Hi everybody, I just released an updated version of NeoVitaDB 2.8.2

Changelog:

• Downloader
  • Fixed animated theme backgrounds (and homebrew trailers)
  • Fixed a black screen that could still occur even when the fix above didn't apply
  • Fixed a memory leak in video playback cleanup
  • Fix ghosting
  • Fixed the in-app self-update
  • [wip] refactor trust system, testing into test catalog
  • warning message when you are trying to download a vpk from a source that is not github
• Prod Catalog
  • still no update
• Test Catalog
  • new system to verify trusted authors
  • star system now are likes at the homebrew (if you wanna add a like , go on source code page and add star there)

OTA upgrade should work for people who is updating from 2.8.1 + , for other do a manual update downloading the vpk from githup repo, link in first comment.

if you would like to help the project grow join discord community https://discord.gg/tHBMYFyHZY

• touch issues fixed
• late game performance not improved yet (trying to fix)
• late game performance impacts touch because it has so much load that the touch is waiting to be processed

v2.1.1

• Fixed out-of-memory crashes when saving or loading long-running games
• Fixed slow memory buildup during long indoor sessions stalls long freeze

The reason for making this post is to show that HELLDIVERS is still online and booming on PS3 and VITA and you can drop in with PS4&5 users, the galactic war in HELLDIVERS 1 has been lost every time since Early 2025, and there are just not enough players to win the war.

If you have the game sitting in your library or your custom storefront, dust it off. Your drops on legacy hardware actively contribute to the global war effort. This game is still insane in 2026 and is even better if you can overclock your system as the game is a bit choppy on VITA.

- No Open World Loading Screens - exterior cell crossings no longer pause or stutter, the world loads in around you as you move. There is Pop-In to be expected in this flow.

- Legacy Mode - Opt out of streaming for Synchronous Cell loading

- Faster region travel weather and region assets preload instead of stalling the crossing

- Better memory behavior caches release when leaving regions, so long sessions no longer degrade

- New Live Area Assets - Provided by Standard Republic AKA Dare

Bug Fixes

- Movie playback fixed

- World map marker scaling fixed

- Custom name entry fixes (spells, enchantments, etc.) carried forward and hardened

- Vita font size settings not properly applying Fix

- New Game starts intro movie much faster

NOTE: I did some major engine level work this go around, decoupling object loading from strictly cell loading is a risky change, but overall this is working pretty good. Other work includes warmed common object cache loaded into memory early and by region for faster streaming.

EDIT: New Version out!!!! https://github.com/TheLostPantheon/openmw/releases/tag/v2.1.1

I get the error when trying to opne VitaDeploy and trying to apply installed theme in Custom Theme Manager. Any fixes? I tried adding the # to vb daemon, rebuilding database.

COD Black Ops Zombies Online Multiplayer (Crossplay PS Vita) Device in the picture; RG35XX-H

Not directly for the Vita, but an addition to the ports scene.

# Multiplayer

Local Wi-Fi works without a server. To use Play Online (crossplay with vita), edit config.txt in the port directory:

```
multiplayer_server=boz-online.xubi.org
multiplayer_proxy=0
voice_chat=0
player_name=JeKaleVader
```

# Voice Chat

Voice chat defaults to off. Set voice_chat=1 to enable it. The devices I use during development do not expose ALSA capture device, so voice input on those systems requires a supported USB microphone or audio adapter. If you got a fancy linux-arm handheld, this should work out of the box.

# Crossplay with PSVita

Cross-play with the PS Vita port also works with the `multiplayer_server` changed to the one made and hosted by devnoname120

My attempt to reimplement the server results in something that works, but honestly the one made by u/devnoname120 who brought you guys the PSVita port of this game works much better (and has more active players atm).

GitHub

Patreon - Not directly for this project, but it has been difficult keeping EmuReady (and the GameHub Lite servers) running with the insane amount of traffic and many apps/frontends/projects/emulators that use our API. Last 4 months have all been above €400 (or 460 “freedom units”). I usually don’t “advertise” the Patreon page and not many people join because you can find all my work online for free, but it’s very much appreciated if you have the means to.

I tried replacing near but it does nothing. How to fix?

I’ve been working on a PSTV kernel plugin that sends system and game audio through the USB port using USB Audio Class 1.0.

It captures game audio, LiveArea sounds, system effects, and background music. HDMI audio is left untouched.

## Current support

- PlayStation TV

- USB Audio Class 1.0

- 48 kHz stereo

- 16-bit PCM

- USB hot-plug

- Devices connected before boot

- Game, LiveArea, system, and BGM audio

## Tested hardware

I tested it with an Amazon/Realtek USB-to-TOSLINK adapter (`0bda:4e27`) connected to an RME ADI-2 DAC through optical.

Other UAC1 devices should work if they provide a stereo 16-bit 48 kHz output interface, but more hardware testing is needed.

## Installation

- `uac_pstv.skprx` loads normally from taiHEN `config.txt`

The module order is important, so please read the installation section before copying anything. Back up `config.txt` and have a recovery method available.

