Fade to Black ported to the PSVita – Play the sequel to Flashback directly on your Vita with 3D hardware acceleration!
Rinnegatamante’s VitaGL has sparked some renewed interest in the homebrew scene of the PSVita since now, developers can port games that require GPU hardware acceleration to render properly at a playable speed. This time around, we have a port of ‘Fade to Black’ by usineur.
What is Fade to Black (f2bgl)?
Fade to Black is a 3D action-adventure game released in 1995 that is the successor to the famous Flashback game from 1992. The game was developed by the France-based Delphine Software and was published by Electronic Arts.
Then, some years later, Grégory Montoir decided to rewrite the engine of the DOS game to make it use OpenGL and called the engine f2bgl. This engine allowed the game to be ported to various systems including Linux and MorphOS computers and now, the PlayStation Vita!
What about the PSVita port?
Thanks to ‘usineur’, a veteran in porting open-source games to the PSVita, you can now enjoy Fade to Black with 3D hardware acceleration thanks to his port of f2bgl and VitaGL.
It is important to note that the game has the following issues:
- Music and sounds are disabled
- Pressing the PS button to suspend the game will crash it
- The port is based on version 0.2.3 of f2bgl not version 0.2.6, which is the latest version, so there are bugs that were fixed in version 0.2.4-0.2.6 of the engine
- I couldn’t find a way to make the game function and I tried the demo files and full CD release files and none worked.
Conclusion
To install the game, you need to download the VPK and copy over the data files of the DOS version of the game to ux0:/data/f2bgl/data. While the game is available on VitaDB, you can’t play it immediately after installing it since the data files of the demo aren’t included.
If you have any issues, report them to usineur on the Wololo /talk thread or GitHub links below.
GitHub release page (more info + download link for VPK): https://github.com/usineur/f2bgl/releases/tag/vita-1.0
Wololo /talk thread: https://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=116&t=48915
it won’t run
No sound? Why even bother?
Why not wait till you got sound working then release it?
Sound are enabled. Music is not.
“You do not have the key. You do not have the key. You do not have the key. You do not have the…” arrrghhhhh!!11 This is what I most remember about this game. I think I still have the original CD, maybe was the era when soundtracks were actual redbook audio tracks in the cd??
Yea, doesnt work. I got the data files installed and nothing.
I don’t understand why it’s not working for some of you. Take a look here: http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?t=48915
Amazing!
Great work usineur! I hope the bugs are fixed and music is eventually added. Fade to Black was one of my favorite PC Games. It kind of reminds me of Puzzle based Dark Souls/Shooter. The graphic design still looks lovely. Thanks for picking this title to work on.
There is also the PSX version… . But this has better graphics probably.
great news
great game
whats morphos ? can i morph my vita?
is there a x86 emu for vita ? i got this old opensource android iso
dos archive has dos game and datafiles on internetarchive so
why not stub data and vpk into stitched fullvpk fvpk ?
cant wait to try the opensource systems even if the data needs media defilers
It’s a great game and I’ve tryied sometime ago o emulator… The controls sucks but the nostalgia glows, hope this works soon.
Sounds Cool!
The game has been hacked cuphead and its work port by one developer to work on all the integration of Android and is now available with the latest version 0.1.5 .. I will not put the download link you can search for …https://apkmaniafull.com/2018/03/06/cuphead-mobile-v0-1-5-apk/#more-36509
cuphead and its work port by one developer to work on all the integration of Android and is now available with the latest version 0.1.5 .. I will not put the download link you can search for …https://apkmaniafull.com/2018/03/06/cuphead-mobile-v0-1-5-apk/#more-36509