[Koroviev]

I'm putting my Vita in a UPS drop box tomorrow to return to Amazon. I escalated a case to eBay CS and I have to reimburse eBay/buyer for my Alienware M11x that the post office lost. I bought Disgaea 3 and Unit 13 at Gamestop, so I can't return them. Guess I'll throw em on eBay after this all blows over. If anyone wants them, let me know. This bloooows.

Aw, what happened with your Vita? Sorry to hear about your luck :(

[VindictiveGnome]

Aw, what happened with your Vita? Sorry to hear about your luck :(

Nothing happened to it. I need the money I bought the Vita with to reimburse eBay/buyer. I'll pick another up near Christmas. Hopefully there will be more games and more features. No big deal.

[Bukana]

Hey guys, I made a new thread about upcoming games and apps, check it out!!
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=472361

[kuroshiki]

Nothing happened to it. I need the money I bought the Vita with to reimburse eBay/buyer. I'll pick another up near Christmas. Hopefully there will be more games and more features. No big deal.

Ah sh, post office lost your thing?

how much money did you lose?

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

If anyone is interested, these HP Touchpad chargers are on sale for $5 that i've been using to charge my Vita for a while now. Much more portable than the official charger. The only prob is that its cylindrical, but still seems to work great.

[IMACOMPUTA]

Nothing happened to it. I need the money I bought the Vita with to reimburse eBay/buyer. I'll pick another up near Christmas. Hopefully there will be more games and more features. No big deal.

How much for Unit 13?

[VindictiveGnome]

Ah sh, post office lost your thing? how much money did you lose?

$519 and something cents. Awesome, right? There's a first time for everything and also a last time.

How much for Unit 13?

Sent ya a PM.

[MooMoo]

If you pre-order Gravity Rush through Amazon (and I think GameStop), then you'll receive a costume and some extra missions :) Edit: Has anyone placed a preorder on Amazon using a gift card? I'm thinking of buying one for Gravity Rush to get that out of the way, but I'd like to know if there are any issues with using this method.

Ah, off to Amazon to preorder it then! :3 Using a gift card on Amazon shouldn't be too hard. You can apply the code at checkout. Alternatively, you can apply the code to your account, at which during checkout you'll be reminded of any gift card balances/be given the option to apply it to the order. And if you want the credit back, just cancel the order and the balance will be recredited back to your account.

Next month should be pretty interesting. Finishing up Disgaea 2 and I'm purposefully holding off of Disgaea 3 until final exams are over. By then, Gravity Rush will be right around the corner. That and there's Diablo 3 haha.

[Koroviev]

Ah, off to Amazon to preorder it then! :3 Using a gift card on Amazon shouldn't be too hard. You can apply the code at checkout. Alternatively, you can apply the code to your account, at which during checkout you'll be reminded of any gift card balances/be given the option to apply it to the order. And if you want the credit back, just cancel the order and the balance will be recredited back to your account. Next month should be pretty interesting. Finishing up Disgaea 2 and I'm purposefully holding off of Disgaea 3 until final exams are over. By then, Gravity Rush will be right around the corner. That and there's Diablo 3 haha.

I wish Gravity Rush was being released in May :(

[ReaperXL07]

I don't know how many might be interested in this, but I found out a way to download youtube videos onto the Vita and they be playable.

http://animetoxin.blogspot.in/2012/0...be-videos.html

it's alittle bit of a hassle to get it set up, but it works. I just hope Sony gets it crap together on proper flash support soon.

[chickdigger802]

I don't know how many might be interested in this, but I found out a way to download youtube videos onto the Vita and they be playable. http://animetoxin.blogspot.in/2012/0...be-videos.html it's alittle bit of a hassle to get it set up, but it works. I just hope Sony gets it crap together on proper flash support soon.

lol. reminds me of trying to get videos on my psp back in the day. Glad to see Sony hasn't changed at all over the years.


Just let me stream shit from my media library like every other electronic device I own!

[Koroviev]

lol. reminds me of trying to get videos on my psp back in the day. Glad to see Sony hasn't changed at all over the years. Just let me stream shit from my media library like every other electronic device I own!

