release.

>>15611915

Get it on Steam or import if you want to duck the censored cards.

>>15612164

>paying for a digital copy

kek

Just started Dungeon Traveler 2 and have picked up a maid. When does it get good?

>>15612891

The maid requires a bit of an investment to ramp up but scales rather well. I'd say they are noticeable around level 10

First Aid and Cook are decent for anti-magic zones assuming you don't use tons of items but those don't appear until later.

Self Sacrifice is alright but there isn't a major reason to invest more than one point unless I'm completely wrong and the bonus tp is amazing Generous Heart is going to help you stay in dungeons longer because the regen scales really well as you level. Maid Mastery is self explanatory and useful

There is very little reason to really attack with maids and you can generally find a use for cook/first aid each turn so focus on those instead of physical attacks from the backline.

Maid class change one allows you to focus on aoe buffs or aoe debuffs in the form of Bard or Dancer. The second class change allows more singing or dancing OR going to a hybrid support/damage hybrid whip class.

>>15611915

There's a decensored vita version floating around online.

>>15612952

I actually meant when does the game get good?

>>15612977

Isn't the maid gotten in the first 1-2 chapters? I started liking it a few chapters later.

>>15612997

I'm half way through the third forest dungeon, so maybe ch 2-3. Maybe I'll try to get back into it after I break some Gundams.

>>15611586

>Trend-following means little. People discover ant discuss old shit they love & adore. When they're not busy flooding the thread with 'how du i hax system?'

The thread is going to be full of people talking about what gets posted, most of the people who come here now are largely only interested in hacks/pirating so that tends to be what is discussed.

If you talk about nearly any game you can get a discussion going, even games that weren't popular for one reason or another.

>>15612977

I don't know what you don't like about the game. If it isn't difficult enough for you you'll probably need to wait for postgame as the story is largely training wheels in different areas.

If you don't like the style of game there isn't anything that will really change. It's a moderately well done first person dungeon crawler with waifus, if you're expecting anything else you will be disappointed.

>>15612997

The first story maid you get is in Prizen Woods, she's the fourth character you get and I believe she is chapter three or four.

If you get the DLC characters you start with several options in all classes.

>>15613037

>It's a moderately well done first person dungeon crawler with waifus

You could put emphasis on moderately well done when it comes to some of the classes. I can't seem to make Ninja viable and the odd scaling of wizard's skills that punish the player for ranking it higher than level 1 makes me scratch my head. Have not played 2-2 yet since it has not come west (and most likely won't by now) so I really do wish for someone to pick that up as a fan translation project.

>>15613191

And the fact that they let items outscale a specialized healing class due to spell caps. I'm not sure how they managed to keep so many issues seeing as it was ported from the PSP and they had the ability to fix that sort of thing.

I just got Valhalla Knights 3 for $2.50, does any of the DLC do anything substantial or is it all just reduce grind bullshit?

>>15613227

Looks like a few of them are extra characters and classes but I don't know if they're gaming changing.

Looking at the PSN it appears that the DLC boosts are split using a different preview image from actual additional content.

Just because I'm feeling like trying that recent Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo port.

>>15611915

There is a decensor patch but the only version I found was bundled with the full game.

https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0ByrUWR___l7AV3ZvYml5cDBWcFU&export=download

>>15611535

>I tried to see how it would go and you ignored me ;_;

Where's the page? I was never linked it.

>I feel like we've talked about this before but it's the same for me.

Probably. It's not the first time people have bitched about the hacking stuff.

>>15613037

>If you talk about nearly any game you can get a discussion going

That, but there's only so much I can say about the majority of what I play.

>>15612891

>When does it get good?

Put in the work. Lv 1 or 2 in her passives will let you quickly realize just how utterly broken the Maid class trees are far as the game goes.Doesn't mean the game won't beat your ass (it will). Just means there are fights your chances of walking away from a tough fight and not being wiped the next instant drop dramatically.

Protip advice: Maids are not offensive classes. Slap a Dagger onto them during the postgame and enjoy the speed benefit. Because you'll need it.

The exception to this is the Mistress class on the Maid Tree. If properly equipped and cared for, can become one of the more reliable back/front support and DPS units in the game. Trade off is it takes a lot of care to get there, and is one of the classes that isn't highly useful until postgame.

>I can't seem to make Ninja viable

High-investment class that's primarily support. The elemental arts are the only other consistent debuff in the game that stacks, and all of them become worthwhile save maybe Wind Arts which lowers enemy evasion (none of the enemies ever exercise dodge mastery on that level). The high maintenance comes with both the skill trees and what you mod your gear with. Because it's a support class, speed should be your highest priority. Stacking AGI is actually more important than stacking Speed: general rule of thumb.

>Wizard

TP draining class, yes, but easily your most-consistent damage dealer early on and late game. If you go with Witch, you can get away with 2 to 3 levels in your single-target spells for most of the game, and Lv 5 for later postgame encounters. There is a trick to the Witch class: Her Soul Drain & Blood Drain spells.

- Fast Casting

- Ignores special defense entirely (Kingdom is Without Enemies will become the bain of your existence)

- MASSIVE HP/TP grabs, unlike a Dark Lord's Soul Strike or Blood Strike. Deals some nice 4-digit damage and insta-heals your Witch in trade. 5 levels ini each cannot take you wrong and does wonders against even the 8 gods.

>Translating 2-2

I'm not good enough.

>>15614057

>Where's the page? I was never linked it.

I thought you were maintaining the git. I've submitted a merge request on there.

>>15612891

I liked it plenty already by the time I got the maid.

>>15614578

Oh my god, sorry! I never actually expected to see PRs used for this! But that's good it's also being used by me to learn a bit about its workflow. Thanks for that.

>>15614658

You're welcome. I will add a bunch of other stuff when I find the time and feel like it. This was just a trial run for me as well.

so is sony gonna make another portable handheld? Cause we can't expect Nintendo to monopolize the whole market with the "Switch" nonsense.

>>15614692

Unfortunately they have given no intent of any plans to do so.

I dunno how I would feel about it with nu-Sony and their policies that would fuck over a lot of future games either, as if they weren't doing that enough already

>>15614721

My god that looks like an abomination. I hope that never gets made; I would rather have no handheld than have to choose between a Nintendo and Sony Switch maybet that's a bit extreme but seriously fuck that noise

They're dumb fucks who didn't realize they have to be very persistent, aggressive and supportive with their handhelds. The Vita was such an amazing piece of hardware that never got the attention it deserves because of their incompetence and laziness with marketing the damn thing.

>>15614692

Even if they did, I wouldn't get it.

>>15614721

Aping the Switch is the absolute worst thing they could do because nobody that likes handhelds likes the goddamn Switch. They could literally just rerelease the Vita with better hardware and less retarded memory cards and people would buy it.

The PS4 and Switch library consisting almost entirely of Vita ports proves the games were never an issue and it was entirely due to retarded decisions they made with the hardware.

If they weren't morons they'd be able to see this.

>>15614856

A shame the games are embarassingly shitty to play.

>>15614881

why? playing kiwami now, it's a great game.

>>15614923

as you get higher level it really OPENS UP to new VISTAS

>>15614927

Vita Vistas.

Why use vsh or oclockvita over lolicon? Lolicon doesn't crash games and lets you save and autoload oc settings through GUI.

>>15615330

Does lolicon OC the GPU too? Last I heard it couldn't do that.

>>15615806

Yes it does. cpu to 500 and gpu to 333 mhz.

>>15615866

Well shit. In that case I don't see any reason to use OclockVita or VSH anymore. You need to config lolicon for every app, right? And probably blacklist them too. I have OclockVita that I use on a single game and configuring that is probably way faster than doing it for lolicon, since I can just whitelist that one game code and forget about it.

>>15614692

Even if Sony were to make a handheld somehow, I highly doubt there will be backwards compatibility for the PSP and PS1 titles, alongside with the Vita library. Sony has, for a very long time, a big fetish for proprietary shit too so I doubt they learned the lesson with the Vita.

>>15614793

>Vita was a solid handheld by being a PSP successor, not a 3DS clone.

I still wish the Vita got more ports of the remaining PS2 games, like its predecessor used to have. The PSP even had some ports of games from previous Sega systems like the Genesis Collection, Sakura Taisen 1&2, etc

>tfw no Zone of the Enders (which was originally planned by Konami before being canned)

>no Megami Tensei 3 featuring Dante from DMC

>no DMC trilogy

>no GrimGrimoire (sole Vanillaware game missing on the platform, although I recall somewhere that it was their least successful project)

>no Ace Combat

>no Rogue Galaxy

>no Dark Cloud

>no PS2 Suikoden (first two are present on PSP/PS1)

>no Growlanser 2-3-5-6 (first and fourth one are present on PSP)

>no Sakura Taisen 3 and 4

>no Zettai Zetsumei Toshi 1 and 2 (although the studio has been in serious disarray with the latest projects and development hell of 4)

>no Tales of Abyss and Symphonia (heard Abyss was ported on 3DS instead)

>no Atelier Iris trilogy (would have been better than the crappy Mysterious trilogy)

>no Ar no Tonelico I & II (since Ciel no Surge and Ar no Surge are present on Vita, but Banpresto/Bamco own the rights for Ar no Tonelico, not Koei Tecmo/Gust)

>we just got MGS HD, P4G, FFX HD, Odin Sphere remake, Amagami+ HD, Sly trilogy, and failed ports of God of War and Jax&Daxter

The current Vita library is still pretty good imho, but I cant help looking at the missed potential. I also like to believe part of why the PSP got so many PS2 ports was mostly because that handheld was born in the 6th-gen era with different mindsets from companies back then

>>15616012

Completely agree. If the next handheld of sony was just a ps2 portable, plain and simple, it could seriously do just that and nothing else, and i'd buy it on a whim.

