Heart of The Alien for PSP - R1 is out

**Tinnus** · August 21st, 2006, 23:24

Did you like the news about that oh-so-close Another World interpreter for the PSP?

Well, now you have the sequel! HOTA for the PSP is just released.

Remarks:
- Get an ISO image from the original HOTA game for the Sega CD.
- Don't ask anyone here (or me) where to get it, use your creativity (or google if you don't have any).
- The ISO file must be called "Heart Of The Alien (U).iso" and be in the same folder as the eboot.

Bugs:
- Some vertical lines in the display
- No music tracks
- Intro exits after one specific part

I'm working on solving both. The lines problem will go away soon for sure. About the intro I'm a little clueless, but you can just skip it for now using Triangle (see below). If you want so watch it just get the PC interpreter from http://hota.sourceforge.net

Features:
- Full sound effects
- Full screen display
- Quick Save/load -- that's a really good one! Never need to use those passwords again. Although you can still press Start anytime to go to the PW screen.

You need about 10KB for saving the game with Quick Save.

Controls:
- D-Pad: movement
- Square: run (hold and move) / shoot (see below)
- Cross: Jump
- Circle: whip
- Triangle: skip cutscenes, quit (although it's generally better to exit via the home button)

Shooting:
- Tap the button to shoot. Press and hold for a few moments to create a shield. The shield will disapeear after some time. Press and hold for even more time (the glow in the tip of the whip will get bigger) to release an energy blast, which destroys other shields, and some kinds of doors/enemies/machines.

Misc:
- In one part of the game you get two parts of a bomb and need to activate it somewhere. Press X, Square and Circle at the same time to activate the bomb.

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**jimmi** · August 21st, 2006, 23:28

screeeeeeeens ?

**Tinnus** · August 21st, 2006, 23:37

Screenies at http://hota.sourceforge.net/

:P

**PsychoSync** · August 21st, 2006, 23:41

Wow! Now this!! Its been one of the greatest week of all time for PSP!!!

**ACID** · August 21st, 2006, 23:43

It has been indeed

***wraggster*** · August 22nd, 2006, 00:02

wow Tinnus has officially joined the PSP Scene

excellent release to start the ball rolling

**aries2k4** · August 22nd, 2006, 01:07

Cool, all kinds of goodies. Glad your aboard, Tinnus.
More coders joining the PSP scene means more good homebrew. I´ll check this out as soon as I get a chance.
Good work!!

**SCSA** · August 22nd, 2006, 01:51

Tinnus i got a question , does this mean that it's possible to emulate Sega CD on PSP ?

**Tinnus** · August 22nd, 2006, 02:36

Not at all, this is not an emulator, it's just an interpreter for the game data files. That is, it's like a clone of the Sega CD software of the game, reading only the data files from the ISO image, but running 100% native on the PSP.

It wouldn't run as fast as it does otherwise