Sharpscale Hack for PSTV - Pixel Perfect Vita, PSP, and PS1 Classics :: RGB319 / MY LIFE IN GAMING

[@AlexVanChezlaw]

Do not mess with us Vita fans We literally cannot let go

[@WMARUoriginal]

Oh wow I was just thinking of looking into the state of PSTV improvements so this is way beyond what I was hoping to find. Excellent!

[@DannyWilliamH]

The entire Vita scene is incredible and amazing new things seem to release weekly.

[@PhantomHavok]

Wow, now I’m really glad I picked up the PSTV while it was affordable online.

[@MarcusTheDorkus]

I wish this came out a month ago! I didn't realize that PSP games perfectly integer scaled to the Vita screen. Went back into the Adrenaline settings and found that you need to set it to original and turn smoothing off to get this sharp scaling (it's surprising that this combo works because when original scaling is selected it says the other graphics options don't apply). At least this video came out before I played more than an hour of FFIV with LCD3x scaling :)

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

It would be interesting to see someone modify this to output true 1080p, which would allow a 2x scale of PSVita games by cropping 4 pixels off, or to modify it to allow 1x scale without black borders.

[@evertonc1448]

Every 6 six months or so there's something huge in the Vita Homebrew community, and the releases seem to be really increasing recently. We are keeping alive what sony ignored. Cheers Vita owners!

[@sgaxnikolaix661]

Love Vita and proud owner of Vita Island

[@fordesponja]

Too late imho. A lot of these hits were much earlier in the PSP, homebrew was the reason the PSP was so popular.

[@Copeydude101]

@vpn rockies the whole ps2 library? No that would take years to do........select popular games however perhaps on a poll would be the best way to go

[@chrislair6832]

Man I want one of these so bad I just don't want to spend a couple 100 on it. I was playing my vita yesterday

[@JRPGCentral]

I was JUST looking into this sort of solution for the Vita TV. I was beginning to think it was doomed to never meet its full potential. Thank you for the video! (and Cuevavirus for the mod!)

[@manovincent]

Finally! Was eager to see you guys dissecting this homebrew. Great job, guys!

[@GtotheNextLevel]

‪Thank you guys so much for this! I have an HDMI splitter to use with the PSTV but man will this help my captures look so much cleaner. ‬

[@RetroTechSelect]

The PSTV was such a steal when stores started clearing them out. The new setup looks great, Coury!

[@JeanRodo]

Retro Tech Select I still remember getting one for 20 bucks when they were getting cleared out!

[@DannyWilliamH]

Didn't see this comment when I made mine. Yeah, my local Walmart had then for $10 at one point back around 2015-ish. $10. And I didn't grab a single one 😑 Only last year did I find a terrific deal on a lightly used 1000 model Vita and I'm so glad I grabbed it. I use my Vita more than my PS4 and Switch Lite combined.

[@Garydos07]

I'm still kicking myself for not picking one up when I saw them in every target/walmart for 20-40 bucks

[@licentioushowler3400]

I got lucky on my timing and bought the only PSTV bundle available in the US and got some Lego game I don't care about, a brand new Dualshock 3, and the hardware (and accessories, ofc) for just $60 USD around 2015/16 lol.

[@kurokoro]

Sadly now you need to sell your soul for one, the prices are too high, I have a og Psvita hacked and I used OBS to output image in my laptop and I use a ps3 controller to play games like a PStv, I wish the image output was a bit more pixel perfect but its still good enough for me.

[@bovinedevine2715]

amazing work from the mod community and MLiG as always to bring attention to the work being done here!

[@ErikSchuessler]

Great episode Coury! I’ve been loving my Vita 2000 lately. Just finished Gravity Rush last night and had a blast.

[@cenofett8990]

This was really informative! Thanks for your continued experiments on how to play the classics!

[@dpc4548]

I was just thinking that I needed to watch a 20 minute video that stops every 3 minutes to play an ad. Great work!

