Developer Rinnegatamante has released a Vita port of Zelda3, a reimplementation of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to The Past with several enhancements.
What is Zelda3 for PS Vita
Zelda3 is a port of A link to the past, originally developed by snesrev. Zelda3 is pretty much A Link to the past as you remember it, with a lot of Quality-Of-Life enhancements:
Some features have been added that are not supported by the original game.
- Secondary item slot on button X (Hold X in inventory to select).
- Displays max rupees, bombs and arrows with yellow or orange color.
- Extends throwing bombs to four instead of two.
- Support for MSU audio tracks.
- Support for enhanced aspect ratios of 16:9 or 16:10.
- Switching current item with L/R keys.
- Reordering of inventory by pressing Y+Arrows.
- Higher quality map screen.
- Disable low health beep.
- Pick up items and destroy pots with Sword.
It’s a pretty good implementation of a really good game, so you might want to give this version a try instead of running the game in your typical emulator.
Download and Install Zelda 3 for PS Vita
You will need a hacked PS Vita in order to run this homebrew game. The easiest way to install Vita Homebrew is to get an “appstore” homebrew such as VitaDB Downloader. Alternatively, you can Download the VPK from the VitaDB page here.
How to set up
You need to extract the file zelda3_assets.dat from a dump of your own The Legend of Zelda: A Link to The Past US SNES cartridge. To do so:
- Download Python installer and install
- Open the command prompt
- Type “python -m pip install –upgrade pip” and hit enter
- Type “python -m pip install –upgrade Pillow” and hit enter
- Type “python -m pip install –upgrade pyyaml” and hit enter
- Close the command prompt
- Follow these steps: https://github.com/snesrev/zelda3/wiki/2.-Cloning-and-Setup
- Place zelda3_assets.dat file in ux0:data/zelda3/tables
Options
Several options can be changed by editing the file ux0:data/zelda3/zelda3.ini.
If you care more about framerate than widescreen, 4:3 aspect ratio is suggested to be set. (4:3 ensures game is always fullspeed whilst with widescreen, sometimes game drops down around 45 fps).
Source: VitaDB
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