memory-hunter/garfield-wild-ride-vita

This project lets owners of a PlayStation Vita handheld play Garfield's Wild Ride, a 2013 endless runner mobile game where you fly Garfield through the air, dodge obstacles, and collect lasagna and coins to unlock costumes and power ups. Rather than being a full remake, this is a loader: a piece of software that creates a small Android-like environment on the Vita so the original Android version of the game can run inside it. Importantly, this repository does not include the actual game files. It only provides the loader itself, which was built on top of an existing Android loader project. To play, a user must already own a legal copy of the game as an Android .apk file, then follow a fairly technical setup process: installing a couple of system plugins on their Vita, pulling specific files and folders out of the .apk with a zip tool, converting some sound files from one audio format to another, and finally installing a packaged file to launch the game. Controls are kept simple to match the original game, using one button to fly and another to go back, along with working touchscreen support. For developers who want to build the loader themselves rather than download a release, the project requires a specialized Vita development toolchain along with a graphics compatibility library, and is compiled using CMake. The author credits several other developers whose earlier tools and code this project builds upon. The project is released under the MIT license, and the authors are clear that they do not support or encourage piracy: a legitimate copy of the game is required.