Do not mess with us Vita fans We literally cannot let go

Oh wow I was just thinking of looking into the state of PSTV improvements so this is way beyond what I was hoping to find. Excellent!

The PSTV was such a steal when stores started clearing them out. The new setup looks great, Coury!

Every 6 six months or so there's something huge in the Vita Homebrew community, and the releases seem to be really increasing recently. We are keeping alive what sony ignored. Cheers Vita owners!

Wow, now I’m really glad I picked up the PSTV while it was affordable online.

I wish this came out a month ago! I didn't realize that PSP games perfectly integer scaled to the Vita screen. Went back into the Adrenaline settings and found that you need to set it to original and turn smoothing off to get this sharp scaling (it's surprising that this combo works because when original scaling is selected it says the other graphics options don't apply). At least this video came out before I played more than an hour of FFIV with LCD3x scaling :)

It would be interesting to see someone modify this to output true 1080p, which would allow a 2x scale of PSVita games by cropping 4 pixels off, or to modify it to allow 1x scale without black borders.

Silent Hill's resolution change being life and death? I truly felt that.

I was JUST looking into this sort of solution for the Vita TV. I was beginning to think it was doomed to never meet its full potential. Thank you for the video! (and Cuevavirus for the mod!)

I kinda regret not picking one up when they were dirty cheap and no one wanted them :|

‪Thank you guys so much for this! I have an HDMI splitter to use with the PSTV but man will this help my captures look so much cleaner. ‬

I always found the choice of a 960*544 screen interesting. By comparison, standard definition PAL content is 720*576 pixels in either interlaced or progressive, while NTSC content is 720*480. So the Vita's vertical resolution is between that of PAL and NTSC content.

Because of this video I just bought a PSTV. Now using sharp scale to play Final Fantasy tactics on It. Thanks for these types of videos. I find them interesting and informative.

Great episode Coury! I’ve been loving my Vita 2000 lately. Just finished Gravity Rush last night and had a blast.

I was just thinking that I needed to watch a 20 minute video that stops every 3 minutes to play an ad. Great work!

A video that has both Valkyria Chronicles and DOAX gets a thumbs up. Always.

amazing work from the mod community and MLiG as always to bring attention to the work being done here!

Add an Mclassic to sharpscale to turn 544p into 1088p. (then you can crop out the empty space and downscale it by 8 pixels to make it 1080p)

The pixels are very uneven when fitted scaling is used with nearest neighbor scaling. I fully understand Sony's choice of using bilinear here.

Finally! Was eager to see you guys dissecting this homebrew. Great job, guys!

I wish the PSTV was still found for $20 at Best Buy 😔

Now if only 4K TVs had nearest neighbor upscaling

Welp, now kicking myself even harder for skipping those fire sale Vita TVs.

Now I just have to find a PSTV that isn't ludicrously over priced!

Hey there, thanks a ton! This will help me greatly. Just a note for those trying to install this. If you have a memory card, make sure to edit the config file that's on the memory card (ux0)

Still waiting for RGB 211. Great vid so far tho.

I’m kinda a tech hoarder and I had to stop myself from getting one of these especially when they were like $30 local for a time. I have modded handhelds galore including the Vita, PSP and 3DS. All filled with games so doubt I’ll ever get around to playing them all. Still love watching you guys exploit the hell out of devices that get shunned by mainstream consumers. That thing is perfect for everything Sony retro wise. All those classic PSP and PS1 titles running near perfect in HD with such a small footprint is sweet. Add in the more modern Vita games and your set for hours of wasting time. Plus it can do movies and streaming (for a time it did) if you want to include that function.

I literally just fixed my vita's broken screen today and you guys go and upload this, what a surprise

Another thing of note is you can get native res video out of *any* PS Vita over USB using the UDCD-UVC plugin by Xerpi: github.com/xerpi/vita-udcd-uvc It’s as straightforward to setup as Sharpscale is for a PSTV, and just shows up as a USB webcam in windows where you can add it to capture programs like OBS easily. No viewer software needed like a 3DS or PSP.

Got myself a Vita TV a few months ago. One of the best buys I’ve made in ages!

I would like to see a list of the games featured on this video, as some games looked quite interesting and I don't know their names.

There's also the Adrenaline plugin for the Vita, which allows you to play most if not all PSP games and homebrew. There's some video options in the menu, I found the sharpest option was "sharp bilenar without scanlines" which is basically a 2x integer scale. If you have Sharpscreen set on integer though, there's not really any difference between that and original mode. Also if you're running at 1080i with any scaling filters the framerate lowers to 30fps on all titles. Unfortunately Adrenaline adds a ton of input lag. Wish it would be improved but it hasn't been updated since last march. :/

Oh, this is sooooo awesome! Thanks for raising awareness for this, guys.

The PSTV, when I initially bought it back in 2015, was underwhelming and was thrown into a drawer. 5 years later, after the softmods were put in, vita memory card option removed in favor of USB memory, Adrenaline, and of course, the ability to force every Vita game to work with the system, has made it my go-to when I want to play any Sony portable platform. To me, it renders the original systems as just showpieces on stands.

