Killzone: Mercenary
Game: Killzone: Mercenary (PS Vita, 2013)
A static recompilation of the US PS Vita release with Project Nativ, which turns the game into a native program for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Steam Deck included): the game’s code is translated to C and Sony’s libraries are recompiled from your firmware. It supports version 1.00 and the 1.12 update, the recommended one, which is where Botzone and online play come from. Multiplayer and Botzone work online between copies of Nativ, on the same network or over the internet, where they find each other through the public BitTorrent DHT and connect directly; the program itself answers for the game’s login server. It plays with keyboard and mouse or a controller, and with a controller also in the PS TV layout, which moves every touch action to buttons and sticks; otherwise the touch screen is handled with the mouse or a controller cursor. It adds render scaling, 21:9 and 32:9 screens, field of view, scenery and character detail settings, and experimental 60 fps. It’s the game that takes longest to build the first time and to prepare its shaders, a few minutes. 0.1.5 (November 2), the latest release, fixed close-combat takedowns freezing at 60 fps, in Botzone and the campaign, and the HUD flickering at 60 fps; according to the guide, a line of dialogue now and then plays twice.
You needYour own US copy of Killzone: Mercenary for PS Vita (PCSA00107), at version 1.00 or, better, with the 1.12 update: the game folder copied from your Vita, with its license, or its PKG files, whose license Nativ fetches from your Vita over Wi-Fi once. Plus the PS Vita system software update file (PSVUPDAT.PUP), free from Sony’s website. 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, macOS 11 or later on an Apple silicon Mac, or x86-64 Linux, Steam Deck included.
- How it gets to PC
- Static recompilation
- Console
- PlayStation Vita
- Architecture
- ARMv7
- Author
- TheLostPantheon
- Original studio
- Guerrilla Cambridge
- Year
- 2013
- Stars
- 288
- Last activity
- 2026-11-02 · 9 days ago
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Language
- C
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