Little bit of encoding does the trick :)

[billsmugs]

I'm not sure if it is common, but i've heard about this happen to others. The most bizarre case i've heard about is that one guy was on the South or North Pole for a second lol.

OK, thanks. At least I ended up somewhere with (loads of) other people!

If any polar explorer takes their Vita to where that guy ended up, they're going to be pretty surprised when it doesn't say "unpopulated location discovered" on Near.

[blackflag]

I need to buy another one of these for my daughter. She wants one and her birthday is in 2 weeks. I've been hoping for a price drop but I guess the target deal for free Unit 13 and 4g card are the best I'm gonna get. I'll play Unit 13....the 4g card is kind of useless though.

[Koroviev]

I need to buy another one of these for my daughter. She wants one and her birthday is in 2 weeks. I've been hoping for a price drop but I guess the target deal for free Unit 13 and 4g card are the best I'm gonna get. I'll play Unit 13....the 4g card is kind of useless though.

I think Wal-Mart might have some sort of bundle promotion online. Might just have to poke around the web a bit.

[chris.trejo]

I don't know how many might be interested in this, but I found out a way to download youtube videos onto the Vita and they be playable. http://animetoxin.blogspot.in/2012/0...be-videos.html it's alittle bit of a hassle to get it set up, but it works. I just hope Sony gets it crap together on proper flash support soon.

Whoa that's awesome for now, hopefully Sony has a youtube app ready to go for E3 at least.

[Afrikan]

I don't know how many might be interested in this, but I found out a way to download youtube videos onto the Vita and they be playable. http://animetoxin.blogspot.in/2012/0...be-videos.html it's alittle bit of a hassle to get it set up, but it works. I just hope Sony gets it crap together on proper flash support soon.

Sick! Now will this just work for youtube, or *ahem* any flash video clip on other sites? *wink wink*

I might just download all th 9ers games that are on youtube....besides the last one.

[PSY・S]

I don't know how many might be interested in this, but I found out a way to download youtube videos onto the Vita and they be playable. http://animetoxin.blogspot.in/2012/0...be-videos.html it's alittle bit of a hassle to get it set up, but it works. I just hope Sony gets it crap together on proper flash support soon.

Just downloaded the latest FFvXIII trailer in 720p and it's all kinds of beautiful. The only problem is that it still looks like a YouTube compressed video.

[bede-x]

If you are sensitive to 30 fps games, it must have been hell going through every game generation since Pong up till now.

In some games, sure, but it's important to remember that games use different perspectives and not everything is affected equally. Take Sonic Generations for instance where the sidescrolling parts are horrible because of the framerate, whereas the into-the-screen is ok(though I still would prefer 60fps).

Despite the framerate I still like Sonic. Kinda.

It isn't a game that needs 60 fps and if it ran at 60 fps 80% of the time but the other 20% it was dropping from 60 to 40 like a yo yo it would look like shit.

Don't think anyone would disagree with that, but that's not really relevant in this case, where the Vita should be able to run it in its sleep. Locking it at 60 and hitting it shouldn't be a problem for the hardware.

On a handheld there is actually a tangible benefit to developers looking at their game and deciding just how much horsepower it needs. The less they push the system the less battery it uses up. Blobs definitely does not need to run at 60 fps, so setting it at a stable 30 means you can basically play through the entire thing at your leisure over a couple of days without needing to charge the system if you use sleep mode appropriately.

First of all, if you can't use the hardware specs due to battery strain, why release the machine with those specs?

Second of all, while there definitely is a correlation between pushing the hardware and battery drain, I seriously doubt that's applicable in this instance due to the relatively low tech of the game in question. I haven't coded for the Vita, but would be very surprised if changeing the framerate in a low tech 2D game would strain the hardware to such an extend, as to yield significantly lower battery time. I haven't heard people complaining about Rayman Origins'* much lower battery time or any of the other 2D games on the system.

But I might have a chance to borrow Rayman this weekend and run some tests..

Or watching every TV, movie, etc. released to date.

Not really an apt comparison since movies rarely are made as sidescrollers and use motion blur.

Before the 3D era there were far more 60fps games than 30fps games, be it on Atari, NES, Snes, Genesis, etc.

And that's actually pretty dissapointing.

