PS Vita emulator: Vita3K-Android v12 released, brings SD card support + latest updates from main Vita3K repo

The Vita3K team has released an update to the Android version of their PS Vita emulator today. Vita3K 11 for Android brings SD card support, bug fixes, and more generally, brings all the latest changes from the PC version of Vita3K.

Windows, Linux, and MacOS versions of the emulator are of course still available and get daily updates through automated builds (download links below)

What is Vita3K

Vita3K is a PS Vita emulator. The official Readme describes it as “an experimental PlayStation Vita emulator for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android”. The Vita3K emulator supports OpenGL and Vulkan.(Vulkan 1.0 required for Android)

The Android build keeps making leaps and bounds with each release. Generally speaking, more devices should be compatible as the emulator makes progress.

Vita3K – What’s new in Vita3K Android v12

From the official changelog:

• SD card support: Allow any folder to be specified as the OS/game data folder (inspired by the PR from nurunuruslime)
• Allow the overlay to be used at the same time as the touchscreen
• Fix black bands appearing sometimes at the top and bottom of the application on some devices
• Fix bug causing game installation to be 10x slower than expected
• Fix accelerometer and gyroscope on android game consoles
• Some crash fixes
• Add controller opacity (dima)

This release also imports the following improvements from the PC version:

• Fix audio regression (bookmist)
• Code cleanup, refractoring and small optimisations (bookmist, Nishinji and GermanAizek)
• Improved error messages (croden)
• GUI improvements (Zangetsu)
• Improve depth-stencil retrieval, fix Ratchet and Clank (Macdu)
• Add support for module unloading/reloading, allows FFX to be playable (Macdu)
• Improve ffmpeg dependency (KhoraLee)
• Improve Transfer downscale/copy, fix graphical issues in Phantasy Star Nova (Macdu)
• Improve Polish localization (mavethee)

The team have a video showcasing this new Android release:

Download Vita3K

• You can downloads Vita3K for android on the official project’s github here.
• Versions for Windows, Linux, MacOS can be found here