VitaForge 0.1.12 adds a homebrew catalog and a taiHEN plugin manager to the Vita
The native PS Vita app, written in Rust, lets you search, install and update homebrew from the console itself. In the past week it has added a taiHEN plugin manager in beta, with config backups and profiles.
A catalog on the Vita
VitaForge is a native PS Vita app written in Rust with VitaSDK and cargo-vita, under GPL-3.0. It lets you search and filter the homebrew catalog by name, author, category, platform or rating, detects what you already have installed and flags outdated versions. It downloads and installs apps, games and plugins with a progress bar and ZIP verification, and warns when a title needs extra data files or plugins. It updates itself at startup and offers 20 color palettes.
In the credits, its author thanks Rinnegatamante for VitaDB, the Vita homebrew database. The repository started on August 2 and has 112 stars.
A plugin manager in beta
Version 0.1.11, from November 7, adds a Plugins section to Settings for enabling, disabling, reordering and removing taiHEN plugins. Every change to config.txt is backed up first. Downloaded modules are checked for size and ELF header, and if anything fails the previous module is restored. Profiles let you save, apply, rename, export and import plugin setups, and disabling one warns you which others depend on it. It's marked beta, and the project itself recommends copying config.txt before using it.
That release also fixes ports that extract data into ux0:app/<TITLEID>: they now extract after the app is promoted and no longer wipe it on update.
Version 0.1.12, from November 9, accepts .skprx and .suprx modules packed as SELF, which used to fail with an error saying the downloaded file wasn't a valid module. It also retries downloads that go 10 seconds without data, and the catalog download when it fails once.
How to install it
Download VitaForge.vpk from the latest release, copy it to the Vita with VitaShell over USB or FTP and install it from there. You need a Vita with homebrew enabled. The roadmap still lists hash verification for everything downloaded, a download queue with pause and retry, and an update-all button.
