Custom Themes Manager is an app that’s been around on the PS Vita for ages. Recently, its developer Red Squirrel updated it to 4.01 (almost 6 years after the 4.0 release) in order to fix some deprecated database url. Version 4.02, released today, fixes a cache issue introduced in 4.01. If you’re into customizing your PS Vita, you have to give this application a try. And if you’re using it, you probably need 4.02, as there’s not guarantee the former 4.0 release is still working at this point, due to pointing to an older url. What is Custom Themes Manager for PS Vita From the official site: C ..read more

Developer Gl33ntwine has released a port of Sonic 3 A.I.R for the PS Vita, with additional credits to Rinnegatamante and MDashK. This particular port was apparently a tough nut to crack, 3 years in the making, with multiple issues and memory leaks fixed along the way. If you’d like to see more ports, know that multiple AAA games have been ported in recent months to the PS Vita, in particular from Android. We’ve seen Android ports to the PS Vita for multiple games now, including Tomb Raider 1 & 2,  Dead Space, Mass Effect,  Fahrenheit,  Crazy Taxi, Rockst ..read more

Developer PatnosD has released Cuphead Vita, a PS Vita port of the popular platformer. This new release, 0.35, follows a “0.01” initial alpha, and is technically the first public release for the game. If you’d like to see more ports, know that multiple AAA games have been ported in recent months to the PS Vita, in particular from Android. We’ve seen Android ports to the PS Vita for multiple games now, including Tomb Raider 1 & 2,  Dead Space, Mass Effect,  Fahrenheit,  Crazy Taxi, Rockstar’s Bully,  GTA San Andreas, as well as Final Fantasy por ..read more

I’m a huge fan of old Point and click adventure games, and ScummVM is typically one of the first things I install on a hacked console (that, and Doom, of course). Available for your favorite platforms (Nintendo Switch, PS Vita, PS3, PSP, Windows, and much, much more), ScummVM 2.8.1 has just been released. This is mostly a maintenance release, but I realize I haven’t talked about scummVM in a while! What is ScummVM Those of us who grew up in the nineties will probably fondly remember some of the old LucasArts and other point and click adventure games. Others… might still want to check the oddl ..read more

We’ve seen a stream of Homebrew releases for the PS Vita over the past few days. Here’s a quick summary, with download links as always Final Fantasy Dimensions 1.2 Rinnegatamante is back at it with an update to Final Fantasy Dimensions, a Vita port of the Android version of the game. Final Fantasy Dimensions is a role-playing video game, developed in the style of previous 16-bit Final Fantasy games, and released on mobile phones (initially i-mode, then later ported to iOS and Android in 2012). Version 1.2 of the Vita port fixes a crash during the ending scene You can Download FF Dimensions f ..read more

Earlier this week, PS Vita developer Gl33ntwine  released a port of Modern Combat 3 for the PS Vita. This looks like it was a particularly tough one to port, and it requires an updated version of kubridge to properly work (links below). This is once again a port based on the Android version of the game, leveraging a wrapper initially created by TheFloW, a process that was progressively refined by other developers such as Gl33ntwine (who created libs specifically dedicated to porting Android software to the PS Vita). What’s important to understand for the end user here is that these ..read more

PS Vita developer jakubito has released Doom RPG, a port of DoomRPG-RE, itself a Reverse-engineered version of Doom RPG. What is Doom RPG (DoomRPG-RE)  for PS Vita? Doom RPG was originally a mobile phone game published in 2005. It combines the Doom first-person shooter franchise with role-playing video game elements. The storyline incorporates many similar events of Doom 3, but involves different characters than those in the third game. (wikipedia). This is a semi obscure game that was not even mentioned by Id in their “Year of Doom museum” at E3 in 2019… But it was a pretty impressive ..read more

  Vita developer Rinnegatamante has updated his PS Vita port of Tomb Raider 1 and 2. This is a timely update considering the official Remasters of Tomb Raider 1, 2, and 3 just came out With v1.2, you can expect some rendering improvements due to the VitaGL update it ships with. What is Tomb Raider 1 & 2 Classic for PS Vita? Tomb Raider 1 & 2 “Classic” are hard to find ports of the original Tomb Raider games for iOS and Android. These mobile versions were released between 2013 and 2015. They are decent ports of the original games with enhanced graphics and touch controls. They l ..read more

The Vita3K team has released an update to the Android version of their emulator yesterday. This release also marks the first anniversary of the emulator’s Android version, and the Vita3K team have published the Android sources on their github to celebrate. Vita3K 11 for Android brings significant bug fixes and rendering improvements. Windows, Linux, and MacOS versions of the emulator are of course still available and get daily updates through automated builds (download links below) What is Vita3K Vita3K is a PS Vita emulator. The official Readme describes it as “an experimental PlayStation Vi ..read more

ARK, the Custom Firmware for PSP (compatible with both PSP/Vita) is now renamed ARK-X. This latest release by Acid_Snake introduces a new way to sideload PS1 games onto your PSP/PS Vita, making use of the official PS1 emulator embedded within the PSP OS. What’s ARK for PSP/PS Vita   The PSP is one of the best homebrew devices. It had a striving community, and a lot of developers pushed it to its limit, in particular with emulators that achieved incredible performance for those days (ok, I won’t pretend it’s the best way to play emulators nowadays though, but it still works great for old ..read more