Pang Adventures Vita

This is a wrapper/port of Pang Adventures 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.

Changelog

v1.0

• Initial release.

Note

This port works only with version v.1.1.0 or earlier of the game. The recent v.1.2.1 is not supported.

Setup Instructions (For End Users)

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 Pang Adventures legally for Android in form of an .apk file and an .obb file. 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 file libPangAdventures.so from the lib/armeabi-v7a folder to ux0:data/pang.
• Open the obb with your zip explorer and extract all the files inside it in a folder named obb.
• Install Total Commander and its PSARC plugin.
• Launch Total Commander and navigate up to the folder where obb folder has been created.
• Right click on obb 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:\obb.psarc. (If you get an error, manually change the location in the command line string psarc: DESTINATIONFOLDER\obb.psarc).
• Transfer obb.psarc to ux0:data/pang.
• Optional: For trophies to be unlockable, install NoTrpDRM.

Build Instructions (For Developers)

In order to build the loader, you'll need a vitasdk build fully compiled with softfp usage.
You can find a precompiled version here: https://github.com/vitasdk/buildscripts/actions/runs/1102643776.
Additionally, you'll need these libraries to be compiled as well with -mfloat-abi=softfp added to their CFLAGS:

• SoLoud

• libmathneon

  • make install

• vitaShaRK

  • make install

• kubridge

  • mkdir build && cd build
    cmake .. && make install

• vitaGL

  • make SOFTFP_ABI=1 NO_DEBUG=1 HAVE_GLSL_SUPPORT=1 install

After all these requirements are met, you can compile the loader with the following commands:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. && make

Credits

• TheFloW for the original .so loader.
• CatoTheYounger for testing the homebrew and providing screenshots.