Vita3K is a Playstation Vita emulator.

Website: https://vita3k.org/

GitHub: https://github.com/Vita3K/Vita3K

Compatibility List: https://vita3k.org/compatibility.html?lang=en

Quickstart Guide: https://vita3k.org/quickstart.html

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Vita3K Table of Contents

1. Getting Started with Vita3K

   • Configuration
   • Vita3K Folder Locations
   • How to Update Vita3K
   • How to Launch Vita3K in Desktop Mode
   • File Formats

2. Vita3K Tips and Tricks

   • How to Configure Vita3K to Work With ES-DE and Pegasus
   • How to Configure Gyro With External Controllers
   • How to Install Custom Textures
   • How to Install English Patches
   • How to Configure Language Settings

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Getting Started with Vita3K

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In order to play a game on Vita3K, you will need to install firmware through the Vita3K UI. In desktop mode, open Vita3K, either in the application menu or through its shortcut in Emulation/tools/launchers/vita3k.sh. In Vita3K, click File, click Install Firmware. Firmware is provided legally by Sony.

Make sure to check out Vita3K's quickstart guide: https://vita3k.org/quickstart.html.

Read the Configuration section to learn more about Vita3K and its folder locations.

To launch your ROMs in Game Mode, first install your ROMs through Vita3K if you are using the .zip or .pkg file formats. For more information, see the File Formats section. Afterwards, you may use Steam ROM Manager and use one of the following parsers to play your PlayStation Vita ROMs:

• ES-DE
• Sony PlayStation Vita Installed PKG
• Emulators

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Vita3K Configuration

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• Type of Emulator: Binary Package
• Config Location: /home/deck/Applications/Vita3K
• Executable Location: /home/deck/Applications/Vita3K/Vita3K
• Storage Location: Emulation/storage/Vita3K/ux0
• ROM Location: Emulation/roms/psvita/InstalledGames
  • InstalledGames is a symlink to Emulation/storage/Vita3K/uxo/app
• Firmware: Install firmware through Vita3K's GUI. Read the Quickstart Guide for a tutorial
• Saves: Emulation/storage/Vita3K/ux0/user/00/savedata
  • Save folders correspond to a game's Title ID. To locate your game's Title ID, open Vita3K, right click a game, and click Information

Works With

• Steam ROM Manager
• ES-DE
  • Refer to How to Configure Vita3K to Work With ES-DE and Pegasus for instructions

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Vita3K Folder Locations

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These file locations apply regardless of where you chose to install EmuDeck (to your internal SSD, to your SD Card, or elsewhere). Some emulator configuration files will be located on the internal SSD as listed below.

$HOME refers to your home folder. If you are on a Steam Deck, this folder will be named /home/deck (you will likely not see deck in the file path when navigating using the file manager).

Paths beginning with Emulation/.. correspond to your EmuDeck install location. If you installed on an SD Card, your path may be /run/media/mmcblk0p1/Emulation/roms/... If you installed on your internal SSD, your path may be /home/deck/Emulation/roms/..

Note: Folders with a . (.var, .local, .config, etc.) at the beginning are hidden by default. In Dolphin (file manager), click the hamburger menu in the top right, click Show Hidden Files to see these folders.

$HOME/.config/Vita3K

Vita3K/
├── config.yml
└── config.yml.bak

$HOME/.local/share/Vita3K

Vita3K/
├── lang
│   └── user
│       └── PLACE USER LANG HERE.txt
├── textures
│   └── import
│
└── Vita3K

$HOME/.cache/Vita3K

Vita3K
├── shaderlog
├── shaders
└── texturelog

Emulation/storage/Vita3K

Vita3K/
├── gro0
├── grw0
├── host0
├── imc0
├── os0
│   ├── kd
│   ├── sm
│   ├── ue
│   └── us
├── pd0
├── sa0
│   └── data
├── sd0
├── tm0
├── ud0
├── uma0
│   └── data
├── ur0
├── ux0
│   ├── app
│   ├── data
│   ├── license
│   ├── temp
│   ├── theme
│   └── user
│       └──00
│           └──savedata
├── vd0
├── vs0
│   ├── app
│   ├── data
│   ├── sys
│   ├── tool
│   └── vsh
└── xmc0

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How to Update Vita3K

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How to Update Vita3K

• Through the Update your Emulators & Tools section on the Manage Emulators page in the EmuDeck application
• Manual file replacement of Vita3K
  • Refer to How to Swap Out AppImages and Binaries for instructions