I picked up a PSTV a long while back and hacked it in the hope I could FINALY play PSP games on the tv without all the blur you get with a stock psp and the cable.. I was very dissapointed. This however gives me hope I can get what I orginally wanted, I shall definalty be checking this out! Awesome videos guys! thank you!

I'll give this a shot in a couple of weeks. I haven't use my CIB PS TV in years. This has peaked my interest for real!

"We will NOT show you how to hack your vita! But here's MrMario's video...." XD

A voltar and mlig video in one day awsome 😁

What an amazing, detailed, and comprehensive breakdown!

Very cool. Going to dig my PSTV out of whatever dusty bin it's currently residing in, and will give this a shot. The PSP through the Framemeister can look nasty, so this sounds like a good alternative for capturing.

Thanks for the video. I only bought the PS TV, so I was unaware of lack of features. That, and I only played a few Vita games on it.

just got around to hacking my pstv/installing sharpscale and.. in the words of the great Marc Duddleson "Wow.. did it always look this good!?" love you guys thanks for everything

the PS3 has an option for actual upscaling like the Emulator PPSSPP for PSP remasters however we in the USA did not get them as they were only released in japan and the limited library of games you could play on it were not very long without issues

Regarding PSP supposedly not being able to display PSP games over composite or S-Video: While this is impossible on the 2000 model, this was possible on the 3000 model. Picture quality is pretty good too (I have a new-old-stock official Sony cable).

Thanks for the video. Very insightful. I own a Vita and a PS TV, but i did not use that plugin on the PS TV yet so this comes in handy.

Thanks for the video. Since I already have a PSTV (glad I hadn't tried to sell it on ebay yet, as planned), I'll tinker and play with this upgrade. However, I think i'll end up returning to playing all these games on their intended, dedicated platforms+intended displays, which I am lucky enough to have.

I am so glad I just hacked my PsTV. It's worth it just for the PsP games alone.

The PSTV improvent but actually i was to thinking about that just more any game console like PS2,PS3,PS1,PSP and PSVita.

Considering the price of the PlayStation TV these days, I'll hope for an unofficial, cheaper method to play these games on my HDTV. Hopefully it'll come sooner than later.

This is amazing! The PSTV was such a disappointment for me due to these issues. I didn't know this existed so thanks for spreading the good word. Also, it has been far too long since I've replayed Wild ARMs.

I have been looking at getting a PSTV for a while now. I might have to actually make the jump finally...well, after I finally pick up an AVS of course.

Was hoping you guys would cover this! EDIT: I installed Sharpscale and have been messing around with it since it first was released, but really needed you guys to break it down in language I could understand.

been waiting for something like this for ages! thanks!!

This was really informative! Thanks for your continued experiments on how to play the classics!

I'm going to have to try this out. Funny that you mention the DVDO Edge, as that is what my PSTV is connected to now. It used to be my universal upscaler until I got a Framemeister, but I still use it for the HDMI inputs.

Yeah, I was also disappointed with how the PSP looked through the Framemeister. No matter what settings I adjusted, everything just looked blurry. Went back to emulating the games on PC.

Lol I always had a feeling the psp had some kind of filtering going on for ps1 games. Glad I held onto the pstv, taking the games with me on the train on the vita then plugging the memory card into the tv works somewhat well.

Best theme / Intro music ever.

Could you put the list per minute of the games shown?

i am a fairly new vita owner but i have found sharpscale to be useful for playing PSP games through adrenaline on the handheld vita hardware as well! adrenaline's filtering modes add some noticeable input delay (although not as bad as the ppsspp emulator in my experience), while setting adrenaline's graphics filtering to "original" and turning off bilinear filtering in the official vita settings mitigates most of the delay. however, the latter gives inconsistent results, appearing to to return to the bilinear filter every time a game is launched and the home button is pressed, bringing up the "Do you want to quit the game?" menu. opening up the adrenaline settings menu or going into power save mode for a moment and back resets the display to your desired settings, but needs to be done every time a game is launched or the home button is pressed, which isn't a dealbreaker but has become tedious over time. hopefully, one day, the input delay issues in adrenaline will be addressed, but it's not looking likely as the last commit was nearly 3 years ago :(. setting sharpscale to either fitted or integer scaling with point filtering effectively looks the same as adrenaline's "sharp bilinear without scanlines" - consistently crispy, but without the added delay. i'm still not sure exactly how many milliseconds of delay are added with adrenaline and i do not have a PSP to test against. getting rid of that extra bit of delay makes timing sensitive games way more enjoyable, and i don't have to keep opening up the adrenaline settings every time the display reverts to bilinear and doesn't reflect the set preferences.

I was not aware of this. I've messed around a fair bit with Vita and PSTV homebrew in the past and the blurry mess was my main gripe. It's worth noting that most PSP games are also playable on the PS3 if people want a more accessable device. The PSTV can be hard to come by nowadays.

