Ultima VII: The Black Gate & Serpent Isle, now working on the PSP Slim!

This is one of those projects that I love to keep up with, because like many fan-based projects it’s kept running purely by the collective steam of its dedicated crew and fans. Last year “The Food Sucks” team managed to get the impressive Ultima VII: The Black Gate running on the older PSP ‘phat’ using the Exult game engine.

A week ago, the team announced that both The Black Gate and its sequel Serpent Isle are now both playable on the PSP Slim! According to the comments section of their page, load times have improved and the game runs solidly on the Slim. It looks like there will be a patch coming soon because Phat owners have been experiencing some random crashes with the new release, but that shouldn’t stop you from giving it a go. Given that Ultima VII: The Black Gate, and Ultima VII: Serpent Isle are renown high points of RPG history, I highly suggest giving it a go. If you don’t have a PSP, you can always head over to the Exult game engine page and download a package for one of many operating systems.