Do This before creating PS Vita Bounty

Greetings Comrade! Welcome🤘

PS Vita Bounties are back and everybody is super happy. I have already talked about it in this article, but in the nutshell the process is very simple - You just need to go to this KoFi page and make a donation in a value you want to create a bounty for. This will serve as an encouragement for a developer to start working on that specific game. Check this for all the closer details, but before you going to do that we have one important change. Rinnegatamante has introduce brand new system on Vita Nuova Discord

He has created a #is-it-portable channel, where you can create a port suggestion, but first you need to go to #suggested-ports and check whether or not it was already suggested (please make sure to check properly in there as re-suggesting the same project will lead to the ban). You go to the channel, press the search icon in the top right corner, for this case, I have typed in Call of Duty Black Ops Zombies, it was already suggested and we can nicely see the result

It looks like the game is technically portable but it uses ARMv6 which leads to performance issues, and it also uses s3e framework which is quite difficult to resolve and big in scope. The bounty for this project was already created. Right now it stands at around $200. It was around $100, but there was another big $100 donation, I will update all the information shortly, plus I will add the latest bounties right after I finish writing this article, so please check back later today. Will this amount be enough to encourage a developer to overcome all the hurdles? I hope so.

What is more, you can suggest 3 types of projects not just android ports. You can suggest open source project. A lot of people already suggested many interesting ones like - Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, OpenAge (open source age of empires), Jagged Alliance 2, OpenMW (open source morrow wind) with various rates of possibility. Then you can, of course, suggest android port and the last one is Unity/ GameMaker/Godot engine game. These are all the possible options. I was scrolling through already suggested ports and there are some very nice possible ones.

In my opinion, this system was very needed, because up until now we had no way of knowing the feasibility of the given port, especially if you are laic like myself. Now all we need to do is to go there and see the information that is nicely displayed in there. Either there is a checkmark, exclamation mark or X. This is quite straightforward even for a laic :-) Thanks to Rinne for creating it.

There was also a discussion on our discord if some PS Vita Bounty can be created for something else that doesn't fit in these 3 categories. The girl suggested functional web browser (yea, even girls are interested in bounties :-)). I replied that I am open for this idea but just in case the suggestion is somewhat feasible and the suggestion of modern PS Vita web browser doesn't fit into this category. This idea is here for a very long time, but it still didn't happen and most likely it will not happen. In my eyes, it falls into the same category as an already outdated $2500 bounty for Native Resolution PSP Games on PS Vita. The Flow was working on it, he managed to make his favourite GTA PSP titles to render in native Vita resolution, plus he came up with Gepatch plugin. That was it. No universal solution for every PSP game. And that is The Flow. If The Flow didn't make it happen, it is safe to say, it is not coming, unfortunately. Goodbye native PSP on PS Vita and modern web browser. Anyway, it is not really needed, the exploit still works and will be working.

PS Vita Bounties are here to stay and many more, new, exciting ones are coming. I am sure about that. I hope you are ready, I , surely, am ready as hell :-)

Thanks for reading this article, more to come 🙏🤘