PS Vita release: Thimbleweed Park by Rinnegatamante (unofficial port)

Just when you think he’ll run out of games to port, Rinnegatamante drops another bomb. This time with a favorite of mine, Thimbleweed Park. This is yet another Android port straight to Vita using TheFlow’s wrapper (a mechanism that allows to un Android apps natively on the PS Vita, without emulation, allowing for impressive performance). Thanks to this system, we’ve seen other great releases recently including The Conduit, Mass Effect Infiltrator, Dead Space, Fahrenheit, Crazy Taxi, Rockstar’s Bully and GTA San Andreas, the Anomaly Series, as well as Final Fantasy ports by Rinnegatamante and Frangar.

Just a few months ago, Rinne had shared that we had crossed the line of 30 Android games ported to PS Vita, we are now above 40.

What’s Thimbleweed Park for PS Vita

“FBI agents Angela Ray and Alberto Reyes arrive at the town of Thimbleweed Park to investigate a murder…”

Thimbleweed Park operates on the same principles of early graphic adventures games, in that players navigate various scenes from a third person perspective, using various “verb commands” to perform actions, such as “use”, “pick up”, and “talk to”. Verb commands can be used to perform actions such as allowing a character to pick up an object into their inventory, to converse with another character, or to use an object on another item.

Thimbleweed park is an adventure game by Ron Gilbert, of Monkey Island fame.

This PS Vita port requires the original game’s files. From the readme:

This is a wrapper/port of Thimbleweed Park for the PS Vita.

The port works by loading the official Android ARMv7 executable 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 it is.

Download and Install Thimbleweed Park for PS Vita

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

Thimbleweed Vita (source code)

Setup Instructions

(From the Readme)

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.
Install the vpk from Release tab.
Obtain your copy of Thimbleweed Park legally for Android in form of an .apk file and an .obb file.
Open the apk with your zip explorer and extract the files libThimbleweedPark.so from the lib/armeabi-v7a folder to ux0:data/thimbleweed.
Put the .obb file in ux0:data/thimbleweed named as main.obb.