PS Vita: Heroes of Might and Magic 2 port (fheroes2) updated to 0.9.6
Developer NorthFear has published fheroes 0.9.6 for the PS Vita, a port of Heroes of Might and Magic 2. This port uses the open source fheroes2 Game engine. NorthFear has regularly updated this HOMM2 port since its original release in 2017.
What is fheroes2 for PS Vita
From the readme:
Free Heroes of Might and Magic II (fheroes2) is a recreation of HoMM2 game engine.
This open source multiplatform project, written from scratch, is designed to reproduce the original game with significant improvements in the gameplay, graphics and logic (including support for high-resolution graphics, improved AI, numerous fixes and UI improvements), breathing new life into one of the most addictive turn-based strategies.
Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars is a turn-based strategy video game developed by Jon Van Caneghem through New World Computing and published in 1996 by the 3DO Company. The game is the second installment of the Heroes of Might and Magic series and is typically credited as the breakout game for the series. Heroes II was voted the sixth-best PC game of all time by PC Gamer in May 1997. An expansion pack, The Price of Loyalty, was released in 1997. Later, 3DO bundled Heroes II and its expansion pack in one box, released as Heroes of Might and Magic II Gold in 1998.
This Vita port by Northfear is part of the official github.
Download fheroes2 (Free Heroes of Might and Magic 2) 0.9.6 for PS Vita
You can Download HoMM2 0.9.6 for PS Vita here. Please note that you will need a hacked PS Vita in order to run homebrew games.
Also note that the official github also has versions for PC and Switch, among others.
source: VitaDB
FIRST STRIKES AgAIN!!!!!
NorthFear isn’t a person who published the game. fheroes2 team did. Please at least check what you’re reposting.
He has published a port for PS Vita.
At least this is how I understand it from this news, so I am not sure what seems be a problem?
He didn’t publish this release. Check fheroes2 GitHub page: they have automated publishing without anyone manually do it. Even the page in this news shows no sign of Northfear. My point is that he did some work in the past but according to commits he does nothing so it’s not correct to give credits to him.
A build system for PS Vita has been changed since 0.9.2.
[quote]Main fheroes2 repo is probably the best place for getting new version now.
I might release something here if upstream version will break Vita support or if I’ll have some cool new functionality added. But for now there’s no point of releasing the same thing twice.[/quote]
https://github.com/Northfear/fheroes2-vita/issues/7.
He is still responsible for PS Vita port.
Anyway maybe a question at source (Are you still responsible for new PS Vita ports) will be more helpful:
https://github.com/Northfear/fheroes2-vita/issues.
Sorry, you was right.
The port was upstreamed, so it’s more of a fheroes2 team release now. I’m still fixing Vita related stuff occasionally and pinging Rinne about vitadb updates, but that’s about it.
Thank you for the clarification.