Add ability to luanch Adrenaline ISO and EBOOT directly within the launcher. No need to create many bubbles.
Games are display in 4 categories (vita/psp/homebrew/favorites). The psp game categories looks for games starting with the gameid PSPEMU. Mainly the bubbles created with Adrenaline Bubble Manager
Game caching. With hundreds of games, scanning the folders and building the list takes a long time. So a cache is built on the first scan and subsequent startup of the app reads from the cache.
Favorites. With hundreds of games, it's takes a quite a while to browse all the games to find your favorite game. Therefore I've implemented a feature to add a game to you favorites for easy access.
Game images loaded on demand. With hundreds of games, we can't possibly load all the game images into memory. So images are loaded on demand only and a few pages of images are cached.
Last but not least, you can access you full library of games/apps. Just an FYI, I could load 1600 games/apps on my vita-tv.
Add the ability to launch Retro games directly via the launcher. Includes N64,
Added new categories for each of the retro cores eg. NES, SNES, GC, GBC, GBA, N64, etc...
Added ability to customize the category where a game or app shows in the launcher.
Add option for parental control to hide dangerous settings.
Add option to change the default retro core used
Add options to specify where to import roms from.
Add option to change icon path location.
up/down/left/right - for browsing your games
left analog stick - for browsing your games
square - add the selected game to favorites
circle - switch game/app category
triangle - scan games and rebuild the cache.
cross - start the selected game/app
L-trigger - previous page
R-trigger - next page
1- How to change parental controls.
2- How to customize the category where bubble goes into.
3- How to import roms into the launcher.
4- How to change the retro core used to start a retro game.
5- How to customize icons for the rom that display in the app.
No longer scans the ux0:app folder to find games and create a cache. Changed to read the game info directly from the Vita's app database. As a results there's no need to include the options to add/remove/rescan.
Polished up the GUI a little
Vita Launcher v1.1
Hide categories with no games
Add new LIST view. Use triangle button to bring up "Settings" dialog to switch between Grid/List view.
Add options to add/remove a single game from cache. Useful when you install/uninstall games. You can update the cache without rescanning all the games.
Add ability to launch Adrenaline PSP ISO and EBOOT games directly via the launcher app. This still requires Adrenaline Bubble Booter which is installed by Adrenaline Bubble Manager. You will NEED to install AdrenalineLauncher.vpk. This will install a placeholder Bubble which will be used by Vita-Launcher. Vita-Launcher make some modification to the content in the Bubble with the game info before starting it. See this video on how to setup.
Add rom filters in the ux0:data/SMLA00001/config.ini to only look for specific files in the ROMS folder. This allows the scan to skip sav file and unrelated content while scanning for games. Also you can edit the config to specify any other files you want to skip.
Add new categories for Atari 2600, 7800, C64 and Wonder Swan.
Add better RetroArch support for PSX games. Will now scan EBOOT in the pspemu/PSP/GAME folder for adrenaline. And also scan an alternative ROMS folder for disc format games like "img, bin, ccd, chd" files. Disc format games will default use RetroArch to boot the games. For EBOOT, you will be given a choose to boot with "Adrenaline" or RetroArch. Please update ux0:data/SMLA00001/config.ini to add additional disc extensions if missing.
Minor improvements to the focus in Grid View. When switching between pages or categories, the focus will not be lost.
Will skip corrupted ISO/EBOOT during scanning instead of crashing.
Vita Launcher v1.6
Added the ability for customizing the color style of the application. Add your custom styles in the "ux0:data/SMLA00001/styles" folder. Here are some styles to get started with. Also a created a video explanation. https://github.com/cy33hc/vita-launcher/tree/master/styles
Add ability to give an alternative name to the categories. In the "config.ini" file, there is a new setting called "alt_title" that you can modify.
Add ability to choose the pspemu location. In the "ux0:data/SMLA00001/config.ini" file, there is a new setting called "pspemu_location". Default set to "ux0:pspemu". You can change to "uma0:pspemu" if you store you ISO/EBOOT on the uma0 device.
Add a couple of new Retro categories for TurboGrafx 16, Vectrex, G&W, MAME-2000 and MAME-2003
Vita Launcher v1.5.1
Fixed bug where PSP/PSX/PSP Mini wasn't saved to favourites
Removed syncing of categories with VitaDB, some issues with linking the openssl/libcurl causing the app to randomly crash.
Add support for display of PS Mobile icon. (The icon for PS Mobile apps are in DDS format, so using the pic0.png instead).
Changed the Button assignments. LT/RT will now change category instead of changing pages. To change page, scroll to the left/right edge of the grid.
Added some padding to the smaller "tabs" to get a more consistent tab size.
Placement of PSP/PSX/PS Mini games in the category will be determined based on "CATEGORY" field of the param.sfo file.
