How To Play PS Vita Games On On Your PC Or Laptop! Vita3K Emulator Set Up Guide

[@arigato7788]

Really heartwarming to see the Vita emulation scene on such a rise lately. It's been desperately dead only until a couple of months ago, and the progress made in such a short time is insane. I'm so looking forward to further progress.

[@arigato7788]

@@bulletpunch9317 it was stuck in limbo for years, yeah

[@mrvegetables2934]

@jojo mojo that's good to hear! I hope they can optimize dragon crown since I really love that game

[@anglo-saxonconnor817]

The vita could have been a portable PS2 if Sony didn't messed it up and give up on it which is such a great shame.

[@ETAPRIME]

Yeah, this was one of my favs for sure when it first dropped

[@milosmisic89]

We already had a portable ps2 man - it's called a PSP

[@tylerramsay5298]

@@milosmisic89 for sure the psp was the portable ps2 and the vita was the portable ps3

[@MrWhis-fe5hs]

@@milosmisic89 anyone who says the og psp was a ps2 portable clearly didn't own one was there standouts yes Tekken 5 Dr,Ridge racer,ratchet and clank and God of War got very close but those were ground up games the psp could never port something like MGS,FFX or even the original tekken 5

[@Prodbytocile]

It's possible they could bring it back if enough people start getting on handhelds playstation could have the most powerful handheld

[@AlteredCarbons]

man, this video coming in CLUTCH... i literally just downloaded all the vita roms at like 500-600gb to setup on a complete retro handheld system im building out of an old SSF pc. i haven't done anything to set it up yet besides get the downloads but was going to test with it later. so this going to save a lot of time. thank you

[@tokyofamily8536]

​@After Brunch there's a torrent with ~580GB worth of roms

[@just.nobody]

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[@MNNMMNNMMNNM]

There is one that is about 580 gb in size and have 376 games, is that most complete?

[@OrangeSheep14]

@@MNNMMNNMMNNM email it to me? It's my username @ gmail

[@shlokshah5379]

Most games aren't going to run anyway so it's a waste a storage to get more than 20 roms because most games have ports.

[@abdulhkeem.alhadhrami]

I have been watching this emulator for years, nice to see it finally booting games, hats off to the developers!

[@ManniLive]

Honestly one of the best channels on youtube

[@ianbg72]

Agreed

[@ETAPRIME]

What games are looking forward to becoming compatible with the Vita3K Emulator?

[@stevethetitan414]

Soul sacrifice delta Killzone mercenaries Silent hill book of memories

[@bootsgamingtips]

Uncharted golden abyss can't wait for that one!! Thx for the video wondering how it was all setup!

[@gvanderlee2703]

Secret of mana remaster was pretty great when I played it

[@supermist]

Just the dozen or so exclusives left 😂

[@MvsG18]

I don't know if it's already available since i haven't gotten home yet to download it. But i really want Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Metal Gear Solid Collection (which runs flawlessly on the vita, 60fps, high quality textures), OliOli 1 & 2, Uncharted Golden Abyss, and many others

[@slicey80]

I am so happy to see an emulator in the works! Finally I can play freedom wars on something other than the vita! This is also just such good news for those wanting to play vita games without paying the high ass prices

[@hassosigbjoernson5738]

I hope that development does not stop and there is going to be a visually more pleasing and for small displays suitable UI for Steam Deck, Steam OS or simply Windows coming. It would be great to finally get some sort of "Vita next gen" after all these years.

[@Binary_Deviant]

I am really looking forward to seeing how this works. I hope the future for this emulator gets better as quick as RPCS3 did. I have been waiting for a good working Vita Emulator and the design is pretty good. I am impressed.

[@miguelbaltazar29]

I want to see Uncharted: Golden Abyss running on Vita3K, it's the game that interests me

[@SRC267]

It's gotten to the title screen recently

[@miguelbaltazar29]

@@SRC267 I can't wait for this game to be playable on the emulator

[@SRC267]

@@miguelbaltazar29 it does now since a few weeks ago

[@levicroker5531]

Phew, thanks for this, man. I was struggling quite a bit trying to run a game on vita3k for the first time

[@exodous02]

It's always cool to watch early emulators advance. I'll watch this one.

[@shinjuvi]

This is great!

[@SRC267]

Google dumps my games

[@Dario5B]

I can't get any of them to work can you help me please

[@SRC267]

@@Dario5B I don't where you get your from, but I use - psvitavpk page.

[@parayze6220]

Never been this early for a eta video

[@jaystapes3086]

me, as a Mac user...still watches this video all the way through knowing I can't do any of this.

