PS Vita Launch: Professor Layton Curious Village/ Pandora's Field / Misplaced Future HD (Vita unofficial ports) by Rinnegatamante - FuHEN contest entry

Developer Rinnegatamante has launched some extra goodness for the FuHEN PS Vita Homebrew contest, this time with a port of Professor Layton – Curious Village. The developer additionally launched ports for the sport’s sequels: Pandora’s Field (aka Diabolical Field) and Misplaced Future (aka Unwound Future).

The FuHEN contest is technically over, however there was a stream of releases over the previous week, and I haven’t been in a position to sustain due largely to being sick. I’m attempting to slowly catch as much as all of the releases which were accomplished for contest, so bear with me.

What’s Professor Layton Curious Village/Pandora’s Field/Misplaced Future HD for PS Vita

Professor Layton is a well-known collection of puzzle journey video video games initially printed for the Nintendo DS. Curious Village is the primary sport within the Professor Layton collection, launched in 2007, adopted by Pandora’s field the identical 12 months, and Misplaced Future in 2008. Enhanced cellular ports of these video games that includes further cutscenes, subtitled “HD for Cell”, have been launched between 2018 and 2020. This Vita port relies on these.

From Rinnegatamante:

This can be a wrapper/port of Professor Layton: Curious Village HD for the PS Vita. The port works by loading the official Android ARMv7 executable in reminiscence, resolving its imports with native capabilities and patching it so as to correctly run. By doing so, it’s principally as if we emulate a minimalist Android setting by which we run natively the executable as is.

These Android ports straight to Vita utilizing TheFlow’s wrapper (a mechanism that enables to un Android apps natively on the PS Vita, with out emulation, permitting for spectacular efficiency) have been a godsend for the PS Vita, permitting it to run natively a variety of excellent video games. Because of this technique, we’ve seen different nice releases lately together with Mass Impact Infiltrator, Lifeless Area, Fahrenheit, Loopy Taxi, Rockstar’s Bully and GTA San Andreas, the Anomaly Sequence, in addition to Ultimate Fantasy ports by Rinnegatamante and Frangar.

Obtain and Set up Professor Layton 1/2/3 for PS Vita

As a reminder you will have a hacked PS Vita to run homebrew video games. Hacking your PS Vita is an excellent straightforward and secure course of these days (our information right here).

Set up directions

From the developer:

In an effort to correctly set up the sport, you’ll need to observe these steps exactly:

Set up kubridge and FdFix by copying kubridge.skprx and fd_fix.skprx to your taiHEN plugins folder (normally ux0:tai) and including two entries to your config.txt beneath *KERNEL:
  *KERNEL
  ux0:tai/kubridge.skprx
  ux0:tai/fd_fix.skprx
Be aware Don’t set up fd_fix.skprx if you happen to’re utilizing rePatch plugin

Non-compulsory: Set up PSVshell to overclock your gadget to 500Mhz.

Set up libshacccg.suprx, if you happen to don’t have it already, by following this information.

Get hold of your copy of Professor Layton: Curious Village HD legally for Android in type of an .apk file and an obb. You may get all of the required recordsdata straight out of your cellphone or by utilizing an apk extractor you could find within the play retailer.

Open the apk along with your zip explorer and extract the file libll1.so* from the lib/armeabi-v7a folder to ux0:knowledge/layton_curious.

Extract the folder belongings inside ux0:knowledge/layton_curious (ux0:knowledge/layton_pandora and ux0:knowledge/layton_future respectively for pandora’s field and misplaced future)

Extract the obb file in ux0:knowledge/layton_curious/knowledge (ux0:knowledge/layton_pandora and ux0:knowledge/layton_future respectively for pandora’s field and misplaced future) and rename the file predominant.obb.
* Be aware from Wololo: the title of the .so file is libll1.so, libll2.so, and libll3.so for every respective sport within the collection.

About FuHEN (PS Vita Homebrew Contest)

FuHEN is a homebrew contest for the PS Vita with greater than $1000 in money prizes. Submissions for the competition are over, and the voting is occurring till October fifth. Examine their official web site right here for particulars.