PS Vita Release: Fahrenheit – Indigo Prophecy (port) by TheFloW and Rinnegatamante

Another one for our favorite handheld! Developers TheFloW  and Rinnegatamante have released yet another port for the PS Vita: Fahrenheit. This release comes after other great Android-based ports by these two scene powerhouses last year, such as Crazy Taxi (which recently got an update btw), Rockstar’s Bully and GTA San Andreas, as well as Final Fantasy ports by Rinnegatamante and Frangar.

Like all other similar ports by TheFloW and Rinne, you will need a legit copy of the Android version of the game, which you can buy for example on Amazon (affiliate link).

What’s Fahrenheit Indigo Prophecy for PS Vita

Fahrenheit Vita is a “port” of the android version of the popular Action-Adventure game by Quantic Dream.

Fahrenheit is an action-adventure game played from third- and first-person perspectives. The main controllable characters are Lucas Kane, a man supernaturally possessed into committing murder, and New York City police detectives Carla Valenti and Tyler Miles, who pursue him. Story details can change and three endings are unlockable depending on what the player does, including managing the protagonists’ state of mind and pressing on-screen prompts.

The developers have used the same technique they’ve used over the past year, to port Android games straight to the PS Vita, with only minimal conversion, and no emulation required. From the port’s readme:

This is a wrapper/port of Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy for the PS Vita.

The port works by loading the official Android ARMv7 executables in memory, resolving its imports with native functions and patching it in order to properly run. By doing so, it’s basically as if we emulate a minimalist Android environment in which we run natively the executable as is.

Setup Instructions (For End Users)

(From the Readme)

In order to properly install the game, you’ll have to follow these steps precisely:

• Install kubridge and FdFix by copying kubridge.skprx and fd_fix.skprx to your taiHEN plugins folder (usually ux0:tai) and adding two entries to your config.txt under *KERNEL:

  *KERNEL
  ux0:tai/kubridge.skprx
  ux0:tai/fd_fix.skprx

Note Don’t install fd_fix.skprx if you’re using rePatch plugin

• Optional: Install PSVshell to overclock your device to 500Mhz.
• Install libshacccg.suprx, if you don’t have it already, by following this guide.
• Obtain your copy of Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy legally for Android in form of an .apk file and two .obb files. You can get all the required files directly from your phone or by using an apk extractor you can find in the play store.
• Open the apk with your zip explorer and extract the files libFahrenheit.so,libc++_shared.so and libiconv.so from the lib/armeabi-v7a folder to ux0:data/fahrenheit.
• Download unobb.zip from the Release section of this repository.
• Extract unobb.zip in a folder in your PC and place the two .obb files in the same folder where you’ll have unobb.exe.
• Run with a command-line window unobb.exe main.16.com.aspyr.fahrenheit.obb data first and unobb.exe patch.16.com.aspyr.fahrenheit.obb data second.
• Install Total Commander and its PSARC plugin.
• Backup the three .txt files inside data/textures and then remove them.
• Launch Total Commander and navigate up to data folder.
• Right click on textures folder; it will turn red.
• Click on File -> Pack.
• Set psarc as Compressor and then click on Configure button right below.
• Set PSARC Version to 1.3, Compression to ZLIB and Ratio to 0 and press OK
• Press OK to launch the compression, it will create a file in C:\textures.psarc. (If you get an error, manually change the location in the command line string psarc: DESTINATIONFOLDER\textures.psarc).
• Remove the whole textures folder from data folder.
• Transfer the content inside data folder to ux0:data/fahrenheit.
• Transfer textures.psarc to ux0:data/fahrenheit.
• Extract datafiles.zip available in the Release page of this repository to ux0:data.
• Place the three .txt files you backed up before inside ux0:data/fahrenheit/textures (Create the folder if you don’t have it).

Download Fahrenheit Indigo Prophecy for PS Vita

Disclaimer: it goes without saying, but you will need a hacked PS Vita in order to run this game.

You can download Fahrenheit Indigo Prophecy PS Vita from VitaDB here. Check the section above for setup instructions.

The source code is available on the developer’s github.

Source: VitaDB