# KH_COM_VITA: porting Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories to PS Vita

> KH_COM_VITA ports the GBA Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories decompilation to PS Vita by compiling the game's C for Vita ARM and replacing GBA video, DMA, interrupts, audio, BIOS and save services. Its source includes a Vita platform layer and patch; the author reports working early gameplay and a completed first battle, with later areas still under test.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/ggdrn/KH_COM_VITA>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/ggdrn/KH_COM_VITA/blob/347062011b93198c7bcfe3d499d92bb9697f52bd/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/kh-com-vita-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/kh-com-vita-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/kh-com-vita-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A personally dumped USA GBA ROM; the European ROM is optional for that version.
- **Prerequisites:** VitaSDK with vitaGL, the decompilation toolchain and a locally built matching GBA reference ROM; Vita installation also requires libshacccg.suprx.
- **Limits:** The port is experimental and later game areas remain under test.
- **License:** MIT license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/ggdrn/KH_COM_VITA/blob/347062011b93198c7bcfe3d499d92bb9697f52bd/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/ggdrn/KH_COM_VITA/blob/347062011b93198c7bcfe3d499d92bb9697f52bd/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md>

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