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How to Launch Vita3K in Desktop Mode

How to Launch Vita3K in Desktop Mode

• Launch Vita3K Binary from the Applications Launcher (Steam Deck icon in the bottom left of the taskbar)
• Launch the script from Emulation/tools/launchers, vita3k.sh
• Launch the binary in /home/deck/Applications/Vita3K/Vita3K
• Launch the emulator from Steam after adding it via the Emulators parser in Steam ROM Manager

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Vita3K File Formats

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• .pkg and work.bin
  • Install through Vita3K's GUI
• .zip
  • Install through Vita3K's GUI
• Manually decrypted games in the form of a folder
  • Place these folders in Emulation/roms/psvita/InstalledGames
• .vpk
  • Install through Vita3K's GUI

Note: Vitamin dumps (VPK) are not officially supported and may not work as expected.

To learn how to dump your games, see https://vita3k.org/quickstart.html.

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Vita3K Tips and Tricks

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How to Configure Vita3K to Work With ES-DE and Pegasus

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Note: This section requires you to install your PlayStation Vita games first through Vita3K. At this time, ES-DE and Pegasus only support launching installed PSVita games.

1. In Desktop Mode, open Vita3K
2. Right click a game of your choice, and click Copy app info → Title ID
   • You may also click Information to see the Title ID
   • Example 1:
     • 
   • Example 2:
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3. In Emulation/roms/psvita, right click, Create New - Text File
4. Name it GAMENAME.psvita
   • The name of the file is primarily for identifying it in ES-DE and Pegasus and scraping
5. Open the text file in Kate or a text editor of your choice and paste the Title ID from Step 1 on a single line
   • Using Tales of Heart R as an example:
     • 
6. Save the text file and exit out
7. Repeat for each PlayStation Vita ROM
8. Your game should now show up in and launch directly from ES-DE and Pegasus

For additional detail, read ES-DE's section on Vita3K: https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md#sony-playstation-vita

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How to Configure Gyro With External Controllers

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Supported Games

This list is not comprehensive

• Assassin's Creed: Liberation
• Borderlands 2
• Chronovolt
• Criminal Girls 2: Party Favors
• Gravity Rush
• Killzone Mercenary
• Little Deviants
• Plants vs. Zombies
• Resident Evil: Revelations 2
• Sonic & All-Stars Racing: Transformed
• Super Stardust Delta
• Uncharted Golden Abyss
• VitaQuake

Desktop Mode

1. Switch to Desktop Mode
2. Exit out of Steam
   • You may exit out of Steam a couple of different ways:
     • Right click the Steam icon in your taskbar and click Exit Steam
     • Open Steam, click the Steam button in the top left, click Exit
     • Open a terminal (Konsole) and enter killall -9 steam
     • Do note that clicking the the X button in the top right of the Steam window will not exit out of Steam
   • Your controls will switch to Lizard Mode. Use L2 to right click, R2 to left click, and the Right Trackpad to move the mouse
   • You may also connect an external keyboard and mouse
3. Click the bluetooth icon in the bottom right of your taskbar and connect your controller
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4. Open Vita3K
5. Click Controls at the top, click Controllers
6. Make sure your external controller is listed here and that you see Gamepad has motion support at the bottom of this screen
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7. Close out of the controller screen and Vita3K
8. Switch to Game Mode

Game Mode

1. In Game Mode, connect your controller
2. Select your PlayStation Vita game
3. On the Play screen, select the Controller icon to the right of the screen
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4. Select your controller tab at the top
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5. Click the Gear icon to the right, and click Disable Steam Input
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   • You may need to restart first for this setting to properly apply
6. Your controller's gyro will now work for this selected game, repeat as needed for your other games

Post-Configuration

To restore the default Steam Deck controls:

Once you disconnect your controller, your Steam Deck controls should work again. If you would like your controller to remain connected, you may need to re-enable Steam Input for your controller so you can use the Re-order Controllers feature.

