Silent Hill 4 on PS Vita, playable from start to finish

Silent Hill 4: The Room comes to PS Vita, playable from start to finish using your GOG version, and Skate 3 gives it a go in beta from the Xbox 360 game.


Silent Hill 4, from the GOG version

After Resident Evil Code: Veronica X, the Vita welcomes another horror classic. sh4vita, by vallfrr (GPL-3.0 licence), adapts the PC version sold on GOG of Silent Hill 4: The Room. Version 1.0.0, released on 29 October, is said to be playable from start to finish on real hardware; 1.0.1, from the 30th, fixes crashes during long sessions.


What you need

• A hacked PS Vita (HENkaku or Enso) with at least 4 GB free on ux0:.
• Silent Hill 4 bought on GOG, in version "1.0 gog v5" exactly: other versions and the PS2 files are rejected.
• The libshacccg.suprx file extracted from your own Vita with ShaRKF00D.

A preparation tool, sh4prep, available for Windows, macOS (Apple chips) and Linux, converts the installed game's files; then you just copy the sh4 folder to ux0:data/ and install the VPK with VitaShell. The controls are fixed, and an in-game screen shows them.


Skate 3, in beta

skate-3-vita, by irolup (GPL-3.0), brings to the Vita skate-3-rust-engine, a Rust rewrite of the Skate 3 engine. The 0.2.0 beta came out on 27 October. Career mode and online play are still missing, textures are reduced and there are no shadows. The data is generated from your own Xbox 360 disc, currently on Linux only.


Going further

The Vita has received other ports in recent weeks, such as Half-Life 2. As always, use your own copy of the games, and only download from the repositories listed in the sources.


Sources: sh4vita (GitHub) · Silent Hill 4 (GOG) · skate-3-vita (GitHub) · skate-3-rust-engine (GitHub)