Projects

N64

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

Zelda64Recomp/Zelda64Recomp

The recomp that put the scene on the map (May 2024). Widescreen, high frame rate, mods, and a built-in launcher, on the RT64 renderer.

You needA Majora's Mask ROM (N64, US version, .z64).

N64

Ship of Harkinian

HarbourMasters/Shipwright

Native port of Ocarina of Time based on the OoT decompilation and libultraship. Cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, Switch, and Wii U). You supply your own ROM. 3 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needA legal Ocarina of Time ROM (N64).

360

Sonic Unleashed

hedge-dev/UnleashedRecomp

The first Xbox 360 recomp, playable from start to finish on Windows and Linux. It proved the whole Xbox 360 generation could be ported and gave rise to XenonRecomp.

You needYour own copy of Sonic Unleashed (Xbox 360, US or European version; the Japanese version isn’t supported) plus the Title Update. DLC is optional but recommended.

PS2

OpenGOAL (Jak & Daxter)

open-goal/jak-project

It decompiles the GOAL code of the PS2 Jak & Daxter games and recompiles it to native x86-64. Jak 1 is polished, Jak 2 is in beta, and Jak 3 is a work in progress (v0.3.3). You supply your own PS2 copy.

You needYour own PS2 copy of the Jak trilogy (PAL, NTSC, or NTSC-J).

N64

Banjo-Kazooie

BanjoRecomp/BanjoRecomp

Native port of the Rare classic (v1.0.0, January 2026). Its polished launcher, which lets you pick your ROM and checks its hash, together with Thunderstore mod support, is what many people remember as “the Banjo launcher.”

You needA Banjo-Kazooie ROM (N64, US version 1.0, .z64).

N64

⑂ Fork of n64decomp/sm64

Super Mario 64 (sm64-port)

sm64-port/sm64-port

The foundational PC port, built from the Super Mario 64 decompilation. Not a recomp: it’s the base that sm64ex, Render96, and others grew from. You supply your own ROM.

You needA Super Mario 64 ROM (N64, US, Japanese, or European version) to extract the assets from.

GC

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (sp00nznet)

sp00nznet/ww

Recompilation of the GameCube Wind Waker: it translates the DOL to native C with a runtime that maps GX to Direct3D 11. It renders real geometry at 60 fps, but is still stuck on the title screen (JKRArchive mounting). 94 of its 96 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own copy of The Wind Waker (GameCube, US version GZLE01).

360

Project '06 (Sonic P-06)

From-scratch Unity remake of Sonic the Hedgehog (2006): it fixes the original’s bugs, restores cut content, and adds features, in episodic builds. A fan remake, not a recomp or a decomp, and ChaosX’s solo project, separate from the canceled Gistix/Mefiresu port.

You needNothing: it’s a complete Unity remake. Just download it and play.

OpenRA

OpenRA/OpenRA

OpenRA: a free real-time strategy engine, written in C#, that recreates and modernizes three Westwood games: Command & Conquer (Tiberian Dawn), Command & Conquer: Red Alert, and Dune 2000, each as its own “mod”; Tiberian Sun support is still in development and isn’t in the installer. It’s a reimplementation built by reverse engineering the games’ files, without disassembling or patching the original executables. It doesn’t aim to be an exact copy: it adds right-click or classic left-click controls, sidebars with production queues and hotkeys, attack-move and unit stances, fog of war, veterancy, capturable tech structures, replays, and an observer interface. It has online multiplayer, a map editor, Lua-scripted missions, and an SDK for building your own games on the engine, and it runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. The latest stable release is release-20250330 (March 30, 2025); playtest-20261011 (October 11) completes the Dune 2000 campaign, moves the engine to .NET 10, and adds Windows on ARM and aarch64 Linux builds. One of its more than 30,000 commits, from October 15, lists Claude as a co-author. On first launch, the content manager offers to download each game’s base files, without music or videos, from the project’s mirror servers: the Red Alert and Tiberian Dawn files come from the releases EA made available as freeware, and the Dune 2000 files, along with its 1.06 patch files, from a mirror of the game’s files. This is optional: it can also copy them, along with the music and videos, from the discs or from an installed copy. The project says it uses those files under the license granted by EA’s C&C Franchise Modding Guidelines.

You needThe original games’ files: on first launch it can download the base files, or copy them from your own discs (mounted ISOs work too) or from a The First Decade, The Ultimate Collection, or Remastered Collection install on Steam or Origin; for Dune 2000, the English disc or the Gruntmods Edition. Campaign music and videos can only be copied from the discs or those installs. Plus Windows 7 or later with DirectX 11 or OpenGL 3, macOS 10.11 or later, or 64-bit Linux (one AppImage per game).

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RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 (OpenRCT2)

OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2

OpenRCT2: an open-source reimplementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, the game Chris Sawyer wrote in x86 assembly. It aims to provide everything in the original as faithfully as possible and extends it with an improved interface, better guest and staff behavior, more editing tools, higher limits, uncapped frame rates, and cooperative multiplayer with groups and permissions. It also brings back mechanics from the first RollerCoaster Tycoon that the sequel dropped, such as the in-game mountain tool, the “have fun” objective, and launched coasters that don’t pass through the station, and with the first game’s files and its expansions it can load that game’s scenarios. It supports plugins written in JavaScript, and there are builds for Windows, macOS, and Linux, plus a launcher that keeps it up to date. Version 0.5.6 (October 10) lets you recolor terrain surfaces and edges, adds 18 colors, five of them from the original release of RollerCoaster Tycoon, and introduces a new title sequence. One of its more than 30,000 commits, from July 20, lists the Cursor agent as a co-author.

You needThe files from your own copy of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, from the original disc or the GOG or Steam release; RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic works too. The first game’s scenarios also need your copy of RollerCoaster Tycoon with its expansions. Plus Windows 7 or later, macOS 10.13 or later, or Linux, on a little-endian architecture.

openage

SFTtech/openage

openage: a volunteer project to build a free clone of the Genie Engine, the engine of Age of Empires, Age of Empires II, and Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, written in C++ with Python for scripting, asset conversion, and the console. It converts the graphics and sound of Age of Empires with Rise of Rome, Age of Empires II with The Conquerors, Age of Empires II HD, both Definitive Editions, and Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds with Clone Campaigns into its own, more moddable formats. Its goals are the original’s look and feel without its artificial limits, a moddable content format (nyan), a Python console and API, AI scripting in Python, and multiplayer, with no network or file compatibility with the original game. For now, in its own README’s words, gameplay is “basically non-functional,” because the internal game simulation is being rebuilt. Version 0.6.0 (November 26, 2024) added a flow field pathfinder and a node-graph system for unit behavior, and in July 2025 the project’s blog reported that attacking and the other interactions between units now work. Its last Windows installer is the one for 0.4.0, from 2019: current versions have to be built on Linux, macOS, or Windows, though some Linux distributions package it. Nine of its nearly 6,000 commits, from September, list Claude as a co-author.

You needThe files from your own copy of one of the supported games: Age of Empires with Rise of Rome, Age of Empires II with The Conquerors, Age of Empires II HD, Age of Empires: Definitive Edition, Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, or Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds with Clone Campaigns. The converter transforms them the first time you run it. Plus building it yourself on Linux, macOS, or Windows.

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Diablo / Hellfire (DevilutionX)

diasurgical/DevilutionX

DevilutionX: a port of Diablo and its Hellfire expansion for modern systems, built on Devilution, Diablo’s source code reconstructed by reverse engineering the executable, with help from the debug symbols of the Japanese PlayStation release and a debug build of the PC game. There are builds for Windows, Linux, and macOS, and for many other platforms too. It adds custom resolutions and aspect ratios, widescreen, high frame rates, full gamepad support, multiplayer over TCP/IP and ZeroTier (no port forwarding needed), a stash for storing items, and options such as picking up gold and potions automatically or showing monster health and experience bars, off by default, plus many fixes for bugs in the original. It’s translated into more than 20 languages and comes with modding tools. The latest release is 1.5.5 (October 30, 2025). Since May, 19 of its more than 12,000 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needThe DIABDAT.MPQ file from your own copy of Diablo, from the CD or the GOG or Battle.net release; for the shareware portion, the free spawn.mpq is enough. For Hellfire, also hellfire.mpq, hfmonk.mpq, hfmusic.mpq, and hfvoice.mpq. With the GOG release installed on Windows, nothing needs copying. Plus Windows (XP included), Linux, or macOS.

N64

Super Mario 64

n64decomp/sm64

A full C decompilation of Super Mario 64 in five versions: Japanese, US, European, Shindou, and iQue Player. It builds ROMs identical to the originals, checked by their hashes, while naming and documentation of the code and data structures are still in progress. The NON_MATCHING option uses functionally equivalent C where the code doesn’t match byte for byte and avoids undefined behavior. It builds on Linux, on Windows through WSL, on macOS, or with Docker, and on its own it only produces N64 ROMs: the sm64-port PC port is based on it. Its last major update, “Refresh 16,” is from August 17, 2023. Textures, sounds, and music are extracted from your own ROM, but the repository includes the game’s models, collision, and level data written as C.

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Minecraft: Java Edition (Horizon)

horizon-rust/horizon

A rewrite of Minecraft: Java Edition 26.3 in Rust, called Horizon: a native game that reads the same worlds, follows the same rules, and generates the same terrain as the Java game, checked against it by more than 300 differential harnesses. It is installed through a launcher of its own, which prepares the files from your copy of Minecraft (the install you already have, or one downloaded from Mojang for your account) and updates itself; the game ships on a single channel, the Nightly. The repository states that it contains no Minecraft code, assets, or data. Its own audit gives 100% parity with Java, but it clarifies that this means what the harnesses compare, not that nothing else differs. It runs on Linux, Apple Silicon macOS, and Windows. Launcher 0.2.26 was published on October 29. 28 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needA Microsoft account that owns Minecraft: Java Edition (the launcher signs in with it) and the game’s 26.3 version; if you don’t have it installed, the launcher downloads 26.3 and the Java it needs from Mojang for your account. A GPU with Vulkan or OpenGL 3.3 on Linux, Vulkan or DirectX 12 on Windows, or any Apple Silicon Mac.

DOS

Transport Tycoon Deluxe (OpenTTD)

OpenTTD/OpenTTD

OpenTTD: an open-source transport simulation game based on Chris Sawyer’s Transport Tycoon Deluxe that tries to mimic the original as closely as possible while extending it with new features, many inspired by TTDPatch. It allows maps up to 64 times larger and stable multiplayer for up to 255 players in 15 companies, with dedicated servers. It adds new pathfinding algorithms, mammoth and multi-headed trains, conditional orders, pre-signals and path-based signalling, canals and ship lifts, larger stations that can be joined, longer and higher bridges, building on slopes, drive-through road stops for articulated vehicles and trams, and zooming further out. It supports TTDPatch NewGRFs to change graphics and behavior, player-written AIs, and game scripts, and it downloads add-on content from inside the game. It’s translated into more than 50 languages, there are Windows, macOS, and Linux builds, and it’s also distributed for free on Steam, GOG, and the Microsoft Store. The stable release is 15.3 (April 4), and 16.0 is in testing: its beta4 came out on September 20. Its contribution guidelines forbid submitting AI-generated code.

You needNo copy is needed: it runs on OpenGFX, OpenSFX, and OpenMSX, the free graphics, sounds, and music the project publishes, and the Windows installer can download them. If you have Transport Tycoon Deluxe, for DOS or Windows, it can use its graphics and sounds (sample.cat and the trg*.grf files) and its music; the Windows installer can copy them. Plus Windows, macOS, or Linux.

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VVVVVV

TerryCavanagh/VVVVVV

The source code of VVVVVV, Terry Cavanagh’s 2010 game with music by Magnus Pålsson, released by its author in January 2020, where the desktop version is still developed with the community’s help. It’s the C++ port Simon Roth made for version 2.0, moved to SDL2, PhysicsFS, and Steamworks by Ethan Lee in 2.2; the repository also holds the mobile version’s code, and its main branch now uses SDL3. It contains all of the game’s code, levels, and text, but not its graphics or music. Version 2.4 (January 10, 2024) made it available in 21 languages and added controller-specific button glyphs, level editor improvements, and new commands for community levels. Compiled builds are published on GitHub; the latest is 2.4.4 (April 21). Its license lets you compile it for free for personal use; distributing compiled builds requires permission, and the repository lists the exceptions granted.

You needYou don’t need to buy the game: the code can be compiled for free for personal use, and the graphics and music are in the data.zip file of the Make and Play Edition, a free download from the game’s website for personal use; the data.zip from your own copy works too. Plus Windows, macOS, or Linux.

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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (OpenMW)

OpenMW/openmw

OpenMW: an open-source open-world RPG engine, written from scratch, that lets you play Morrowind; main development and the issue tracker are on GitLab, and GitHub is a mirror. The main quests of Morrowind, Tribunal, and Bloodmoon can all be completed, and side-quest issues are rare; mods made for the original engine are hit and miss, because its script compiler checks for errors more strictly. It includes OpenMW-CS, a replacement for Bethesda’s Construction Set. It runs at any resolution, with an adjustable field of view, anisotropic filtering, a new water shader with reflection and refraction, a seamless terrain engine with distant terrain, normal, specular, and parallax maps, TrueType fonts, UI scaling, and controller support, and it removes limits of the original, such as the 255 content file cap. It also has a Lua scripting API for mods. Version 0.51.0 (June 19) lets modders create magic effects through that API, adds terrain vertex painting to the editor, and fixes many Lua-related crashes. One of its more than 39,000 commits, from July 28, lists Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own copy of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, with Tribunal and Bloodmoon for their expansions; the launcher finds its files if the game is properly installed (under Wine too). Plus a 64-bit system: Windows 10 or later, macOS 14.8 or later (Intel or Apple silicon), or Linux.

