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[petrix18]

Hi.

I want to debug my game on the psvita because on the emulator works perfectly but when I run the game on the vita it closes right after I launch it. Is there any way of debugging it like in the simulator? with breakpoints and all that?

Thanks

[AlexMcDev]

Hi:

Tomorrow I will test that, I read somewhere right now it's not possible but did you try run it in debug mode? with a break point in the beggining? if you already did and not worked or hungs means for now we can't.

cheers

[scheurwater89]

@petrix18, When you have the vita connected with the Playstation Mobile studio, building your project and starting the project with the debugger (F5), you have full debugging support like on the Simulator. I just confirmed this with a breakpoint in my application, it even has stack and locals information.

If you are having problems, did you try loading one of the supplied PSM samples instead? Do note that the debugger stops working (even crashes sometimes) if the vita enters standby state. Might be a good idea to set the Stand-by time of your vita in Settings->Power Safe Settings.
Keep in mind that running your project with a debugger on the vita is slow! Starting my project takes about 30 seconds! While without it's  about 3 sec!

If you are having problems booting witrh the debugger, set the Vita in PSM Dev mode, confirm the vita is visible on the PSM studio, disconnect the USB cable, and reconnect. Even though the IDE says " PS Vita(xxx) ON", you sometimes need to reconnect the Vita.
Just my experience so far with PSM  

[noggsy]

You should be able to debug to some degree on Vita, although the app we are working on fails to show the contents of local variables when execution is paused. Breakpoints work, stepping works and hitting pause in the debugger should break execution.

Have you tried debugging any of the samples on your vita?

[MartinCaine]

Debugging has always worked fine for me on Vita, writing to Console or Debug output massively slows down the execution of the app on the Vita though so always remember to test for performance in a Release build.

[AlexMcDev]

Hi:

Yes I tested all of that today, and like Martin says remember release is faster. Just one question to everyone did all notice that takes a long time to refresh members/local variables values? or it's just me?

Cheers

[AlexMcDev]

plus don't forget to check enable optimizations on compiler settings

Cheers,

[petrix18 · Accepted solution]

I don't know why,  but it does not work for me. I mean, I can run the app in the vita using psm studio but it ignores the breakpoints, I don't know if I have to do anything special like setting the vita into "psm debug mode" like you said, How can I do that?

Thanks for the replys!

Edit: OK I did it... it was so simple I couldn't see it xD I had to select it in the dropdown list...

Thanks to everyone