[@dylanlourens]

I sold my hacked vita a long time ago. But luckily I kept all my roms.

[@JamesNelson-gg8up]

Awesome help as always. You are the man. Thanks.

[@kunjramdevputra3697]

Thank you so much man, NICE EXPLANATION 🤗

[@swordsmanoftime3001]

My dude. You just cleared so many doubts I had with this emulator. Will let you know how it goes for me.

[@applepie3597]

And?

[@swordsmanoftime3001]

@@applepie3597 it went fairly well. I only care about 3 games on the Vita: Tales of Innocence R, Tales of Hearts R and Uncharted Golden Abyss, and so far it's been going fine, but I need to upgrade my computer to get better results.

[@amielsantillano6173]

@@swordsmanoftime3001 where did you get the vita games? i cant find one

[@swordsmanoftime3001]

@@amielsantillano6173 You can get them from nopaystation.

[@amielsantillano6173]

@@swordsmanoftime3001 do you have a link?

[@ryanbrancel]

The first time I tried Asphalt Injection I was getting the shader flickering like you did. However I tried it again and specified in settings to launch full screen (also F11) and then everything displayed perfectly.

[@IRWPD]

Bookmarking this for later use. Thank you.

[@jsodeman1]

Appreciate your videos. Thanks.

[@austinellis6461]

I'd like to see on how low end/Older hardware we will be able to this emulator with. Testing on older systems in the same time-frame as the consoles release. Something like sandy bridge and a low end older graphics cards.

[@alvzcizzler]

Killzone Mercenary would be cool to play on PC, I'm sad the servers are shutting down

[@KatRollo]

0:42 - Ryu's Hadouken doesn't even render. Essentially a game-breaking bug.

[@MvsG18]

No fucking way, my favorite console of all time finally gets an emulator. The best console with the worst treatment by the manufacturer of it. If Sony wasn't that cocky and made the right choices the Vita would've fought the Switch even. That console had so much power, the graphics it could output was from another world.

[@BADD2087]

@@bulletpunch9317 Project has been dead for a while though. The new push for gaming handhelds in the industry plus vids like these renew the interest and make the developers actually feel appreciated. At the end of the day all these emulators are just passion projects

[@tonybreeze7734]

😆

[@101qberty]

Runs amazing on my pc I have an NVIDIA RTX 4070, ran Dynasty warriors to test it with no problems.

[@lowkeyobsessedngl]

im coming back to this now that i know soul sacrifice delta is fully playable. dumping the rom took a bit of headscratching, but i think it worked!

[@snurgles3952]

is there a motion control support for the vita games such as gravity rush? it could be great

[@satria_ari_777]

no compatible content found.... so strange.

[@chromerims]

Haters cannot criticize magnanimous community service from ETA. Thank you, Prime 👍!

[@chrisbullock6477]

Just downloaded everything and got my game files. Going to be giving it a go on my 5800X/7900XTX system hopefully there's enough to emulate well. This will be my head start on getting this working until I see a handheld solution I'm confident with for setting thus up on.

[@Aslan_q7yz]

Vita3k won't find any of my zip folders, it just says no compatible content found for 1 game (even tough i have 3 games in the directory path). Can anyone please help with that, i have been struggling with emulation these past 4 days and can't find a solution with the vita3k, rpcs3, cemu, xemu, and xenia emulators but if someone can help me with the vita3k emulator that would be a good start. I am using a Lenovo Legion Go Handheld device with Windows 11 and Emudeck/emulationstation.

[@Aslan_q7yz]

I found the solution, all you need to do is to first unzip your game folder, then you need to compress all the game files into a zip folder, finally you open vita3k, click on file, install with zip, go to the games folder where the new compressed zip file is, and then it should install the game. This trick worked for me, i still need to test with pkg files to see how i can get the emulator to install them. Also vita3k still won't show up in my emulationstation but that's just a minor inconvenience.

[@disasterincarnate]

isnt NoNpDrm a plugin for vita? it doesnt actually dump anything does it? i have that installed on my vita and have archived my games in the app folder but they dont work in vita3k and they throw an error about NoNpDrm when trying to install them when i zip them. if/when it does work, your "legal" games copied over still dont work as their all encrypted and vita3k doesnt support them. going via the zip install method, for some reason the install fails, complaining about icons and other files being corrupt.

[@frozennorthproductions]

Why are you using 7zip and WinRAR? One of the biggest new features of Windows 11 is native .rar and .7z decompression. You don't need either of those anymore, it's just built in now. The only time you would need 7zip is if you're making a .7z file, that's the only thing Windows 11 can't do.

