Hill Climb Racing Vita

Hill Climb Racing Vita
Hill Climb Racing Vita
General
Author	MemoryHunter
Type	Racing
Version	beta 1
License	MIT License
Last Updated	2025/10/21
Links
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Hill Climb Racing is a game made by Fingersoft, a Finnish game engine where you can control a vehicle and try to survive as far as possible to get more coins for more upgrades, vehicles and stages! Each stage has a different layout, and different obstacles to overcome. Each vehicle has their own strengths and weaknesses, making certain vehicles excel in certain stages, and their vehicles have overalls.

This repository contains a loader of the Android release of Hill Climb Racing, based on the Android SO Loader by TheFloW. The loader provides a tailored, minimalistic Android-like environment to run the official ARMv7 game executables on the PS Vita.

This software does not contain the original code, executables, assets, or other not redistributable parts of the game. The authors do not promote or condone piracy in any way. To launch and play the game on their PS Vita device, users must provide their own legally obtained copy of the game in form of an .apk file.

Setup Instructions (For End Users)

In order to properly install the game, you'll have to follow these steps precisely:

Install Kubridge and FdFix by copying kubridge.skprx and fd_fix.skprx to your taiHEN plugins folder (usually ur0:tai) and adding two entries to your config.txt under *KERNEL:

  *KERNEL
  ur0:tai/kubridge.skprx
  ur0:tai/fd_fix.skprx

Note Don't install fd_fix.skprx if you're using rePatch plugin!

Make sure you have libshacccg.suprx in the ur0:/data/ folder on your console. If you don't, follow this guide to extract it.
Legally obtain your copy of Hill Climb Racing version 1.18.0 for Android in form of an .apk file.
Open the .apk with any zip explorer (like 7-Zip) and extract assets folder from the .apk into ux0:data/hcr. Also, extract libgame.so from lib/armeabi-v7a/ in the same directory.
Place the .apk itself inside ux0:data/hcr and rename to base.apk. Your final folder layout should look like:
```
 └── hcr/
  ├── assets/
  ├── libgame.so
  └── base.apk
```
Install hcr.vpk (from Releases).

Controls

L / R Button = Brake/Accelerate

Circle Button = Back

Screenshots

Known issues

Engine sound doesn't play
Some menus may not work, to get out, just press the circle button.
Don't quit the game too quick after finishing your gaming session, wait around 3 seconds and then quit.

Changelog

beta1

First Release.

Credits

Andy "The FloW" Nguyen for the original .so loader.
Rinnegatamante for VitaGL and lots of help with understanding and debugging the loader.
PatnosD for giving me the motivation to do this game as my first .so loader port.
gl33ntwine for the SoLoBoP (.so loader boilerplate), help with the SharedPreferences parsing functions, this README.md as a template copied from Baba is You! port and overall help.
Everybody who has helped me in Vita Nuova discord while asking questions.

External links

Github - https://github.com/memory-hunter/hill-climb-racing-vita
VitaDB - https://www.rinnegatamante.eu/vitadb/#/info/1340