How to Re-Enable Steam Input

1. Select your PlayStation Vita game
2. On the Play screen, select the Controller icon to the right of the screen
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3. Select your controller tab at the top
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4. Click the Gear icon to the right, and click Enable Steam Input
   • You may need to restart first for this setting to properly apply
5. The controls will be reverted to Steam Input and the Steam Deck controls will be restored

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How to Install Custom Textures

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Texture Pack Sources

This list is not exhaustive

• https://old.reddit.com/r/tales/comments/17ogjtr/tales_of_innocence_r_hd_fan_project_english/
  • For updates to this texture pack, you will need to join their Discord. For the link, see the top of the GitHub page: https://github.com/lifebottle/Tales-of-Innocence-R

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How to Install Custom Textures

1. In Desktop Mode, open /home/deck/.local/share/Vita3K/
   • ~/.local is an invisible folder by default, click the Hamburger menu in the top right of the file explorer, click Show Hidden Files
2. Create a textures folder here, casing matters
3. In the textures folder, create an import folder, casing matters
4. Place your downloaded texture pack folder (containing the texture files) directly in the newly created import folder
   • The texture pack folder should match the game's Title ID
     • To locate your game's Title ID, open Vita3K, right click a game, and click Information
5. In Desktop Mode, open Vita3K:
   1. At the top, click Configuration, Settings, GPU
   2. Check Import Textures under Texture Replacement
   3. Click Save and close out of the settings menu
      • You may also do this on a per game basis:
        1. Right click the game
        2. Click Custom Config, Create, GPU,
        3. Check Import Textures under Texture Replacement
        4. Click Save and close out of the settings menu
6. Your texture pack will now be applied

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How to Install English Patches

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English Patch Sources

This list is not exhaustive

• https://github.com/lifebottle/Tales-of-Innocence-R
• https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-trails-in-the-sky-fc-evolution-english-patch.472727/

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This section will use the Tales of Innocence R English Patch as an example. Instructions may differ depending on what patch you are using, but generally you will be able to apply the below instructions to any English patch.

1. In Desktop Mode, open Vita3K and install your game
   • Skip this step if you have already installed your game
2. Download the English patch and extract it to a folder of your choice
   • For Tales of Innocence R English Patch, download the " toir_patch-DecryptedWithComputer" version from https://github.com/lifebottle/Tales-of-Innocence-R/releases
3. On the Steam Deck, open https://www.romhacking.net/hash/ on a web browser of your choice
4. If your English patch extracted folder includes a eboot.xdelta file:
   1. ROM Hack: Click Browse and navigate to Emulation/storage/Vita3K/uxo/app/GAMETITLEID and select the eboot.bin file
      • To locate your game's Title ID, open Vita3K, right click a game, and click Information
   2. Patch File: Navigate to your extracted English patch folder from Step 2 and select the eboot.xdelta file
   3. Click Apply Patch, romhacking.net will save your patched eboot.bin to your GAMETITLEID folder
      • If the website saves your file elsewhere, move it to your GAMETITLEID folder
   4. Either delete or rename the original eboot.bin file and rename the newly patched eboot (patched).bin file to eboot.bin
5. If your English patch extracted folder includes a toidata_release.xdelta file:
   1. ROM Hack: Click Browse and navigate to Emulation/storage/Vita3K/uxo/app/GAMETITLEID and select the toidata_release.l7c file
      • To locate your game's Title ID, open Vita3K, right click a game, and click Information
   2. Patch File: Navigate to your extracted English patch folder from Step 2 and select the toidata_release.xdelta file
   3. Click Apply Patch, romhacking.net will save your patched toidata_release.l7c to your GAMETITLEID folder
      • If the website saves your file elsewhere, move it to your GAMETITLEID folder
   4. Either delete or rename the original toidata_release.l7c file and rename the newly patched toidata_release (patched).l7c file to toidata_release.l7c
6. If your English patch extracted folder includes a data.psarc.xdelta file:
   1. ROM Hack: Click Browse and navigate to Emulation/storage/Vita3K/uxo/app/GAMETITLEID/gamedata and select the data.psarc file
      • To locate your game's Title ID, open Vita3K, right click a game, and click Information
   2. Patch File: Navigate to your extracted English patch folder from Step 2 and select the data.psarc.xdelta file
   3. Click Apply Patch, romhacking.net will save your patched data.psarc to your GAMETITLEID folder
      • If the website saves your file elsewhere, move it to your GAMETITLEID folder
   4. Either delete or rename the original data.psarc file and rename the newly patched data (patched).psarc file to data.psarc
7. Your English patch will now be applied

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How to Configure Language Settings

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UI

1. In Desktop Mode, open Vita3K
2. At the top, click Configuration
3. Click Settings
4. Click the GUI tab
5. To the left of GUI Language, select your preferred language in the drop-down menu

In-Game

1. In Desktop Mode, open Vita3K
2. Open the Settings application, click Start
   • The Settings application will be in your game list. By default, it will look like a toolbag with a green background
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3. Click Language
4. Click System Language
5. Select your preferred language in the drop-down menu

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