To add on that i find strange we didn't get an exclusive final fantasy, kingdom hearts or other titles like with the psp.

>>15616053

Sole game Squeenix bothered to shit out as a Vita exclusive (before it later got ported on PS4/Switch) was Scarlet Saga.

Only a few niche studios (Falcom, Nippon Ichi Software, Experience, Marvelous, Compile Heart) contributed more to exclusive content on the handheld than the biggest japanese companies

>>15616372

There was also a rumor awhile back that Sony was paying off the bigger studios to abandon Vita for the PS4.

>>15616053

>we didn't get an exclusive final fantasy, kingdom hearts or other titles like with the psp

The vita could have probably run KH 1+2 like how it had the HD versions of FFX and X-2. It seems weird that they didn't try to port that series to the vita with how well it would have probably done.

>>15615955

Lolicon has a more efficient over clock and it's not necessary to use whitelist / blacklist because it doesn't cause crashes by default. Go to the game you want to oc, oc, and optionally save it as default for that game if you want it to auto oc on run. Ezpz.

>>15616613

>it doesn't cause crashes by default

Doesn't it cause Adrenaline to crash unless you except Adrenaline from plugins? For me personally, using OverclockVita was the most elegant solution since by being able to whitelist it, I could ensure that whenever a problem cropped up, OC could not be its cause 100%. The way lolicon works, it's always on in the background, it might cause some weird issues with games or other homebrew where you might not be able to immediately identify the culprit and thus make troubleshooting the problem more time consuming.

>>15616662

Also, I should add, lolicon came out a few days after I got OCVita, it's a combination of laziness and not wanting to try an early and at the time untested homebrew. If lolicon now is actually as stable as you say, I probably really should switch to it. 500Mhz mode sounds like it could be a real boon for emulators.

>>15616420

Interdasting, you got anything more to go off of for this?

>>15616012

Don't remind me of the lost potential anon. I'm happy with my Vita but the damn thing could've been such a high soarer and we could've had stronger competition between Soyny and Jewtendo which would've resulted in better games and shit for everyone. Not to mention we would probably be getting a new handheld for next generation as well that has a chance of being even better.

>>15616680

>it could be a real boon for emulators

I'd really like to use it too but i'm too scared of frying my vita:

>"Whoever uses this must remember that this a true overclock and not just enabling a mode that’s already used in some commercial games. As a result, this carries the risks of true overclocking which potentially include shortening the lifespan of your system’s motherboard, the generation of more heat and system freezes."

>>15616688

I would not worry about that, to be honest. The Vita actually displays an overheating warning if things get too hot and you should be able to feel it since you're holding the damn thing in your hands, way before it reaches that point. Or you could just opt to not clock higher than the default clock modes.

For emulation in particular, if it's a game that's already chugging by default, I doubt overclocking it would give you much of an improvement, but in games that run almost 100% and only have small hiccups here and there, it might just do the trick. Think of it this way, the 500Mhz would give the game just a little bit more headroom. It does not mean the CPU is running at full tilt 100% of the time, you just have a higher performance ceiling, which would help mitigate those hiccups. At least that's how it's supposed to work.

>>15616688

Just don't turn it up to 500mhz.

>>15616662

Just booted up adrenaline as a test. Went into a psp game and played a bit without issue. But if I try to pull up LOLIcon's vsh menu, it doesn't appear. And then I got a freeze when I used "exit pspemu application."

I don't have the latest version of adrenaline or LOLIcon. But it looks like it works okay if you don't try to overclock adrenaline or pull up LOLIcon menu.

Looks like adrenaline support is coming?

https://github.com/dots-tb/LOLIcon/issues/28

Anyway, LOLIcon works on kernel level and therefore is supposed to be more stable and efficient than VSH / oclock.

>>15616768

>>15616729

If i'm not gonna use the 500mhz then i can just stick with oclock. Never had a crash or anyhing with it.

>>15616768

Well, that does not seem too bad, especially with an update coming. I do know it's a kernel plugin, which is why I said you can't black/whitelist it.

>>15616776

Don't fix what ain't broken. I think OC Vita/VSH are good "beginner friendly" plugins and lolicon is something more for the enthusiast. Something along these lines is probably worth putting on the guide.

>>15616683

I don't think there was much other than rumors but there were several Vita games that came West that ended up being brought over as PS4 "exclusives".

There is a case to be made for many Vita games getting a remaster and/or sequel on the PS4 that doesn't get onto the Vita but that isn't exactly evidence.

Off the top of my head I can only really think of Digimon World that didn't even get an official digital release in Eng on Vita but I know there's more. not counting the Asian release with English

>>15616848

What?

>There's no need to blacklist or whitelist any games.

>There's no need to even touch the config file. Just install through autoplugin and Select+UP to bring it up

It doesn't get more beginner friendly than that.

Compared to:

>Need to white list / black list games or certain games will error out.

>Works with less games.

>Cannot save per game OC profile (not sure of this. haven't used them in a long while)

Just admit that you're too lazy to try new things that you're sticking to older, less efficient plugins.

>>15617081

>can potentially harm your Vita if you don't know what you're doing

VS.

>can't harm your Vita

Autoplugin was a mistake.

>>15618621

>There's a reason I don't document that

Yes, I'd keep it the same way. Reddit can have autoplugin and all issues caused by idiots using that.

>>15618792

>Adrenaline doesnt need any boost

I mean, yeah. It's already in max PSP clock mode.

I've tried playing just a bit of Pokemon Leaf Green on mGBA and it ran pretty good but I'm aware there's other games that have more issues. I'm thinking that games that run with just a bit of stuttering on vanilla clocks might be completely fixed at 500Mhz. At least it's one more option to play around with rather than having nothing at all.

What game is that in your pics? Looks damn cute.

>>15616012

It's "Ar tonelico", "Ciel nosurge" and "Ar nosurge".

>>15623282

I use the custom boot screen to match my theme as well, and if you do use it I would caution that people read the directions and be careful since it can brick the system. It's only received updates to the version added to autoplugin, and they seem to have made that one more idiot-proof from the release notes I've read but I would still urge people to be careful.

>Adrenaline has a max limit of PSP games (128 max) on ISO/CSO format that can displayed on the XMB menu

>TheFlow thinks that number is "enough" and doesnt want to increase it despite Vita's improvements and the cheap availability of higher memory storage nowadays

welp

>>15621427

Summon Night Craft Sword Monogatari

>>15624642

Is 3.65 Enso installed via update365 different from when installed through H-Encore? Because on mine there is no boot_config.txt in ur0:tai/ it is in vs0:tai/ and it tells you in no uncertain terms to not touch it, unlike other examples I've seen and no way in hell I'm risking my only 3G system.

>>15624676

Well he isn't that wrong. Do you need that many games?

>>15624774

Yeah, it's best not to touch it if your boot is still in vs0.

>>15624834

You shouldn't be trying to carry your entire library around 24/7.

Carry 5-10 titles you are actively playing and another 20-30 for boredom and you should be perfectly fine while still severely under the max.

Hoarding shit for the purposes of "choice" is more likely to make you not play anything. Hoarding shit to look cool makes you a faggot.

>>15622019

Change the battle system to be actually fun to play and reimplement the encounter gauge erasing item. There, game fixed.

Could I play Rampage on the vita?

>>15625745

It's mostly so the games that do interest me are already inside the microsd instead of just leaving them on the HDD. Considering my rather bad luck with hard drives failing on me over time (while I have yet to recall any flash memory bought so far to crap itself), it's more a precaution thing firstmost than just hoarding for the sake of it. I'm not really confused with the wide range of choices, as I generally focus on two or three games at a time (while also doing certain games that are playable more in short bursts like rhythm or arcade titles).

>>15627724

>I don't like having to bother with cartridges

The Vita has a bubble limit of 500. as of 3.10 You won't be bothered with that limit unless you're actively trying to be bothered by it.

That, along with the 128 Adrenaline has, is more than enough for a person who is reasonably playing games could fill up without actively trying.

>Besides my problem is just that I get devoted to playing a few games a lot.

If you're feeling "restricted" by a limit as high as Adrenaline and the Vita have it says you get "devoted" to more than just a "few" games at a time. That or you're one of the fucktards that plays pirate collector, which is becoming far more common than "guy who has a lot of games he wants to play".

Even accounting for the fact that Adrenaline can also play PS1 games does not excuse the fact that if you're hitting the limit you need to cool off a bit and play some games instead of just hoarding.