*For the sake of argument I'm assuming that Rayman Origins runs at 60.

[JacksUsername]

I know it's probably been answered a dozen times, but I was only able to check the OP and didn't see it - when do you retail games usually go up on PSN? Heading out to work now, but would like to try to download Mortal Kombat and didn't see it on the store.

Thanks in advance.

[MooMoo]

I know it's probably been answered a dozen times, but I was only able to check the OP and didn't see it - when do you retail games usually go up on PSN? Heading out to work now, but would like to try to download Mortal Kombat and didn't see it on the store. Thanks in advance.

As far as the US is concerned, Grace Chen Time aka it's up whenever it's up; no specific time is set for PSN title release updates.

[G_Berry]

The COD reveal just got me thinking that maybe the version we get on vita is a port of Blops 2!

Future based COD on the move!!

[Mzo]

30 FPS is perfectly fine as long as it's rock solid.

[JordanKZ]

My 6th retail Vita game should be turning up today, Virtua Tennis 4 - World Tour Edition. I'm a huge fan of the series, so I'm looking forward to this one turning up.

[danno1769]

Has anyone traded in games to GameStop?

I'm wondering what type of return I am looking at for a few Vita games (Hot Shots Golf and Rayman to be specific)

[CorrisD]

I kinda wish Sony had put in place what MS did and limit the patch size, considering how small a lot of peoples memory cards are going to be having a patch 100mb+ seems a bit silly to me.

Anyway, how does the backing up feature work via a PC/Mac?

I know you can't just delete a game without the save so obviously backing up is the way to go if you don't want to lose anything, once you use the app to move it to a computer can you then move that file anywhere you want to, so say I moved Escape Plan onto my PC can I then stick than on an external hdd till I want to move it back?

[DoctorWho]

My 6th retail Vita game should be turning up today, Virtua Tennis 4 - World Tour Edition. I'm a huge fan of the series, so I'm looking forward to this one turning up.

Easily one of the best looking Vita games.

[The_Darkest_Red]

My 6th retail Vita game should be turning up today, Virtua Tennis 4 - World Tour Edition. I'm a huge fan of the series, so I'm looking forward to this one turning up.

I almost bit on this over the weekend since I'd really like another game to play on my Vita but the game hasn't budged at all from its $40 launch price. I'll wait it out a little longer.

[Number45]

I kinda wish Sony had put in place what MS did and limit the patch size, considering how small a lot of peoples memory cards are going to be having a patch 100mb+ seems a bit silly to me. Anyway, how does the backing up feature work via a PC/Mac? I know you can't just delete a game without the save so obviously backing up is the way to go if you don't want to lose anything, once you use the app to move it to a computer can you then move that file anywhere you want to, so say I moved Escape Plan onto my PC can I then stick than on an external hdd till I want to move it back?

When you back them up they're placed into a folder that has a unique name. What I've been doing is keeping an eye on the backup folder and backing them up one at a time so that I know what folder is for what game. At the moment I have:

PCSB00096 Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
PCSB00079 Rayman Origins
PCSF00007 Wipeout 2048
PCSF00046 Motorstorm RC

However, I haven't tried to move them yet and restore. Will probably rebuild my PC within the next couple of weeks (want it nice and clean for Diablo!) so I'll find out then.

[GTP_Daverytimes]

My Vita has been inside a Rice container for 3 days now (or close to it) should i still leave it in there or should i take it out?. (btw my vita fell into water)

[darkwing]

My Vita has been inside a Rice container for 3 days now (or close to it) should i still leave it in there or should i take it out?. (btw my vita fell into water)

how long was it in the water?

[Blue Submarine No. 6]

When you back them up they're placed into a folder that has a unique name. What I've been doing is keeping an eye on the backup folder and backing them up one at a time so that I know what folder is for what game. At the moment I have: PCSB00096 Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack PCSB00079 Rayman Origins PCSF00007 Wipeout 2048 PCSF00046 Motorstorm RC However, I haven't tried to move them yet and restore. Will probably rebuild my PC within the next couple of weeks (want it nice and clean for Diablo!) so I'll find out then.

Are these not the same numbers identifying the game on the game case? That's how the folder structure worked on the PSP...

