Remote Viewing Training PlayStation Vita · Homebrew
The PlayStation Vita build is a native homebrew port of the PC version of Remote Viewing Training, rebuilt for the Vita's 960 by 544 screen. Unlike the retro console ports, it keeps the app's full interface and brings back the original input that suits it best: you sketch your impressions by drawing on the touchscreen, with the buttons handling everything else.
01What this is
Built with the homebrew vitasdk toolchain, the port runs the same screen flow as the desktop and web versions, centered in a 480px panel on the Vita's display. The whole loop is here: pick a target code, draw your impressions, reveal the photo, and grade yourself against the computer's read, with session history and options carried over.
- Remote Viewing. The full target-sketch loop, drawn directly on the touchscreen.
- Men In Black. The gate-interdiction protocol, following the same flow as the original.
- Search and Rescue. The remote-geolocation drill: sonar-ping a world map to pinpoint the target.
- PSYOP. The spot-the-lie broadcast.
- Touch plus buttons. Tap and draw on the screen; confirm, score, and navigate with the Vita's buttons.
- Photographic targets and history. The full target set matches the original, over 800 images, and sessions are saved on the Vita.
02Screenshots
The main menu with a target code, a revealed target beside your sketch, the scoring screen, and the Search & Rescue map.
03Touch & controls
Because the core of the game is drawing, the Vita is a natural home for it: the touchscreen brings back the same direct sketching as the original web app and the Android release, rather than the cursor-based input the retro ports rely on. You tap menu rows and draw strokes with your finger, while the buttons cover the rest, Cross to confirm, score, or ping in Search & Rescue, Circle or Select to go back, and the D-pad to adjust your rating on the reveal.
04How it compares to the original
Of all the ports, the Vita stays closest to the source: it is the PC build's interface on handheld hardware, with the original touch drawing intact. What changes is the frame around it, a fixed 960 by 544 screen, button shortcuts alongside touch, saves living in Vita storage, and a homebrew distribution rather than a store release.
| Original web app | PS Vita port | |
|---|---|---|
| Platform | Browser & Android | Sony PS Vita, homebrew VPK |
| Display | Full color, any resolution | 960 by 544, centered 480px panel |
| Interface | Web / PC flat UI | The PC build's UI, rebuilt for the Vita screen |
| Targets | Full image library | Matches the original's full set (over 800) |
| Drawing | Touch / mouse, free strokes | Touchscreen drawing |
| Modes | RV · S&R · MIB · PSYOP | RV · S&R · MIB · PSYOP, plus history & options |
| Scoring | Self-rating 1–10 + computer analysis | Self-rating 1–10 + computer score and spatial match |
| Input | Keyboard / touch | Touch plus buttons (Cross, Circle, D-pad) |
| Saving | Browser local storage | Vita storage, survives reinstall |
| Runs on | Phone / desktop browser | Hacked PS Vita (3.60–3.74) or the Vita3K emulator |
05Get it
The Vita port is homebrew: a .vpk you install with VitaShell on a hacked Vita, or open in the Vita3K emulator. It is not on PSN. The full lineup of ports is available to channel members at youtube.com/@Eyepatchfilms, and the PC build is on itch.io.