>>15627906

>It's mostly so the games that do interest me are already inside the microsd instead of just leaving them on the HDD

That sounds like an amazing way to not ever finish a game because you'll hop back and forth.

>Considering my rather bad luck with hard drives failing on me over time (while I have yet to recall any flash memory bought so far to crap itself)

I don't know what sort of HDD brand you prefer but the failure rate of most HDDs is below 10%.

Unless you're buying Seagate or lq WD somebody is beating the fuck out of your HDDs before you get them or you're expecting HDDs to last far longer than the rating you buy for. Here's a suggestion, buy HGST or a WD black drive

> it's more a precaution thing firstmost than just hoarding for the sake of it. […] I generally focus on two or three games at a time.

How does the 128 limit affect you if you're just holding games for later without playing them? You could use vitashell or your computer to move games on your sd card back and forth from a folder adrenaline looks for games in while staying under the 128 limit.

The only difference would be that they aren't visible from Adrenaline which would only irk you if you were trying to hoard.

>>15628090

>How does the 128 limit affect you

Because I thought it was a bug originally, but after looking much into it, it's just something similar on the Vita itself, where only 100 bubble icons can be displayed on the menu, with folders as a workaround. I cleaned my shit by sorting by publishers. And I'm the kind of guy who doesnt uninstall shit even after beating them if they were good games I enjoyed

>Here's a suggestion, buy HGST or a WD black drive

HGST is the brand of my current HDDs but there is still that lingering feeling after three failures (from different brands) in a span of five years and losing tons of archived stuff, even this may sound irrational

>>15628154

>it's just something similar on the Vita itself, where only 100 bubble icons can be displayed on the menu, with folders as a workaround.

The limit has been 500 since 3.10 a few years ago with folders as a workaround.

>I'm the kind of guy who doesnt uninstall shit even after beating them if they were good games I enjoyed

That is a bit of a waste but you could still move them to some archive folder on your sd card to free up a slot in your installed games.

>after three failures (from different brands) in a span of five years and losing tons of archived stuff

Sounds like you just bought some cheap drives.

"Archives" aren't very much better than unless there are redundancies and I doubt you were using a RAID1 setup or some tape backups.

>>15628289

Disabled auto-update doesnt mean it wont still try to download the update itself and then eventually auto-update in the long run, which is completely gay I do agree. Have you thought of doing this? >https://vita.hacks.guide/blocking-updates

>>15628309

I'm 99% sure I did that and I don't want to check because I want to break the fucking thing instead

>>15624676

>Summon Night Craft Sword Monogatari

Thanks anon.

>>15625936

You're merely suggesting to replace the entire combat system. Just tiny change.

>>15628289

Start by killing yourself because you're looking at your firmware spoof.

>>15628891

What I'm suggesting is making more varieties of song magic, give longer basic attack combos to the vanguards and more skills, and be able to chain these two at will. Not to swap it out entirely.

Is there anywhere in New York that sells pre-cracked Vita's?

>>15632905

Buy one at an appropriate version and do it yourself. It's easy, and you need to know how it was done anyway to keep things updated and set it up how you personally want it.

For buying, you want 3.65 or lower, but 3.68 can be done. 3.69 is currently worthless. Most of mine came from pawn shops but my main 3G Vita actually came from Gametraders and they let me check the system version before buying it.

>>15632935

I'll be in a different country. Just want my vidya fix while I'm away.

>>15633013

>buy a prehacked one

>pay more

>still have to learn the ins and outs of hacking it in order to get any use out of the thing

>will have to rehack it just to get it all most likely

>might end up being more of a pain because you don't know what you're doing and working backwards

>possibly brick it because you're a retard

VS.

>buy one on hackable firmware

>pay less

>learn how to hack it

>won't brick it because guides are idiot proof nowadays

>now you can start having fun

All this should go without saying really.

>>15633070

For an extra $40 I'll throw in a neato firmware insurance :^)

>>15633199

I mean the dialogue itself, the CGs go without saying. It's possible to re-add dialogue but harder, and at that point you may as well use the PC version.

>>15633166

>Read this other person's post

Thanks.

>>15633289

Mark stop being a fucking faggot

>>15634082

Are you stupid?

>>15634136

We all are

answer question please

>>15634141

>>15634082

Just because it was announced to be discounted somewhere in 2019 doesnt mean there wont be any more games/ports on it (although it's obvious dev support is slimmer than ever), and Sony can still put new official firmwares updates. Remember that Sony released a 6.61 OFW on the PSP in 2014 just before support was completely cut out despite. So basically dont expect a new CFW before 2020 at least. Just so to avoid the remaining exploits dont get patched out.

>>15633166

I'm the anon who posted the Nurse VN screenshots in that thread

It's a very short visual novel which was obviously a +18 eroge focused in sex stuff in the first place, but sold digital-only on the jpn PSN. I've read it out of curiosity and I like nurses just as much as nuns because it was uploaded last month on the NPS browser.

>>15634186

>Remember that Sony released a 6.61 OFW on the PSP in 2014 just before support was completely cut out despite

Reminder that they've recently put out a new OFW for ps3 for no reason.

>>15633952

3G.

>>15633915

Aye.

>>15634347

Congratulations, you have the best possible model! Treat it well. Well, best except for the proprietary connector, and that it does need an official memory card to do the initial jailbreaking, and for recovery. Thankfully size is irrelevant for that.

>>15634186

I skimmed that one too to see, and both are not likely worth the effort of fixing to be equal to the PC versions. I already knew of how badly console ports were for nudity, but not for sexual content.

>>15634186

>Just because it was announced to be discounted somewhere in 2019 doesnt mean there wont be any more games/ports on it

It does when you announce the production of games also stops in 2019 as well.

>>15640033

That was never announced.

>>15640033

Do you mean physical game cartridges in the west?

Any suggestions on how to increase performance for emulated games? Recently got Retroarch and it has slowdown on all cores for even NES and SNES titles. Are there better standalone emulators for Vita?

PSX seems to be fine for the most part in Adrenaline but I tried Disney's Hercules for nostalgia and the framerate was too low to be enjoyable.

>>15640630

>slobbering over fucking Kemco RPGs

Come on now friend.

>>15640638

I don't actually have a Vita and just checked this thread out of curiosity. Probably won't play any Vita exclusives until emulation comes around. But now I have a dire need for games where you play as the monstergirl. And none of the basic witch/elf/succubus/nekomimi shit either.

>>15640655

it's on pc

>>15640667

Then I'll probably pirate it. What's wrong about Kemco RPGs? If they're just generally shit, then why is it on the Vita game list?

>>15640872

cuckchan charts have far lower standards of quality to get on it, it pretty much just has to be noticed by more people

Its more like a "news" chart or "these games exist and people noticed!" chart than anything else to me

>>15640895

I thought anons ditched/reworked the cuckchan charts years ago? That trash is still circulating around here?

>>15633447

But did you check it for ants?

>>15641004

I know of two attempts that were done in the past: A somewhat recent one that was the creator's own personal opinions of what was good on the Vita, which both looked bad on the formatting end and strikes me as not properly representing the thread/board's interests, and an older one which was meant to be a collaborative properly formatted effort, but due to there not being much interest from other anons at the time towards contribution (you'd be surprised at how much harder it is to get people to do more than post a cover or a name, such as asking for a brief game description), it never got too far past the format/template setup stage, and subsequent attempts to revive it and get more content also made very little new headway as the threads have slowed down. As such, the thread has continued to borrow the images that cuckchan has put out.

>>15641940

>Image

I don't know much about the 3DS library beyond not much of it being of personal interest to me last I checked, but I will say I hate the formatting of that thing, and have half a mind to take up that "Fix it yourself!" comment over it.

>After a certain point one has to wonder what the point of a chart like that even is.

I would assume just a "my tastes > your tastes" thing on the part of the creator. And if memory serves for the one he's talking about, the guy that was making it was making a lot of assumptions that he accurately represented the 8ch Vita userbase, such as everyone already knowing moon, and therefore versions from any other region, let alone if said regions got them, not even being a factor.

>Charts are an absolute pain.

Speaking from experience. Not really, at least from a formatting perspective. A definite time and energy investment, on the resource gathering, initial set up, and then maintenance ends, but so long as you have some understanding of layout and organization, it's more an issue of tedium than difficulty to create. Though modern systems definitely have more questions for factoring and how to best take them into account than older ones have had (some of which you or whoever made that encountered in part; digital only games having no official cover art cohesive with physical, base firmware requirements, etc). Trying to make sure people are more or less satisfied as to the actual content though, that is where the trouble lies.

>>15642218

Ask the Monster hunter threads; I consulted them for the monster hunter games to include.

>>15642198

The tedium was a big portion of it. It was also a large investment of time and energy… far more than I was anticipating for something like that.

>Trying to make sure people are more or less satisfied as to the actual content though, that is where the trouble lies.

My approach was to make it easy to add or recommend games (except for ones that had a lot of stigma and hate, in which case strong arguments would be required), and relatively hard but possible for people to take games off the thing. It created a lot of discussion and forced people to talk about and argue/discuss games. People who one-line shitposted against the chart for either having or not having a (hated) game were told to provide arguments or fuck off. Some games were taken off, others were added. Overall it worked out well enough I would say. If I'd never heard of a game and was hesitant to add it on the chart I would ask the anon to say why they were recommending it and they would provide adequate reasoning most of the time.