NSW

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (valentderah)

valentderah/totk-pc-recomp

A static recompilation of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom into a native Windows x86-64 application. The installer builds the game on your PC from your files, and the result contains the game, so it is for your own use only. The README describes it as early development: it is playable on Windows, but visual bugs and crashes are expected. It supports updates 1.2.1 and 1.4.3 with saves that carry over between them, 60 fps by default (up to 144 or the monitor’s refresh rate, experimentally), custom resolutions with supersampling and AMD FSR 1, keyboard, mouse, and gamepad with gyro, and shaders prepared at install time. The first release came out on October 29. On the 31st, 0.1.9 added ultrawide resolutions and 0.2.1 a native Linux build as an AppImage, with Steam Deck defaults that haven’t been measured on one yet; mods made for emulators are still planned. 66 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own copy of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for Nintendo Switch, dumped from your console: the base game and the 1.2.1 or 1.4.3 update. Windows 10 or later, an x86-64 CPU with AVX2, a GPU with Vulkan 1.3 and VK_EXT_external_memory_host, and about 36 GiB free during setup (20 GiB after).

GC

Twilight Princess (Dusklight)

TwilitRealm/dusklight

Native port of Twilight Princess from the zeldaret/tp decompilation: HD, high frame rate, and texture packs (v1.0.1; formerly “Dusk”). You supply your own GameCube copy.

You needYour own dump of the Twilight Princess disc, GameCube (US, Japan, or Europe) or Wii (US revisions 0 and 2, Japan, or Europe); the Korean Wii disc isn’t accepted. With a Wii disc, the game uses the GameCube version’s interface. Either .iso or .rvz works.

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Heroes of Might and Magic III (VCMI)

vcmi/vcmi

VCMI - Open Heroes 3: a from-scratch reimplementation of the Heroes of Might and Magic III engine, from file loading and rendering to AI and game mechanics, that uses the original game’s graphics, sound, and text. According to its FAQ, almost every feature of the original is already implemented; it fixes some known bugs, makes other things optional, and its adventure map AI, Nullkiller, is entirely new. It adds high resolutions and interface improvements that remake the most popular HD Mod features, a map editor, a random map generator, online multiplayer from a global lobby with simultaneous turns and turn timers, plus local network play, and a mod system for adding towns, creatures, heroes, artifacts, and spells without limits; the launcher downloads the mods you choose from the project’s repository, among them community ports of parts of Horn of the Abyss and In the Wake of Gods. There are builds for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and also for Android and iOS. The latest is 1.7.5 (August 15); 1.8.0, in development, adds GPU rendering, initial Lua scripting, and support for the game’s demo. Since November 2025, 36 of its more than 25,000 commits list Claude as a co-author, and three others, from 2023 and 2025, credit ChatGPT with a translation and two fixes; its contribution guidelines accept AI help as long as the contributor understands the change.

You needThe files from your own copy of Heroes of Might and Magic III, Complete or Shadow of Death edition: the launcher extracts them from the GOG offline installer (the .exe and the .bin) or takes them from an existing install (the Data, Maps, and Mp3 folders). Heroes Chronicles is supported too. Plus Windows 7 SP1 or later, macOS (Intel or Apple silicon), or Linux (AppImage for x64 or arm64, or Flathub).

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SimCity 2000 (OpenSC2K)

OpenSC2K/OpenSC2K

OpenSC2K: an open-source reimplementation of SimCity 2000 built with Rust and Godot; the simulation, file formats, rendering, audio, and scripting are native Rust libraries. Its behavior was worked out by observing and testing the game, analyzing its data, from public research, and by reverse engineering the original executable, and it applies many of sc2kfix’s fixes. It opens and saves the original’s .sc2 cities and adds cities from 16 to 4096 tiles per side (the original only has 128), data maps at the map’s full resolution, many more MicroSims and moving objects, a configurable terrain generator, new isometric data and trip views, more zoom levels, external graphics (HD included), sound, and music packs, MIDI music through FluidSynth, rebindable controls, autosaves every minute, a translatable interface (Korean is the first translation), and JavaScript mods, each in its own sandbox, with a Chrome DevTools console. It includes the SCURK building editor. Cities larger than 128 tiles use the .sc2x format, which the original game can’t open. There are Windows and Linux builds, x64 and arm64, and a macOS build. The first public release, 0.1.0, came out on September 25, and the latest, 0.3.0, on October 9, with JavaScript mods, HD graphics, and disasters reworked to behave as in the original. The project states that it’s developed with substantial help from AI tools, large language models among them.

You needThe files from your own copy of SimCity 2000; the Special Edition for Windows 95 (1996) gives the most complete import, and some interface graphics and the SCURK artwork only come from a complete Windows installation. It also imports the Windows 3.x, DOS, and Macintosh versions, the Network Edition, and the demos, from an installed folder (GOG’s included), a macOS app, or a mounted CD. Plus x64 or arm64 Windows, x64 or arm64 Linux with glibc 2.34 or later, or macOS 11 or later on Intel and 13 or later on Apple silicon.

NSW

Diablo II: Resurrected (jhaizhou-ops)

jhaizhou-ops/d2r-mobile

An open-source compatibility layer that runs the Switch version of Diablo II: Resurrected, with the Reign of the Warlock expansion, natively on iPhone, iPad, and Apple-silicon Macs (and, as community ports, on Android and HarmonyOS). It isn’t an emulator: the game’s own aarch64 program executes directly on the chip, after the few instructions that can’t run unchanged under Apple’s kernel are rewritten, and a small host stands in for the console’s system services; the NVN graphics API is reimplemented on Metal (on Vulkan for Android) and the shaders are translated ahead of play from your own files. It adds touch controls, controller support, a power-saver mode, and endgame modes the original doesn’t have. The README says all 44 iPhones and iPads in the closed beta completed Normal, Nightmare, and Hell and that it runs at 60 fps; the Mac version is the first one and warns that keyboard and gamepad haven’t yet been operated by a person. The repository holds no game data, but it does carry tables of facts about the game (shader hashes and interfaces, addresses inside the executable), which its DERIVED.md details. It published 30 releases; the latest, 2.3.0, is from November 4. 58 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own copy of the Switch version of Diablo II: Resurrected with the Reign of the Warlock expansion, updated to 1.0.34.0 (equivalent to PC version 3.3.94012): the update’s ExeFS (main, sdk, subsdk0) and RomFS, about 8.4 GB, extracted from your XCI or NSP with your own keys (prod.keys). Other versions aren’t accepted by default. On Mac, an Apple-silicon machine (no Intel version) with macOS 26 or later, or macOS 15 to 25 with the older-API build, and Xcode to build.

Tomb Raider (OpenLara)

XProger/OpenLara

OpenLara: an open-source engine for the classic Tomb Raider games, created by XProger. The project offers a web version with a demo level and a standalone version; GitHub’s “latest” tag gathers builds for a huge range of platforms (Linux, macOS, Android, iOS, 3DS, PS Vita, Raspberry Pi, GBA, 32X, 3DO, and others), and its notes give each one’s update date: Windows, March 23, 2021; Linux and macOS, March 2023. The README is terse and points to a roadmap in the repository’s issues. The repository includes already-packed level data for its GBA and 32X versions (several MB), a few 3DO system drivers (the cport*.rom files, barely 1.5 KB each), and DOS4GW.exe for the DOS version.

You needThe data files from your own copy of one of the classic Tomb Raider games; the README doesn’t say which versions or exact files. The web version includes a demo level. Windows, Linux, or macOS.

SNES

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (zelda3)

snesrev/zelda3

zelda3: a reverse-engineered reimplementation of A Link to the Past in C, around 70,000 to 80,000 lines, that reimplements every part of the original game and is playable from start to end. On first use it extracts the resources (levels and images) from your ROM; after that the ROM is no longer needed. It uses LakeSnes’s PPU and DSP, with many speed optimizations, and it can run the original machine code side by side and compare RAM every frame to verify that the C is correct. It adds basic widescreen, shaders, 240 vertical lines, a high-resolution Mode 7 map, MSU-1 audio, item switching, and over 30 fixes to the original’s bugs, plus snapshots that keep the input history so playthroughs can be replayed. For now you build it yourself. One of its last 100 commits lists Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own US The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past ROM (zelda3.sfc). To build it on Windows, Python, TCC, and SDL2; there are instructions for other systems.

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3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet

k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball

A decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet, the pinball game that came with Windows, turned into a native port. It starts from Windows XP’s pinball.exe, with its public PDB, and the 32-bit CADET.EXE from Full Tilt! Pinball: every function was decompiled with Ghidra and IDA, and the C pseudocode was turned into compilable C++. Version 2 replaced the Windows dependencies with SDL2, SDL2_mixer, and Dear ImGui, and runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS; it’s also on Flathub and Homebrew, and other authors have ported it to Switch, Vita, Wii, 3DS, and more. It adds a resizable window with scaled graphics, integer scaling, the high-resolution sprites from the Full Tilt data, gamepad support, and an option to switch between the two versions’ data. As for the 64-bit bug that killed the game (the ball stopped colliding), its author says they never found it: the decompiled code worked in 64-bit on the first try. Version 2.1.0 (October 16, 2023) focused on Full Tilt compatibility (collisions, multiball, three MIDI tracks) and added a hardware-accelerated ImGui renderer and experimental stereo sound; there have been no new commits since August 2024.

You needThe files from your own copy of 3D Pinball for Windows (the folder with PINBALL.DAT and its other files, from Windows XP for example) or of Full Tilt! Pinball, whose demo also works. Plus Windows (32- or 64-bit, XP included), macOS, or Linux (on Flathub, as distro packages, or built from source).

PS4

⑂ Fork of Supermedo/bloodborne_pc

God of War III Remastered

FelipePrado0/SpartanPort

SpartanPort (formerly gow3_pc): a Windows port of God of War III Remastered for PS4, from the same family as the Bloodborne one: it’s a fork of Supermedo’s Windows version. The game’s original x86-64 code runs directly on the CPU, with a runtime written for this game replacing the PS4 system libraries, and the graphics go to Vulkan through shadPS4’s video core with cuesta4’s fixes for this game. The author calls it playable from start to finish at native 1080p, with patches that run the engine at 120 or 240 fps, its own launcher, an in-game menu with cheats, and a shader cache that loads in the background. At other resolutions some textures look broken, and the Linux build (AppImage) is experimental. 8 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own PS4 dump of the game (the folder with eboot.bin, sce_module, and sce_sys), tested with CUSA01623 (US) and CUSA01715 (EU), versions 01.00 and 01.02. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, a CPU with AVX, and a Vulkan 1.3 graphics card. No game files are included.

DOS

Theme Hospital (CorsixTH)

CorsixTH/CorsixTH

CorsixTH: an open-source reimplementation of Theme Hospital, Bullfrog’s hospital management sim, that loads the graphics, sounds, levels, and movies from the original game’s files. It’s written in C++ and Lua, which holds most of the game logic, and runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, and BSD. According to the project, the whole campaign can be completed: every disease, object, and room is in, as are all events (emergencies, earthquakes, epidemics, VIP visits), the management windows, the music, and the movies. Still missing are multiplayer, the AI-run rival hospitals, the rats and their bonus level, vomit waves, and the level-won video and letter. It adds Full HD and 4K resolutions, zooming, UI scaling, subtitles, more than 20 languages, custom levels and campaigns with a built-in map editor, unlimited save files, your own music, building while paused, and rebindable hotkeys. Version 0.70.0 (July 10) added the official Russian Soft Club edition, 2x and 3x UI scaling, subtitles for the announcer, an option to turn off screen shake, MIDI devices, and an adviser message history; the latest release is 0.70.1 (August 28). It has rules for AI agents in its AGENTS.md file, and one of its more than 5,800 commits, from August and about the Windows ARM64 build, lists Copilot as a co-author.

You needThe files from your own copy of Theme Hospital, from the CD (the HOSP folder) or the GOG or EA release; on Linux they can be extracted from the GOG installer with innoextract. The demo, which the project offers on its website, works too, though it has a single level and lacks most management screens. Plus Windows, macOS, or Linux (as an AppImage, Flatpak, Snap, or distro packages).

GB

Gen1Recomp

bryanthaboi/gen1recomp

A native Lua/LÖVE recreation of the first three generations of Pokémon: Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver, Crystal, FireRed, LeafGreen, Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald. Despite the name, it no longer stops at the first generation. The engine and map behavior are hand-written; the game data and graphics are decoded from a ROM the player supplies. It’s a recreation, not a static recompilation. There are Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS builds, among others. Beware: the gen1recomp.com website isn’t the project’s, and its author asks people not to download anything from it.

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Warzone 2100

Warzone2100/warzone2100

Pumpkin Studios’ 3D real-time strategy game, maintained by its community since Eidos, together with the studio, released its source code under the GPL on December 6, 2004; the music and videos followed later, so the complete game is distributed for free. Since then the Warzone 2100 Project has replaced every proprietary technology with open-source counterparts and expanded the game a great deal. It has the remastered single-player campaign, with expanding persistent bases and away missions, online multiplayer for up to 10 players, team-based or free-for-all and across platforms, skirmishes against bots, a tech tree with more than 400 technologies, and a system for designing your own units. It also includes two new campaigns, Reclamation and Fractured Kingdom, and supports maps and mods. It renders with OpenGL, OpenGL ES, or Vulkan, and 4.6.3 (February 4) added shadows cast by the terrain. There are builds for Windows, macOS, and Linux, plus one for the browser. The latest release, 4.7.0 (April 6), brought a new multiplayer lobby system with IPv4 and IPv6, a campaign balance mod, and a soundtrack for Reclamation.