[@bookshelffury]

What ads?

[@viniciusgomes5147]

I kinda regret not picking one up when they were dirty cheap and no one wanted them :|

[@Ren722]

Got one for 70 in October :/ had to get that chance

[@RisingRevengeance]

I grabbed a used one for $20 a few years ago, the prices nowadays are just stupid.

[@StephenTheZ]

Yeah not getting a PS TV when it was dirt cheap is legit one of my biggest gaming regrets, if not my biggest. I quite love the Vita and it's library but I prefer playing on the tv when possible. Just didn't think the price would get so insane as it did.

[@videogameboutique2196]

True story....My friend at the time, purchased a PS4 and at the time, they bundled the PSTV with the PS4. My friend didn't even know what it was, so i explained what it was and what he can do with it. He wasn't interested and said i could have it if i wanted it! I've had it ever since and always had 3.60 cfw on it, since it was available. The last time i messed with it, i installed enso cfw on it and on my PSvita. I haven't played with either since then. I think i may install the shape scale plug-in over the weekend to check it out...

[@JoinTheVoidOfEnuo]

I got one secondhand on Mercari for $9 a few years ago thanks to a few coupons. One of the best deals I've ever gotten.

[@AlfaTrion]

been waiting for something like this for ages! thanks!!

[@muygalan]

What an amazing, detailed, and comprehensive breakdown!

[@oof5992]

I love your Content so much. Thanks for helping me with older consoles.

[@MrMario2011]

Silent Hill's resolution change being life and death? I truly felt that.

[@RaGe2306]

Hi Mr Mario. Can you help me out pls?! I was dumb and trust his "just use autoplugin to set the config" and now my PSTV doenst recognize my SD Card anymore. There's no Henkaku/H-Encore Bubble or a Vitashell Bubble there anymore. The system Informations shows that i'm still on 3.65 with Henkaku. Because i haven't Vitashell anymore i can't access my vita via WINSCP to fix the config there. What can i do?! I've put a lot of work into this the last 3 days to run this and install all my games and stuff. Is there a way to repair the PSTV?!

[@ChrisKola]

@@RaGe2306 Follow the guide again, it's pretty easy to get back to the Bubble being there.

[@RaGe2306]

@@ChrisKola i fixed it in the meanwhile. :)

[@blabo6427]

I have a framemeister and it's sad that I can't play my original copy of Silent Hill on my original Playstation and have to put it on a PS3 or my 15-inch CRT. By the way. Thanks for your great tutorials that helped me many times to improve my gaming experience

[@Harie0]

Thanks for the video. I only bought the PS TV, so I was unaware of lack of features. That, and I only played a few Vita games on it.

[@wormsex]

I literally just fixed my vita's broken screen today and you guys go and upload this, what a surprise

[@Xfade81]

Thanks for the video. Very insightful. I own a Vita and a PS TV, but i did not use that plugin on the PS TV yet so this comes in handy.

[@WhiteJarrah]

I always found the choice of a 960*544 screen interesting. By comparison, standard definition PAL content is 720*576 pixels in either interlaced or progressive, while NTSC content is 720*480. So the Vita's vertical resolution is between that of PAL and NTSC content.

[@desmabr]

Hey there, thanks a ton! This will help me greatly. Just a note for those trying to install this. If you have a memory card, make sure to edit the config file that's on the memory card (ux0)

[@Dantevalintine00]

A voltar and mlig video in one day awsome 😁

[@tommyzorera]

A video that has both Valkyria Chronicles and DOAX gets a thumbs up. Always.

[@artificialenemy77]

Because of this video I just bought a PSTV. Now using sharp scale to play Final Fantasy tactics on It. Thanks for these types of videos. I find them interesting and informative.

[@driftyprince]

new to the channel, instantly loved the video, subbed!