>>15642228

>trust the player

If you did that charts wouldn't be needed in the first place. A chart with too many options is useless as it becomes barely anything more than a wikipedia page with some images next to the game names with no quality control. The 3DS cuckchan chart had over 300 or so games on it, but it included trash like Awakening and Fates, the shitty pokemon games and spinoffs, and other garbage on it.

>>15642382

>photoshop

>Linux

Yeah no that is not going to be used by me at any stage. Besides that example can be fully automated through Imagemagick's tools and simple Bash scripting. Moving tiles by hand is monkey-tier, and a world of hurt to change.

>Yes, however, that only works when other anons are willing to act as a check

I sure as hell wouldn't recommend half the games I play regularly. Like, maybe I'd make a case for Akiba's Trip because it's execution was at least serviceable (unlike say Gun Gun Pixies), and the setting and concept are amazing. But that's about it. In any case I will not be going against the general concensus when adding things.

There are games I can recommend, on the top of my head, besides what >>15642349 said

>UNIST and Arcana Heart 3 Love Max (good fighting games with no DLC crap locking playable characters and a pretty good artstyle. UNIST is also online crossplay)

>Disgaea 3&4 (although I recall the third game isnt well received among the fanbase, but i still thought it was a good game. But I only played them in nip, so I dunno the extent of NISA damages. Very grindy tho)

>EDF3 (enhanced port of the Xbox360 version with Wing Diver has a second class. Suffers a bit more framerate issues than EDF2 V2, although the latter came out later on Vita while EDF3 was among the first Vita titles. Nip cartridge has an in-built save memory)

>Deception IV Nightmare Princess (acts a base game of 4 + NP expansion. Fun strategy game that is about setting traps to sacrifice intruders for big daddy demon)

>Puyo Puyo Tetris (fun crossover game although unbalanced as it's easy as shit to play as Tetris against a Puyo player, and it doesnt have as many modes as the Puyo Puyo anniversary games)

>Sayonara Umishiwarase + (Vita game is easier than the original SNES title, which is bundled together in this version)

>Super Robot Wars (pretty good tactical rpg serie, especially V because the cast is absolutely amazing between Yamato 2199, Brave Express Mighty Gaine, Full Metal Panic, Nadesico, Shin Getter Robo/Mazinger and the rather excellent OCs. X is not bad but it felt overall more like a spin-off from V, but missing out a couple of heavy-hitters among the series cast and the original MC designs took a big dive)

>Yomawari/Shin Yomawari (original horror titles although they do rely on trial-and-error, which might be a bit too much for some folks)

>Atelier Arland (Rorona, Totori, Meruru) and Atelier Dusk (Ayesha, Escha&Logy and Shallie). Optimization is a bit iffy but not much a deal-breaker considering they're turn-based RPG games.

>Gundam Breaker 3 (heavily online/mp-dependent, so once the community is ded, consider that title only if you personally know people who can play it with you. Suffers framerate issues but still playable overall, and building/painting your own gundam takes most of the fun)

>Taiko Tatsujin V + Taiko Idolmaster spin offs (the spin-offs are separated into two cartridge versions, Akai-ban for game songs and Ao-ban for anime songs, but have zero DLC)

>>15607367

>picrel

Of course only the biggest fags play the Vita. PSP is for actual men, sissy boy.

did the fag who deleted his post fix it?

Meant to post this the previous morning (the first part anyhow), but the site was being DDoSed at the time, and I didn’t have time to until now.

>>15642460

>I sure as hell wouldn't recommend half the games I play regularly.

I'd advocate for the creator not influencing the content themselves; their job is compiling the content that other people have said and vouched for wanting to see on it, after all. Obviously if others suggest and can vouch for something you yourself like by their own doing, then you can treat like any other game being considered, but the exception to withholding your own likes is the case where you already know it would be outright egregious for it to not be present, even on the original, basic release (such as if Muramasa Rebirth or Gravity Rush were not being on a Vita chart), and usually those make for good initial games to fiddle with the layout and formatting when including since then they're included in the process from the start. At worst, keep in mind how to view your own tastes from an outside perspective

>In any case I will not be going against the general consensus when adding things.

A perfectly good idea, but that still has the issue of when there is no consensus though; when reasonable enough arguments can be made both for and against the same game. Not a vita game, but Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter for example. Of late, I've been seeing more frequent anons that like the mechanics and the game as it's own individual thing removed from the rest of the series, but at the same time series fans still hate the game with a passion for being so utterly different and effectively killing the series. If you leave it off a PS2 list, there's going to be some amount of asking where it is. You put it on, and you'd get other people asking what the flying fuck you think you're doing. Short of having time and space to specify that it's something you'd have to take with a grain of salt (something that has to be used correctly at that; not "justifying Other M being on the cuckchan Wii chart," because yes, that somehow happened), there is no right move there that is apt to satisfy everyone.

If you're actually serious about this stuff, I'd say to first figure out how much information you're willing to give to each game, how much space you want to devote to that, and elements to keep it cohesive, like font size/style per part (and as a word of advice, measure title font size off fitting the longest title you can find for the system; doesn't matter if it does or doesn't get on there, but the possibility it could is a factor). Once you start getting that much, try it out with a few different games, and then start figuring background formatting.

>>15643169

As a heads up, I just want to mention that the stuff beneath the cover art was meant to be quick information at a glance (which could be toggled white when applicable to the game): exclusivity status, English text option for import friendliness, and what mediums and regions available. I suppose the last matters less if making the assumption people are just apt to pirate though a this point.

I would still say to at least do something to pop the titles. Bold, underline, difference in font type/size, something. Again, keep the thing about figuring out title font size in mind as well. And the way you have the descriptions, you are going to have to keep available space in mind, whether as a character count (if possible with what you're using), or at least remind people to trim/rephrase if the text goes out of bounds or is cut off by the edge of the space. Though I'm speaking while not too familiar with what you're using.

>>15647051

They're just generally known as low-quality, low-effort and generic. They predominantly make android games and port them to handhelds. There's not much more to honestly say beyond that, just go look at a trailer for their work. Once you've seen one you've seen most of them and they become very easy to recognize even before you see the Kemco name.

>>15646619

Seems like it was either a corrupted transfer or outdated repatch.

Couldn't get the dlcs to work though. Do dlcs not with with comppack?

I can confirm that RePatch works with game cartridges. Just tried it out with DT 2's CG uncensor mod and saw that the CG art was swapped in the event gallery. Bit of an annoyance that the person that created this mod did not also change the thumbnails for the event gallery, so it ends up being censored thumbnail to uncensored CG when viewed fullscreen.

>>15650854

What's the error you get? Because there are some DLCs that are broken with later rePatch versions, apparently you can just get them decrypted and put in reAddCont instead, but there's also an installable homebrew rePatch AIDS that supposedly fixes things. Also can you tell me the error, it's something like C?-12821-? from memory.

I know this at least happened to me and one other guy with Hyperdevotion Noire, but I just ended up deleting the DLC for that since it was largely pointless.

>>15651212

As expected.

>>15651246

>As expected.

I was expecting RePatch to work with a game cart and I was also expecting the mod to be more thorough by also replacing the gallery thumbnails. I'd fix it myself if I knew how, but here I am having to whine about it.

>>15648072

One more thing to note, at least that's come to mind: With digital only games, the ones digital only worldwide anyhow, having no cover art to use, make a separate base format for them, and use a separate sort of image representation (screenshot, title splash screen, etc). Keep the overall parameters for total space devoted to the game the same, as well as the same approximate space for the description, even if alignment switches around in the process, but eventually put them in a separate section of their own.

>>15651212

You mean it can actually edit the information on the game cartridge? Or is it effectively calling a patch after loading the official game (the way I've heard some people have gotten working for some SFC games that have been fan-translated; something about a device copying the JP game data from the cart, patching it, and then loading the patched version, without actually changing the cart data)?

>>15651352

I believe that RePatch works by overriding game files within the given patch directory so that the patched game file gets loaded instead of the original file.

>>15651368

Ah, so it functions more like an official update overrides the default shipped data where needed? Still pretty neat, so long as it doesn't interfere with things and can be effectively used in conjunction.

>>15651631

Again, I would use a long title to start for measuring title font size/typeface: with horizontal alignment to the tabs, you really don't want the title taking up two lines of space (which works better for vertical format). Do it right with the longest title, and you'll never need to worry about resizing it later.

I would assume that for digital only representatives, you are going to have to code another template to rearrange the layout from side by side vertical to horizontal, but the key thing is to make sure the same amount of space is available for text; it's not very fair to require shorter descriptions due to the change in format. That does leave the issue of what to do with the Genre/Dev/Audio information, as horizontally it might not work out as one line, given how long some names involved can be, especially if multiple dev collaboration. As for screenshots, it's not so much if they're fully legible at that size, more that they can provide at least some idea of representing a game and what it's about or how it plays. Just make sure that the images you're using are all the same resolution (72ppi being standard for web use), and while you can downscale to your heart's content (which removes existing pixel data; just make sure the aspect ratio is retained), do NOT upscale from a smaller image (which adds fake pixels).

