# Castlevania: Symphony of the Night: a Vita shared-library port

> The Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Vita project loads a game shared library through a custom ELF loader. Its source implements relocation, symbol handling and ARM and Thumb hooks, while the build targets the Vita SDK.

- 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/sotn-vita>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Rinnegatamante/sotn-vita/blob/1277fa54a6e043bef3de69b7ea331f1094b7e34c/loader/main.c>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/sotn-vita-library-port-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/sotn-vita-library-port-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/sotn-vita-library-port-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Use Vita SDK to build the Vita application.
- **Prerequisites:** Provide the game shared library required by the loader.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Rinnegatamante/sotn-vita/blob/1277fa54a6e043bef3de69b7ea331f1094b7e34c/loader/main.c>
2. <https://github.com/Rinnegatamante/sotn-vita/blob/1277fa54a6e043bef3de69b7ea331f1094b7e34c/loader/so_util.c>
3. <https://github.com/Rinnegatamante/sotn-vita/blob/1277fa54a6e043bef3de69b7ea331f1094b7e34c/CMakeLists.txt>

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