Is it possible to have PS1 and PSP games show up without making bubbles?

[TXFDA]

Simple question I guess. I was using this app, and I really like it. It loads quick, and I like the Switch theme. I was having fun making Switch-style tiles for all my games.

Thing is, I bought a bigger sd card, and put a LOT more games on my Vita. To use this app properly, I'd have to have over 200 bubbles for PS1/PSP games, on top of the 90-ish Vita games, and another 14 homebrew ports (plus homebrew app stuff, and stock apps). And that's not counting anything else I end up adding later. So, I ended up having to swap back to Retroflow for now, since it doesn't require bubbles to still list the games. I know I could technically fit them all into bubbles, and be under the 500 bubble limit, but still, I don't particularly want over 300 bubbles.

I would love to go back to this, and use the Switch theme again.

Also, I hope this was okay to ask here. I'm not super familiar with github outside of downloading stuff from it. And I didn't see anywhere else to specifically ask questions or make requests for this version of the app. Sorry if I did something wrong. I saw someone else making requests and stuff and thought it'd be okay.

[BlackSheepBoy69]

Yes. Support for Adrenaline Launcher and PSP categories Lite is working in the experimental non-public version. It's expected to be public in the next version, v3.0, the big final update that will also include a lot of other features! It has a lot of dependencies (ex: it messes with your cache a lot and turning it ON/OFF takes a long time) and I'm trying to make it work more cleanly, the same way you can turn RetroFlow ON/OFF and it will load all of them in super clean and fast.

You could also check out this guide for hiding all your bubbles! I think Adrenaline Manager + following this guide will let you have the best experience, the big reason for doing so being that Adrenaline Manager bakes drivers into the bubbles so with Adrenaline Manager, it allows HexFlow Custom to not have to keep track of a driver for each PSP game (using the wrong driver makes a small number of PSP games not work)
https://gbatemp.net/threads/guide-finally-remove-the-bubble-menu-on-psvita.633919/

If you would like, I can give you a RetroFlow mod that turns his view number 5 from SteamDeck View into HexFlow-Custom style SwitchView (it's just a few lines of code to switch it over like that!) because my app probably won't update for another month and a half.
Note: Grid View is NOT easily added to RetroFlow though. I'm just referring to SwitchView, which is easily added.

[TXFDA]

Cool beans, I look forward to 3.0 then. I appreciate the reply. I'll definitely look at that link too. It sounds useful.

And definitely wouldn't mind the mod, at least for the mean time, if you don't mind that is.

[BlackSheepBoy69]

Seemed to be easy enough to just copy over the few lines of code, but getting a strange error. Probably something really easy to fix. I'll check it out Friday evening or on the weekend if I can!

[BlackSheepBoy69]

https://www.mediafire.com/file/u3u3rq4kq0gjq16/TXFDA%2527s_Modpack.rar/file

Instructions are included, the index.lua file inside is the source code. It's pretty easy to install. I was too lazy to make a VPK for you sorry. Feel free to do literally whatever you want with this code as long as you have RetroFlow team's permission, post it, make a VPK, I don't really care. This will be able to tide you over until I finish bugtesting for my final update of HexFlow Custom v3.0 that will (hopefully) have the features that are making you want to use RetroFlow instead!

It is a modpack for RetroFlow 6.0.0/6.1.0/6.1.1
Mod list:

• View 5 is replaced with SwitchView
• Touch-scrolling smoothness upgrade (all views, not just SwitchView)
• The touch-screen can be used to touch and instantly jump to an entry (SwitchView only)
• The SwitchView's bottom menu is fully functional. It can be accessed with touch, analog, or D-pad.
• "DrawCover" function math optimization (there are other things to reduce lag but is the easiest to add)
• Horizontal visual snap has been reduced so it looks super smooth in SwitchView, but may look worse in the 3D views when RetroFlow's 'smooth scroll' is enabled, and note: such setting is enabled by default in RetroFlow v6.1.1

Issues: ....(note: none of these issues are present in HexFlow Custom)

• The shadow at the bottom of SwitchView can't be disabled. As such, it's recommended to use a background such as 'Blur 1'
• SwitchView will not switch over to the square placeholder icons. Not really an issue if you're gonna actually be using covers anyway.
• It will always load the SwitchView assets upon startup, even if SwitchView is disabled

Even though it took me so many days to get back to you, probably only between 1.5 and 2 hours was spent on this modpack because LUA is super easy to code in and test. I've just taken so long from being lazy! Anyway, enjoy!

[BlackSheepBoy69]