But do not feel that you can't just make the new template use different width or height for digital only games, so long as it's reused throughout the section for cohesion. This merely requires figuring out how many of the new size you can fit per row, as well as how to evenly space them out with the padding between them. Kind of how the old GBA one jumps from six boxes per row for western releases to three boxes per row for JP games that had been fan-translated (horizontal boxes being different than square, similar to the issue with going from Vita box art to Vita screen ratio). Do keep font formatting for each section the same though.

>Serif or Sans-Serif

Short answer, there is no right answer. There's some trend towards physical, or at least older mediums leaning serif while digital, or more modern mediums lean sans serif, but it's something you really have to play around with. You might consider skimming this for more information:

https://www.fonts.com/content/learning/fontology/level-1/type-anatomy/serif-vs-sans-for-text-in-print

One more thing (for now): Be aware of weight and contrast an object has, and how it focuses the eye's flow. Natural reading (for westerners, anyhow) is top left to bottom right, row by row, but elements like weight and contrast can either further emphasize or change that.

>>15651886

Enough to identify the game at least, though if going for a professional look, it's best to at least use the full title at least once. And if a game didn't come out here, but has enough of a standing title, use that as the title, and include the JP name in the description so people can find the game file better.

>You mean like picture related?

I meant single column, single image large enough to cover most of the width. Ideally the image chosen should be more gameplay than cutscene, though for VN/VN hybrid games it's prevalent enough either could be valid (or the latter counting as part of the "play"). Issue becomes how you divide up the genre/dev/audio section; going from a bit over half width to nearly full makes the negative space much more noticeable; single/double line under the image could perhaps workout with proper spacing.

>I'm not going to be too picky about the cover art as long as it's at least higher-res than the tile size, and they're about the same aspect ratio.

Still do your best to be consistent with it. From the look of it you're using Japanese art regardless, which is probably the easiest way, but maybe still have some way to signify it's playable in English.

>I included an example output with each because I want feedback. If people want to propose alternate fonts I can also be more flexible there too.

Try this: Serif for title, sans-serif for description; just saying since in your ones both sections are the same. And for what it's worth, the font used in the sample up there were a simple Times New Roman, not anything fancy.

I notice your samples do have a lot of rivers in the copy too. In a way it's inherent with using a justified type (which does help visually make a box and thus border with the negative around it), but for the sake of comparison, I do notice them being a lot more prevalent with your examples. What font and size are you using there anyhow?

>>15652246

>Like the 4chan chart tiles but more detailed and usually defaulting to cover art except for digital?

Yes, though with better curation of what gets on it, obviously.

>I'm not fussed by cover art region as long as it has the English title by default, since that's the majority of the userbase here.

Having looked for some in the past at times, I will warn you that for games that got physicals here solely as limited print runs, trying to find proper scans can be a pain compared to the Japanese originals, by virtue of not being as easily available. Given time, I suppose some do start showing up (it took a while to find some for Gust's games) as things eventually start making their ways to people with access to scanners, but what shows up most often in searching tends to be JP covers, assuming it's not just an indie game being given a limited print just for the west (and given the nature of quality of those, I suspect the overall impact on the chart might be low and infrequent in terms of annoyance to find).

>I can do them manually though if they're required.

It's not so much required, I'm just trying to deduce the best way to deal with the rivers in the type. Gridding one of your samples out and comparing them to the ones from the previous attempt, despite having the same dimensions, the breathing room between objects isn’t the same, if that’s what you’re attempting to go for. The border for the prior one is 10px on all sides from the background edge inward, and the space between the cover and description section being 5px. Your border is coming out uneven; 7px top, 6 px right, 10 bottom, and 10 left. It might not sound like much, but the difference of four pixels on the right side can change things up on its own with justified typeflow (words being pushed up or down as space is expanded or contracted), though font and size also factor into it. Try adjusting those, changing the font to TNR 12pt if possible, and see if that does anything better for the rivers.

Barring that, you could just go left align, which allows each line to auto-space and drop down as needed, but you lose the visual edge of the box that justified creates. Justified type also tends to require some tweaking to not river, mostly in terms of either changing phrases or words to be bigger or smaller, or adjust line order if possible. You can't get rid of it all in doing so, but you can make it less immediately noticeable,

>>15652947

>NISA

Europoors get out, you don't even know what's going on in your own counntry and that's just embarrassing. Also NISA Europe (yes that's their actual name) is staffed by different people from NISA and in the case of Atlus games as far as I'm aware, they only distribute/published for them, they had nothing to do with translation.

Just to take a break from guide shit, I should actually get around to completing Bunny Must Die. Even on PC I never got very far.

>>15652968

>implying I give a shit about what a mouth-breathing intruder thinks

This is a list of good games.

How difficult is it to dump Vita carts? I have been thinking of the advantages of dumping my game collection into a SD2Vita and they seem worthwhile.

>>15656814

I think that's in the NoNpDrm plugin setup instructions. If not:

>run once for fake license

>delete game bubble but back up saves if necessary and not on-cart (grw0: existing might indicate this)

>copy gro0: game app folder to ux0:app/

>copy fake license from NoNpDrm folder to app SCE_SYS/package and name work.bin

>refresh LiveArea in VitaShell

Yeah it's easy.

>>15652968

Most people don't think about the European versions of a game when they're not fucking european you dumbass

>>15655961

>>15656925

Are you three two arguing for giving money to NISA or you are just stupid and arrogant enough to let yourself stumble in that direction?

<<15656993

Here's your last (you), you successfully got my attention briefly with your bait

>>15657039

Is it really that hard to accept that not letting NISA get any more than what it already has - is more important than not looking stupid or winning/not losing an argument on the internet?

All you had to do is state that I have assumed that europe is the entire world and that everything including some shitty ngp recommendation list should cater to me. Bam. Now I'm forced to justify my actions, and explain how I am neither an europoor nor that I have started the conversation without the knowledge that the game was published by fatlus in the us. Instead you go through the hoops of imagining non-existent bait, biting it, and then replying to it without a direct quote like it would make a difference for a person that could be out there to bait you (and in that particular situation have already succeed at doing so).

You are an idiot, my friend.

>>>/v/15657141

Is it really that hard to accept that the list is about good games, and not about (((accepted))) games? The absolute last thing I want is for a politicized list, especially if it means excluding something as good as Odin Sphere.

>>15660257

I don't know what sort of retarded world you came from but literally nobody thought Odin Sphere was not "accepted" or a good game at any point in time.

It was highly praised by nearly everybody, including (((game journalists))), and was commercially successful in its original form and its remake It entered the Greatest Hits on PS2.

You may have a case for the original release being a bit stunted but that was due to Vanillaware being an unknown at the time with Atlus not providing much in the way of visibility along with delaying it for a year to avoid muh Persona clashes.

>>15660318

How the hell did you misinterpret that so badly?! I'm saying that the basis for being on the list should be about whether the game is good. It should not be about sub-standard work the publisher has done with other games, or whether the devs are MAGA supporters or SJWs. If it was a good game the thread could recommend Undertale for all I care.

>>15652750

Is this you >>15661114 ? Because I'll try to work some stuff up tonight or so, if you're having issues with ideas for how to compile for the different format for digital only games.

>>15660257

>>15660407

>if it means excluding something

>How the hell did you misinterpret that so badly?!

You tell me how did you misinterpreted me pointing out that NISA took part in publishing the game = excluding the game entirely from the list? One sentence in the description is more than enough to account for the shit that I'm implying.

>politics

It's not about politics, you dumb newcunt. It's about companies taking projects and then screwing them up due to incompetence in every field, but being con artists. Whatever their agenda worsens the entire situation or not is beside the point.

>>15661754

Take the hint that your input on the matter is not of interest and leave.

>It's not about politics, you dumb newcunt.

It reeks of the same idiocy because you're telling us not to include a good game in a good game list because of a metric that is irrelevant to a good game list. Just like the idiots supporting/boycotting Chick-fil-A because of their political leanings rather than whether their food is shit.

Plus you're forgetting that NISA isn't responsible for all regions of the game and had no input on the localization at all, and that pirating on Vita is easy. Frankly I'm surprised you didn't pick on Danganronpa instead.

>>15661878

>you're telling us not to include a good game

>Plus you're forgetting that NISA isn't responsible for all regions

What about "I'm not arguing for excluding the game from the list", "nor that I have started the conversation without the knowledge that the game was published by fatlus in the us" and " took part in publishing the game" do you not understand you massive buffoon?

I'd call you a hypocrite, but that would actually be a compliment, because having (and being partially aware of) a double standard requires having such mental capacities that you simply do not possess.

>NISA had no input on the localization

Should NISA be allowed to port and/or localize games? If your answer is "no", then it doesn't matter that in this particular instance they had no input on the actual game. It's like you are not even capable of thinking a few steps forward - implications escape you and you take everything at face value (I could say that you take things "literally", but that requires to be literate in the first place).