[@mathewrimmer1945]

NPS Browser is the best way for roms in my opinion

[@SeleAsuka]

Well, Vita is at least going to be preserved.

[@ryecatcher25]

What exclusives did vita have that were worth playing?

[@Jokerwolf666]

I love that this is a thing and I hope they get online/local multi-player to work online.

[@pareshlalta792]

awesome stuff

[@silentslayergaming8469]

the vita was an amazing system, so underrated, and it's a shame that sony literally abandoned it, it was so good.

[@extraordinaryartist9902]

Thanks brother 😁

[@fiocco10]

Wipeout 2048 ?😍🤤

[@djdoolittle1315]

Lovely Jubbly 😉

[@nicksepulveda996]

quick question - How do I exit a game to go back to the Vita emulator menu?

[@micklepapadakis1757]

alt + f4

[@miguelhimschoot2801]

Thnx Will give it a try

[@Fabio0trevez]

This is amazing now i just need lauchBox integration

[@ethangintert07]

You have any idea if antiviruses have problems with this platform?

[@2muchjpop]

1:29 Maidump is also unstable after 3 am Taco Bell runs 😂

[@Theoneandonly-l7n]

thx so much When I did this alone I failed horribly

[@senpailonestarr2787]

I can’t get the install firmware to open. Is there a way to manually install these files update and font to where they go

[@loopymomy2532]

Yes same I can't open the file it says that I need to install an app Idk what it uses

[@dunedune]

Does Emulator able to run 4k upscale ? and what about rest of games are they all playable ?

[@BuzzaB77]

Amazing! I'd given up hope!

[@YoshiIsCool1]

I have been trying to get this working But it doesn't work at all for me. It just says Error Code Execution and idk why Please Help me.

[@therealtrue842]

I liked the Vita when I had one, so this'll be really cool. Better than shelling out another few hundred to get a good-quality one

[@kevinbuchanan67]

I may have missed it, but can you run these games at higher than Vita resolution? Edit: ok, I see that you can

[@rollegz]

no way Gavity rush PC port is here guys

[@collectthemall]

I hope Resistance Buring Skies will start working properly soon . It is really good game .

[@SRC267]

Vita exclusive?

[@collectthemall]

@@SRC267 yes

[@knifeknerdreviews4609]

Biggest problem I see here is Vita3k installs your games to a different emulated storage folder thus creating 2 copies of the games and taking up double the hdd space. I dont wanna delete my original VPK Files because that messes up my whole Launchbox Games Folder not having the Vita Games in the Folder... What is the workaround here? Since the Emulator requires its Specific Vita Intallation Folder structure to run the games having the VPKs is worthless after the install is complete. You cant just point the install directory to your launchbox games folder PSVita folder because Launchbox isnt going to recognize the folder names anymore... Uhg... Guess there is not yet a logical way to have Vita represented in Launchbox.

[@StrafeMoney]

I jailbroke my vita and now all my buttons wont respond so its pretty much dead

[@mrhogei]

oooo man i can't wait for them to perfect this emulator like PPSSPP with Fastforwarding and everyyyyyyything

[@shane6172]

Waiting for the android release soon just like skyline emu.

[@Tainted79]

Awesome, Ty

[@erinistryingherbest]

it doesn't run on my laptop :( guess mine is too shitty to run it

[@sujitkumar1713]

(Sorry for bad grammar,english isnt my mother tongue) Hey Sir Can you tell me why i am not able to boot the game PCSE00120 Persona 4 Golden Its says it is playable but when i click on start It loads and after soem tiem it says on teh log "failed to read module file- sys/external/LibSceFt2" Can you tell me what to do Please I checked on google and it says install a firmware But when i click on download It doesnt downlaod

[@totallynotafanficreader7850]

every time i try and play a game, the d pad works, but none of the other buttons do so I can't start the game. It says the game I want (Shiro to Kuro no Alice/White and Black Alice) is playable so idk why its happening...

[@Mitsuoxx]

Make me to check my PS Vita lol Ninja Gaiden and Spiderman was my favorites but always hated how hard is listen to music and videos on PSVita and Adrenaline is fire but still hard to using as a multimedia console. On my original PSP (RIP) I watched all Death Note and a lot of movies while traveling. USB cable and done, PSVita needs to be pirated, Vita Shell and Filezilla lol.

[@mrhogei]

so i got the emulator to run fine but the rom section area is where im getting confused as F, i downloaded a game but its not running or installing correctly

[@davidgray4901]

I have a question where do the games get stored in the emulator like what folder cuz I want to point one of my gaming front ends to the games folder or where they get installed to

[@smokers1231000]

Too bad my laptop can only run games on 13fps😅. But its great that we now have a vita emulator that is running. Now ill go back to my vita.