[@christopherbaar4498]

I'm going to have to try this out. Funny that you mention the DVDO Edge, as that is what my PSTV is connected to now. It used to be my universal upscaler until I got a Framemeister, but I still use it for the HDMI inputs.

[@solidunit]

Now if only 4K TVs had nearest neighbor upscaling

[@MagisterHamid]

Got myself a Vita TV a few months ago. One of the best buys I’ve made in ages!

[@LordSnoodles]

Thanks for the video. Since I already have a PSTV (glad I hadn't tried to sell it on ebay yet, as planned), I'll tinker and play with this upgrade. However, I think i'll end up returning to playing all these games on their intended, dedicated platforms+intended displays, which I am lucky enough to have.

[@TheSocialGamer]

I'll give this a shot in a couple of weeks. I haven't use my CIB PS TV in years. This has peaked my interest for real!

[@TheFartsandCrapsShow]

Oh, this is sooooo awesome! Thanks for raising awareness for this, guys.

[@SlyBeast]

This is amazing! The PSTV was such a disappointment for me due to these issues. I didn't know this existed so thanks for spreading the good word. Also, it has been far too long since I've replayed Wild ARMs.

[@WednesdayMan]

Add an Mclassic to sharpscale to turn 544p into 1088p. (then you can crop out the empty space and downscale it by 8 pixels to make it 1080p)

[@MykeBatez]

Another thing of note is you can get native res video out of *any* PS Vita over USB using the UDCD-UVC plugin by Xerpi: github.com/xerpi/vita-udcd-uvc It’s as straightforward to setup as Sharpscale is for a PSTV, and just shows up as a USB webcam in windows where you can add it to capture programs like OBS easily. No viewer software needed like a 3DS or PSP.

[@snoogleflorp9237]

Heck yeah! New MLIG!

[@PieStudios]

I wish the PSTV was still found for $20 at Best Buy 😔

[@rulm7306]

Now I just have to find a PSTV that isn't ludicrously over priced!

[@DJ_Macphisto]

They are usually $100 - $150 on eBay. And that's usually the cheapest price.

[@franc0899]

I bought last week for 55 €, it was lucky because even in Italy the price goes from 80 to 130 € and they are very rare... I also have a vita 2000 bought in April during the quarantine

[@ENunn]

There's also the Adrenaline plugin for the Vita, which allows you to play most if not all PSP games and homebrew. There's some video options in the menu, I found the sharpest option was "sharp bilenar without scanlines" which is basically a 2x integer scale. If you have Sharpscreen set on integer though, there's not really any difference between that and original mode. Also if you're running at 1080i with any scaling filters the framerate lowers to 30fps on all titles. Unfortunately Adrenaline adds a ton of input lag. Wish it would be improved but it hasn't been updated since last march. :/

[@alessandrob.g.4524]

Great video, man!

[@noneed4me2n7]

I’m kinda a tech hoarder and I had to stop myself from getting one of these especially when they were like $30 local for a time. I have modded handhelds galore including the Vita, PSP and 3DS. All filled with games so doubt I’ll ever get around to playing them all. Still love watching you guys exploit the hell out of devices that get shunned by mainstream consumers. That thing is perfect for everything Sony retro wise. All those classic PSP and PS1 titles running near perfect in HD with such a small footprint is sweet. Add in the more modern Vita games and your set for hours of wasting time. Plus it can do movies and streaming (for a time it did) if you want to include that function.

[@braulio.arenas]

Thanks you guys. You are awesome. We love you.

[@godofmediocrity7582]

Still waiting for RGB 211. Great vid so far tho.

[@steve43ful]

Was hoping you guys would cover this! EDIT: I installed Sharpscale and have been messing around with it since it first was released, but really needed you guys to break it down in language I could understand.

[@Reluctant_Hero]

Welp, now kicking myself even harder for skipping those fire sale Vita TVs.

[@g1nobleteam]

Same, and it was that Lego movie bundle.

