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| Author | cy33hc |
| Type | Title Launchers |
| Version | 3.9.5 |
| License | GPL-3.0 |
| Last Updated | 2022/09/24 |
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An application that allows to launch other installed apps, roms from emulators and PSP games and homebrews through Adrenaline. This removes the bubbles limit of Livearea and allows to categorize applications.
The main purpose of this app is for users who have hundreds of games on their vita.
The PS Vita has a limitation of 500 bubbles only. I couldn't find an app that served me well to manage my library of games so I decided to create my own.
Use in conjuction with the CopyIcons app to get icons not created by PS Vita: Copyicons Vita.
INFO: This app requires accessing the game icons from the "ur0:/appmeta" folder therefore compiled with UNSAFE flag. Dev's can verify the code in git.
Features
- Games are grouped into multiple categories (Vita/PSP/Homebrew/Favorites) including retro consoles like NES, SNES, GB, GBC, GBA, N64, etc..
- Can launch all vita games, Adrenaline bubbles, and retro games without bubbles.
- Has parental controls for hiding certain settings.
- Customizable categories via configuration file.
- Favorites: With hundreds of games, it takes a quite a while to browse all the pages to find your favorite game. With Favorites, I've implemented a feature to add a game to your favorites for easy access.
- Game images load on demand: With hundreds of games, we can't possibly load all the game images into memory. Images are loaded on demand only and a few pages of images are cached.
- Last but not least, you can access your full library of games/apps. Just an FYI, I was able to load 1600 games/apps on my PlayStation TV.
Controls
- up/down/left/right - for browsing your games
- left analog stick - for browsing your games
- square - add the selected game to favorites
- circle - un-select or back.
- triangle - display settings dialog.
- cross - start the selected game/app
- L-trigger - previous page
- R-trigger - next page
- Select - Toogle multi selection
- Start - display the search dialog
Media
Screenshots
How to Guides
How to change parental controls:
How to customize the category where bubble goes into:
How to import ROMs into the launcher:
How to change the retro core used to start a retro game:
How to customize icons for the ROM that displays in the app:
How to setup application to Boot Adrenaline PSP ISO and EBOOT directly without bubbles:
How to create folders:
How to play Retro games from FTP server:
How to play PSP ISO and EBOOT from FTP server:
Changelogs
v3.9.5
- Launch Dreamcast games via new Flycast app
v3.9.4
- Fixed issue #48 where duplicate entries of games with DLC.
v3.9.3
- Add ability to config a default global PSP boot settings
- Expanded the per game PSP boot settings to include the following
- "Graphics Filtering", "Smooth Graphics", "Flux Filter Color", "PSP/PS1 Scale" etc...
v3.9.2
- Add new YoYo Loader boot options "Use Uncached Memory" and "Use Double Buffering"
v3.9.1
- Added support for EasyRPG games put in sub directories or in zip files. Only zip files with compression method Store or Deflate (not Deflate64) are supported.
v3.9
- Added support for Booting EasyRPG games. Games have to be put into the ux0:data/easyrpg-player folder. You also need to download and install the latest nightly build of EasyRPG from the official website that supports booting games externally. https://ci.easyrpg.org/job/player-vita/
v3.8.5
- Fix updater dialog showing when nothing to update
v3.8.4
- Add "disable audio" boot settings for yoyo loader
- Updated yoyo thumbnails db
- Fixed an issue downloading gms game icons
v3.8.3
- Fix psp games can't boot after plugin settings changed.
v3.8.2
- Fix adernaline boot settings not saved due to missing tables. Only some people affected based on the upgrade path.
- Improve psp plugins navigation. Default selects the checkbox instead of the "Delete" button.
v3.81
- Fix GPU crash which was caused by texture being deleted while still in use. Fixed by increasing the delay for cleanup of unused textures.
v3.8
- Adds ability to manage PSP plugins from within Vita-Launcher. Also allow per game plugin configuration.
v3.7
- Updated fonts to handle more languages and special characters for copyright, TM etc which shows as "?"
- Better detection of iTLS-Enso and ABB(Adernaline Bubble Booter plugin)
- Warn ONLY ONCE for missing iTLS-Enso/ABB install
- Overclocked CPU/GPU which seem to fix the random GPU crash.
- Add ability to config a custom location to look for Bubbles/PSP/PS1/PSPMini icons.
- For Bubbles, create a png file with the name of the TITLE_ID (eg. God of War file is PCSA00126.png)
- For PSP ISO, create a png file with the same name as the ISO. (eg."Ape Escape.iso", create the png file called "Ape Escape.png")
- For EBOOT.PBP, create png file with the same name as the folder that contains the EBOOT.PBP file. (Eg. "ux0:pspemu/PSP/GAME/Final Fantasy VII/EBOOT.PBP", create the png file called "Final Fantasy VII.png"
v3.6.6
- Fix issues where duplicate Retro alternate cores created in settings
v3.6.5
- Auto installs/updates the flycast core in RetroArch by extracting the smc.bin and smc2.bin from the Flycast app
v3.6.4
- Fix issue where YoYo settings isn't saved if yy.cfg does not exists
v3.6.3
- Check if iTLS-Enso is installed before attempt to download updates. iTLS-Enso is needed for this feature
v3.6.2
- Add "Run with Mem Squeezing" option to YoYo boot settings
v3.6.1
- Add support for "Enable network features" option to YoYo Launcher boot settings
v3.6
- Add option to apply Bilinear Filters to icons. This is enabled by default and can be change in the Global Settings.
- Add support to launch Game Maker Studio games via YoYo Launcher (NEW). Thx to @Rinnegatamante for this awesome app.
- Add support for scanning Game Maker Studio games from FTP Server. Like support for ROMS, update the "roms_path" of GMS category with "ftp0:" prefix.
- For both ux0 and ftp0, put an icon0.png in the same folder as the game.apk. Vita-Launcher will use that for the display icon.
- Add feature to auto-install "Adrenaline Launcher", "YoYo Launcher" (NEW). These are custom bubbles required by Vita-Launcher to launch games without bubbles.
- Add option to check and install updates for "YoYo Launcher", "Adrenaline Launcher", "Vita Launcher". There's a new action "Check for updates" can be found under the "Actions" tab of Settings.
For a complete changelogs - click here.
Credits
- Borrowed some audio code from ELEVENMPV
- Borrowed some code from VitaShell for the ime_dialog and net download