>Frankly I'm surprised you didn't pick on Danganronpa instead.

It's because I didn't pick anything, I saw Odin Sphere - I replied.

Obviously the same things I was talking about apply to ronpa too.

>"Take the hint that your input on the matter is not of interest and leave."

>continues to respond

>>15660407

Because I only read that post and the distinction you created between a game being "good" and a game being "accepted" as different things seemed to imply that Odin Sphere was not considered an "accepted" game.

I was tired and being a bit lazy with my posting, apologies.

>>15661878

Perhaps the recommendation list could list good games along with a caveat that certain publishers are known to release shoddy/censored work along with a recommendation of secondhand purchases or piracy over buying new for those publishers

The current list already makes certain good games slightly "political" by listing the developer/publisher beneath the game, it just doesn't state why they are listed.

Including a list of such entities in a separate section would be a decent midway solution because that would make it less about the publishers and more about the games themselves while still warning people away from the likes of NISA.

Gotta admit that my interest for a 3.69 hack was pretty much killed once Sony's retarded policies invaded Japan. Especially in case of VNs since that's the pretty much the last things published on the system

>>15652947

>>giving money to nisa

There is a thing called piracy or buying second-handed, and even then a wraped copy of a old title (see: more than 3 months since release) is hardly "support" towards a company. and I doubt anyone is as dedicated as me by buying only imports when it comes to jap shit Anyway, Odin's Sphere is a good game that still deserves to be mentioned in a recommended list regardless

>>15663896

>There is a thing called piracy or buying second-handed

What do you think is even the point in pointing out that NISA is one of the publishers in the first place?

>and even then

>a wraped copy of a old title (see: more than 3 months since release) is hardly "support" towards a company.

Full retard. Why do you even bother to import or to offer the alternatives, if you are going to justify giving money to NISA by brushing aside any and all actions related to the situation as insignificant?

>>15661878

>replying

You should've known better m8.

>>15663821

How many new fucking copies exist in the wild for any localized Vita title post 2017 anyways? "Very fucking few if any" is the answer to that. This isn't a "you must buy these games chart" this is just a recommended games chart (I assume), how you play them is irrelevant and considering how unlikely and difficult anyone is physically even able to support shitty companies at the literal end of the Vita's life cycle, it shouldn't be bothered with. Retards like that only came in to shit up the thread and wallow in their own retardation.

>>15664451

It's technically possible to support the devs by purchasing titles digitally even though that is extremely discouraged, obviously which would still support NISA and similar publishers.

In the event somebody wants to "support the devs" or whatever with a digital purchase they should also be informed of localizations that were done poorly in addition to how good the original game is.

Since purchase is less likely to happen now, instead of a "shit publishers" warning perhaps include a "censored/and or bad localization" warning instead? It is moderately relevant to the titles in question, particularly if you are anti-censorship/memetranslation which the Vita has a lot of.

>>15665662

If someone is retarded enough to buy from the (((PSN))) in current year they're most likely too far gone to save from bad companies anyways, especially if they're also retarded enough to buy anything full price from there.

Either way, worrying about NISA Europe is an incredibly stupid example almost intended to be argued in bad faith by that faggot. All they did was publish and distribute the game in Europe, and not only that but NISA Europe is a different team of people entirely.

>oh but it indirectly gives NISA money somehow

Absolutely fucking ridiculous. The amount that would go to NISA if any at all is impossible to even quantify but it would almost certainly be a small and unknown amount nonetheless. You didn't hear anyone complaining about NoE's translations somehow indirectly giving Treehouse/NoA any money, because most people aren't that retarded or take such a convoluted logic train or follow something that autistically in such a pointless way.

NISA is cancer, but worrying about how much money of NISA Europe's go to them for games that NISA didn't even touch is fucking ludicrous and pointless. If anything, NISA Europe only did good by those faggots since all they did was provide physical copies to those desperate europoors. When Atlus cut off their partnership with NISA europe, you should've seen the amount of people sad and angry at Atlus about it, and this was on places filled with people that didn't like NISA to begin with

If a localization was poor or censored, that should be included in the game description already.

>>15665729

V3's localization is that compomised? I haven't been following much on it but everywhere and everyone I've talked to and heard about it said it was fantastic, and when I brought up my worries about NISA localization in those places/with those people they said the fuckery was minimal with it.

>>15665750

>fantastic

Full of contemporary memes, more like.

For you.

If you can look past that then you might end up hating it anyway.

>>15665769

Ah christ, so its NISA's trademark fuckery as usual.

Fucking hell, I shouldn't be disappointed but somehow I am.

>>15661878

>had no input on the localization at all

Now I'm kind of curious as to what all the languages it was in for PAL were, and who they're credited to, if they're credited. Obviously I assume they either bought licensing to Atlus' extended English scripting, and/or perhaps the prior work Square-Enix might have done in bringing it to PAL for the PS2 (Atlus still not having a PAL branch themselves). Regardless, PAL does have more languages commonly in use than NA does, which for newly picked up games that companies like NISA pick up for local release there on account of no interest/branch of whoever picked it up for NA, that does seem like a potential problem, as regardless of if NISA handles the new scripts for other languages or outsources (which could be bad in its own right), most likely they're still touching the code at minimum. And do companies that do buy the rights to use existing scripts run them through an editor to change NA spellings of words to EU ones?

I would honestly suggest to still include publisher information somewhere within the game's tab. Even if for use more for pirates, it can at least give people an idea of how to expect it was handled in a particular region.

>>15665729

Said in the QTDDTOT thread I'd be back to help tonight; if it's late on your end, it's still before midnight for me. Trying to work out a few more things as was mentioned here >>5661745, but have a few more questions for how it works on your end: Are you going to put anything in the crossed out spaces ( >>15652750 ) or just want a means to properly enlarge the about of space the cover can take up? And when setting editable fields, does it use pixel coordinates from the center and expand outward, or is it more, say, upper left corner? IE: How does it set up the width and height given for a space?

>>15665729

>localization is a non-issue for the Japanese version.

Even still, keep in mind the main audience for who you are going to be making something for. Obviously I'd say games with good western releases, or import games that either can be played and enjoyed without needing to know moon, or have a decent enough English option inherent despite not coming west, should be suitable candidates if the games themselves are good. But I'd say there's debate to be had about ones that are plot/character heavy and with inept western options; even if the Japanese version is solid, the western experience is going to be hurt by such even if the gameplay is still intact. For example, Tales of Hearts R is (was? not sure what the stance is at this point) considered quite good by moonruners years ago, before being cleared to come west, but the western release is willfully inaccurate and rewrite-tier, made even more egregious to western fans that know moon by being Japanese audio only. Even English speakers could readily pick up on cases of names not being the same (Shing being "Kor" in the text, Gallando or whatever being just "Gall"), and compared to most 7th gen and on console Tales there's no option for renaming at all. Point being, outside of a possible "Requires Japanese to Enjoy" section specifically targeting the part of the English base that knows moon, I would not consider it recommendable.

>>15665885

I usually don't tend to see games, at least ones I play, distinctly ask for text language settings (beyond a Canuck copy of Order of Ecclesia I somehow got shipped by a US vendor) so I suspect they just grab it from what their systems are set for itself, but that's about two more languages than our manuals tend to be in, so I doubt the Italian and German scripts are imported as English and perhaps Spanish and French might be.

>However I've never heard anything about non-English localization quality for any game.

I usually don't hear much on that either unless an especially egregious case, like whoever 505 hired for the French translation of WA5. Apparently not even the baguettes wanted to deal with being politically memed at, and thus the English translation that was ported over from the NA release was considered the much better way to go through the game than the script meant for their native tongue.

>It's easy to add that, and the test data actually has 0/1 settings for setting release status. They're just ignored at this stage for simplicity.

I see, that makes things a bit easier I suppose. Was trying to fiddle with the ratio of refitting the cover space and it not feeling like it overwhelmed the description in weight. Still need to know more on how the editable space dimensions are designated on your end.

Anyhow, is the issue you're having more trying to 1:1 a mock up with the code, or trying to set up a horizontal "digital" version in comparison? Also I would still advocate for publisher information being included; maybe shorten the "Developer(s)" and "Publisher(s)" to "Dev(s)" and "Pub(s)" if you feel the connotation is clear enough and wish to free up space. Even if angling use towards pirates wherein no one is seeing money at this point, it can at least give a brief idea of what might be able to expect of the quality of the regional versions being looked at when downloading.

>>15665946

>Even still, keep in mind the main audience for who you are going to be making something for.

I am. Which is why I will at least warn in the case of Danganronpa 2, assuming that it goes on the list. I do think it's good enough to be on there though even with that caveat. Similarly if the Re;birth games go on there it's with the understanding that you will use Re;translation for 2 and 3.

>>15665946

>I usually don't tend to see games, at least ones I play, distinctly ask for text language settings

That was how it had to be done with older games, but now some of them just use the system's language setting instead. That's annoying though, and I was just checking the back of the box for that info because it's got icons. No-Intro also usually have language info specified, but for Odin Sphere I had to check their old VPK DB to find that, and it isn't as specific.