You needNo copy needed: the game has been free since Eidos released its source code in 2004, followed by the music and videos, and the project distributes it in full. In some builds, such as the Ubuntu packages, the videos are downloaded separately from the project’s wz-sequences repository. Plus Windows 7 or later (x86, x64, or ARM64), macOS 10.14 or later, or Linux (packages for Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04, Flatpak, Snap, or the source code).

PS4

Bloodborne (bbport)

deadinside28/bloodborne_pc

bbport: the PS4 game running natively on x86-64 Linux, and the first entry of its kind in this catalog. It’s neither a recomp nor a decomp, and its author puts it best: it’s the counterpart of Wine + DXVK for a single game. As in Wine, the original x86-64 code runs directly on the CPU, and a runtime written for this one game replaces the PS4 system libraries; as in DXVK, the graphics are translated to Vulkan, by a renderer derived from shadPS4 and heavily extended, including temporal upscaling with FSR 3.1, 4, and 4.1.1. The Supermedo fork brings all this to Windows with a launcher in 13 languages, DLSS, and beta online play. 92 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own decrypted Bloodborne dump with the 1.09 update (the folder with eboot.bin and sce_module). Any retail edition that has it works, such as CUSA00900, CUSA03173, or CUSA03023, because they all share the 1.09 executable, which is the one the community patches support (60/90 fps or unlocked, resolution, effects). The base 1.00 version crashes on start. The Old Hunters DLC is optional and comes from your own copy. No game files are included.

NSW

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Revivedx/SavageWindRecomp

Savage Wind Recomp: a still-in-development static recompilation of Breath of the Wild (Switch, version 1.8.2) into a native application for Windows and Linux, built on LAS Recomp. The README states the project is made almost entirely with AI (Claude, through Claude Code), directed, tested, and reviewed by a human. On first launch it asks for your already-extracted game and recompiles the code on your machine, about 40 minutes on a 12-thread CPU. Alpha 2 (October 22, 2026, a pre-release with a Windows package only) plays the opening in the Shrine of Resurrection and the Great Plateau at 60 fps, with sound, voices, HUD, saving, keyboard and mouse, native resolution up to 4K or FSR 1, and 15 text and 8 voice languages; nobody has played past the Great Plateau, so bugs are expected. DLC isn’t supported yet. Changes under testing live on the “test” branch.

You needYour own copy of Breath of the Wild for Switch with the 1.8.2 update, extracted from your console: the ExeFS (main, main.npdm, rtld, sdk, subsdk0) and the RomFS with the update applied. No DLC. Windows 10 or later with an AVX2 CPU and a Vulkan 1.3 GPU, plus about 35 GB of free space; the README also mentions x86-64 Linux.

DOS

Heroes of Might and Magic II (fheroes2)

ihhub/fheroes2

fheroes2: a from-scratch recreation of the Heroes of Might and Magic II engine that uses the original game’s resources without modifying any of its files. It reproduces the game without changing its balance, and adds high resolutions, a rewritten AI that makes better decisions without the original’s hidden advantages (seeing the whole map or getting extra weekly creatures), many fixes, and interface improvements: more information on creatures and spells, instant or restartable battles, rebindable hotkeys, and more, listed on a page of its documentation. Both The Succession Wars and The Price of Loyalty campaigns are playable, and it has hot-seat games, a battle-only mode, a random map generator, and its own map editor. It’s translated into more than 20 languages and doesn’t load the original game’s saves. There are builds for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and for Android, PS Vita, and Switch too. Version 1.0.0 came out on December 21, 2022 and the latest, 1.1.17, on June 30, with a first version of automatic map playtesting in the editor and AI improvements. If you don’t own the game, the Windows installer and a bundled script offer to download the free English demo from archive.org and use its resources; this is optional.

You needThe files from your own copy of Heroes of Might and Magic II (the ANIM, DATA, MAPS, and MUSIC folders), from GOG or the Ubisoft Store for example; its bundled scripts find and extract them from an installation, and innoextract can pull them from the GOG installer. The free demo works too. Plus Windows (32- or 64-bit), macOS (the released build is for Intel; on Apple silicon, via Homebrew, MacPorts, or building from source), or Linux (x86-64 or ARM64, also on Flatpak, AUR, Homebrew, or as Debian and Ubuntu packages).

DOS

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (Daggerfall Unity)

Interkarma/daggerfall-unity

Daggerfall Unity: an open-source recreation of Daggerfall in the Unity engine, made by Daggerfall Workshop, that takes the textures, 3D models, and sounds from the DOS version. It runs natively, without emulation, on Windows, Linux, and macOS. It renders at high resolutions and in widescreen while keeping the classic style, with modern engine lighting and much longer draw distances, and has an optional retro mode at 320×200 or 640×400 with VGA palettes. It adds smooth first-person controls, hundreds of fixes and quality-of-life improvements, and mod support with an active community that publishes new graphics, quests, guilds, and rule changes; translations come as mods too. Version 1.0 (December 30, 2023) marked every game feature as implemented, and 1.1 brought a new tutorial; the latest release is 1.1.1 (May 9, 2024), re-uploaded on October 5, 2025 with a Unity engine security fix. The repository also includes the game’s quest scripts converted to text, the character biography texts (with fixes), and the game’s music as MIDI.

You needA complete installation of DOS Daggerfall (the ARENA2 folder with all its .VID files), which Bethesda gives away: it’s free on Steam. Plus Windows, Linux, or macOS, a CPU equivalent to a Skylake Intel i3, a DirectX 11 graphics card with 1 GB of video memory, and 2 GB of RAM; mods can raise the requirements considerably.

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LEGO Island

isledecomp/isle

A complete decompilation of LEGO Island (Mindscape, 1997) for Windows, English version 1.1. Its three binaries, CONFIG.EXE, ISLE.EXE, and LEGO1.DLL, are fully decompiled, and the ReproBit build, which uses the original compiler (Microsoft Visual C++ 4.2), reproduces all three retail executables byte for byte. Every push to the main branch is rebuilt and checked again, and publishes the executables along with per-function accuracy reports; work continues on naming, documentation, and code clarity without changing that result. The code is true to the original and only compiles for 32-bit Windows: the executables it builds replace the game’s own in its folder. The port to modern systems and the web, isle-portable, lives in a separate repository. For the byte-for-byte match, the repository includes the third-party Smacker and SmartHeap libraries, rebuilt partly from bytes of the retail binaries. Since September, 28 of its roughly 1,900 commits list Claude as a co-author, including the one that added ReproBit.

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Caesar III (Julius)

bvschaik/julius

Julius: an open-source reimplementation of Caesar III that runs with the original game’s files. Its goal is the same game logic with the same look and feel: saves are 100% compatible with the original’s both ways, so it even keeps its gameplay bugs. What changes is the technical side and the interface: a resizable window at any resolution, widescreen included, a windowed mode that works at any color depth, rebindable hotkeys, mouse wheel scrolling in lists and texts, full-city screenshots, optional monthly autosaves, more information in buildings, tooltips, and advisors, the map editor inside the game, and high-quality MP3 music. It runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS, and in the browser, on Android, PS Vita, and Switch too. For gameplay changes there’s Augustus, a fork of Julius. The latest release is 1.8.0 (July 31, 2025), which added Czech, Greek, and Japanese and command-line options for fullscreen and display selection. In another of the project’s repositories, julius-support, linked from its wiki, it offers as optional downloads the game’s official 1.0.1.0 patches in several languages (needed if your copy doesn’t have them), the five MP3 music tracks Sierra once published on its website, and fan translations; the repository itself includes, among its test data, the game’s two empire map files (c3.emp and c32.emp).

You needThe files from your own copy of Caesar III, from GOG, Steam, or the CD, updated to version 1.0.1.0; for the editor, the original editor files as well. Plus Windows, Linux (as an AppImage or Flatpak), or macOS.

NES

Super Mario Bros. Remastered

JHDev2006/Super-Mario-Bros.-Remastered-Public

A remake of and tribute to the original Super Mario Bros. games, with new levels, custom modes, extra characters, and a full level editor.

You needYour own ROM of the original Super Mario Bros. for the NES. The game checks it on start: you can pick it or drag it onto the window, or leave the .nes file next to the executable.

GZDoom

ZDoom/gzdoom

GZDoom: a “feature-centric” port for all Doom engine games, based on ZDoom, which adds an OpenGL and Vulkan renderer and scripting capabilities aimed at modders. The code is released under the GPL v3, with copyright held by the ZDoom and GZDoom teams since 1998 and their contributors; the original Doom code belongs to id Software, Raven Software, and contributors. The latest release, 4.14.2 (May 3, 2025), has builds for Windows and macOS and .deb packages for amd64 and arm64; the repository is still receiving changes (the latest commit reviewed is from August 2026). To build it, the README points to the ZDoom wiki.

You needThe WAD files from your own copy of whichever Doom engine game you want to play; the README doesn’t list them. Windows, macOS, or Linux.

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Descent 3 (Descent3)

DescentDevelopers/Descent3

Descent3: the community edition of the Descent 3 engine, released as open source under the GPL-3.0 on April 16, 2024. It includes the 1.5 patch that Kevin Bentley and Jeff Slutter wrote, which never shipped, brought to a stable state by the Descent community. Version 1.5.0 (August 16, 2024), the first release, is the work of 28 contributors over four months: it fills in what the patch was missing, prioritizes compatibility with current CPUs and the developer experience, and keeps features mostly identical to the released code. It runs on 64-bit Linux, Windows, and macOS using SDL2, on AMD64 and ARM64 processors; 32-bit support was dropped. It also ships HogMaker, a utility that builds platform-specific HOG files with the level scripts. There are official builds for Windows x64, Linux x64, and macOS (Intel and Apple silicon). The project is still active: the last commit is from October 23. The repository includes the level scripts and demo data files (the demohog folder) and does not contain the game’s assets.

You needThe data files from your own copy of Descent 3, copied as described in the USAGE.md that ships with the executable; the project includes no game assets. Plus 64-bit Windows, Linux, or macOS (x86-64 or ARM64).

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Fallout (Fallout CE)

alexbatalov/fallout1-ce

Fallout Community Edition: a fully working reimplementation of Fallout for modern systems, with the original gameplay, engine bug fixes, and some quality-of-life improvements. It builds on Fallout Reference Edition, the same author’s decompilation, which reconstructs the code of the November 1997 version 1.1 for Windows and shares much of its code with the Fallout 2 one. On Windows, fallout-ce.exe replaces falloutw.exe in the game folder; there are also builds for Linux (x86 and x64) and macOS 10.11 or later, native on Intel and Apple silicon, plus Android and iOS. The window size, at any resolution, and fullscreen mode are set in the f1_res.ini file. Among its open goals are moving to the game’s March 1998 version 1.2, which adds multilingual support, and backporting Fallout 2 improvements. The latest release is 1.1.0 (March 3, 2024), and there have been no new commits since January 2025.

You needThe files from your own copy of Fallout (master.dat, critter.dat, and the data folder), from GOG or Steam for example; on Linux and macOS they can be extracted from the GOG installer with innoextract, and on macOS the MacPlay release’s files work too. Plus Windows (32- or 64-bit), Linux with SDL2, or macOS 10.11 or later.

Xash3D FWGS

FWGS/xash3d-fwgs

Xash3D FWGS: an engine compatible with Half-Life’s (GoldSrc) that extends it, and a heavily modified fork of Unkle Mike’s original Xash3D engine. It runs Steam Half-Life (HLSDK 2.5), its expansions, and hundreds of mods and map packs, which the project tracks in a compatibility list; for systems that can’t load the games’ original libraries it maintains hlsdk-portable, its own version of the Half-Life SDK with restored source code for the expansions and some mods. It runs on Windows, Linux, BSD, and macOS, on x86 and ARM, and on Android, iOS, PS Vita, and Switch too. It adds multiple master servers, a headless dedicated server, voice chat, GoldSrc network protocol support, and IPv6; OpenGL, GLES 1 and 2, and software renderers; .pk3 packages; gamepad and touch controls; TrueType fonts; PNG and KTX2 images; and Ogg Vorbis and Opus audio. By default it builds as 32-bit to load the Steam games’ libraries; on 64-bit or outside x86, each game’s code has to be compiled too. The latest numbered release is 0.20 (December 2019); since then it has published continuous builds, the latest on October 21.

You needThe valve folder from your own copy of Half-Life (the Steam release works), copied next to the engine; for the expansions and mods, their folders too. Plus Windows, Linux (also as an AppImage or Flatpak), BSD, or macOS, on x86 or ARM.

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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (San Andreas Unity)

in0finite/SanAndreasUnity

San Andreas Unity: an open-source reimplementation of the GTA: San Andreas engine made in Unity, which loads the files from your game install. It doesn’t aim to reimplement the whole game: it focuses on gameplay, multiplayer, and being a base that’s easy to extend with mods; game modes are added as plugins, as C# DLLs. You can roam the map, with its day-night cycle, interiors, and radio stations, drive and wreck vehicles, which can explode, and use weapons such as the rocket launcher. Pedestrians spawn all over the map and walk around, flee, attack, surrender when you aim at them, or join you. Multiplayer fully works, as a dedicated server, host, or client, with local network server discovery, a master server, chat, and a deathmatch mode. There are builds for Windows, Linux, and Android, and it has also been tested on Mac. The latest is 4.0 (May 24, 2022), and the last commit is from September 30, 2022. The project includes, in a separate submodule, a precomputed navigation mesh of the game’s map (about 53 MB compressed), which pedestrians have used since 4.0 to find their way.

