Seems like most of the Vita library is emulatable now! a lot of those “unplayable” entries are years old, too.
I don’t feel like trying it myself when I have the real thing on my desk, but maybe one of you would be interested. Setup looks easy enough, and you can get game dumps from ~the usual sources~.
I gave it a try at the end of last year, but found that most of what I wanted to play with it was experiencing emulation issues still. I found confirmation on the official compatibility list, Vita3K - Playstation Vita Emulator that a yellow status is a no-go. Even a “playable” title could freeze with a pinwheel for me and I had to force quit the emulator. I will give it a retry every year or so, sometimes emulators make big leaps.
But thankfully the original hardware is very hackable https://vita.hacks.guide and I picked up one of these SD2Vita slot adapters SD2Vita - Use MicroSD Card for PS Vita - CFWaifu
Cool new options for replacement displays
Hey PS2 heads, just got a PS2 Slim (SCPH-79001) from a decent reseller – it’s remarkably clean, not a single scratch on it, and the shop cleaned the lens. But upon tinkering, it seems to have trouble reading dual-layered discs (or at least DVDs, I don’t have any dual-layered/blue PS2 games on hand). I tried a brand-new dual-layer DVD (one with a blue tint) and while menus are fine, it just skips and skips during video playback. Regular games and DVDs play swimmingly, I’m fast-forwarding around and jumping chapters just fine.
From what I’ve read tonight, that means the laser’s probably failing, but I’ve also read that this is an incredibly common issue among PS2s, even when they were contemporary. I can probably live without this functionality as it only seems to exclude a sliver of stuff, but do ya’ll think it’s enough of a sign that this laser’s on the way out that I should consider returning it, or a common enough issue that I should stick with the console?
EDIT: yeah, this thing just does not like DVDs. think the laser is on its last legs – back to the PS2 shopping hole I go
OPL is the way to go for PS2! Especially on the Hack page
yeah, I know that’s the easy way – kinda the whole point of getting a PS2 for me was just to be able to play the occasional physical PS2 and DVD pickup, I have enough little tinkering projects goin (and have emulation for easy access to the whole PS2 library). ah, well, sometimes it’s a bust
