Why is that? I want my 4k/60 KZ mercenaries and I want it now. What makes the Vita so hard to emulate?
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We'll probably get a switch emulator before a Vita one...
- Thread starter BladeoftheImmortal
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People would need to actually care about it for them to work on it
There's also Vita3K for the Vita that began development around the same time as the two Switch emulators. However, progress has been way slower.
No one is going to spend years of their life making a Vita emulator so that people can play a really nice version of Persona 4 Golden.
Man, between cart rot and the failure rate on those terrible memory cards, trying to keep a Vita library working is gonna be a nightmare.
PSP and Vita games are going to be lost left and right in a few years.
PSP and Vita games are going to be lost left and right in a few years.
Cemu exists because people like Wii U games, just not the Wii U.
Not hard, but not worthwhile.
They can earn much more money with Nintendo emulators. Most developers code emulators not for fun or some "preservation", just for money.
There's a very good PSP emulator that runs on phones even, I don't think we're in any danger of losing PSP archives.
People saying that a platform having no good games is the reason it isn't emulated yet was funny when people said it about the Xbox and it's funny now in this thread.
Some consoles just have easier infrastructures to emulate than others for many reasons. Like it wasn't until this year that 360 emulation has started to become a viable thing and that console is ancient.
No, your assertion is wrong.
The speed in which Switch emulation has overtaken Vita emulation is driven by a few key factors:
1) Vita took a long time to hack. A good chunk of the system's lifespan had the biggest exploit being the same PSP hacks we've had for years, running on the PSP mode which is sandboxed from the Vita mode. The Switch by comparison was blown open almost immediately and is based on hardware that is well documented.
2) Vulkan. Vulkan is a low level cross-platform API intended to be the successor to OpenGL. It's low overhead, which is very good for emulation which is looking to find efficiency in calls whenever possible since emulation is an inherently inefficient process. Switch came in at the perfect time to build emulators from the ground up with this new framework, whereas Vita had prior emulation efforts that needed to be rebuilt.
3) Framework. The Vita's design is an evolution of the PSP. Kind of like how the Wii was two GameCube's duct-taped together, the Vita is sort of like that, but more like if you duct taped an Android phone to a PSP. By that, I mean there were changes in the architecture, but the way the OS is working under-the-hood is pretty similar. Ergo, pieces of the Vita have to be adapted from what we know about the PSP reflected through the architecture changes to achieve an environment where we can properly emulate games. The Switch again, by contrast, is based on well documented framework that makes adapting calls a much less complex process. You could think of it like the Vita emulating an emulator's emulator while the Switch is just doing the emulation once.
Games are usually not a big factor in the equation when it comes to major console makers. People are going to want to emulate Nintendo, Sony, Sega and Microsoft machines. Most systems have exclusives that are worth preserving and playing. The Vita's killer app would be Persona 4 Golden, along with some pretty neat first party releases like Killzone and Uncharted.
Vulkan has nothing todo with it, yuzu doesn't even support it. It would also be a bad choice to write a new emulator for a new console in according to the devs.
probably because of its MIPS APU...
The switch is essentially a Shield TV underclocked with its Tegra CPU very well documented by Nvidia and enterprising android developers so this is not surprising.
Cemu exists because the Wii U and the Vita have opposite problems: the former has unattractive hardware and attractive games, the latter has attractive hardware and not enough attractive games. Cemu allows you to get rid of the hardware issue and enjoy the games, that's why people worked on it so quickly
I mean, most Vita games are available on Steam and they are better there and not too demanding, so aside from a couple of games, it's really not an issue.
It's a shame, but it's due to a lack of interest. There is Vita3k though if you want to support Vita emulation.
For money? That's a new thing, emulators traditionally were free, with a few exceptions, and that's still true today.
Demand, more people want a Switch Emulator than a VITA one. So everyone that knows the hows to (and for the sake of their Patreon Accounts and e-fame) put all their resources towars Nintendo emulation
Now, "why are Nintendo hardware more on demand?"
Is a better ( and highly divisive) question
We are gonna get a Switch 2 emulator 1st
Did WIIU sell better than Vita? I believe Vita has more good games than WIIU (by counting the number of games over 70 metacritic, for lack of better, more objective criterion). The problem is that many of Vita's best offers are multiplatform.
Also, please explain how X360 emulator never exists.
I know nothing about PSP but I doubt much will be lost. Both systems have been hacked wide open for the most part so backups have been saved. So long as there are still surviving PSP's and Vita's I think we should be ok.
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I'd almost agree but more people bought Vita than wiiu, and wiiu's emulator is great now.
I'll never get comments like those, as someone who was admittedly anti Sony for most of my life, the Vita is and was a great little system. I will never get rid of my OLED one.
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Yup, wish it was as popular as 3DS or PSP. It definitely deserved it. Amazing hardware for the time. Games still look good on the thing.
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I wish there was a functional Vita emulator. I got games I want to play without jaggies, Persona and Killzone specifically. Sure, I have my Vita TV, but still, the jaggies.