You needYour own installed copy of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for PC: the first time you open it, it asks for the game folder. Plus Windows or Linux; for other systems, Mac included, you have to build it with Unity.

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Fallout 2 (Fallout 2 CE)

alexbatalov/fallout2-ce

Fallout 2 Community Edition: a fully working reimplementation of Fallout 2 for current systems, with the original gameplay, engine bug fixes, and some quality-of-life improvements. It’s based on Fallout 2 Reference Edition, by the same author: the game’s source code reconstructed by reverse engineering the original executable, missing only a few functions the game doesn’t use. On Windows it’s a drop-in replacement for fallout2.exe in the game folder. It keeps bringing in features and fixes from sfall, the community’s engine extension, such as its critical hits, books, elevators, burst fire, and explosions, the wide interface bar, and the side panels, and it adds mouse wheel scrolling and visible loot weight. Window size and fullscreen are set in f2_res.ini. The total conversions Nevada and Sonora, in their original versions, likely work; Restoration Project, Fallout Et Tu, and Olympus 2207 don’t yet. There are builds for Windows and Linux (32- and 64-bit) and for macOS 10.11 or later (Intel and Apple silicon), plus Android and iOS. The latest is 1.3.0 (April 21, 2024), and the last commit is from February 16, 2025.

You needThe files from your own copy of Fallout 2 (master.dat, critter.dat, patch000.dat, and the data folder), for example from GOG, Steam, or the Epic Games Store; on Linux and macOS they can be extracted from the GOG installer with innoextract, and on a Mac the Macplay release works too. Plus Windows, Linux with SDL2, or macOS 10.11 or later.

N64

SpaghettiKart

HarbourMasters/SpaghettiKart

Native port of Mario Kart 64 from the decompilation, with a built-in track editor. The decomp route to bringing Mario Kart 64 to PC. 10 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needA Mario Kart 64 ROM (N64, US version, .z64).

GC

Super Smash Bros. Melee

doldecomp/melee

Matching decompilation of the US version: the C they write compiles to a binary identical to the original. Its most useful milestone is that the DOL it produces is shiftable, so code can now be added and removed for modding or research instead of only reproducing the game as it was. It’s the base of the melee-pc port, also in this catalog. The repository ships no assets: you need your own copy. 18 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

PS4

P.T.

LoreanXavier/pt-pc

Native port of the 2014 teaser, and an unusual case for this catalog: it’s neither a recomp nor a decomp. The game logic was rewritten in C++ from the original’s behavior, with its own Vulkan renderer; everything else (levels, models, textures, sounds, scripts, and cutscenes) is read at run time from your own PS4 copy. It plays the whole teaser, from the first wake-up to the street, voice section included. Its author built it alone so that P.T. would keep existing somewhere other than the consoles that still have it installed.

You needYour own copy of P.T., as a folder dumped from your console or a PKG made from that dump. Tested with the US release CUSA01127. A store PKG won’t work: it’s encrypted for the console that bought it. Windows 10/11 x64 or Linux x86-64.

DOS

Doom / Doom II (Chocolate Doom)

chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom

Chocolate Doom: a Doom port, built on the source code id Software released, that aims to accurately reproduce the original DOS version, bugs included, on current systems. It’s compatible with DOS demos, configuration files, and saves, and aims for the display and controls to feel the way they did back then. It started with Doom alone, but now also includes ports of Heretic and Hexen, built on the code Raven Software released, and of Strife: since Strife’s source code was lost, Chocolate Strife was rebuilt over more than four years of reverse engineering the DOS executable, with the blessing of its original programmers. It scales in hardware to any window size; music can play through an emulated OPL3 (Nuked OPL3), FluidSynth, native MIDI, or FLAC, Ogg, or MP3 music packs, and the -merge option lets you play total conversions without modifying the IWAD. Version 3.1.0 (August 1, 2024) added UDP hole punching so servers behind a router are reachable from the internet, WAD autoloading, and dragging files onto the executable on Windows. The latest is 3.1.1 (August 14, 2025), with initial support for Doom version 1.5. The published builds are for 64-bit Windows and macOS (Intel and Apple silicon); on Linux and other systems it’s built from source.

You needThe IWAD from your own copy: doom.wad, doom2.wad, tnt.wad, or plutonia.wad for Doom, Doom II, and Final Doom; heretic.wad, hexen.wad, or strife1.wad with voices.wad (Strife 1.2 or later, or Strife: Veteran Edition). The free shareware versions of Doom (doom1.wad) and Heretic (heretic1.wad), Chex Quest, and the free Freedoom IWADs work too. It finds Steam and GOG installs on its own. Plus 64-bit Windows or macOS; on Linux, by building it.

N64

2 Ship 2 Harkinian

2ship2harkinian/2ship2harkinian

Native port of Majora's Mask on libultraship, the same engine as Ship of Harkinian. You supply your own ROM.

You needA supported Majora's Mask ROM dump (N64); you can check yours at 2ship.equipment.

UZDoom

UZDoom/UZDoom

UZDoom: a “feature-centric” port for all Doom engine games, a continuation of ZDoom and GZDoom, which adds an advanced renderer, dynamic lighting, 3D floors, extensive mod support, and modern OpenGL and Vulkan renderers. The code is released under the GPL v3 or later, with copyright held by id Software since 1993, Marisa Heit, Christoph Oelckers, and the GZDoom and UZDoom teams. It publishes builds for Windows (x86-64), macOS (ARM64), and Linux (x86-64 AppImage): the latest stable release is 5.0.3 (September 23), and there is a preview build from October 28.

You needThe WAD files from your own copy of whichever Doom engine game you want to play; the README doesn’t list them. Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon), or Linux.

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Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy / Jedi Outcast (OpenJK)

JACoders/OpenJK

OpenJK: a community effort to maintain and improve the game and engine of Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast from the code Raven Software released, while keeping full compatibility with the existing games and mods. It doesn’t aim to add major features, rebalance, or change the gameplay: it fixes bugs, improves stability and performance, and brings it to more hardware (x86-64, Arm, and Apple silicon) and more systems (Linux and macOS). It also serves as a clean base for new mods. Jedi Academy runs stably in both single player and multiplayer; the Jedi Outcast campaign (OpenJO) works but needs attention, and its multiplayer isn’t supported: for that they recommend JK2MV. It doesn’t publish numbered releases but a rolling build: the latest is from September 29, for Windows and Linux (32- and 64-bit) and macOS (Intel and Apple silicon).

You needYour own installed copy of Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, for example from Steam or GOG; the OpenJK files are extracted into its GameData folder. On Linux you use the Windows version’s files, which can be downloaded with SteamCMD, and on macOS the Mac App Store version works, with SDL2 installed through Homebrew. For the Jedi Outcast campaign, your own copy of Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. Plus Windows, Linux, or macOS.

DOS

Quake (vkQuake)

Novum/vkQuake

vkQuake: a Quake port that renders with Vulkan instead of OpenGL, based on the QuakeSpasm and QuakeSpasm-Spiked ports, which build on the source code id Software released. It runs every mod compatible with QuakeSpasm, such as Arcane Dimensions, and the 2021 re-release content. Compared with QuakeSpasm, it renders and loads on multiple threads, goes past 72 Hz without breaking physics, mimics the software renderer’s underwater effect, and supports both classic and enhanced models (MD5, like the re-release’s, or MD3), true-color textures and skins, anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, 8-bit color emulation, and pixelated scaling, plus a mods menu. With a ray-tracing graphics card it adds dynamic shadows and the re-release’s dynamic lights. This year’s releases have added order-independent transparency, SDL3, Steam achievements, a level-selection menu, and an improved console; the latest, 1.37.0 (October 12), added ambient occlusion from monsters and items onto the level, a render resolution separate from the menus and HUD, controller gyro aiming, flick stick, and rumble, and background autosaves. Many of these additions come from Ironwail, another Quake port. There are builds for Windows (x64, with an installer, and Arm64) and Linux (AppImage); the macOS builds are published by Mac Source Ports.

You needThe files from your own copy of Quake (the id1 folder with its .pak files), from the original release or the 2021 re-release (for the latter, vkQuake goes into its rerelease folder); it finds Steam, GOG, and Epic Games Store installs on its own. On Linux, the game’s file names must be lowercase. Plus a Vulkan graphics card and 64-bit Windows (with the Visual C++ redistributable) or Linux with glibc 2.31 or later; dynamic shadows and lights need ray tracing.

NSW

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

peiikai/LASRecomp

LAS Recomp: a static recompilation of the Switch version of Link’s Awakening for Windows, Linux, and Apple Silicon macOS (Vulkan on Windows and Linux, Metal and MetalFX on Mac). The recompilation runs on your PC on first launch, from your own game files. It has an unlocked aspect ratio (21:9, for example), keyboard and controller with everything remappable, an in-game menu, and randomizer seeds you can switch without restarting. It’s in beta. Its author notes that nearly all of the code, tooling, and documentation was written by an AI (Claude, through Claude Code).

You needYour own extracted game files of Link’s Awakening, version 1.0.0. The project doesn’t explain how to obtain them.

PS4

Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection (Supermedo)

Supermedo/uncharted_pc

Uncharted 1, 2, and 3 from the PS4 collection running natively on Windows 10 and 11. It’s the same idea as the author’s Bloodborne port: the original game code runs directly on the PC and the graphics are translated to Vulkan. All three games launch from one launcher, at 60 fps like on PS4 or at 120 (higher is experimental), with TAA, FSR 3.1, FSR 4, or DLSS anti-aliasing, frame generation, and keyboard, mouse, and controller together, all remappable. Known problems remain, mostly in Uncharted 3. 59 of its last 100 commits list Claude, Copilot or Cursor as a co-author.

You needYour own decrypted dump of the collection (CUSA02343, CUSA02320…: the folder with eboot.bin and the data for all three games). Plus 64-bit Windows 10 (1903 or later) or 11 and a Vulkan 1.3 graphics card with at least 6 GB of video memory.

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Doom 3 (dhewm3)

dhewm/dhewm3

dhewm 3: a Doom 3 port built on the source code id Software released under the GPL, aiming to bring the game through SDL to every suitable platform; it’s known to work on at least Windows, Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD. It fixes bugs from the original as they’re identified, without changing the gameplay. It’s 64-bit, uses SDL for OS support, OpenGL, and input, and OpenAL for audio, with EAX-like reverb on any hardware through OpenAL EFX. It adds gamepad support (no rumble), better widescreen and arbitrary resolution support, and an advanced settings menu opened with F10. In 1.5.1 it restored “Carmack’s Reverse” stencil shadows, which the released code left out because of a now-expired patent. It supports mods, with its own SDK, and every release comes with a separate download of adapted mods, such as Blood Mod, Grimm, and LibreCoop. Version 1.5.5 (June 8) removed several causes of microstutter, supports widescreen GUIs and BC7 textures, and added Linux Arm64 builds. Its rules only accept human-written code: contributions made with generative AI aren’t allowed. It also publishes, as an optional download, widescreen versions of several GUIs (main menu, PDA, and HUD) for the base game, Resurrection of Evil, and the mod The Lost Mission, made by Arl by adapting the game’s interface files.

You needThe files from your own copy of Doom 3 (the base folder, with pak000.pk4 to pak008.pk4), patched to 1.3.1; Resurrection of Evil is supported too. Doom 3: BFG Edition doesn’t work. Plus Windows (the official builds are 32-bit), x86-64 or Arm64 Linux with SDL 2.0.12 or later, or macOS (Intel or Apple silicon) with the signed build from Mac Source Ports.

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Diablo (Freeablo)

wheybags/freeablo

Freeablo: a modern, cross-platform reimplementation of the Diablo engine, played with the original game’s data files. You can walk around town, with its animated characters and dialogue, go down through generated dungeons on every level, fight in melee (with limited ranged combat and magic), pick up monster loot, buy from and sell to Griswold, level up, save and load, and play multiplayer. The code after the latest release adds magic item generation, potions, healing at Pepin, the Town Portal spell, and mouse wheel zoom. Its author archived it on April 13, 2023, having lost motivation on seeing the progress of the Devilution team, who got to the finish first. The latest release is 0.4 (March 6, 2020), for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

You needDIABDAT.MPQ and Diablo.exe from your own copy of Diablo, patched to 1.09; the GOG release works too. Plus Windows, Linux, or macOS.

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⑂ Fork of bvschaik/julius

Caesar III (Augustus)

Keriew/augustus

Augustus: a fork of Julius, the open-source reimplementation of Caesar III, that adds gameplay changes on top of Julius’s interface improvements. Julius keeps the original’s logic and saves; Augustus loads Caesar III and Julius saves, but its own saves only work in Augustus. It adds roadblocks, special market orders, a global labor pool, partial warehouse storage, higher limits, and zoom, and over the years it has added monuments and grand temples, taverns, arenas, new resources (stone, sand, bricks, concrete, and gold), highways, cart depots, custom empires, and scenario events in the map editor, with new graphics under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license. Everything is explained in an English manual, translated into other languages. There are builds for Windows, Linux (AppImage), and macOS, plus Vita, Switch, Android, and the browser. The latest stable release is 4.0.0 (December 28, 2023); development builds, which already include 64-bit Windows and Flatpak, keep coming, with the latest change on October 16. To update the game to 1.0.1.0, the README points to a Julius page that offers, in another of that project’s GitHub repositories, the game’s patches for each language, mostly the official Sierra ones.