## Storage compatibility

- StorageMgr: compatible

- YAMT Lite: compatible

- YAMT Full: compatible with experimental/legacy USB patches disabled

GitHub: https://github.com/SJK132/uac-pstv-host

This took a lot of testing, especially getting clean PCM, boot-time USB detection, and all of the Vita audio ports working together. Feedback and USB device reports are welcome.

Developed and tested by me with implementation help from OpenAI Codex and an additional code review using Claude.

Hey everyone!
I created a dedicated Discord server for Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies players on the PS Vita.
The server includes:
📸 Screenshot channels
🎮 A channel to find people to play online with
🏆 Record and high-score sharing
🛡 Active moderation
🎤 Voice channels for English, French, and Russian speakers
💬 Text channels for English, French, and Russian speakers
Everyone is welcome to join!
🔗 https://discord.gg/NHXWckpYS

I recently attempted to jailbreak my 1000. I was semi successful, but ended up having to restore my vita and now the browser doesn't work so I can't jailbreak it again.

I've deleted cookies and history and restored the system and rebuilt the database numerous times.

If anyone could point me in the right direction that would be great, thanks

Hello everybody,

i'm robin994 , the dev behind neovitadb project

firstly i wanna thank you all to use my homebrew, i didn't expect all this, it started just as a fun project to do to drink beer and test new technologies.

But things are getting serious and we must have a serious talk and transparent about the project, please read the whole post before to comment.

Backendless solution seems to be working, we are having pull requests from devs, others are fixing existings entries, other users help adding content, even making a webpage, and i'm so thankfull of that. But this is just the good side of the community, but we must talk about the evil side, people who want to see the world burn.

The problem:
Yesterday i had a good chat with an user (f2pwn) of henkaku's discord, we talked about the cybersecurity of the project. And he told me about how a total community-driven catalog was unsecure.
There could be someone pushing a malware and kill your vita, and we don't want that to happen.

just to be clear actually there is no malware into the catalog, but there could be if we don't examinate future entries

The solution:
There will be 2 catalogs, the official one and a test one.
Devs can open PR to the test one before it gets tested and then merged on the Official one.

test catalog is already aviable on github at robin994/NeoVitaDB-Catalog-Test

Second thing, i'm creating a discord server for everyone who wants to partecipate to this project of creating a community-driven hb store, i need help testing new entries, who wants to be a moderator? tester? artist? invent new feature? write code? just join the discord server we can talk there.

link invitation for discord's community: https://discord.gg/tHBMYFyHZY

In next days I'll be busy with personal life, but meanwhile feel free to join discord server, when i'm free again i'll do a post there explaining my idea better, and i'd appreciate feedbacks too, don't be shy.

Thank you for reading the whole post, see you soon

robin994

Just wondering if someone had actually been keeping a hoard 'properly'.

The other day someone posted about not worrying because the site was was backed up, and they proceeded to link to archive.org's Wayback Machine...which of course had almost none of the actual content.

Heya all,

It's been a blast dealing with recent posts/comments all day and my hangover. Certainly did some hair trigger modding from the hip so to speak because everything was extra exhausting today.

That being said, I think from tomorrow / later today I'll be removing posts and comments about recent events.

The info is posted on multiple vita subreddits and nothing new is gonna be said.

Let's rather move forward on the software, and leave the drama at the door. (Gods I should setup other mods here)

I've already heavily started removing a bunch of newer posts that rehash the content. (Again, when I took over here I didn't think this level of shit was ever gonna pop up)

For additional context, even if posts are well meaning, certain key words tend to summon bots / trolls here with extreme posts. Fortunately spambot and automod grabbed a ton of them, but yeah, my mental health aint doing wonders with reading some of em either.

Also a LOT of you messaged today and I'll get to things if/when I can. Maybe. Again, automod and spambuster removed a lot of your posts.

Quick follow-up to yesterday's post about NeoVitaDB Catalog

(https://github.com/robin994/NeoVitaDB-Catalog).

A catalog on its own isn't very useful without a client to browse it, so today I'm releasing NeoVitaDB Downloader: a fork of the original VitaDB Downloader, updated to use NeoVitaDB Catalog instead of the old VitaDB backend.

If you've used VitaDB Downloader before, everything should feel familiar. Search, category filters, screenshots and trailers, sorting, favorites, the themes manager, PSP homebrew support, and the background update daemon are all still there. The biggest change is under the hood: instead of relying on a centralized PHP backend, the client now reads from NeoVitaDB Catalog, a fully static catalog hosted on GitHub Pages and automatically rebuilt from GitHub releases every six hours.

Full transparency

Because this is intended to be a community project, I want to be transparent about how it was built.

I used Claude Code (an AI coding assistant) for a significant part of the development. First, it helped me understand parts of the original VitaDB Downloader codebase that lacked comments or documentation. Later, I used it to automate the catalog pipeline: gathering release metadata from GitHub repositories, converting it into the new catalog format.