[@ZombiePhoenix]

I grabbed one simply because I wanted to play Castlevania Rondo of Blood remake on the big screen. But then I found out the game wasn't on the white-list to run. So I waited probably around a year or so before finally hacks were released so I could properly play the damn thing. Thankfully I only paid $40 at the time, when they were trying to clear the things out, haha.

[@roahnosh]

They were 20 bucks in 2015 in case anyone is wondering.

[@OnlyEpicEmber]

@@roahnosh Damn. I never saw them quite that low in England. But now a new one is about £120

[@hateasuka]

I bought the LEGO movie bundle one way back when for like $40... and now they are fetching like $150 on eBay!

[@tockys20]

thank you very very much for this lovely detailed information video....

[@GameplayandTalk]

Very cool. Going to dig my PSTV out of whatever dusty bin it's currently residing in, and will give this a shot. The PSP through the Framemeister can look nasty, so this sounds like a good alternative for capturing.

[@LuckyHit87]

just got around to hacking my pstv/installing sharpscale and.. in the words of the great Marc Duddleson "Wow.. did it always look this good!?" love you guys thanks for everything

[@lightsamus]

Wow! Might have to finally get a softmod on my PSTV now!

[@MatSpeedle]

I picked up a PSTV a long while back and hacked it in the hope I could FINALY play PSP games on the tv without all the blur you get with a stock psp and the cable.. I was very dissapointed. This however gives me hope I can get what I orginally wanted, I shall definalty be checking this out! Awesome videos guys! thank you!

[@NeoSonicStrike]

PSP with Sharpscale looks pretty good in comparison to that method, although what kills playing PSP on the PSTV is the unbearable input lag you get with Adrenaline. Using my DS4 it feels like it's around 4-5 frames.

[@WatchMyWorldDissolve]

Digging the shopping district background noise lol

[@manamaster6]

I would like to see a list of the games featured on this video, as some games looked quite interesting and I don't know their names.

[@NeoJ4K3]

From which point on?

[@jeb_leeds2928]

Lol I always had a feeling the psp had some kind of filtering going on for ps1 games. Glad I held onto the pstv, taking the games with me on the train on the vita then plugging the memory card into the tv works somewhat well.

[@rsn8887]

Thank you for the cool video! Is it really true that the aspect ratio of PS1 games played on stock VitaTV in 720p was correct 4:3? For me, it was always too tall, not wide enough, and I had to use the Adrenline x/y scaling factors to fix it. Try Crash Bandicoot. On handheld Vita, the aspect is correct, but not on VitaTV for me. It is not a big deal, because Adrenaline allows the custom scaling.

[@jotreliving2614]

Yes OMG a new RGB episode!!!

[@timothyhissong2867]

the PS3 has an option for actual upscaling like the Emulator PPSSPP for PSP remasters however we in the USA did not get them as they were only released in japan and the limited library of games you could play on it were not very long without issues

[@ChronoKatie]

This video is so helpful! I was wondering what settings you recommend in Sharpscale for Dissidia?

[@mylifeingaming]

[Coury] For PSP games, I run scaling mode in "Integer" and scaling Algorithm in "Point." That should look nice if you have the official download on the system. If you're going to be booting it with Adrenaline, go into the Adrenaline settings and set Graphics Filtering to "Original", smooth graphics to "No" and set your screen scale X and Y for both PSP and PS1 to "1.000"

[@ChronoKatie]

@@mylifeingaming Thank you!!! Aand 1080i in official settings?

[@1chiTheKiller]

I have been looking at getting a PSTV for a while now. I might have to actually make the jump finally...well, after I finally pick up an AVS of course.

[@Thomaticus]

Best theme / Intro music ever.

[@mujlasalfalahi4655]

very good subject to talk about many thanks teams :)

[@jkenbaltazar]

Hi Coury, can I ask what settings you used to make P4G fill out the screen on the TV? On 720p mine has black bars then on 1080i mine's zoomed in which crops the edges a bit.

