The Conduit HD Vita

This is a wrapper/port of The Conduit HD 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 is.

Setup Instructions (For End Users)

(If you have already installed the game and want to update to a newer release, you can simply install CONDUIT.vpk on your PS Vita).

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 The Conduit HD legally for Android in form of an .apk file and a .obb file (usually main.11.com.highvoltage.theconduit.obb located inside the /sdcard/android/obb/com.highvoltage.theconduit/) folder. You can get all the required files directly from your phone or by using an apk extractor you can find in the play store. The apk can be extracted with whatever Zip extractor you prefer (eg: WinZip, WinRar, etc...) since apk is basically a zip file. You can rename .apk to .zip to open them with your default zip extractor.
• Open the apk with your zip explorer, extract the file libTheConduit.so from the lib/armeabi-v7a folder to ux0:data/conduit.
• Rename the file main.11.com.highvoltage.theconduit.obb to main.obb and copy it to ux0:data/conduit/main.obb.
• Install CONDUIT.vpk on your PS Vita.

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:

• mpg123

  • Apply mpg123.patch using patch -Np0 -i mpg123.patch.

  • autoreconf -fi
    CFLAGS="-DPSP2 -mfloat-abi=softfp" ./configure --host=arm-vita-eabi --prefix=$VITASDK/arm-vita-eabi --disable-shared --enable-static --enable-fifo=no --enable-ipv6=no --enable-network=no --enable-int-quality=no --with-cpu=neon --with-default-audio=dummy --with-optimization=3
    make install
    

• openal-soft

  • cd build
    cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=${VITASDK}/share/vita.toolchain.cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=-mfloat-abi=softfp .. && make install
    

• libmathneon

  • make install
    

• vitaShaRK

  • make install
    

• kubridge

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

• vitaGL

  • make SOFTFP_ABI=1 PHYCONT_ON_DEMAND=1 STORE_DEPTH_STENCIL=1 SAMPLERS_SPEEDHACK=1 TEXTURES_SPEEDHACK=1 NO_DEBUG=1 install
    

Finally, in the folder of conduit_vita, install SceLibc stubs using:

make -C libc_bridge install

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

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

Credits

• Rinnegatamante for vitaGL and helping with porting the renderer.
• Brandonheat8 for LiveArea assets.
• CatoTheYounger for betatesting.