I love my PSP. I just wish it came out in a better time in my life and I would have collected more games.

This video is so helpful! I was wondering what settings you recommend in Sharpscale for Dissidia?

I love your Content so much. Thanks for helping me with older consoles.

Looks like my PSTV might get a use case now!

Got super lucky and scored one of these bad boys for $19.99 clearance at Wal-Mart. Still my favorite find, the thing is awesome even unmodded.

0:13 you ever just leave your psp on the soil to grow?

I own the PS TV.... bought it when it finally became available in the U.S. I played a couple Vita games on it and it worked fine but I wanted it to stream my PS4 too it with the PS TV hooked too a monitor in a different room over the network....which did not work fine. Graphics and framerate was ok but the massive (controller) latency made that feature unusable. Also the biggest downside of the PS TV is that (for some reason) it doesn't support a ton of Vita games (there's a list out there of supported games online somewhere)...even though that was it's primary purpose. Long story short the thing was pretty worthless and It's been sitting in a box collecting dust for a loooong time. So I'm glad to see someone is actually doing something with it.

PSP still impresses me but the omission of a right analog was kind of a bummer. Reminded me of player FPS games on Dreamcast.

Would love to see you cover the 1080p @30hz plugin that was released awhile back (probably the hardest plugin to track down).

Wondering if the third-party prices for PSTV might dip a little bit now that Persona 4 Golden is on Steam

I TOLD you all the PSTV was worth picking up when it was sold for nickels!!!!!!

Fyi: The Vita has the mips chip inside and it can run PSP games semi-natively.

What would be the correct settings for games of: Playstation Vita psp ps1?

How does this compare to the "sharp bilinear filter" mode in Adrenaline for PSP/PS1 games?

Digging the shopping district background noise lol

Since i can't get a PSVITATV for a decent price, the best thing i could get from this video is that PS1 discs do look great on a PS3 over PSClassics which i didn't know, and that those PSClassics can look great on my VITA 1000 so i'm ready to get lots of them now.

I bought my Vita TV on a sale for £30 new. It came with a voucher for a psn game bundle. All in all a great deal for the price

For modded PSPs you can use a PC program called remotejoy which will display the psp on your HD monitor, and you can map the buttons to the keyboard. then use a program to convert the keyboard bindings to controller buttons if you want to use a ps3/ps4/xbox controller. I have been using my PSP this way since 2009 I'm not too sure if it interger upscales or not, but may be a good option for those with only a PSP-1000 (like me)

Thinking logically about the 1080i thing, surely if a bob-deinterlacing method is used, there would be no deinterlacing artefacts because it’s only 960x540 of actual Vita image.

This is something I have been looking out for,for sometime. The last time I checked having a phat psp running on 1.5 CFW would let you stream games to your pc which would probably make for the best way to capture and play psp or psone games. I figured this video would be it's upgrade but it sure isn't it... Thanks for the extensive coverage anyway.

I'm trying to using this sharpscale on my vita henkaku 3.65,, I instal the plugin from autoplugin II.. But when i open the sharpscale vpk, it show a warning, Fatal Error.. What should i do, can someone help me please?

Still waiting on the internal resolution PSP mod

The PlayStation 3D Display has a proper PSP zoom mode and is probably the best way to play PSP discs on an external screen.

Yes OMG a new RGB episode!!!

I don't make it very far into your videos before I hit the like button. And then as it plays I find myself going down to it again and again, noticing that I already hit it. There's so much good in them, and now I'm going to have to do this. I remember when I bought the PSTV, it was because I needed a ps3 controller, and buying a pstv pack with a controller and several games was actually cheaper. Sure the controller had lower build quality--but its battery didn't.

I am glad I kept my PSTV. Might have to try this out.

I have my PSP hooked up to my TV with composite cables and I can assure you, it will play PSP games through my TV this way, I do it all the time lol.

Rabi Ribi, Senran Kagura, & DOAX Good to know MLIG are men of cultured tastes.

i still got my katsukitty psvita mod to record my psvita and psp games

you can actually record your vita screen thru obs and a plugin it basically recognizes the vita as a webcam

This is also a big deal for those of us multisync PC CRT monitors. Especially if they unlock a 544p output mode, which PC CRT's will sync to no problem. I was already playing Vita TV games at 1080i (1088 if you count the overscanned pixels) to have the same lines-per field as a Vita, but the bilinear filter practically defeated the purpose. So integer scaling is a big deal. This is definitely going to encourage me to revisit the system.

Heck yeah! New MLIG!

I put my tv in a boot loop trying to install storagemgr. How do I get out of it?

Wow! Might have to finally get a softmod on my PSTV now!

Curious about the price of the ps tv after reading comments and holy cow it went up by a lot (200-300 range USD). Glad I got one when they were 30 on a sale.

new to the channel, instantly loved the video, subbed!

Damn this is so cool, mostly useless for the original Vita, but definitly a game changer for the PS TV

This explains why i can never get a single sharpscale setting to be perfect on all games lol