[@RisingRevengeance]

I was not aware of this. I've messed around a fair bit with Vita and PSTV homebrew in the past and the blurry mess was my main gripe. It's worth noting that most PSP games are also playable on the PS3 if people want a more accessable device. The PSTV can be hard to come by nowadays.

[@zachammer666]

Got super lucky and scored one of these bad boys for $19.99 clearance at Wal-Mart. Still my favorite find, the thing is awesome even unmodded.

[@sushi_wolf]

Thanks for the guide.

[@pallios]

This is something I have been looking out for,for sometime. The last time I checked having a phat psp running on 1.5 CFW would let you stream games to your pc which would probably make for the best way to capture and play psp or psone games. I figured this video would be it's upgrade but it sure isn't it... Thanks for the extensive coverage anyway.

[@pallios]

Then what would you suggest instead? Clearly what MLiG is promoting isn't for everyone and is highly inconsistent as well.

[@axel1562]

Looks like my PSTV might get a use case now!

[@jamiecourtemanche4495]

I am glad I kept my PSTV. Might have to try this out.

[@sargesmash1]

How does this compare to the "sharp bilinear filter" mode in Adrenaline for PSP/PS1 games?

[@sargesmash1]

A little clearer, but I am noticing that line through the screen in various spots while playing Lunar: Silver Star Harmony. Will be looking forward to future releases for this plugin, though - very good stuff indeed.

[@19gerardo]

Could you put the list per minute of the games shown?

[@MrMysterious420]

For modded PSPs you can use a PC program called remotejoy which will display the psp on your HD monitor, and you can map the buttons to the keyboard. then use a program to convert the keyboard bindings to controller buttons if you want to use a ps3/ps4/xbox controller. I have been using my PSP this way since 2009 I'm not too sure if it interger upscales or not, but may be a good option for those with only a PSP-1000 (like me)

[@fink32]

Would love to see you cover the 1080p @30hz plugin that was released awhile back (probably the hardest plugin to track down).

[@mirabilis]

The pixels are very uneven when fitted scaling is used with nearest neighbor scaling. I fully understand Sony's choice of using bilinear here.

[@gamertoon8230]

Quick question: if I install the custom firmware, would my PSN account be banned if I go into the PSN store because I heard on switch if you go into the Eshop with cfw you’ll be banned.

[@roahnosh]

Hey man, could you review the 720 and 1080 plugins for the Persona 4 Golden since it uses Sharpscale.

[@leaderx7547]

The PlayStation 3D Display has a proper PSP zoom mode and is probably the best way to play PSP discs on an external screen.

[@ericbazinga]

Regarding PSP supposedly not being able to display PSP games over composite or S-Video: While this is impossible on the 2000 model, this was possible on the 3000 model. Picture quality is pretty good too (I have a new-old-stock official Sony cable).

[@CreeperShorts]

yees! More love for the PS Vita!

[@Namevah]

Considering the price of the PlayStation TV these days, I'll hope for an unofficial, cheaper method to play these games on my HDTV. Hopefully it'll come sooner than later.

[@danbashur]

On VitaTV with Sharpscale, can you get proper 240p output with scanlines from PS1 classics if you use an HDMI to RGB transcoder like a Portta?

[@nurlitaputriindriani6128]

The PSTV improvent but actually i was to thinking about that just more any game console like PS2,PS3,PS1,PSP and PSVita.

[@BawesomeBurf]

Yeah, I was also disappointed with how the PSP looked through the Framemeister. No matter what settings I adjusted, everything just looked blurry. Went back to emulating the games on PC.

[@pierreflores7032]

What would be the correct settings for games of: Playstation Vita psp ps1?