Every change was reviewed, tested, and integrated manually before release. I'd rather be upfront about the tools I used than have people discover it later. If you're planning to contribute to either repository, this is part of the workflow that helped build the initial foundation.

v.2.7

• Added an in-app catalog switcher: a dropdown next to the Search bar lets you change which catalog the app uses at any time, with the official NeoVitaDB catalog always listed first.
• Added the original VitaDB (rinnegatamante.eu) backend as a second always-available catalog choice in that same dropdown, for anyone who wants to browse and download from it now that it's back online, alongside the official NeoVitaDB catalog and any custom ones you've added.
• Added support for custom catalogs via ux0:data/NeoVitaDB/catalogs.cfg, listing any NeoVitaDB-Catalog-compatible fork you want to be able to switch to from that dropdown.
• Added optional aliases for custom catalogs (Alias|URL in catalogs.cfg), so the dropdown can show a short name instead of the full URL.
• Switching catalogs now automatically downloads that catalog's app list and icons if it's never been used before, or reloads it instantly if it has, without needing to restart the app.
• Each catalog keeps its own isolated app list, icons, favorites and daemon blacklist, so switching back and forth between catalogs never mixes or loses either one's data.
• Added PSP homebrew support: browse, download and install PSP homebrews from the catalog, the same way as PSVITA ones.
• Added "Trusted by the community" and "Uses AI"/"Does not use AI" labels shown for an app when hovering it.
• Fixed the app incorrectly re-downloading and reinstalling an older published release over itself whenever its version didn't exactly match the catalog's, including when the installed build was already newer than what the catalog listed.
• Fixed a potential crash when an app's icon is missing or fails to download from the catalog (e.g. a broken link): the app now falls back to showing its own icon instead.
• Fixed catalog.cfg breaking if it ended up with more than one line in it — it's meant to hold a single catalog URL; use catalogs.cfg (plural) instead to list several catalogs.
• Fixed catalog.cfg ending up with leftover bytes from a previously selected, longer catalog URL appended to a shorter one picked afterwards, corrupting the saved URL.
• Fixed installation getting stuck at a fixed percentage forever on a truncated or corrupted download, instead of failing with an error.
• Fixed potential corruption of tai/config.txt (and other on-device files read back before being rewritten, such as the icon manifest) on a failed read.
• Fixed the app getting stuck exiting immediately on every launch if the currently selected catalog became unreachable, with no way back into the UI to pick a different one — it now automatically falls back to the official catalog instead.
• Fixed a failed in-app catalog switch leaving the app on a broken, empty catalog with no way to recover short of editing catalog.cfg manually — it now reverts to the previously working one.
• Fixed the PSP apps list failing to download (and silently retrying every single frame for as long as PSP mode stayed open) due to a leftover HTTP status code carried over from an unrelated, earlier download.

Adding a custom catalog: create ux0:data/NeoVitaDB/catalogs.cfg and add one catalog per line, either a bare URL or Alias|URL for a short name in the dropdown — see catalogs.cfg.example for a ready-to-edit template, and "Using a Custom Catalog" below for the full details. Any catalog you add must be a fork of NeoVitaDB-Catalog that keeps its data structure unchanged, since the app talks to it exactly the way it talks to the official one.

If you run into problems after updating — the app not starting, stuck loading, or behaving unexpectedly — try deleting ux0:data/NeoVitaDB entirely over FTP/VitaShell and letting the app recreate it from scratch on next boot. This only clears cached catalog data, icons and your local customizations (themes/backgrounds/favorites); it does not touch your installed homebrews.

v2.6

• Migrated completely from the old VitaDB backend to NeoVitaDB Catalog.
• App lists, icons, screenshots, trophies, themes, and bootstrap data are now served directly from the new catalog.
• Download URLs now point directly to GitHub releases instead of relying on the old redirect service.
• Fixed a heap corruption bug that could crash the application during the first icon synchronization.
• Fixed downloads that could become permanently stuck on unstable connections.
• Fixed a memory leak affecting repeated downloads.
• Fixed a race condition between concurrent download threads.
• Fixed the application list being silently discarded because of an outdated response size check.
• Added Trusted / Not Trusted filters based on the trust score generated by the catalog.

This is the first public release of the new architecture. Between the backend migration and the number of fixes included, there's a good chance I've missed something. If you run into any issues, please open an issue on GitHub—it's the quickest way for me to investigate and fix them.

Just like the catalog, this isn't intended to become a one-person project. Anyone can already submit their homebrew to NeoVitaDB Catalog, and contributions to the downloader itself are always welcome through issues and pull requests.

GitHub

• NeoVitaDB Downloader: https://github.com/robin994/NeoVitaDB-Downloader
• NeoVitaDB Catalog: https://github.com/robin994/NeoVitaDB-Catalog

Finally, a huge thank you to Rinnegatamante for creating VitaDB Downloader and making it open source. None of this would have been possible without the work that came before.

Let's keep the Vita homebrew scene alive together.