bstone-vita

Vita port of BStone. Allowing you to play Blake Stone games natively on that handheld.

Installing and Running

Install the .vpk. Then, in the root of ux0:/data/bstone/, place the game assets, which consist, depending on the intended version, of the following files:

Shareware	Registered	Planet Strike
AUDIOHED.BS1	AUDIOHED.BS6	AUDIOHED.VSI
AUDIOT.BS1	AUDIOT.BS6	AUDIOT.VSI
	EANIM.BS6	EANIM.VSI
	GANIM.BS6
IANIM.BS1	IANIM.BS6	IANIM.VSI
MAPHEAD.BS1	MAPHEAD.BS6	MAPHEAD.VSI
MAPTEMP.BS1	MAPTEMP.BS6	MAPTEMP.VSI
SANIM.BS1	SANIM.BS6
VGADICT.BS1	VGADICT.BS6	VGADICT.VSI
VGAGRAPH.BS1	VGAGRAPH.BS6	VGAGRAPH.VSI
VGAHEAD.BS1	VGAHEAD.BS6	VGAHEAD.VSI
VSWAP.BS1	VSWAP.BS6	VSWAP.VSI

The full versions of Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold and Blake Stone: Planet Strike each can currently be obatined from the 3D Realms website, and additionally from Steam and GOG.

Any combination of these three may coexist in the directory. Press the main "start" region to launch the game. Game version will be chosen in the following order of preference: Registered, Shareware, Planet Strike. Press the "Planet Strike" region to start Planet Strike regardless of the presence of other versions.

Important note

As of version 0.2, leaving music enabled may lead to intermittent crashing while playing. Set the "Background Music" option in the "Game Settings" menu to "None" in order to prevent this. As with other homebrew on the Vita, pressing the home button or going into sleep mode can lead to unwanted behavior upon returning to the still-running game.

Playing the Game

Controls

L - use/open

R - fire/accept

× - about face

○ - map or status window toggle

△ - fire/accept

□ - use/open

↑ - move forward

↓ - move backward

← - turn left

→ - turn right

left stick - straight ahead and side-to-side motion

right stick - turn

Select - map or status window toggle

Start - Menu/back

Number keys are hard mapped to a column on the right side of the front touchscreen corresponding to the locations of the elevator buttons on the AOG level select screen. Useful for weapon selection in addition to operating the elevator. The left and right halves of the region occupied by the bottom HUD bar are mapped to "-", and "=", repectively, for controlling the map zoom level in Planet Strike.

Compiling

Install vitasdk and cmake, enter into the vita/ subdirectory, and type

cmake . && cmake --build .

Credits

Boris Bendovsky for BStone

JAM Productions, id Software, and Apogee for Blake Stone

The control functions were based on those written by fgsfdsfgs for the vita port of Chocolate Doom

Rinnegatamante for help with Live Area code

The makers of vitasdk & Henkaku for making this possible in the first place