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VitAdhoc v1.0 by CBOC-Vita
Last Release: Oct 24, 2026
Downloads: 8

Remember trading Pokémon with a friend over a link cable? Or that one cartridge you played until the battery died? VitAdhoc brings all of it to the Vita, and makes it better than you remember. Your whole library on a home screen that fills itself with box art. A picture that is pin-sharp or beautifully smooth, and wide enough to fill the Vita's screen. Full speed, rewind, and a Continue button that drops you back into the exact moment you left. Link play with a friend, achievements, tilt games and ROM hacks.
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VitAdhoc.vpk v1.0 10/24/26 8 Download QR
The first release. Game Boy Advance, Game Boy and Game Boy Color, built as a
native PS Vita app from GBAdhoc's emulator.

**Your library**
- **A home screen like a console's own:** big tiles, the game's picture behind
them, and touch or buttons to move around.
- **Box art and title screens download by themselves** on Wi-Fi, matched by
name, cartridge code or checksum. Your own pictures always win.
- **A few lines about each of 1,300 games**, from Wikipedia, built in.
- **Previews:** rest on a game and the last ten seconds you played move behind it.
- **Continue where you left off.** Leaving a game keeps the moment you left it,
refreshed every two minutes and right after the game saves, so even a Vita
closed from LiveArea continues. Cross continues; Up starts from your battery
save instead.
- **Recent tab and play time,** with sorting by name, last played or most played.
- **Starred and Find:** Find matches every word in any order and ignores accents
and punctuation ("zelda minish" finds The Minish Cap).
- **Your existing folders:** games in `ux0:ROMS/` or RetroFlow's folders are found
without moving them.

**The picture**
- **Original:** crisp, even pixels at any size, including the full height.
- **xBRZ and Scale3x** smoothing on the Vita's spare cores.
- **Wide view:** more of the game instead of black bars, made for Pokémon
Emerald and its siblings, with options for 3D racing tracks.
- **Real handheld colours,** motion blend, LCD grid and scanlines, five sizes.
- **Super Game Boy borders,** kept for next time.
- **A look for every game:** Settings > This game > Display settings.

**Speed**
- **A steady 60 frames a second,** with the picture drawn on a second core.
- **Keep full speed:** short hiccups are caught up without a gap in the sound.
- **Low lag:** up to a frame less between a press and the picture.
- **Games start the moment you pick them.**
- Rewind (60 seconds), fast forward, five save-state slots, turbo buttons and
screenshots.

**Play together**
- **GBA Link Cable and Wireless Adapter games** between two Vitas, over Wi-Fi,
the internet or ad hoc.
- **Game Boy and Game Boy Color links,** even between different cartridges.
- **Two players on one Vita,** side by side.
- **Share saves and states,** and receive **Mystery Gift** cards from a phone.

**More to play**
- **RetroAchievements.** Sign in from Settings; your password is sent once and
never stored. Unlocks are sent again later if you were offline. Hardcore mode
turns off state loading, rewind and cheats.
- **Tilt, turn and sunlight cartridges:** WarioWare: Twisted! (gyro), Yoshi
Topsy-Turvy and Koro Koro Puzzle (tilt), Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble (GBC tilt) and
Boktai 1–3 (sunlight). Tilt the Vita or use the right stick.
- **ROM hacks and translations:** `Game.ips`, `Game.bps` or `Game.ups` next to
`Game.gba` is applied as the game starts; a patch made for another version of
the game is refused.
- **Cheats** for about 2,190 games, plus your own codes.
- **An open GBA BIOS built in.**

**Safe saves**
- Game Boy and Game Boy Color saves reach the memory card within about two
seconds, and a save that can't be written (a full card) tells you so.
- Favourites, two-player saves and shared saves are written so that an
interrupted write can't lose them.

**Under the hood**
- gpSP with the latest upstream fixes, plus VitAdhoc's own: games whose start-up
code froze on a white screen now boot, and many fixes from independent code
reviews, all covered by a large automated test suite. Engineering details are
in [Technical notes](https://github.com/CBOC-Vita-Lab/vitadhoc/blob/main/docs/TECHNICAL.md#version-10-changes).

**Downloads:** `VitAdhoc.vpk` is the app; `VitAdhoc-install.zip` adds the guides, checksums and complete source. New to Vita homebrew? Start with the [install guide](https://github.com/CBOC-Vita-Lab/vitadhoc/blob/main/INSTALL.md).
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