You needThe files from your own copy of Caesar III, updated to 1.0.1.0. Augustus can be copied into the game folder or run from a separate one, in which case it asks where the game is; it needs write access to that folder, since saves are stored there. Optionally, it supports the high-quality MP3 files Sierra once published on its website. Plus Windows, Linux, or macOS.

N64

Starship

HarbourMasters/Starship

Native port of Star Fox 64 on libultraship. You supply a US 1.0 or 1.1 ROM. It’s the decomp-based sibling of the original recomp, which is now gone.

You needA Star Fox 64 ROM (N64, US version 1.0 or 1.1 Rev A).

GC

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

zeldaret/tp

Decompilation of the GameCube version by the zeldaret team, tracking four builds separately: the US GZ2E01, the European GZ2P01, the Japanese GZ2J01, and ShieldD. Twilight Princess PC ports such as Dusklight, also in the catalog, are built from it. The repository ships no assets or assembly.

N64

⑂ Fork of n64decomp/perfect_dark

Perfect Dark (N64)

perfect-dark-pc-port/perfect_dark

Cross-platform native port of Perfect Dark from the decompilation: mouselook, widescreen, and high frame rate. You supply your own ROM.

You needA Perfect Dark ROM (N64; US version 1.1, “ntsc-final,” recommended).

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ClassiCube

ClassiCube/ClassiCube

ClassiCube: a Minecraft Classic-compatible client written from scratch in C (formerly ClassicalSharp, in C#). It aims to replicate the 2009 Minecraft Classic client through a “clean room” reverse-engineering approach, with optional enhancements such as custom blocks, models, and environment colors. It doesn’t try to replicate current Minecraft: it will never support survival, Minecraft accounts, or modern servers. It has a singleplayer mode and multiplayer on a LAN and on the classicube.net servers (with an account on the site), and it uses far less memory than the original. It runs on Windows (95 and later), macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, and web browsers, plus several BSDs, Haiku, IRIX, and other systems; there are unfinished versions for several consoles. On first launch the launcher downloads the assets it needs from minecraft.net and classicube.net. The latest version, 1.3.9, is from October 22, 2026, and builds are downloaded from classicube.net. The project isn’t affiliated with Mojang, Minecraft, or Microsoft.

You needNo copy of the game is needed: the launcher downloads the required assets from minecraft.net and classicube.net by itself the first time. Windows, macOS, Linux, or another supported system, with a graphics card that supports OpenGL or Direct3D 9; Linux and the BSDs need OpenAL.

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Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain

EXOK/Celeste64

The source code of Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain, the 3D platformer the original Celeste team made in under two weeks for Celeste’s sixth anniversary and released for free in January 2024. Its makers compare it to a weekend game jam entry, built with libraries mostly intended for 2D games: it’s written in C# with Foster and SDL3, its levels were made in TrenchBroom, its models in Blender, and its textures in Aseprite, and its audio uses FMOD. The repository holds the whole game: the code, under the MIT license, and all of the content (models, textures, maps, audio, and text), which still belongs to Maddy Makes Games, though its makers allow it to be used in non-commercial mods, levels, and fan games as long as it’s clear they didn’t make them. GitHub has builds for 64-bit Windows, Linux (x64, ARM64, and ARM32), and macOS (Intel and Apple silicon); the latest is 1.1.1 (February 6, 2024). Since then the code has moved to SDL3 and .NET 10, reached version 1.2.0 in August 2026, and in September gained camera inversion options and a language selector with Korean and German translations.

You needNo copy needed: the game is free, and its makers publish the whole game, with all of its content, on GitHub and itch.io. To play, 64-bit Windows 10 or later, Linux with glibc 2.35 or later (x64, ARM64, or ARM32), or macOS Monterey or later (Intel or Apple silicon); to build it, .NET 10.

DOS

Legend of Sword and Fairy (SDLPal)

sdlpal/sdlpal

SDLPal: a cross-platform, SDL-based reimplementation of Xian Jian Qi Xia Zhuan (仙剑奇侠传), Softstar’s Chinese RPG known as PAL, that runs on the original game’s data. Wei Mingzhi created it in 2009, and a team maintains it today; many of its concepts come from the PAL Research Project’s documentation. It isn’t an emulator: the game runs as a native program, and only the OPL2 and OPL3 sound chips are emulated (with cores from DOSBox, MAME, and Chocolate Doom) to play the DOS version’s RIX music. It supports data from the DOS and Windows 95 versions and can combine the best of each, such as item descriptions in the DOS version or RIX music in the Windows 95 one, whose AVI videos it also plays. It adds MIDI, OGG, or MP3 music, translations through external message and font files, image filters with RetroArch GLSL shaders (experimental), and a settings window at launch, and its saves work with the original game’s and vice versa. There are builds for Windows, Linux, and macOS, plus Android, iOS, Wii, 3DS, the browser, and a libretro core. The latest release, 3.0.2025.0616 (June 2025), already uses SDL3; in 2026 work continued with controller and script interpreter fixes, and the Visual Studio build regained Windows XP support.

You needThe data files from your own copy of Xian Jian Qi Xia Zhuan: the DOS version, on floppy disks or CD, or the Windows 95 version, in Traditional Chinese or the Simplified Chinese “98 柔情篇”; the Sega Saturn version doesn’t work. The project recommends the version sold on Steam, and its wiki links Chinese sites where it can be downloaded legally for free. Plus Windows (XP included), Linux (as an AppImage), or macOS.

XBX

⑂ Fork of bnunu/halo-1

Halo: Combat Evolved (OpenCE)

OpenCommunityEdition/OpenCE

OpenCE (Open Community Edition, formerly halo-ce-universal): a port of the Halo: Combat Evolved decompilation, made from development build 2342 of the original Xbox release, for Windows, Linux, Android, and the browser; a macOS version is in progress. It isn’t an emulator: the game’s own code is compiled for each platform, with a new layer in place of the Xbox hardware, OpenGL for graphics, and SDL3 for sound and controllers. It starts from bnunu/halo-1, a fork of the punpckhdq/halo decompilation, which has its own entry. It adds multiplayer for up to 128 players with cross-play across every platform and four-player split screen, peer-to-peer internet games with a server browser and invite links, online campaign co-op, voice chat, and automatic map downloads. It supports Halo Custom Edition maps and mods made with the Halo PC tools. By default it looks as it did on the Xbox; the options add any resolution, a frame for every display refresh while the simulation stays at 30 ticks a second, an 80–150° field of view, anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, HDR, and a HUD redrawn at high resolution. It updates itself, and every build that passes on all four platforms is a new release. One of its last 100 commits lists Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own Halo: Combat Evolved disc image for the original Xbox (.iso or .xiso). Any version works: the European release’s maps are adjusted to play with the North American ones. Custom Edition maps need bitmaps.map, sounds.map, and loc.map from your own Halo Custom Edition install.

WIN

Chris Sawyer's Locomotion (OpenLoco)

OpenLoco/OpenLoco

OpenLoco: an open-source reimplementation of Chris Sawyer’s Locomotion, the transport company simulator and spiritual successor to Transport Tycoon, that runs on the original game’s data. The original was written in x86 assembly on top of the RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 engine; the project moved the game to C++ function by function, with a compatibility layer to coexist with the original code, and finished in December 2025: 25.12 (December 20) brought the first native, standalone 64-bit builds for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It aims to improve the game the way OpenTTD improved Transport Tycoon and OpenRCT2 improved RollerCoaster Tycoon, and it already adds resizable windows, 2x and 4x zoom levels, PNG heightmaps of any size, signal placement at fixed intervals along the track, a jukebox for choosing music, and fixes for bugs in the original. Its Open Graphics subproject creates free replacement objects for the game’s content (vehicles, stations, tracks, roads, the interface), and in September it started adding new objects with the North American Expansion. It’s still bound by the original save format (SV5/SC5) until it has its own, and it doesn’t have multiplayer yet. It puts out a release almost every month; the latest is 26.09 (September 18).

You needThe files from your own copy of Chris Sawyer’s Locomotion, sold on Steam and GOG; on Linux it looks for the usual Steam and GOG install locations on its own. Plus Windows (64- or 32-bit), 64-bit Linux (as an AppImage), or Apple silicon macOS; the macOS builds are unsigned and unnotarized.

WIN

⑂ Fork of id-Software/DOOM-3-BFG

Doom 3: BFG Edition (RBDOOM-3-BFG)

RobertBeckebans/RBDOOM-3-BFG

RBDOOM-3-BFG: a port of Doom 3: BFG Edition built on the source code id Software released in 2012, which Robert Beckebans has been modernizing since that year with contributions from more than 40 people; it aims to bring its technology closer to Doom (2016) without changing Doom 3’s gameplay. It renders with Direct3D 12 or Vulkan through NVRHI and adds physically based rendering (PBR), baked global illumination that lights up the formerly pitch-black areas, soft shadows, HDR with ACES tone mapping, SMAA and TAA, ambient occlusion, screen-space reflections, and retro rendering modes that mimic the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Mega Drive/Genesis, and PlayStation. It plays the Bink videos, lets you skip cutscenes, and fixes the netcode for playing with friends over IP. For modding it supports TrenchBroom maps (with an adapted build of the editor in the download), glTF and OBJ models, PBR materials, and .pk4 packages. Version 1.6.0 (May 10, 2025) added the retro modes, Intel’s Masked Software Occlusion Culling (MOC), reflective blood, and a new light editor. One of its more than 2,700 commits, from July 2026, lists Claude as a co-author. The repository includes some of the game’s text files (entity declarations, materials, and scripts), and the roughly 1.6 GB download also carries precomputed global illumination for the game’s maps, which is optional: without it, the engine falls back to an environment probe built into the executable.

You needThe base folder from your own copy of Doom 3: BFG Edition, from Steam or GOG, patched to the latest version. Plus 64-bit Windows with a Direct3D 12 or Vulkan graphics card; on Linux and macOS you have to build it and copy the .pk4 files from the Windows download.

PS4

Shadow of the Colossus (AjncSystem)

AjncSystem/ShadowOfTheColossus-PC

Native Windows port of Shadow of the Colossus for PS4, Bluepoint’s 2018 remake: the game’s own x86-64 code runs directly on the PC’s CPU, and the PS4 GPU is translated to Vulkan. It isn’t a full emulator but a loader with the system functions the game needs, in the style of the Bloodborne Windows port. It comes with a launcher with a game library and display and control options; keyboard and controller at the same time, with mouse camera; a 60 fps mode, 16x anisotropic filtering, a PS4 Pro mode, and output up to 4K. Its author ships fixes almost daily, and there are still known issues, for example on AMD graphics cards. 64 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own dump of the PS4 version: the European 1.01 (CUSA08809) or the US 1.00 (CUSA08034), the two where the 60 fps and 16x filtering patches work; other versions run at 30 fps and, for sound, two system modules from your own console (libSceNgs2.sprx and libSceUlt.sprx). Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 and a Vulkan 1.3 graphics card.

360

Skate 3 (skate3recomp)

mchughalex/skate3recomp

Playable native port of Skate 3 for Windows, Linux, and macOS (v1.0.4): about 165 fps at 4K on an RTX 4090. It supersedes portingpete’s earlier attempt.

You needYour own Skate 3 ISO (Xbox 360). The game downloads Title Update 3 by itself and checks it before using it. DLC is optional and comes from your own copy.

DOS

Dune II (OpenDUNE)

OpenDUNE/OpenDUNE

OpenDUNE: an open-source re-creation of Dune II, Westwood Studios’ real-time strategy game, so it runs natively on modern systems. It started in 2009 as a decompilation of the original executable, which at first ran on an x86 emulator (libemu) and which the team kept rewriting in C until version 0.6 (2011) converted the whole game and dropped the emulator. In its enhanced mode, the default, it fixes dozens of bugs in the original, such as reinforcements that only arrived once, buildings that degraded even on concrete slabs, or an AI that barely responded when you attacked its buildings, and a setting lets you play it exactly like the original, bugs included. It scales the image up to 4x with Scale2x or hqx filters, caps the frame rate at 60 fps by default, has fullscreen, and plays music over MIDI, including on an emulated Roland MT-32 (Munt) or with FluidSynth. It’s in English, French, and German. It runs on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS, as well as Atari ST, STE, TT, and Falcon, OS/2, and Haiku. The latest release is 0.9 (May 25, 2018), and the project still gets changes: in 2026 it added support for stock Atari ST and STE machines.

You needThe version 1.07 data files from your own copy of Dune II for MS-DOS, DUNE2.EXE included; all three variants (eu, hs, and us) work, but French only works with eu and hs, and German only with eu. For MT-32 music through Munt, the CM-32L ROMs too. Plus Windows (32- or 64-bit), Linux or FreeBSD with SDL, or macOS.

PS4

⑂ Fork of DarkIzuku/bloodborne_pc

Bloodborne (Lantern Engine)

Awakenchan/LanternEngine

Lantern Engine (formerly BloodBorneButPc): a launcher and engine for playing Bloodborne on Windows, derived from bbport by way of DarkIzuku’s fork and largely reworked by its author. It works like bbport: the original x86-64 code runs directly on the CPU, a runtime made for this game replaces the PS4 system libraries, and the graphics are translated to Vulkan through shadPS4’s video core. It adds 30, 60, 90, 120, or 144 fps or uncapped, upscaling with DLSS and FSR 3.1, 4, and 4.1.1, FSR 3.1 frame generation, HDR, output resolutions up to 32:9, keyboard and mouse with key prompts, Xbox controller icons, cheats, trophies, mods, online co-op on The Hunter’s Dream servers, and many performance and memory fixes, including for 4–8 GB cards. The launcher updates itself and the in-game menu comes in several languages. The latest stable version is 0.9.36 (October 21).