>Still need to know more on how the editable space dimensions are designated on your end.

Sample parameters from the current physical template. They're just Imagemagick command arguments strung together.

img_base = 'res/base.png'

title_size = '-size 400x '

title_pos = '-geometry +0+4 '

info_size = '-size 249x '

info_pos = '-geometry +146+28 '

desc_size = '-size 249x '

desc_pos = '-geometry +146+80 '

pic_pos = ' -geometry 131x168+10+30 '

out_prefix = 'p_'

"size" constrains the width of the generated text box in pixels, it will continue vertically to no limit. Normally you just want it to wrap but you can force paragraph breaks too, and there's other markup options for stuff like text formatting. "pos" is where the tile gets placed on the base image, reckoned from the top-right. For the cover picture it also gets resized. Finally the output file gets prefixed so they can be grouped into sections easier.

>>>/v/15661791 is the example output for individual tiles and the actual script and supporting data files is on the hackpaste Git. Be warned it's pretty cruddy and might only work on Linux. It requires Python, and the CLI Imagemagick tools.

https://gitgud.io/8vitagen/hackpaste/tree/master/gamerec

>Anyhow, is the issue you're having more trying to 1:1 a mock up with the code

No I can replicate >>15642382 in terms of layout easily. I just don't know whether that layout was ever considered to be a good one to follow. If it's fine, then I can finalize it and then the issue is what games and their supporting information. As I said, descriptions are something I find hard to write, and I can't do it anyway for games I haven't played.

Developer and publisher info is a possibility but it could get messy and long depending how much is specified, especially with all the collaborative games on Vita, and that there's sometimes multiple publishers by region (like Crypt of the Necrodancer has Spike Chunsoft in Japan).

Oh and thankfully, it can be easily altered to have developer/publisher use multiple lines. It does still influence the layout though.

>>15666316

>Specifying Re;birth 1 might be enough since that's the de facto starting point for the series.

Personally, I'm more of the opinion that each worthwhile game get its own entry rather than a series/subseries share one. Especially if it's a lengthy series but not all of the entries are quite up to par, or at least up to par in English. Plus one can then go into the nuances/improvements a bit more on a per game basis, if there are some.

>Sadly it also seems to be NISA not NIS.

Yeah, I honestly haven't been sure if the European branch actually denotes themselves as such, or are effectively just an outpost of NISA itself. And as for the images, I guess it does make sense to leave the back English only with that many languages they might otherwise have to cater to fairly, or maybe they do separate cover prints for the primary language in each country out there. Checking my own NA PS3 copy, I was expecting multiple languages on the back, but no, Atlus also gave it the English back treatment here. Perhaps it depends more on the publisher. I know Bamco's been big on consuming limited space for French along with standard English on Tales here, at least as of seventh gen. No Spanish on the back, probably because they don't assume taco to be fans enough to warrant it.

>It might actually work to move the metadata to above the cover.

It's up to you, but keep in mind how the image moves the eye through it. Beyond that, also that in effect, you have two columns beneath the title, and trying to move the meta data into the left if apt to constrict the width into needing more lines than already present. Or did you mean a horizontal bar beneath the title spanning both?

>EX means a Vita exclusive doesn't it. The rest are self-explanatory.

Yeah, the PSN and cartridge ones with region are self-explanatory, EX was for exclusive (obviously that status seems to be lost every now and then). The other is admittedly a bit ambiguous but meant to represent being import friendly for English audiences. If you have trouble extracting them properly, consider if any image manipulation program you have at your disposal allows for toggling (in terms of selection) anti-alias off, contiguous on, and inversion of the selected space (you can use the background being a static nothing to then select all the actual pixels).

Anyhow, I'm going to give that horizontal screenshot one some thought and post possible ideas for improving on it later. Could you post the base screenshot used for it at unscaled size in the mean time? Could use it to play around with things from the "monkey-tier" end and maybe find a better balance for a mock up.

>Walls of TEXT

>WALLS OF BORING TEXT

stfu talking about industry crap and start talking about what you're playing on the VITA you boring autists

Is Gun Gun Pixies that bad? Was considering adding it to my library collection, but if the game is that horrible, I shouldn't even bother buying?

>>15667448

It's pretty bad, and last I checked they were still expecting a few thousand yen for it which is definitely not worth it. The gist is that you have your mini-girl aliens exploring a human house full of cute girls without being detected by them, and occasionally shooting girls into a "happy state", or shooting various squid enemies to death. Sometimes a boss fight with one of the girls, followed by bathing mini-game. The other running theme is bad execution of a cute idea.

>dialogue and CGs

I've never been a fan of the way they animate character portraits in Neptunia games. It's the same shit here. The game also does not allow cutscene skipping, only fast-forwarding, and with how long some of them are (plus I can't read them) it gets really tedious to wait through that stuff.

>exploration

The camera doesn't work so well with tight spaces, which is a common theme with the environments. The controls are also awkward (not so bad you can't adjust to them somewhat though, at least for me) and make any precision platforming (there is a fair bit) nerve-wracking because you instantly die from long falls, some of the platforms are set up very awkwardly, and checkpointing is only done on entering a room. Being detected by a girl (noise or visual) is basically a death too but you can avoid visual detection by posing as a figurine, which is one of my favourite little details. The actual detection is also pretty forgiving.

Most objectives are just shooting the girl in the room, getting to places (scope shows them as sparkles), shooting an object, killing squids. Totally wasted opportunity for what could have been. The actual environments are also limited to 3 separate rooms which don't change a lot and are fairly basic in layout, and the bath area which is used as a bonus stage. The rest of the house doesn't exist except in cutscenes. Again, total waste.

>enemies

Passive and non-threatening, even compared to the Bullet Girls 2 enemies. Thankfully the ones that shield can be jumped on. It's not just a 15 second waiting game for them to pop out again. Otherwise absolutely nothing to say.

>bosses

Except for the final boss (which is more akin to standard exploration but being detected is much less forgiving so it's actually pretty tense) it's "shoot the girls until they get heart pupils". Oh and circle-strafing and switching up where to shoot them. Bath time is mining coins out of girls with guns and lewd rubbing. Very basic but also the best place to get coin. The stages give out fuck-all on top of the risk, and it's only good for stage rank.

>visuals/audio

Visuals are nothing special but they work. The girls are pretty and cute. Sound is fine. Some of the music gets repetitive. Oh and there isn't a lot of unlockable content. You're mostly limited to different underclothes, a few outfits, and a few upgrades for the weapons. Oh and one of the scope upgrades sees through clothing but underclothes are made of lead without mods so it's as stupid as that one $100 DLC. Doubly so because you can even customize girls on NG+ to wear what you want.

Good points? Well the lewd content is pretty great as per the description, even without mods. The basic concept of the game would've been sweet if it was developed properly. Nep cuteness. Would do Kameriel. It also runs acceptably without needing overclocking (doesn't even run with the older plugins), which is more than can be said for Bullet Girls Phantasia. That game is totally unplayable on Vita even with overclocking. It looks even worse than BG2 and GGP as well.

With all that said I am attached to the game, enough to have completed it once or twice and occasionally run through a stage if I'm bored. Figured I'd use it as an acid test and example.

Lastly, if you still want to look at it, the game is not that import-friendly by default, I relied on a guide to muddle through a few of the stages. Now though there is a translation patch that I think at least does objectives and menus and such, but not dialogue. It also comes in "decensor" and "crappy nude mod" variants. Since it's posted to Reddit, refer to >>15607603 for a screencap of its release thread for info. Download links respectively.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Za3iLLQoVPWOd0N5hrKBhQZbGYxPPgPS (no decensor)

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1hjAR3XNTsoLiWFH7ryZ1qhYOhQu9QXFt (decensor)

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1S__pkT0mAQ8ZsDsha6z87JMuTJOHvepR (nude mod)

>>15668285

Quite impressed at the review you wrote. The game sounds like it would definitely need a discount price to even consider a purchase, and if it is ever considered, it would be for the sake of collecting the game as a guilty secret.

>>15666370

I've been playing utawarerumono 1. Just picked up oboro. It's actually slightly challenging. I actually had to use healing items.

Still haven't gotten the dlcs to work, but I probably don't care.

>>15668285

This game intrigues me.

Shame it won't get translated, it also sounds like it would've been a lot more fun had it been more difficult/tense in terms of normal combat

Are there any “comfy” Vita exclusives with a focus either on farming, city-building, or (unrelated to the previous two) naval exploration?

Think Harvest Moon, Rune Factory, or Animal Crossing; or Etrian Odyssey III and Zelda: Wind Waker

>>15673369

If you want farming, your best bet is Disgaea 4.

>>15671433

Utawarerumono: chiriyuku no mono tache e and muramasa: the demon blade are different games.

>>15672142

Nice.

>>15675060

Speaking of muramasa though, the farmer was tough and I had to dial down the difficulty for the boss fight. And the ninja one I just couldn't even get past the beginning area.

>>15675075

Casual :^)

I had to tone down the difficulty for one boss but otherwise the game was pretty reasonable in terms of challenge on hard difficulty

>>15675810

I don't know how you play games with timelimits like trillion. My autism forces me to spend more time studying how to optimize my time than actually playing the game.