[@doomedspacemarine5076]

Finally, Dragon's Crown here we fucken go

[@mellihampebrianco.d9481]

Where I can download the game?!!

[@omarshepl9228]

Can you trophy hunt on the emulature ?

[@attrippin]

@@omarshepl9228 yes you can actually

[@kasumichansuki4388]

Does this emulator run perfectly the games?It´s possible to install game updates and play DLC?

[@TrexCharlieX]

This is so cool, i always wanted a ps vita, i love this. One wuestion, how do i set this up in LaunchBox? Just aet it up like normal?

[@tomgreen876]

man this would have been great when persona 4 golden wasnt ported to steam.

[@SRC267]

Steam port is garbage anyway

[@MrQ12elve]

quick question, but i remember the vita has a touch screen on both front and back, how do you use these functions on the emulator ?

[@MiguelMorales-ll6sy]

Mouse

[@adam_torvill]

How would u play games that use on screen buttons like black ops declassified the knife button and grenades are on the screen do u just have to point the mouse and click on them while using a controller

[@SlickOnTop]

All we need now is some online multiplayer functionality.

[@gregorybolivar5712]

Indeed on the AYA Neo Air Pro....🤓

[@LJ-SIGMAKING-TOXMASC-JOKERLIFE]

I installed this emulator but i dont really know what games to get for now I only installed FIFA 14, Mortal Kombat 9 and Supremacy MMA

[@itshigh-keybrandon8718]

This is LOONNGG over do, the vita should have had a fully working emulator years ago, glad they’re pushing this project ahead full force.

[@diadali9547]

i hope there is a back and front touch controller for this emulator

[@tonybreeze7734]

Yeah so a large inventory of games to play XD

[@chrisbullock6477]

Mine all say no compatible content found

[@nyarcy]

mine too, lmk if u find a solution

[@yukitokamiya3238]

man from what site you downloaded cause i keep on trying to run a ps vita game with vita3k but no luck i don't know how to install it fast like you help me please

[@akunfoyafoya6612]

I play Shinobido 2, but after "loading" and the Banda Namco logo appears, the emulator doesn't respond, and only a dark screen appears. Can you help me?

[@solreavir]

Followed the steps installed firmware and such but now when I try to open the exe it flashes on screen then closes. It only allows me to open it and works in "Admin". the Command propmt screen however warns "Please do not open Vita3k in Admin or with Admin Privalages" I disabled my AV to see if that was the cause and that's not causing it to not open. It's weird. Using win10 Any help? Edit: I deleted and reinstalled it on the C:drive and this time kept the path "default" seems to be working now. Ill just use the "D" drive to store the games rather than the . exe

[@RaymondMonaco]

Can you do a video for launching vita3k from big box/launchbox?

[@TheAckeePlant]

Very sad Samurai Warriors Chronicles 3 doesnt seem to run well on it, had missing textures right away :(

[@LelandHasGames]

I'm surprised there's no extra stuff you need. Like a bios file or something. It's a pretty easy setup!

[@im_tem]

well, you technically do install the firmware but its easily available from sony's website

[@LelandHasGames]

@@im_tem right. You don't need to extract special files from your Vita and put try to put them on your computer. Doing that has always been such a pain in the butt.

[@MarwanAbdElghany]

every time it failed with me when install the zip file of the game

[@sagnikpattanayak1713]

i am trying to play uncharted goldn abyss in vita3k but it is closing everytime when I boot the game. i have R7 6800h with rtx 3060

[@eagleclaw4732]

would anyone know if there is a way to get my vita 3k to launch i get an error saying my gpu does not support open gl 4.4 I use a gtx 1060

[@Enforcer1984]

Be amazing if vita3k had a smooth andriod port.

[@chuckygames6666]

I have a question is Jak and Daxter on the vita 3k running well?

[@Onion_Knights]

i have very good luck with 3rd super robot wars with just disable surface sync. it runs at constant 60fps

[@EliasPfaiffer]

how do you get back to the psvita menu in windows while playing a game?

[@diamehikoru2]

I can't configure the keyboard controls for some reason, any idea what's going on?

[@ilyanjanua5598]

hey bro can i ask why for some reasons i cant download the font package and firmware on the website even i clicked the donwload botton? can someone please explain?

[@diadali9547]

is there a solution for the games where the Vita is controlled with back touch ? are there such controllers with backtouch and fronttouch ?

[@im_tem]

for mouse you can use right click as back panel touch