[Release] Vita-Launcher v1.2 App to launch games and apps

Find in github for https://github.com/cy33hc/vita-launcher/releases.

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.

This is a app/game launcher application.

The main purpose of this app is for users who have hundreds of games on their vita.

The psvita has limitation of 500 bubbles only, anything more is not accessible. I couldn’t find an app that served me well to manage my library of (~1600) games so I decided to create my own.

Use in conjunction with the CopyIcons app to get icons not created by psvita. Search in github for https://github.com/cy33hc/copyicons/releases

Features

1. 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
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.

Controls

• 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 (or Touch on icon) – start the selected game/app
• L-trigger – previous page
• R-trigger – next page

– 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.

## How Tos
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.

[Updates]
v1.0.2

• Fixed crash sometimes while switching between pages
• Add ability to remove a game from favourites category

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.

V1.2

• 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

v1.3
– 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.
– Syncs homebrew categories from VitaDB website.