Vita Developer and master of open source ports Northfear has released Fallout 2 CE 1.2.0 for the PS Vita, a port of Fallout 2 for the PS Vita, based on open source project “Fallout 2 CE”.

Do check out some of Northfear’s other ports for PS Vita while you’re at it: Heroes of Might and Magic 3, System Shock, Warcraft 1 & 2, X-Com Terror from the Deep.

What is Fallout 2 CE for PS Vita

Fallout 2 is a role-playing open-world video game. The game’s story takes place in 2241, 80 years after the events of Fallout and 164 years after the atomic war which reduced the vast majority of the world to a nuclear wasteland. The player assumes the role of The Chosen One, the grandchild of the first game’s protagonist, and undertakes a quest to save their small village on the West Coast of the United States. The player is free to move at will until they enter into combat. Combat gives them a number of action points to move, fire, check their equipment, reload and the like.

Fallout 2 “Community Edition” is an open source port of popular RPG Fallout 2. It runs on a variety of platforms, with releases for Windows, Linux, Mac, or Android, and, in this case, the PS Vita.

Fallout 2 CE requires original game files in order to play (you can get Fallout 2 on GOG or Steam)

Controls (PS vita)

• Left analog stick – Cursor movement
• Right analog stick – Map scrolling
• × – Left mouse button
• ○ – Right mouse button
• □ – Skill list/selection
• △ – Inventory
• D-Pad Up – Character screen
• D-Pad Down – Pip-Boy
• D-Pad Left – Start combat
• D-Pad Right – End turn
• L1 – Toggle active item
• R1 (hold) – Cursor movement speedup
• SELECT – Esc
• START – On screen keyboard
• ○ + L1 – Quick save
• ○ + R1 – Quick load

Touchpad controls (PS Vita)

You can change the control mode of front or rear touchpad by editing ux0:data/fallout2/f2_res.ini and changing FRONT_TOUCH_MODE and REAR_TOUCH_MODE parameters.

Following touchpad modes are supported:

0 – Touchpad disabled

1 – Direct control (front touchpad only)

2 – Trackpad control

In trackpad control mode you can use double tap to “click” left mouse button in the current cursor position and triple tap to “click” right mouse button.

Other (PS Vita)

You can change the game resolution by editing ux0:data/fallout2/f2_res.ini file and modifying SCR_WIDTH and SCR_HEIGHT parameters. Recommended resolutions are 640x480, 848x480 and 960x544.

Cursor speed can be changed with MOUSE SENSITIVITY slider in game preferences.

Fallout 2 CE is still in early stages of development, so all kinds of bugs and crashes are to be expected.

Savegames can get corrupted sometimes, so you should try saving on the different save slots to avoid losing the game progress. Rewriting the “corrupted” savegame slot might break the new savegame too. Corrupted save folder from the ux0:data/fallout2/data/SAVEGAME needs to be deleted before it’s reused again.

Another Fallout 2 CE port for PS Vita (functionally the same except for different controls): https://github.com/isage/fallout2-ce

Thanks to @isage and aforementioned F2 port for help with figuring out the save game bug.

Fallout 2 PS Vita – What’s new in 1.2.0

• Improved rendering – Significant boost to performance on large resolutions (and battery life on mobile devices). See #165 for tech notes.
• Worldmap Improvements – A couple of enhancements that makes worldmap more visually appealing.
• Combat and AI – Some fixes to expected combat stuff and improvements to AI.

Download and Install Fallout 2 PS Vita

We recommend that you Download and install VitaDB Downloader to then easily install any homebrew on the PS Vita. You can also get Fallout 2 CE Vita directly here.

Install

• Download fallout2-ce.vpk file and install it to your PS Vita.
• Copy master.dat, critter.dat, patch000.dat, data and sound folders from the installed Fallout 2 game folder into to ux0:data/fallout2/.
• Copy fallout2.cfg too, if you’re using non-english Fallout 2 version (or make sure that language setting is properly set in it (language=german, language=french, etc)).

Other useful links:

• Fallout 2 on GOG or Steam
• Fallout 2 CE Github
• Fallout 2 CE Vita github

Source: VitaDB