You needYour own decrypted Bloodborne dump with update 1.09 (the folder with eboot.bin): CUSA03173 or, since 0.9.34, the US release CUSA00900. Plus 64-bit Windows and a Vulkan graphics card. No game files are included.

WIN

Gothic II: Night of the Raven (OpenGothic)

Try/OpenGothic

OpenGothic: an open-source reimplementation of Gothic II: Night of the Raven, Piranha Bytes’ RPG, that runs on the original game’s data and scripts; its goal is a feature-complete Gothic client that’s compatible with the original game and its mods. According to the project, the game has been completely replicated, and both the main quest and the add-on can be finished. It’s designed for modern graphics cards: it uses Direct3D 12 or Vulkan on Windows, Vulkan on Linux, and Metal on macOS, and takes advantage of mesh shaders and ray tracing when the card has them, global illumination included. It reuses options from the original menu to turn on SSAO, volumetric fog, and screen-space reflections, and lets you lower the internal 3D resolution while the interface and text always render at full resolution. It supports content mods (retextures, new worlds, animations) that only use regular scripting, but not those that depend on Ikarus/LeGo, Union, the DX11 renderer, the AST SDK, or Ninja. Gothic 1 isn’t officially supported, though the project accepts fixes for it. Its releases are pre-releases; the latest, 0.92 (May 17), reworked the camera and the combat AI to be closer to the original’s, and the character collisions too.

You needYour own installed copy of Gothic II: Night of the Raven; it finds the most common install paths on its own (Steam’s included) and otherwise takes the path through the -g parameter. On Linux, the game is installed with Wine or Proton or copied over from Windows. Plus Windows (Direct3D 12 or Vulkan), Linux (Vulkan; there’s a .deb package and an AUR package), or macOS (Metal; Mac builds are published by Mac Source Ports), with a modern graphics card: the project warns it won’t run well on low-end or outdated cards.

OpenSAGE

OpenSAGE/OpenSAGE

OpenSAGE: a free reimplementation, written in C#, of SAGE, the 3D real-time strategy engine EA Pacific used in Command & Conquer: Generals and other games. It focuses on Generals and its Zero Hour expansion, and it also has modules for The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth I and II. It started as a black-box reimplementation, written from the data files and from watching the game run; in March 2025 it switched its license from LGPL v3 to GPL v3 and began adapting parts of the Generals and Zero Hour source code EA released, such as map triggers, money, state machines, and locomotors. It isn’t playable yet: it loads most file formats from the first SAGE games, loads into maps, and shows the user interface, but it implements very little of the gameplay. It renders with Direct3D 11, OpenGL 4.3, or Metal on Windows, Linux, and macOS, and comes with a viewer for browsing the files of any installed SAGE game. The latest release is 0.3.0 (October 29, 2018); since April 2025 the code has barely changed beyond dependency updates. One of its more than 3,600 commits lists Copilot as a co-author.

You needAn installation of your own copy of Command & Conquer: Generals or Zero Hour, for example from The First Decade or The Ultimate Collection; on Linux and macOS, the game folder is set with the CNC_GENERALS_PATH environment variable. Plus 64-bit Windows, Linux, or macOS; to build the current code, .NET 8.

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Black & White (openblack)

openblack/openblack

openblack: an open-source reimplementation of Black & White, Lionhead Studios’ god game, written in modern C++ and running on the original game’s files. It’s still at an early stage: 0.1.0 (September 4, 2024), its first release, recreates the original’s camera movement, draws the landscape at a higher resolution thanks to an intermediate texture, and has animated models and morphable meshes, audio, a dynamic sky, pathfinding for villagers, physics through Bullet, an early AI state machine, and the LHVM virtual machine for the game’s scripts, reverse engineered; the colors of the sky, the water, and other elements don’t match the original yet, and there’s no launcher or global settings. There are 64-bit Windows, macOS, and Linux builds, downloaded from its continuous integration, and experimental builds for Android, iOS, and the browser. In October 2026 it moved to SDL3 and replaced its bgfx-based renderer with one built on SDL3’s GPU API, with shaders written in Slang.

You needThe Audio, Data, and Scripts folders from your own copy of Black & White, installed from the original CD with official patches 1.10 and 1.2 (the unofficial 1.42 patch is fine too; don’t install 1.3); on Linux and macOS you install it with Wine. The path is passed with the -g parameter. Plus 64-bit Windows, macOS, or Linux.

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Quake III Arena (Quake3e)

ec-/Quake3e

Quake3e: a Quake III Arena engine that aims to be fast, secure, and compatible with every existing mod for the game. It’s based on the last pre-SDL revision of ioquake3, the port that carries on the source code id Software released in 2005, with later ioquake3 fixes and many changes of its own. Its Vulkan renderer, based on Quake-III-Arena-Kenny-Edition’s, adds per-pixel dynamic lighting, MSAA and supersampling, HDR, bloom, reflections, and rendering at any resolution; the OpenGL renderer has the same effects. It also brings raw mouse input, a reworked QVM virtual machine (with a new x87 JIT compiler in the latest release), video capture through ffmpeg, and fast map downloads over HTTP or FTP, and for servers, better DoS protection, lower memory use, and up to 20,000 maps per folder. There are builds for Windows (x86, x86-64, and ARM64), Linux (x86, x86-64, and ARM64), and macOS (Intel and Apple silicon), plus a rolling build; the latest dated release, from October 14, also includes one for Windows 98.

You needAn installation of your own copy of Quake III Arena, into whose folder you copy the executables (the game is read from baseq3); it finds the Steam install on its own. Plus Windows (ARM64 and Windows 98 included), Linux, or macOS.

GC

Animal Crossing (ACGC-PC-Port)

flyngmt/ACGC-PC-Port

Unofficial native PC port of Animal Crossing (GameCube) from the ac-decomp decompilation: 4K, high frame rate (60 to 960 fps), Dolphin texture packs, and GCI saves. US version only.

You needYour own copy of Animal Crossing (GameCube, US version).

N64

Super Mario 64 (sm64coopdx)

coop-deluxe/sm64coopdx

Online play for the Super Mario 64 PC port: it syncs every enemy and every level for up to 16 players, who share the same world at the same time. It’s the official continuation of djoslin0’s sm64ex-coop, maintained by the Coop Deluxe Team, with a Lua modding API behind community mods such as Day Night Cycle DX. There are Windows, macOS, Linux, and SteamOS builds, with an automatic updater.

You needYour own Super Mario 64 .z64 ROM: drag it onto the game window the first time.

WIN

⑂ Fork of electronicarts/CnC_Generals_Zero_Hour

Command & Conquer: Generals / Zero Hour (GeneralsGameCode)

TheSuperHackers/GeneralsGameCode

GeneralsGameCode: TheSuperHackers’ community project to fix and improve Command & Conquer: Generals and its Zero Hour expansion, built on the source code of both games that Electronic Arts released in 2025; its main focus is Zero Hour. The code was moved from Visual Studio 6 and C++98 to Visual Studio 2022 and C++20, though the weekly builds are still compiled with Visual Studio 6. For now it keeps compatibility with Generals 1.08 and Zero Hour 1.04, leaving the fixes that would break it for later. It fixes critical bugs and many minor ones, and decouples the drawing of particles, animations, water, trees, and other effects from the logic step, with interpolation, so they move smoothly above 30 frames per second. It adds MSAA and anisotropic filtering, recovers 481 higher-resolution textures Zero Hour never ended up using, rotates the camera in 45-degree steps, shows frame rate, latency, and money per minute, adds a player info list, and improves replays with a replay archive and their dates. Fixes to the game’s data (INI files, interface, maps, textures) live in a separate project, GeneralsGamePatch. It publishes a build every week, the latest on October 16. 14 of its roughly 2,000 commits, all from September, list Claude as a co-author.

You needAn installation of your own copy of Command & Conquer: Generals and Zero Hour, such as the one in Command & Conquer: The Ultimate Collection on Steam; the weekly build’s files are extracted into the game folder. Plus Windows; on Linux it can be built with Docker and installed into the game with its scripts.

PS1

Driver 2

OpenDriver2/REDRIVER2

REDRIVER2: the PlayStation game fully disassembled and translated by hand from MIPS back to C, with no emulation (only the memory card menu was left out). Function, variable, and type names come from the debug symbols (.SYM) of the Italian and Spanish releases, worked through in Ghidra and, where that fell short, by hand in IDA. It runs on Windows and Linux on Psy-Cross, the team’s own layer that reimplements the PlayStation libraries with OpenGL, SDL2, and OpenAL, with precise vertex transformation and a Z-buffer. It has been fully playable since September 2020. It fixes bugs from the original, improves the cop AI, and restores things that didn’t work or were left unfinished, such as the Las Vegas monorail, exhaust smoke, birds, and the multiplayer cameras. It adds cutscene subtitles, longer draw distance, adjustable field of view, a widescreen-aware HUD, dynamic street lights, high-resolution fonts, automatic campaign saving, and texture and car model replacement. Version 8.0 (July 2) was released as a stable release candidate.

You needYour own two Driver 2 PlayStation CDs, dumped as ISO or BIN/CUE, from a supported release: European English (SLES-02993 and SLES-12993, 1.0 or Platinum 1.1) or US (SLUS-01161 and SLUS-01318, 1.0 or Greatest Hits 1.1). Plus Windows or Linux and Java, used to convert the movies and XA audio from your discs; on Windows, a separate launcher installs the game from the two images.

DOS

The Elder Scrolls: Arena (OpenTESArena)

afritz1/OpenTESArena

OpenTESArena: an open-source engine written from scratch for The Elder Scrolls: Arena, the 1994 DOS game, aiming to replicate every aspect of it with a clean-room approach while adding quality-of-life changes; what’s known about the original’s inner workings is documented in its wiki. Character creation (except the class generation questions), combat with enemies that attack and drop loot and experience, leveling up, picking up, equipping, and dropping items, shops (buying and selling, renting a tavern room, curing diseases), citizens who wander, give directions, and share rumors, and fast travel anywhere on the world map already work. Plate armor materials, potions and on-use items, quests, spells, and saving and loading are still missing. It has a modern control mode, with WASD and mouselook, and a classic one; it uses Vulkan by default and lets you raise the frame rate cap to your monitor’s refresh rate. Version 0.18.0 (August 13) added enemy combat AI, leveling up, conversations, thieving mode, and detection of the Steam and GOG releases. There are builds for x86-64 Windows, x86-64 Linux and Raspberry Pi 5, and Apple silicon macOS.

You needNo need to buy the game: Bethesda gives The Elder Scrolls: Arena away for free, on Steam, on GOG, or as Arena106Setup.zip on its website, and its files are enough (on Linux and macOS, the ones from the self-extracting Arena106.exe). It finds the Steam release on its own on every system and the GOG release on Windows. For music, optionally, the eawpats instrument patch set the project publishes with its releases. Plus 64-bit Windows (with the Visual C++ Redistributable and OpenAL), x86-64 Linux or Raspberry Pi 5, or Apple silicon macOS.

GC

Animal Crossing (ac-decomp)

ACreTeam/ac-decomp

Decompilation of the GameCube version, against US revision 0 (GAFE01_00). It tracks progress on the DOL and the REL modules separately, because the game keeps a good part of its code in loadable overlays rather than in the main executable. It ships neither assets nor assembly: a copy of the game is required.

WIIU

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD

ZeldaWWHDRecomp/ZeldaWWHDRecomp

Static recompilation of the Wii U version, separate from the GameCube Wind Waker recomp already in the catalog. It runs natively on Apple Silicon macOS, Linux, Windows, and ARM64 Android: the PowerPC code is translated to C ahead of time, the Cafe OS libraries the game uses are reimplemented natively, and GX2 graphics go straight to Metal on macOS or Vulkan elsewhere. No Cemu runtime and no GPU command emulation. 98 of its last 100 commits list Claude or Codex as a co-author.

You needYour own copy of The Wind Waker HD (Wii U, US edition).

WII

Mario Kart Wii (Wiicompiled)

patchzyy/Wiicompiled

Native port of Mario Kart Wii via static recompilation: no emulator, no interpreter or JIT, and no PowerPC code at run time. In beta.

You needYour own legally dumped copy of the PAL version.

WII

Super Mario Galaxy (Petari)

SMGCommunity/Petari

Petari, the Super Mario Galaxy decompilation, tracking code and data progress separately. Its README is explicit about something often confused: the project isn’t an attempt at a PC port. The team’s port is a separate project called AstroCore. It ships no assets or assembly.

WIN

Cave Story (doukutsu-rs)

doukutsu-rs/doukutsu-rs

doukutsu-rs: a faithful reimplementation of the Cave Story engine written in Rust, which started as a project to learn the language. A single executable uses the data from the original freeware release, Cave Story+, and the Switch version. It decouples game logic from frame rate with motion interpolation for high refresh rate displays, has no fixed resolution (the widescreen camera is Clownacy’s code), lets you switch between 50 and 60 ticks per second to match the freeware release or Cave Story+, has two-player local multiplayer, lets you skip cutscenes like the Switch version, and adds lighting effects slightly fancier than that version’s. With Cave Story+ it’s a drop-in replacement for its executable, on the Mac too, where the original no longer runs on macOS 10.15 or later. Version 1.0.0 (June 3) dropped the beta label: according to its authors, the game has been complete since 0.99.0, and since then they’ve only been fixing bugs and refining accuracy. That release rebuilt the Android port on SDL2 and added native Wayland support on Linux. There are builds for 32- and 64-bit Windows, macOS (Intel from 10.14, and Apple silicon), and Linux (also on Flatpak), plus Android and Switch.