[@jdkgcp]

I own the PS TV.... bought it when it finally became available in the U.S. I played a couple Vita games on it and it worked fine but I wanted it to stream my PS4 too it with the PS TV hooked too a monitor in a different room over the network....which did not work fine. Graphics and framerate was ok but the massive (controller) latency made that feature unusable. Also the biggest downside of the PS TV is that (for some reason) it doesn't support a ton of Vita games (there's a list out there of supported games online somewhere)...even though that was it's primary purpose. Long story short the thing was pretty worthless and It's been sitting in a box collecting dust for a loooong time. So I'm glad to see someone is actually doing something with it.

[@ChrisWolfe111]

I recently hacked mine with Henkaku Enso running on 3.60. I was having trouble with the SD2Vita but after 2 days of trying to figure out what I did wrong, I just re-worked the hack from begining to end and now have it running fine. I unblocked games from not playing so Its definitely great for running PS1 and PSP games with the PS3 or PS4 controller. If you can hack it or sell it as its rare.

[@frog-girl-68000]

i am a fairly new vita owner but i have found sharpscale to be useful for playing PSP games through adrenaline on the handheld vita hardware as well! adrenaline's filtering modes add some noticeable input delay (although not as bad as the ppsspp emulator in my experience), while setting adrenaline's graphics filtering to "original" and turning off bilinear filtering in the official vita settings mitigates most of the delay. however, the latter gives inconsistent results, appearing to to return to the bilinear filter every time a game is launched and the home button is pressed, bringing up the "Do you want to quit the game?" menu. opening up the adrenaline settings menu or going into power save mode for a moment and back resets the display to your desired settings, but needs to be done every time a game is launched or the home button is pressed, which isn't a dealbreaker but has become tedious over time. hopefully, one day, the input delay issues in adrenaline will be addressed, but it's not looking likely as the last commit was nearly 3 years ago :(. setting sharpscale to either fitted or integer scaling with point filtering effectively looks the same as adrenaline's "sharp bilinear without scanlines" - consistently crispy, but without the added delay. i'm still not sure exactly how many milliseconds of delay are added with adrenaline and i do not have a PSP to test against. getting rid of that extra bit of delay makes timing sensitive games way more enjoyable, and i don't have to keep opening up the adrenaline settings every time the display reverts to bilinear and doesn't reflect the set preferences.

[@chumpyman]

I bought my Vita TV on a sale for £30 new. It came with a voucher for a psn game bundle. All in all a great deal for the price

[@johncraw8572]

Awesomeness please do more thanks

[@Daniel-it1dp]

I love my PSP. I just wish it came out in a better time in my life and I would have collected more games.

[@jaredviolin14]

Can someone help. I got it working but im confused about settings for each console. Like what should i have the resolution and settings. It seems no better or worse than what it was

[@DragonQuarter]

I was hoping to see some Breath of Fire III footage with this hack! Would love to try it myself, but do you think there's any risk in hacking a PSTV while using your PSN account? Just wasn't sure if there was a risk of Sony banning your account for running custom firmware.

[@HarukaMorishima]

Curious about the price of the ps tv after reading comments and holy cow it went up by a lot (200-300 range USD). Glad I got one when they were 30 on a sale.

[@Gorilla_Jones]

I have a Vita TV still in the box. Will try.

[@haloboy456]

What is is on screen at 7:19? Great video!

[@alexdelareta]

What are your thoughts on the Neo Geo pocket ports on Switch?

[@laz305]

I put my tv in a boot loop trying to install storagemgr. How do I get out of it?

[@EveryDayRetroGaming]

I am so glad I just hacked my PsTV. It's worth it just for the PsP games alone.

[@Kenkenjaya]

I'm trying to using this sharpscale on my vita henkaku 3.65,, I instal the plugin from autoplugin II.. But when i open the sharpscale vpk, it show a warning, Fatal Error.. What should i do, can someone help me please?

[@ismiismael]

Me too

[@Evans.32]

I have 2 PSP 2004/3004 i pluged them with Hyperkin cable in my LG 4K TV "2019" model but both of them is not working also i plug them at an older TV and works perfectly what i did wrong?