VitaHexenII – Play Hexen II on your Vita!
You know, I’m starting to agree our host Wololo, since Henkaku was released there are so many releases coming out of the woodwork every day, sometimes multiple times a day, that it becomes hard to keep track and not spam the front-page with every single thing that gets released. This one however, I feel is worth talking about so here I am again, this time to tell you guys about the newly released port of Hexen II for the Vita!
This port is brought to you by famous king of all things port, Rinnegatamante who previously brought to our Vitas such games such VitaQuake, EasyRPG and Wolfenstein among many other things. For those that never played it, Hexen II is an old-school dark fantasy FPS developer Raven Software and ran on a modified version of the Quake engine. It is one of those classic FPS that many of us played shareware versions of back when we were kids and were mind blown by the graphics quality (and violence) and is looked back on very fondly, just not as much as its more popular counterparts Quake, Doom and Wolfen.
This release is already pretty advanced and even supports the expansions for Hexen II, but here is what Rinnegatamante says about this 1.0 release:
Features
- Support to both standard game and Portal of Praveus expansion
- Support to both analogs for comfortable aiming and player movement
- Native support to 960×544 resolution
- Rescaler in options menu for fps enthusiasts
- Different hidden features unlocked in the Options Menu (Like FOV)
- Support to dualshock rumbling when player get hit (PSTV only)
- Sounds and CDAudio (Soundtrack) support
- Software GPU Rendering
- Support to savestates
Known bugs
- Sometimes game can crash when trying to change resolution after starting a game
- Quake Console and relative logs are disabled due to random crashes caused by RAM texture usage
- When attempting to change map, sound is not properly paused
How to install
Place the data folder in ux0:/ and place your data1 folder from your Hexen II purchased installation in ux0:/data/Hexen II. If you want to install also Portal of Praveus, copy also the portals folder to ux0:/data/Hexen II.How to use soundtrack
Soundtrack is supported in MIDI, OGG and MP3 formats.
Files must be placed in ux0:/data/Hexen II/cdtracks and must be named for example as track00.ogg, track01.ogg, etc…
If you are extracting tracks from your Hexen II cd, this is the correspondence between track name and track filename:
track02 -> casa1
track08 -> egyp3
track14 -> roma3
track03 -> casa2
track09 -> meso1
track15 -> casb1
track04 -> casa3
track10 -> meso2
track16 -> casb2
track05 -> casa4
track11 -> meso3
track17 -> casb3
track06 -> egyp1
track12 -> roma1
track07 -> egyp2
track13 -> roma2
Aside from the slight inconvenience of the soundtrack it is a pretty solid release and if you’re craving some classic PC gaming on your Vita – natively that is – then this release might just be the thing for you!
Download VitaHexenII
To get the latest release of all you need to do is click here but you can also head to Rinnegatamante’s blog to browse through his many, many 3DS/Vita homebrew releases. This man is constantly working on many things and updating almost all of them fairly regularly meaning that he intends to support these as long as he can/until they are perfect. If you are a developer and looking to help him with this, you can also head to VitaHexenII’s GitHub and see what you can do to help!
As usual guys, enjoy another great scene release and let’s hope that we here at wololo.net can keep reporting on this as often as possible, because it’s a sign that things are going in the right direction!
To install & run, please note that you will need to have a PS Vita running firmware 3.60 with the HENkaku hack. To install HENkaku, please check our PS Vita CFW page.
Looking for more? We have a full list of Emulators for the PS Vita, an up to date list of Homebrews for the PS Vita, and an All in one guide for Vita 3.60 describing everything you can do with your hacked PS Vita.
This is insane! Hexen 2 is an amazing game! Excellent work!
droga queria ser o infinito negativo no comentarios
Gente, um brasileiro.
dois brasileiros.
3 hahaha eu acompanho tudo desse site. Tenho um psvita 3.52 com tn_noob e ark instalado, se tiver dúvida posso ajuda hehe.
4 ausdhuashd, to esperando o desbloqueio pra jogos do psp na 3.60
full game or demo?
already tested using the full version and it works great (both game and expansion), only some occasional lag.
i prefer this over Quake and im looking forward for more ports like this one!!
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS AWSOME 😀
I would love to see a half life 1 port
COUNTER STRIKE 1.6
will donate $1000 for that
I interviewed Rinnegatamante an year ago for gopsp! Is one of the best developer in the vita scene right now! Keep up with the good work!
I hope someday see port POWERSLAVE game to vita
I wonder if it’s possible to port dark forces 2: Jedi Knight and Mysteries of the Sith.
That would be quite an accomplishment. Great games those two.
If anyone needs the pak1.pak,look up hexenII ultimate pack,install then transfer over the data1 folder to your vita and BAM retro goodness.
I did as you said, and when I load it up and start a new game i’m in a box with bricks, do u know how to get out?
Same here, did you fix it??
I think the game is a bit too hardcore to be played on a portable. The pace of Hexen 2 is mad. Still great though.
PLS release Quake 2 and Half life would be better
We want CS 1.6
this with online support would be the king ***.
I did as you said, and when I load it up and start a new game i’m in a box with bricks, do u know how to get out?
Just select “Old Mission” in the menu.
Love you!
i’ve downloaded the music ogg version ,but it comes like casa1.ogg casa2.ogg…. etc, do i have to rename them to track01.ogg track02.ogg…etc? or i can use their names
I may be late, but yes, you need to rename them according to the scheme provided in the post.
As a side note, did you get the ost to work? I tried it in mp3, ogg and midi and neither work for me. The game is looking for the files in the proper location, but there’s no music in game, just sounds.
yeah, i managed to get the ogg ost, but nothing works, i rename them as thist post said, the game plays normally but no music, and neither a log.txt is generated.
i can’t start the vpk on my pstv, i tried to open but it closes, on my psvita idon’t have any problem, it plays normally, but on pstv it closes the game
Did you fix it? I’m having the same problem…
yes i did, i erased the hexen II folder, and copy over all the files, i think the problem was the data1 or portals folder didn’t copy all the files or someting, but copying them again it fix the problem.
Any chance of seeing Blood or Blood 2?
That one would be awesome!
Hi. Works well but no music. Do I put it in cdtracks or cdtracks/hexenII. Neither works, need help.
You put it in /data/Hexen II/cdtracks/ but it’s not working for me either.
neither i, look this http://imgur.com/a/Kv5mj, i think i put them right but no working music
for me, it autocrashes out the game once i tap open the bubble. any ideas? i tried installing here , didn’t work. i tried using “VPK Mirror” to install it, didn’t work. any ideas?
No help? alright.
music in the game does not work, I have versions 1.1. everything is done as described. Apparently, some important detail has not been mentioned, maybe the names of the catalogs are incorrectly given? How do I get midi (.mid) files? must be in the cdtracks directory? unfortunately midi does not work either.