You needNo purchase needed: the original 2004 freeware release is enough; doukutsu-rs goes in the same folder as its Doukutsu.exe and, on first launch, extracts the resources embedded in it. The data from your own copy of Cave Story+ (Steam, GOG, Epic, or Humble; the Epic one needs a stray opengl32.dll deleted) or of the Switch version, dumped with its update, works too. The 2026 remastered Steam release isn’t supported yet. Plus Windows, macOS 10.14 or later, or Linux.

GemRB

gemrb/gemrb

GemRB (Game Engine Made with preRendered Background): an open-source, cross-platform reimplementation of BioWare’s Infinity Engine, in all eight of its versions, the engine behind Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale, and Planescape: Torment. According to its own table, Baldur’s Gate, Baldur’s Gate II, Icewind Dale, and Icewind Dale II can be played to the end and are polished; Planescape: Torment can be completed too, but lacks a few features. Of the Enhanced Editions it only supports, experimentally, Baldur’s Gate II: EE (its Shadows of Amn part can be finished); multiplayer isn’t implemented. It runs at any resolution without the widescreen mod (the interface stays centered at its size), with whole-window scaling and at any frame rate, supports touchscreens and controllers, and its plugin-based design removes limits of the original engine and makes modding easier; the games’ mods work, except whatever depends on patching the executable. It ships a small demo of its own that runs without any game. Version 0.9.5 (March 23) partly rewrote the audio, with spatial sound, improved controller input, greatly sped up pathfinding, brought the Enhanced Editions’ zoom to every game, and made Icewind Dale II as polished as the others. There are builds for Windows, Linux (also on Flatpak), and macOS. Four of its more than 28,000 commits, all from 2026, say the bug was found or fixed with Claude.

You needThe files from your own copy of one of the original Infinity Engine games (Baldur’s Gate, Baldur’s Gate II, Icewind Dale, Icewind Dale II, or Planescape: Torment, with their expansions), installed; the free Baldur’s Gate II demo works too, and with no game at all it runs its own demo. Outside Windows, the game is copied from a Windows install or installed with WINE or unshield. Installing the fixpacks is recommended. Plus Windows (with the Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable), Linux, or macOS.

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Carmageddon (dethrace)

dethrace-labs/dethrace

Dethrace: a reverse-engineered reconstruction of Carmageddon’s code so it runs natively on modern systems. It starts from the Watcom debug symbols of an earlier internal build, found on the Splat Pack expansion CD; crayzkirk matched them by hand to the DOS executable, and from there a C skeleton was generated that’s being filled in function by function. Since 0.10.0 it also builds with Visual C++ 4.20 and is compared instruction by instruction with the Windows 95 CARM95.EXE through reccmp, the LEGO Island decompilation’s tool; every function and global variable is tagged with its address in it. It uses the code of BRender 1.3.2, since released, instead of its reconstructed version, with the original software renderer and the original 3dfx path on OpenGL. The full game, the Splat Pack expansion, and the free demos work, with the original 640×480 high-resolution mode, CD music in the GOG release’s format, network play, cutscenes, the original CD and censorship checks, which can be turned on, and the option to run physics every frame (the original did it every 40 ms, causing camera judder in slow corners); the frame rate cap can be changed or removed. There are builds for 32- and 64-bit Windows, x86-64 and ARM64 Linux, and macOS. The latest is 0.10.1 (February 22).

You needThe files from your own copy of Carmageddon (from the original CD or GOG’s Carmageddon Max Pack), with Splat Pack if you have it; the free Carmageddon and Splat Pack demos work too. It goes in the game folder, next to CARMA.EXE (on Windows, with SDL2.dll), or the folder is set in a dethrace.ini file. Plus Windows, Linux, or macOS.

PS1

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Xeeynamo/sotn-decomp

Matching decompilation covering three platforms at once (PlayStation, PSP, and Saturn): it reconstructs the source code from the binaries through static and dynamic analysis, down to byte-for-byte builds. It supports four versions: the reference US SLUS-00067, the European PSP build, the Saturn port made by an outside team, and an unreleased Japanese PS1 build found inside the Dracula X Chronicles game data. It ships no assets: they must be extracted from your copy.

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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (gta-reversed)

gta-reversed/gta-reversed

gta-reversed (formerly gta-reversed-modern): a project to reverse engineer all the code of the PC version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (1.0 US), rewriting and documenting every function. It doesn’t aim for a matching build: it compiles a DLL that any ASI loader injects into the game, replacing its functions with the rewritten ones while the game behaves the same, so any change to the rewritten code shows up in the game. The goal is to rewrite all of it and compile a standalone executable. The README estimates that 50 to 60% is done and warns that the figure needs updating; the automatic count from November 4 lists 7,664 of 8,336 functions as documented and reimplemented (92%), with the caveat that not every function is documented yet. It needs your own copy of the game with the «Compact» executable (5,189,632 bytes), which isn’t the 1.0 US one, an ASI loader, and a mouse fix DLL; it’s built with Visual Studio 2026, Conan, and CMake. It credits codenulls’ gta-reversed as the original project, and thanks plugin-sdk and re3. 54 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author, and one more lists Copilot.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (IW4L)

vladtrc/iw4L

IW4L: an open-source runtime for the multiplayer of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009), written in Rust with the Bevy engine and wgpu. It loads the maps, models, textures, and weapons from your game installation into its own engine, without patching or replacing its files: it reads the FastFiles with its own readers, translates the original Direct3D 9 shaders to WGSL, and runs the game’s GSC scripts, which drive the match flow. You can explore maps, fight bots, and record, play back, and edit demos. Networking uses its own UDP traffic, with a QUIC master server for finding and relaying games, and the host simulates the match. It also reads Modern Warfare 3, Black Ops, and Black Ops II data if you have them installed, and can load their maps and weapons. Gameplay is incomplete: the author warns of missing behavior, bugs, and desyncs, and that the protocol changes between versions, so every player needs the same one. The repository opened on September 13 and publishes test builds for Windows every few days; the latest is v0.1.0-demo.23 (October 16). On Linux and macOS you build it from source. The Windows zip is password-protected, with the password given in the README. Online play needs the .iw4l-server file each server’s operator hands out, and with it the program updates itself on launch with whatever that server publishes. Its README states that the whole project is written by a language model, and 147 of its 238 commits list an AI as a co-author, 145 of them Claude.

You needYour own installation of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) with its multiplayer data; on Windows it finds the Steam install on its own. Modern Warfare 3, Black Ops, and Black Ops II are optional. Plus Windows for the released build; on Linux and macOS, building it with Rust.

xoreos

xoreos/xoreos

xoreos: an open-source reimplementation of BioWare’s Aurora engine and its derivatives, aiming to get every game that uses them working on modern systems, from Neverwinter Nights to Dragon Age II. Its target games are Neverwinter Nights, Neverwinter Nights 2, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and its sequel, The Sith Lords, Jade Empire, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, The Witcher, Dragon Age: Origins, and Dragon Age II. So far the groundwork is done: it manages resources, reads many file formats, displays graphics, and plays sound. All of those games show part of their areas and objects, which you can fly around with a free camera, and some show part of their menus, but none of them can be played normally yet. The latest release, 0.0.6 (August 3, 2020), made the Knights of the Old Republic tutorial partly playable (collecting your gear, Trask opening the first door, and a practice fight), let you skip The Sith Lords’ prologue, and added music and an early character creation menu to Jade Empire. It has no GUI: you start it from the command line with the game’s path. Development continues in the repository; the latest commit is from September 4.

You needA full installation on your hard drive of your own copy of the game you want to open. Plus Windows or Linux (32- or 64-bit x86) or macOS 10.9 or later (64-bit Intel); it’s also in the AUR, for Arch Linux, and in a Gentoo overlay.

DOS

Star Wars: Dark Forces (The Force Engine)

TheForceEngine/TheForceEngine

The Force Engine: a reverse-engineered rebuild of the Jedi Engine, the engine behind Star Wars: Dark Forces and Outlaws, for modern systems. It shares a legacy with DarkXL, but it’s a complete rewrite focused on accuracy. Dark Forces can be played from start to finish, with all the AI, weapons, items, and iMUSE music, along with community mods, which load from the Mods folder; Outlaws isn’t playable yet and is planned for version 2.0. At 320×200 it uses the original software renderer; besides that, it has a floating-point software renderer with widescreen, ultrawide included, and much higher resolutions, plus a GPU renderer. It raises the engine’s limits, which removes most HOM (“hall of mirrors”) glitches in advanced mods, and adds rebindable controls, controller support, mouselook, an aiming reticle, improved Boba Fett AI, free saving that works with the original checkpoints and lives, captions, SoundFonts, and an emulated OPL3. All of it can be turned off to play as on DOS, only at higher frame rates. Since 1.10 (July 17, 2024) it recognizes Dark Forces Remaster data and uses its HD textures, sprites, and HUD, and since 1.22.000 (March 23, 2025) it includes a level editor in alpha. The latest release is 1.22.420 (September 10, 2025), for Windows; on Linux it’s installed from Flathub or built from source. Since then, the repository has added macOS builds (January) and the Remaster’s video cutscenes (July).

You needYour own installed copy of Star Wars: Dark Forces (sold on GOG and Steam) or Dark Forces Remaster; it finds GOG and Steam installs on its own. Plus an OpenGL 3.3 graphics card and 64-bit Windows 7 or later, Linux, or macOS (building it yourself); on Windows you may need the Visual C++ Redistributable (x64).

GC

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (tww)

zeldaret/tww

Work-in-progress decompilation of the GameCube version by the zeldaret team, with DOL and REL module progress measured separately. It’s the base of the Wind Waker recomp in this catalog, and shouldn’t be confused with the Wii U HD version, which has its own separate project.

PS4

inFAMOUS Second Son (HayatoG)

HayatoG/iss_pc

A native Linux and Windows port of the US PS4 release (CUSA00223, base game 1.00 with the 1.07 update): the original code runs directly on the CPU, the PS4 system is reimplemented, and the GPU is translated to Vulkan. It shares its core with the same author’s ports of The Last Guardian and Gravity Rush 2. It’s playable: it boots, reaches gameplay, and gets through the first chapters, with climbing, powers, cutscenes, saves, its own audio with no firmware files, and SDL3 controllers. The DualShock 4 or DualSense gyro works, and on other controllers or the keyboard a sensor mode acts as the spray can for the graffiti. Performance is still uneven, 20–30 fps on an RTX 2060, and some fog, water, and fire effects flicker. It has a launcher in Portuguese and English with mods and cheats, save backups, and experimental fixes you can turn on one by one. 72 of its last 100 commits list Claude or Codex as a co-author.

You needYour own dump of the US release of inFAMOUS Second Son for PS4 (CUSA00223), with base game 1.00 and the 1.07 update in one folder, taken from your console; no firmware files are needed. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 (1903 or later) or 11, or x86-64 Linux (glibc 2.39 or later), a Vulkan 1.3 graphics card (6 GB of VRAM recommended), and about 33 GB of free space.

MOB

Sonic the Hedgehog / Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2013, decompilation)

RSDKModding/RSDKv4-Decompilation

A complete decompilation of Retro Engine v4 (RSDKv4) and of the menus from the 2013 versions of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog 2, released for iOS and Android; it comes from the same author as the Sonic CD and Sonic Mania decompilations. It works with data from the mobile versions, Sega Forever ones included, and partly with Sonic Origins data, which lacks the music and sound effects (Origins doesn’t keep them in those files) and some menu assets, which can be copied over from the mobile versions. Both games’ scripts are decompiled separately, in another repository, and fix bugs in some versions, such as the softlock at the end of certain acts on very wide screens. It adds the RSDKv5U script compiler, a mod loader with its own API, a settings.ini file with every setting, a dev menu with debugging tools, and Sonic Mania Plus’s idle screen dimming, and lets you play Sonic 2’s Egg Gauntlet Zone in Time Attack if your version includes it. It also has a networked 2P VS mode for Sonic 2, with a Python server the project itself calls an unstable proof of concept. The released builds don’t allow the Origins Plus DLC or playing as Amy: for that you have to build it yourself. There are builds for Windows (32- and 64-bit), Linux, and Android; the latest is 1.3.3 (November 2, 2025).

You needThe data from your own official copy of the 2013 Sonic the Hedgehog or Sonic the Hedgehog 2: the iOS or Android versions (delisted, but you can redownload them from your purchase history) or Sonic Origins for Windows (Steam or Epic Games Store) or Switch. Origins data has to be used in folder mode or repacked, with the audio from the mobile versions added. Plus Windows, Linux, or Android; on other systems, build it from source.

DOS

⑂ Fork of sezero/quakespasm

Quake (Ironwail)

andrei-drexler/ironwail

Ironwail: a fork of QuakeSpasm, the GLQuake-descended Quake port, that puts performance ahead of maximum compatibility. It moves work from the CPU to the GPU (culling and lightmap updates) and uses modern OpenGL 4.3 features such as instancing, compute shaders, indirect multi-draw, and bindless textures to run community maps with far more polygons than the originals at very high frame rates; rendering is decoupled from the simulation to avoid physics issues, with code from QSS by way of vkQuake. If you have the 2021 release on Steam, you just unzip it into any folder and run it to play that version, with any add-ons you’ve already downloaded, achievements, time tracking, and the remastered models. It adds a Mods menu, weapon key bindings in the menus, mouse-driven menus, alternative HUDs based on Quake 64’s and QuakeWorld’s, real-time palettization with optional dithering for a more authentic look, the classic underwater warp effect, controller support with gyro, flick stick, and rumble, demo playback controls, a speed indicator, and tools for mappers. It uses less memory and loads huge maps faster. Version 0.8.2 (August 11) added initial compatibility with Quake’s 30th anniversary update and its MG3: Dawn of the Machine expansion.

