# khdays-vita: a PS Vita port of Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

> khdays-vita compiles the Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days decompilation into a native PS Vita program. Its platform layer replaces Nintendo DS graphics, audio, card and touch-screen behavior using VitaSDK and vitaGL, while loading game data from the user's European cartridge dump.

- 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-DAYS-VITA>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/ggdrn/KH-DAYS-VITA/blob/913c38e228b0cae1d4fa66584baa3d2d5287d050/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/khdays-vita-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/khdays-vita-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/khdays-vita-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A PS Vita with HENkaku or Enso, VitaShell and libshacccg.suprx from the user's console is required.
- **Prerequisites:** A personal European YKGP cartridge dump is required; other regions are unsupported.
- **Prerequisites:** Building requires VitaSDK, vitaGL, Ninja and Python 3.
- **Limits:** Multiplayer is unavailable, and some heavy scenes may drop below 60 fps.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/ggdrn/KH-DAYS-VITA/blob/913c38e228b0cae1d4fa66584baa3d2d5287d050/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/ggdrn/KH-DAYS-VITA/blob/913c38e228b0cae1d4fa66584baa3d2d5287d050/ARCHITECTURE.md>

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