Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles VR

Overview

Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles VR runs the Wii light-gun shooter natively on Meta Quest 3 as a standalone app: no PC, no streaming, no emulator. The game's PowerPC code was statically recompiled to native code (Lialan's Quest build of the reuc-recomp project, GPL-3.0). You play on a floating screen and aim with a Touch controller, which stands in for the Wii Remote.

Install type: APK plus your own disc image. The APK contains no game files. It reads your own North American disc image in place; nothing is unpacked or copied.

[!WARNING] Early build (v0.1.5). Quest 3 only. The frame rate is not yet a steady 60 FPS in heavy scenes. The author has not yet confirmed that a real encrypted disc image loads with a real key on a headset, so expect rough edges. Please report problems to the project's GitHub issues.

What you need

1. Meta Quest 3 with Developer Mode enabled.
2. Your own disc image of Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, North American release (game ID RBUE08), as a single .wbfs or .iso file. PAL (RBUP08) and Japanese (RBUJ08) do not work. .rvz, .ciso, .wia and split .wbf1 files are not read: convert them to a plain .iso or a single .wbfs first (in Dolphin: right-click the game, then Convert File).
3. The Wii common key as a 16-byte file named common-key.bin. Wii discs are encrypted with it and the app does not include it. The project README says it can be taken from your own Wii.
4. A USB-C data cable and adb, or SideQuest.

Step-by-step installation

1. Download UmbrellaChroniclesVR-0.1.5.apk from the GitHub release and install it with adb install -r UmbrellaChroniclesVR-0.1.5.apk, or drag it onto SideQuest.
2. Create the folder UmbrellaChronicles at the top of the headset's storage and copy your image and common-key.bin into it. Any file name ending in .wbfs or .iso works. The app also looks in Download; keep common-key.bin in the same folder as the image.
3. In the headset open Library → Unknown Sources → Umbrella Chronicles VR.
4. On the first start, Android opens the All files access screen: turn the switch on for the app, go back, and start the app again.

If something is missing, the app shows a short message and writes it to HOW-TO-ADD-THE-GAME.txt in /sdcard/Android/data/org.uc.umbrellachronicles.vr/files/.

Updating

Install a newer APK over the old one (adb install -r). Settings and saves stay. Uninstalling the app deletes its settings and saves; your image and key stay in UmbrellaChronicles.

Controls (Touch controllers)

The gun hand plays the Wii Remote. Pick it in the VR menu (Gun hand).

The VR menu covers sight and laser style, gun hand, dual wield (the other hand plays player 2), screen distance, HUD position, recenter view, and display options such as resolution per eye, foveation, sharpening and glow. Lower the display settings if the frame rate drops.