# Professor Layton: Lost Future HD Vita: an Android executable port

> Professor Layton: Lost Future HD Vita runs the Android ARMv7 game executables on PS Vita by loading them into memory, resolving imports with native functions and applying patches. The user supplies the Android APK and OBB files.

- 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/Rinnegatamante/layton3-vita>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Rinnegatamante/layton3-vita/blob/d79fda450159cd241d0eaa649a06a7803c7ea76e/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/layton-lost-future-hd-vita-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/layton-lost-future-hd-vita-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/layton-lost-future-hd-vita-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Supply an Android game version that uses an OBB file; v1.0.1 was tested.
- **Prerequisites:** PS Vita setup requires kubridge and libshacccg.suprx; install FdFix unless using the rePatch plugin.
- **Prerequisites:** The loader build requires vitasdk with softfp and the listed Vita libraries.
- **License:** MIT licensed.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Rinnegatamante/layton3-vita/blob/d79fda450159cd241d0eaa649a06a7803c7ea76e/README.md>

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