[Letep]

Reviews for Mortal Kombat are looking good. Graphical inconsistencies aside, many are saying it's the definitive version.

[Koroviev]

Has anyone traded in games to GameStop? I'm wondering what type of return I am looking at for a few Vita games (Hot Shots Golf and Rayman to be specific)

A very poor one. Sell your games in the Buy/Sell/Trade thread. You'll be very glad that you did.

[CorrisD]

When you back them up they're placed into a folder that has a unique name. What I've been doing is keeping an eye on the backup folder and backing them up one at a time so that I know what folder is for what game. At the moment I have: PCSB00096 Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack PCSB00079 Rayman Origins PCSF00007 Wipeout 2048 PCSF00046 Motorstorm RC However, I haven't tried to move them yet and restore. Will probably rebuild my PC within the next couple of weeks (want it nice and clean for Diablo!) so I'll find out then.

Cheers, will have to give it a go, I might start Escape Plan just to back it up and see what happens with moving it.

Are these not the same numbers identifying the game on the game case? That's how the folder structure worked on the PSP...

Yes they are, I just had a look and the Wipeout case has PCSF 00007 on the side.
But people who bought from the Playstation Store aren't going to have immediate access to the case number without having to look it up.

[Kafel]

I got 17€ for the Rayman I bought 6€ to Amazon UK. In the end it wasn't bad.

[RoylAsult]

so does anything new come out today :)

[Alligatorjandro]

so does anything new come out today :)

Mortal Kombat

[danno1769]

A very poor one. Sell your games in the Buy/Sell/Trade thread. You'll be very glad that you did.

Ah ok, thanks for the heads up!

[RoylAsult]

Mortal Kombat

meant PSN game wise

[GTP_Daverytimes]

how long was it in the water?

like 0.7 seconds, as soon as it hit the water i took it out.

[Emitan]

dammit sony just release more vita colors

im finally ready to buy one

[Mammoth Jones]

Yea, I'm definitely enjoying this console a bit more than I thought I would. My only gripe is that PSOne Classic don't work on it. Has there been any word regarding that? I'd love to put FF9 and Xenogears on my Vita.

[Infinite Justice]

Yea, I'm definitely enjoying this console a bit more than I thought I would. My only gripe is that PSOne Classic don't work on it. Has there been any word regarding that? I'd love to put FF9 and Xenogears on my Vita.

The last comment was that the engineers are still working on it and there was an incident where a PSone game erroneously ended up on the Vita side of the store (could be downloaded, creates icon to the vita home screen, had a live area, etc but it gave an error when launched)

[CorrisD]

Yea, I'm definitely enjoying this console a bit more than I thought I would. My only gripe is that PSOne Classic don't work on it. Has there been any word regarding that? I'd love to put FF9 and Xenogears on my Vita.

The only recent thing is Yoshida saying that they are working on it, really hoping its soonish, a nice surprise for E3 maybe.

[YagizY]

So do we have a consensus on what the best grip for the Vita is? Looking to buy one so I was just wondering...

[Maastricht]

like 0.7 seconds, as soon as it hit the water i took it out.

I put a blowdrier on my PSP when that happend to me. It fell into the water playing a movie and I could see the graphics glitch out before I could take it out. I put a blowdrier on it for half an hour with everything open that I could open (slots, UMD, etc.) and then left it to dry for the night. By next day it worked again, though it took a while before the smaller buttons started working properly again.

Good chance that yours should be working again now. Check if you find any more moist evidence, and then give it a go I'd say.

[GTP_Daverytimes]

I put a blowdrier on my PSP when that happend to me. It fell into the water playing a movie and I could see the graphics glitch out before I could take it out. I put a blowdrier on it for half an hour with everything open that I could open (slots, UMD, etc.) and then left it to dry for the night. By next day it worked again, though it took a while before the smaller buttons started working properly again. Good chance that yours should be working again now. Check if you find any more moist evidence, and then give it a go I'd say.

Thanks.

[Koroviev]

Anyone still playing Lumines? It looks interesting, but I have some reservations about it. It seems a bit like SSD, but that's only $10. Does Lumines justify the $36 price tag?

[chickdigger802]

dammit sony just release more vita colors im finally ready to buy one

Get some colored contacts.