PS Vita developer jakubito has released Doom RPG, a port of DoomRPG-RE, itself a Reverse-engineered version of Doom RPG.
What is Doom RPG (DoomRPG-RE) for PS Vita?
Doom RPG was originally a mobile phone game published in 2005. It combines the Doom first-person shooter franchise with role-playing video game elements. The storyline incorporates many similar events of Doom 3, but involves different characters than those in the third game. (wikipedia).
This is a semi obscure game that was not even mentioned by Id in their “Year of Doom museum” at E3 in 2019… But it was a pretty impressive game for the pre-smartphone era. The game loses the “action” you can expect from Doom, but brings in some cool RPG elements, including new items, a variety of monsters with different stats, and also a possibility to tame dogs (from Wolf3D) and have them as your companion.
The DoomRPG-RE team reverse-engineered the game and published a PC port in 2022. This is a Vita port of this reverse engineered game that Jakubito published a few days ago.
From the developer:
This is a PS Vita port of the reverse engineered Doom RPG by [GEC]. All credits go to the GEC team, this project would not exist without their hard work.
Download and run Doom RPG Vita
Disclaimer: You will need a hacked PS Vita in order to run this port. Thankfully this is super easy to achieve nowadays (our guide here)
Download
You can Download the VPK from the VitaDB page here. (alternatively, from the project’s github)
Installation:
- Search for “Doom RPG BREW” on archive.org to get the original mobile game assets file:
doomrpg.bar(CRC32: d7cf11c5) - Next, you need
BarToZip.execonverter tool (Windows only) included in the PC release - Drag and drop
doomrpg.barontoBarToZip.exe. You should now haveDoomRPG.zipfile saved in the same folder - Download the latest VPK release and install it using VitaShell
- Copy the newly generated
DoomRPG.ziptoux0:data/doomrpg/ - You can now start the game
| Action | Button |
|---|---|
| Move Forward | D-pad up |
| Move Backward | D-pad down |
| Move Left | L |
| Move Right | R |
| Turn Left | D-pad left |
| Turn Right | D-pad right |
| Attack/Talk/Use | X |
| Next Weapon | Triangle |
| Prev Weapon | Circle |
| Pass Turn | Square |
| Automap | Select |
| Menu Open/Back | Start |
All user data is stored in ux0:data/doomrpg/ – these files are compatible with the PC release.
Source: VitaDB