Add ability to change settings directly in the app now. Don't need to edit the config.ini from VitaShell or PC. Although you still can.
Add ability to hide games or apps. For bubbles, you can restore the game by removing the title id from the hidden titles section of settings.
Add ability to move Bubble/Adrenaline games/apps between categories. RetroArch roms cannot be moved since they depend on the retro core that's in the category of where the game reside.
Known issue: After modifying the category title. The LT/RT can't change categories. Just restart the app to fix it.
Add ability to rename Adrenaline PSP/PS1/PSP Mini and all RetroArch names. Bubbles will not be editable since I don't want to mess around the vita's app.db. Others are editable becuz I have my own cache.db in the ux0:data/SMLA00001 folder.
BUG FIX: Favorites is messed up, after the implementation for moving Games between categories. If you have issues with Favorites, delete them all and then add back again.
BUG FIX: After selecting to move the game to another category, the game shows up in 2 categories temporary until you restart. After restart it shows properly. This is just to fix the UI glitch after the move.
BUG FIX: Fix an issue when scanning for RetroArch roms, if the rom filename is too long, it corrupts the cache.db and crashes the app. This fix will skip any file whose name it too long. Filename limit is 127 chars. For those whose experiencing app crash during retroarch scan. Delete the ux0:data/SMLA00001/cache.db file and restart the app.
Add ability to add single PSP ISO/EBOOT game. Previously to add a new ISO/EBOOT game, you had to rescan the entire category which took time and removed the custom changes you made. Especially after you have renamed the games, the rescan would revert all those changes. Now you can add new games without impacting your custom changes. Adding PSP ISO/EBOOT can only be performed in the PSP/PSX/PSPMini category. After the game is added, you can move to any other category that you like.
BUG FIX: The moving of games feature broke Favorites and I had fixed that in previous version 1.7.1. But there was still 1 bug related to this, which I have resolve in this release. In rare case, this bug would cause the initial loading games screen to appear frozen. It's because it was hitting a condition that caused an infinite loop.
Vita Launcher v1.7.2
BUG FIX: Roms that were renamed couldn't load the image because it depended on the rom title to load the image. Changed to get the image based of the rom filename instead of title.
For now you will need to install my custom build of scummVM untill the ScummVM provides an official release. I tried to use the daily build directly from ScmmmVM buildbot server but it just keeps crashing even on normal startup. Here is the commit from GitHub that this was built from scummvm/scummvm#2616 NOTE: Please don't submit any issues related to this build with ScummVM team or myself. This is provided just for convenience before the ScummVM official release.
2 First you need to add all your games to ScummVM app first so that it can detect the game. If it can't detect the game it won't work.
You will have to show all categories for the new category to be displayed. Select the "ScummVM" category and bring up the "Settings and Action" dialog and choose to "Scan games in the ScummVM category". The app will scan the "ux0:data/scummvm/scummvm.ini to find the games to add.
For thumbnails to display add an icon0.png in the folder of the scummvm game.
Vita Launcher v1.9.2
BUG FIX: Broke Styles after some code refactor. Styles reverted back to Default always.
Add ability to download thumbnails for Roms. This feature requires iTLS-enso on firmware 3.60 and 3.65. https://github.com/SKGleba/iTLS-Enso/releases Note: Accuracy of getting the correct thumbnail is only about 90-95%. It does not replace thumbnails if one already exists.
BUG FIX: gpu crash in Scrolling Grid view on some occasions.
Add option to download 2D boxart for thumbnails (This option will download 2D boxart first, if not found then downloads the Titles screenshots). If you have previously downloaded thumbnails already, you'll have to delete them first since the app won't download thumbnail if one exists. All 2D boxarts are scaled down to 140x140px for better loading performance.
Add option to swap X/O button. This was feature request by user with Japan vita.
Allow use of L2/R2 on PS4/PS3 controller to page through games on PSTV.
Add ability to uninstall game. Reason for adding this is because if you have lots of games, they don't appear in LiveArea and CMA. So it's impossible to remove. Also Vitashell/PKGJ missing the option to uninstall game and the uninstall game in Onemenu occasionally crash for me.
Add dreamcast category (Currently there is no flycast core, but when RetroArch is updated, this will become usable)
while creating folders, you have the option to create the folders in multiple categories
option to delete folder. When a folder is deleted, the games under the folder isn't deleted but instead moved back to the main folder.
Add multi-selection ability for moving games to folders or hide games.
Use the "SELECT" button to toggle "multi-select" mode.
Multi-Selection mode is automatically cancelled if you switch category or folder
removed the option to re-scan all games since it is a little dangerous. You can achieve the same by just deleting the "cache.db" file under the folder ux0:data/SMLA00001.
Made the "Actions" tab the first tab in the "Settings and Actions" dialog.
see following video tutorial on how to use the features.