>>15675864

I generally don't like time limits in games, and this one involving such high stakes I'm surprised I didn't get lost in that exact autism myself or fuck off from the game entirely. I guess the heavy focus on story and characters made me focus more on them. I just sort of developed a general "loose" plan that I considered to be optimal enough from what I gathered and went forward with it and that's how I played through it up till this point. The time constraint in this game is also quite intriguing in how its done and how generous it is compared to most ways time limits are done in games, and the level of options and ways to approach the fights and building your own characters are intriguing as well, especially as you learn more about the game's mechanics as you go on. Something that's becoming a bit of a problem is the inconsistency of damage numbers and me trying to figure out what variables were different between the overlords without actually checking my old save files yet because I'm too lazy to since the numbers and skills are generally the same, the passives are a bit different but it still is hard for me to figure out what exactly is different. Something that's a bit more frustrating than the time limit to me is the extremely small save file limit, which I've just literally hit the limit on.

Shit like that pisses me off to the extreme and really stresses me out. I really don't want to delete any of my fucking saves and by extension, a part of the memories I shared with the girls. Its intriguing just how fucking tense the game is with even 'meta' constraints like that but its starting to get to me to the point where its just like "fuck me, why am I still doing this". What doesn't help is the possibility to get "trapped" in a shitty state with a save file and you being forced to lose someone when you don't want to; thankfully I had enough saves to generally achieve what I wanted to with an overlord god that feels like such a fucking wrong way to put it, not even in a lewd way but a morally reprehensible one, like they're just tools to be used.

Its starting to get to me.

>>15678586

Actually, now that I look at that second one, it feels really off. Makes me think someone took a crop of a photo of it in the case instead of bothering to flatscan. Looking around a bit harder, I honestly can't find any better scans, at least for the NA release; in fact, the only other NA image I can find notable has the colors way off. TCP has nothing for it in either their Vita second or their forums, and Cover Galaxy doesn't have a main Vita section and the forum for it there is full of spam anyhow. It's like no one ever scanned it in to begin with.

Is there an addon that changes the system's default save game path so that the save data will still remain in the memory despite the game being uninstalled?

>>15684057

No. Back them up manually or use https://github.com/d3m3vilurr/vita-savemgr/releases

>>15684090

>>15684079

Damn. I thought I had read something about a plugin that makes vita saves work like psp saves. Would be so much easiler to backup and restore that way.

>>15684355

TeraCopy can checksum your target file and compare to the input, confirming if it copied correctly.

>>15684497

Thank you. I'll give Teracopy a try.

I've actually been having trouble with files getting corrupted during transfer.

Somewhere along this chain seems to cause issues.

NAS -> router -> wifi -> laptop -> usb storage

Especially if I open a file directly on the NAS using 7zip and then extract directly to the usb storage.

>>15684526

I had this happen to me, as well. Copying packages of games via ftp almost always fails somewhere. I didn't hex edit to check where, but md5sums differ, so something definitely went wrong.

In comparison, using USB mode in vitashell always works fine…

>>15684435

If you mean psn, then yes. Physical games do as well depending on the site. If you're going to buy stuff for the vita I hope you mean physical, I would not want to give sony power over my ability to digitally download and access games.

Re-initiated my SD cards and I'm still getting the same issues:

* Utawarerumono: Chiriyuku no monotachi e doesn't load if there are DLCs in the addcont folder (error C2-12828-1 on boot). Haven't tried actually replaying it to see if the game freezes at a specific point.

* some nonpdrm rips from the early days of nonpdrm don't work (don't show up when refresh live area.)

>>15685380

>* some nonpdrm rips from the early days of nonpdrm don't work (don't show up when refresh live area.)

NPS version installed fine but i'm getting >New Saved Data Could not load the file. (C1-2755-9)

error when I try to run it. Looks like I might need to nuke the whole thing and start from scratch.

>>15685458

Hold that thought.

C1-2755-9 error fixed by disabling (almost) everything in config.txt

C2-12828-1 with uta:chiri still erroring out. I lent my spare vita out. I might need to ask for it back to test to see if it's a 3.65 vita + 3.68 DLC issue.

>>15684355

You can use Filezilla to transfer over USB as well. I believe it should display hidden files independently from the windows settings. Not 100% sure though, do try it out.

>>15685380

Most likely you didn't copy all files over (hidden system files) or something got corrupted while transferring. There's also the possibility that this game has the same issue with repatch as Dungeon Travelers 2 (same dev). You can't launch DT2 with DLC present as long as repatch is enabled. This is an issue from a while back and still hasn't been fixed. Game works if you either remove the DLC or disable repatch, maybe try this too just in case.

>>15684526

Never had issues copying with FTP, or with USB if it's using SD2Vita or equivalent. If I have to deal with the FAT variant used for internal storage or official memory cards over USB though, well, let's just say there is a kernel module for Linux, and it's wonky as hell. Slow FTP is the only way.

>>15685053

You're only as much of a goy as you choose to be, and if you aren't softmodding your system you're the biggest goy of all.

>>15685380

>DLC

That's a bug with later rePatch. Try rePatch AIDS. Or apparently copying decrypted versions of the DLC into reAddcont (like game compatibility pack) can fix that issue too but the one time it happened it was with irrelevant DLC so I just deleted it.

>>15685506

It's not a firmware issue with the DLC because said irrelevant DLC was for Hyperdevotion Noire which is an old game.

>>15686122

>rePatch AIDS

goddamn some of these fucking obfuscation names make me die

>>15690915

if only it had sold better

Fucking Sony

>>15690918

This is why Sony needs to die. Even if their employees make something good, the bigwigs will go out of their way to fuck it up.

>>15690918

If only they hadn't actively sabotaged it.

Also, anyone here tried getting rid of the "Featured" page with VitaRW on 3.67?

>>15690995

nvm did It works

goddamn this is good

>It even plays PSP ISOs that the actual PSP can't play anymore

Man this is great.

By the way, is there anything that can be done to reduce input lag for PSTV?

>>15690915

Did you just unlock the framerate to 60 on Wipeout and overclock or did you do something with internal resolution as well?

>>15691379

How does that work? Maybe it's more of an issue with the ISO itself and not the PSP?

>>15691475

Max resolution. 960x544 at 60FPS + 444Hz. Installed an FPS indicator too but it shows 30FPS during gameplay, despite the glaring improvements.

>>15691475

No, neither Adrenaline nor the PSP game (Wipeout Pure) seem to have no input lag. I'm not sure if it's the vita game (Wipeout 2048) that has different mechanics or what. I think I'm just not adapted to the radical change in mechanics.

>>15691508

I tried it out. It's not quite 60FPS and frame pacing is all over the place but it seems relatively stable and overall an improvement over the vanilla 30.

>>15693295

That's just f00d. You can look it up but it doesn't mean shit for Vita hacking except for the hacker being able to brag that they did it.

Looked it up and it turns out I was missing one of the cube drops from a dungeon over 4 plays that unlocks one of the prerequisite dungeons. I'll just start a new game this time to chase the true ending and enjoy some modicum of difficulty again. Might disable the DLC too. It's annoying having extra chars and events cluttering the game.

>>15695095

Why would you want to use a Y splitter? And I don't know, try it out.

>>15695100

USB DS3 and USB cable to PC

>>15697085

Hold up, that is the actual performance of the game on the Vita? That is pretty bad even for a Vita game, almost worse than Trails of Cold Steel.

So, NISA announced physical copies for The Lost Child, Penny Pinching Princess, and the longest 5 minutes. No Coven though.

https://archive.fo/3A0J5

I wouldn't recommend buying new since its NISA and all, but be quick about buying preowned if you're going to bother with that since scalpers will likely be quick to fuck people over with this. If you have to buy new like an absolute fucking retard, try to use a middleman retailer that would take more of their possible cut.

>>15700284

>implying I would even let something tainted with the NISA mark of shame into my home even if it's used

Nothing NISA touches is worth owning digitally or physically

>>15700234

No the game itself performs fine even with the streaming plugin in use, but that's what the output looks like if at full resolution. If it is captured at 480x282 it's at stable framerate but looks awful. Also Noire is adorable.

>>15702142

>It may actually just be my toaster laptop that can't handle encoding at higher resolution

Maybe. Does it look as choppy if you just run it in OBS preview without recording/encoding anything? I should also mention that I ran the Vita overclocked to max vanilla rate.

>Did you try turning USB charging off in settings?

Yeah, that's with USB charging off. I have audio recording stuff here but no small headphone male to male jack cables and my aforementioned interface that only has mono inputs for line signals (fuck!). So I had to solder a cable from cannibalized gear and use the shit ass onboard audio card to record the Vita's audio.

>>15702267

Actually now that I think about it, that's probably doing an encode step, when what I probably want is to just dump the video/audio as-is. I don't stream games so the encoding step can be separate.

>>15702283

Geez. Using codec copy screws up differently. It's stable in terms of framerates and not CPU-eating, but every half second the video freezes, and that's not even dependent on resolution or framerate or game. Same happens with huffyuv. Any ideas for how to approach this?