wraggster
February 20th, 2019, 19:41
If you like city building and the Roman Empire, then your PSVita’s value has increased drastically as devnoname120 got it a Caesar III port called Julius (https://twitter.com/devnoname120/status/1096514340033888257) with some help from Rinnegatamante and rsn8887 (https://twitter.com/devnoname120/status/1096518487491649538)!
From my observations throughout a short playing session, I observed that:As the source code of Caesar III (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_III) isn’t publicly available, Julius is an open-source implementation by @bvschaik_ (https://twitter.com/bvschaik_) of the classic 1998 game that was created by Impressions Games and published by Sierra On-Line. Julius aims to use the exact same logic as Caesar III and is also fully compatible with save games from it.
Performance-wise, Julius is quite good and I observed no lag in a mostly empty map
The touchscreen is used for main input as it controls the cursor
Unfortunately, tapping the screen doesn’t register as a left click so you have to press X/O for a left/right click respectively
Audio and sounds work as intended
There doesn’t seem to be any way to pop up the on-screen keyboard so your governor’s name will have to stay “The new governor”
Sadly, you can use the left/right analogue sticks for mouse control which makes it a bit difficult to point to smaller elements if you don’t have a stylus
To grab Julius and go back to Roman times on your PSVita, you can grab the VPK from this link (https://github.com/devnoname120/julius/releases/latest) or through VHBB as it’s available on VitaDB. As Caesar III isn’t a free game, you must supply the data files yourself,which can be obtained legitimately for a few bucks off GOG/Steam, and put them in ux0:/data/julius. I can personally confirm that the GOG files work just fine.
via http://wololo.net/2019/02/16/psvita-switch-releases-julius-a-caesar-3-port-vita-jumpnbump-vita-switch-and-super-mario-war-1-0-vita-released-you-can-now-go-back-to-roman-times-on-your-vita-with-its-newly-released-ca/
From my observations throughout a short playing session, I observed that:As the source code of Caesar III (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_III) isn’t publicly available, Julius is an open-source implementation by @bvschaik_ (https://twitter.com/bvschaik_) of the classic 1998 game that was created by Impressions Games and published by Sierra On-Line. Julius aims to use the exact same logic as Caesar III and is also fully compatible with save games from it.
Performance-wise, Julius is quite good and I observed no lag in a mostly empty map
The touchscreen is used for main input as it controls the cursor
Unfortunately, tapping the screen doesn’t register as a left click so you have to press X/O for a left/right click respectively
Audio and sounds work as intended
There doesn’t seem to be any way to pop up the on-screen keyboard so your governor’s name will have to stay “The new governor”
Sadly, you can use the left/right analogue sticks for mouse control which makes it a bit difficult to point to smaller elements if you don’t have a stylus
To grab Julius and go back to Roman times on your PSVita, you can grab the VPK from this link (https://github.com/devnoname120/julius/releases/latest) or through VHBB as it’s available on VitaDB. As Caesar III isn’t a free game, you must supply the data files yourself,which can be obtained legitimately for a few bucks off GOG/Steam, and put them in ux0:/data/julius. I can personally confirm that the GOG files work just fine.
via http://wololo.net/2019/02/16/psvita-switch-releases-julius-a-caesar-3-port-vita-jumpnbump-vita-switch-and-super-mario-war-1-0-vita-released-you-can-now-go-back-to-roman-times-on-your-vita-with-its-newly-released-ca/