When an officer realized I was a Westerner, I was motioned aside, guiltily exempt, with women and mewling children, while the men were ordered to take off their shoes, then sharply frisked. Many of their passports had been signed by the illiterate with a thumbprint. As Thubron and a busload of Afghans cross into Iran: “We were stood against a wall, as if to be shot, with our baggage at our feet. Today policemen looking for drugs and bureaucrats protecting borders have replaced the Sogdian traders who once plied these roadways. “At different periods, everything on the known earth had passed this way: frankincense, rhinoceros horn, cucumbers, musk, dwarfs, lapis lazuli, peacocks, indigo eye-shadow (the monopoly of the Chinese empress), even a caged lion or two.” Through my splintered window I looked out on their memory with amazement,” Thubron writes in western China. “Over this desolation, centuries of caravans had moved. In this, he is more poetic than his predecessors the passage of time is his book’s most interesting feature. Because he travels without a camera, Thubron never compares snapshots, only memories. This is not his first trip across these deserts and mountains, and he saw many of these places before the collapse of the Soviet Union. Yet in “Shadow of the Silk Road” Thubron departs from his countrymen in important respects. Along these trails, the great Chinese inventions made their way west: printing, the crossbow, gunpowder, lock-gates and drive-belts, the mechanical clock, the spinning wheel, iron-chain suspension bridges, equine harnesses and deep-drilling techniques. Its very name, now appropriated by everyone and everything from Yo-Yo Ma to aromatherapy products, was actually coined by a 19th- century German geo grapher. The Silk Road Thubron travels is, he reminds us, not one road but a “fretwork ” of trade routes dating back to 1500 B.C. It chronicles his 7,000-mile journey in 20 (begun when he was about to turn 64) from Xian, China, to the Turkish coastal city of Antioch. And this, his ninth travel book, is no lark. He does, however, speak Mandarin and Russian. His clothes are dodgy, his rucksack light. He equably drinks wine out of paper cups with a Russian beggar. He camps in a mud hut with workers in the mountains of northern Iran. A hitchhiking man, he gets drunk with Kyrgyz villagers who drive headlong toward a truck.

Found a new patch? I'll gladly include it in here :) Just open a new issue or create a merge request.Colin Thubron, the dean of British travel writers, would hate being called the dean of anything.

Encountered a bug? Feel free to open a Github issue here.

Some are easy to patch, others plainly impossible.

playable, but with some minor issues (check Issues section)Īdding support for each and every game requires manual disassembly of game's binary to find addresses in the game code where the resolution is set.

These require patchlist.txt as well as additional files located in patch/ folder. Utawarerumono: Chiriyuku Mono he no Komoriuta

Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth / Futari no Hakuoro Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception / Itsuwari no Kamen

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Ratchet & Clank: QForce / Full Frontal Assault Ratchet & Clank 2: Locked and Loaded / Going Commando Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Battle Pentagram Nelke to Densetsu no Renkinjutsushi Tachi: Aratana Daichi no Atelier Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei: Out of Order LEGO Marvel Super Heroes: Universe in Peril Configure your game by editing ux0:/data/VitaGrafix/config.txt or by using VitaGrafixConfiguratorĪtelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious JourneyĪtelier Lydie & Soeur: Fushigi na Kaiga no Renkinjutsu SamuraiĪtelier Shallie Plus: Alchemists of the Dusk SeaĪtelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Bookīlue Reflection: Maboroshi ni Mau - Shoujo no Ken.patch/ files go into ux0:/data/VitaGrafix/patch/.optionally download files in patch/ folder, these are separated due to their larger size (100+ lines for one game).Required VitaGrafix: v5.0.1 (or newer) Installation Collection of patches for VitaGrafix - a taiHEN plugin that allows you to change resolution and FPS cap of some of the PlayStation Vita games.

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