You needAn installation of your own copy of Quake, which you unzip it into; if you have the 2021 release on Steam, you just unzip it into any other folder and it finds the game on its own. Plus Windows (32- or 64-bit) or x64 Linux (glibc 2.31 or later) and an OpenGL 4.3 graphics card: at least a GeForce GT 420, Radeon HD 5450, or Intel HD Graphics 4200. It doesn’t run on macOS, which stops at OpenGL 4.1.

Surreal Engine

dpjudas/SurrealEngine

Surreal Engine: a reimplementation of Unreal Engine 1, currently focused on making Unreal (and Unreal Gold) and Unreal Tournament (UT99) playable; its scope may later grow to other games on the engine. It renders the maps, and its UnrealScript VM is almost feature complete (only arrays and network conditional execution are missing), but many native functions still aren’t implemented. In Unreal (versions 226 and 227i) single-player maps and botmatches can be played, and in Unreal Tournament (436 and 469c), botmatches; Deus Ex (1112fm) boots to the title screen and lets you play the beginning of the training map, and Klingon Honor Guard and NERF Arena Blast boot. It also detects Rune Classic, Clive Barker’s Undying, Tactical-Ops, The Wheel of Time, and TNN Outdoors Pro Hunter, though they don’t work yet. There’s no networking at all, and mods with native code will never work, by design. It has a launcher where you add your game folders and pick one to play. It publishes nightly builds for Windows, Linux, and macOS, and it’s in the AUR and Nix. Its contribution rule asks people not to submit changes made mainly with AI tools such as Claude.

You needYour own original copies of the Unreal Engine 1 games you want to run, in a supported version (for example, Unreal Tournament 436 or 469c, or Unreal Gold 226 or 227i). Plus Windows 10 or later, macOS 15 or later, or a modern Linux distribution, and a graphics card with Direct3D 11, OpenGL 3.2, or Vulkan (on macOS, Metal 2).

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Arx Fatalis (Arx Libertatis)

arx/ArxLibertatis

Arx Libertatis: a cross-platform port of Arx Fatalis based on the source code Arkane Studios released, which adapts it to modern systems, brings it to new platforms, and removes bugs and limitations of the original. Version 1.2 (July 13, 2021), eight years after 1.1, brought more forgiving rune recognition when drawing spells and a bow aim mode where the arrow flies where it points, both of which can be turned off for the original controls; configurable HUD, player book, and cursor scaling for high resolutions, without stretching the book or minimap in widescreen or ultrawide; text and voice language selection in the menu; fixed item physics; adjustable field of view, an option to remove camera bobbing, and a frame rate limit; HRTF surround sound with OpenAL Soft and the reverb that used to need an EAX sound card; SDL 2, with raw mouse input and Wayland; and a console for running script commands. The latest release is 1.2.1 (April 10, 2022), a bugfix release that restored Windows XP support; there’s a Windows installer and Linux binaries, plus development snapshots and packages for macOS (Homebrew), many Linux distributions, the BSDs, and Haiku. The latest commit is from August 22, 2024. On Linux, its data install script (arx-install-data), if you install from the CD and it can’t find the patch on your machine, downloads the official 1.21 patch by itself from Bethesda’s CDN or its Internet Archive copy, and for the Japanese version the 1.02j patch from the Internet Archive copy of Capcom’s site; you can avoid this with the --no-patch option or by pointing it to your own file.

You needThe data from your own copy of Arx Fatalis (from GOG, Steam, the Microsoft Store, or the CD, which also needs the 1.21 patch) or from its demo. On Windows, install Arx Fatalis before Arx Libertatis; on Linux, the data is installed with its script. Plus Windows or Linux (on other systems, through community packages or by building it) and a graphics card with OpenGL 1.5, though 2.1 or later is recommended.

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Diablo II (Riiablo)

collinsmith/riiablo

Riiablo: an attempt to rebuild Diablo II from scratch in Java, with LibGDX, OpenGL, FlatBuffers, and Netty, that runs on the game’s original assets and doesn’t include them. It isn’t playable yet: it starts, loads save files (1.13c onward, without modifying them), and lets you walk around a bit and look at your characters. The author aims to stay faithful to the original, with some changes such as automatic gold pickup, and it already supports almost any aspect ratio (4:3, 16:9, 18:9, or 21:9), with the height fixed at 480 pixels, the original assets’ height. It’s meant for PC and Android, and its feature list includes cross-platform multiplayer, dedicated servers, TCP/IP games, and single player, with no compatibility with the original client; it also has a console with CVARs, rebindable keys, controller support, and a scalable UI. It includes an MPQ viewer for inspecting the game’s files and a map viewer. The latest test builds, as .jar files, are from 0.0.4 (May 28, 2021), and the latest commit is from January 13, 2025.

You needThe MPQ files from your own Windows installation of Diablo II; on Windows it finds typical installs on its own, along with your saves. On Linux and macOS you copy the MPQs from a Windows (or Wine) install and often have to point it at them. Plus Java to run the test builds’ .jar files; for Android you build it yourself.

DOS

C-Dogs (C-Dogs SDL)

cxong/cdogs-sdl

C-Dogs SDL: a continuation of C-Dogs, the overhead run-and-gun game Ronny Wester made for DOS between 1997 and 2001 and gave away as freeware. Wester released the source code in 2002; Jeremy Chin and Lucas Martin-King ported it to SDL for modern systems, and it’s now maintained by Cong Xu. In 2016 Wester also relicensed the original graphics and campaigns under CC BY. Up to four people can play, co-op or deathmatch, in split screen, over a LAN, or with computer-controlled teammates, and it comes with campaign and character editors, the classic campaigns, and new ones such as a Cyberdogs campaign, after Wester’s earlier game; over 100 player-made campaigns are also available. Since 1.0 it loads the Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny maps from your own copy as campaigns, and since 2.4.0, with “Super 2D Noah’s Ark,” those of Super 3D Noah’s Ark. Version 2.5.0 (October 16) added a DOS pixel aspect ratio mode and the mission briefing in the pause menu. The download also includes the data of the Wolfenstein 3D shareware episode, which is freely distributable.

You needNo copy needed: C-Dogs’ code has been free since 2002 and its graphics and campaigns have been CC BY since 2016, so the download contains the whole game. The Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny, and Super 3D Noah’s Ark campaigns need the files from your own copy of those games (it finds Steam installs of Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny on its own). Plus Windows, Linux, or macOS.

PS1

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

BlackLabelHQ/SymphonyRecomp

Recompilation of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS1), under active development (version 0.5).

You needA Symphony of the Night disc image (PS1).

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Dungeon Keeper (KeeperFX)

dkfans/keeperfx

KeeperFX (Dungeon Keeper Fan eXpansion): a fan-rewritten version of Dungeon Keeper that fixes, enhances, and modernizes the game. Tomasz Lis (Mefistotelis) started it in April 2008 as a DLL made from the Dungeon Keeper Gold executable, whose code was gradually decompiled and rewritten; on December 28, 2022, the last parts of the original code were rewritten and KeeperFX became a program of its own, with no DLL. It adds higher resolutions, higher frame rates with graphics decoupled from game logic, modernized controls and controller support, many bug fixes, improved AI, online multiplayer, and new campaigns, maps, creatures, and traps, plus many mapmaking and modding options, with Lua scripting. It’s available in 17 languages, some of them partial. Version 1.4.0 (July 4) reworked multiplayer: it lists open lobbies, supports up to four players, copes with high ping, and needs no port forwarding. According to its wiki, GOG also offers it as a “One-click Mod.” Also according to its wiki, the complete package includes some of the original Dungeon Keeper data, many of those files modified or remade. Two of its commits, from August 2025, say Claude Code named previously unnamed fields.

You needA few files from your own copy of Dungeon Keeper: from the original CD (English or multilingual, Dungeon Keeper Gold included) or the GOG, Steam, or EA release. The launcher copies them on its own; there are 16 of them (palettes, the two slab files, and three sound banks). The Deeper Dungeons add-on alone doesn’t have them. Plus Windows 7, 10, or 11; the web installer needs Windows 10 or later.

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Tomb Raider I–III (TRX)

LostArtefacts/TRX

TRX: an open-source reimplementation of Tomb Raider, Tomb Raider II, and Tomb Raider III for PC, built from the decompiled games and with open-source replacements for their proprietary components. A single engine runs all three games, their expansions, and custom levels while keeping each original’s mechanics, and the README says all three are playable from start to finish; Tomb Raider IV support is underway, still at an early stage. There are builds for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It adds 60 fps interpolation, adjustable draw distance, UI scaling, enemy health bars, a photo mode, 3D pickups, skyboxes, sprinting and other moves, Lara’s braid in the first game, a developer console, controller support with remappable controls, and Lua scripting, and it fixes many bugs in the originals. The latest release is 1.11.1 (September 22). The repo and the downloads include “injection” files with models, animations, and textures from other games in the series, such as Lara’s outfits from Tomb Raider II to IV and a Natla outfit, Winston’s model, and the Tomb Raider IV guns; the downloads also bring what’s needed to play the Tomb Raider PC demo and Tomb Raider II: The Golden Mask without your own files, which the project says can be freely distributed. The Windows installer downloads from lostartefacts.dev, as separate boxes you have to tick, the levels of Tomb Raider: Unfinished Business (original or fan-patched), the demo, and The Golden Mask, and for Tomb Raider and Tomb Raider II it offers to download their music, in a box that comes ticked.

You needYour own PC copies of Tomb Raider, Tomb Raider II, and Tomb Raider III, from Steam, GOG, or disc: their levels, videos, and music; the Unfinished Business, The Golden Mask, and The Lost Artifact expansions are added separately. The Windows installer finds Steam, GOG, or disc copies by itself and copies the files; with the Windows and Linux zips, or on macOS, you copy them by hand into each game’s folder. Plus Windows, Linux, or macOS.

360

Forza Horizon (arcanite24)

arcanite24/pinyon-shift

Playable native preview of the first Forza Horizon, built with a customized ReXGlue: the Xbox 360’s PowerPC code is statically recompiled rather than emulated.

You needYour own Forza Horizon ISO (Xbox 360, US retail edition MS-2505).

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Quake II (vkQuake2)

kondrak/vkQuake2

vkQuake2: id Software’s official Quake II code, version 3.21, with a Vulkan renderer and the mission packs included (The Reckoning and Ground Zero, plus Zaero and Slight Mechanical Destruction). It aims to keep the original 1997 experience, which is why it builds directly on id’s code with no SDL-like libraries, so some of the original bugs may remain. It adds 64-bit support, more resolutions with interface scaling, slightly upgraded world colors (which can be turned off), the software renderer’s underwater warp effect, MSAA and sample shading, anisotropic filtering, the Nightmare/Hard+ skill in the menu, and OGG, FLAC, MP3, or WAV music besides CD audio. The software renderer was replaced with KolorSoft 1.1, which adds colored lighting. It ships a 64-bit Windows build, and it also builds for Windows ARM64, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, and Raspberry Pi 4. Version 1.5.10 (August 26) fixed crashes when switching windows, updated it for recent Vulkan SDKs, and dropped the 32-bit build. The download also includes the Quake II demo content.

You needThe files from your own copy of Quake II: the retail .pak files, models, and videos, copied into the baseq2 folder; for the mission packs, their data in rogue (Ground Zero), xatrix (The Reckoning), zaero, or smd. Without the CD, the music as trackXX files (.ogg, .flac, .mp3, or .wav) in baseq2/music. Plus a Vulkan graphics card and, on Windows, the Visual C++ Redistributable.

DOS

Duke Nukem II

lethal-guitar/RigelEngine

Rigel Engine: a reimplementation of Duke Nukem II that replaces the original DOS executable. It reads the game’s data files and plays just like the original, but runs natively on Windows, Linux, and macOS, and can also be installed on the Steam Deck. It was made by reverse engineering, disassembling the original binary. All four episodes, from the shareware and registered versions, are fully playable and on par with the original. It adds a widescreen mode, smooth scrolling with a higher frame rate, quick saving, better controller support, and extended modding features. Its author considers it done: it’s in maintenance mode, with no new features planned. The complete reconstruction of the original code is a separate project, Duke2Reconstructed.

You needThe Duke Nukem II data files, from the registered version or the free shareware one: NUKEM2.CMP is enough, plus the optional intro movies (NUKEM2.F1 to F5). Plus a graphics card with OpenGL 3.0 or OpenGL ES 2.0.

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Quake II (Yamagi Quake II)

yquake2/yquake2

Yamagi Quake II: an enhanced client for id Software’s Quake II with a focus on offline and co-op play. Gameplay and graphics are unchanged, but it fixes many bugs of the last official release and adds widescreen support, reliable high frame rates, a modern OpenAL-based sound backend, modern game controller support, and an OpenGL 3.2 renderer. It builds on Icculus Quake II, which itself derives from Quake II 3.21, is fully 64-bit clean, and is released under the GPL v2. Officially supported systems are FreeBSD, Linux, and Windows; macOS and other Unix-like systems have community support. The official add-ons (The Reckoning, Ground Zero, and CTF) and the Remaster variant live in their own repositories. Official releases are published on its homepage, and its continuous integration builds unsupported binaries on every commit.

You needThe files from your own copy of Quake II; the README points to the project’s documentation for installation. Windows, Linux, or FreeBSD (macOS with community support).

PS4

Driveclub (OverkillLabs3)

OverkillLabs3/driveclub-recomp

DriveClub Recomp: despite the name, it isn’t a recompilation. The original x86-64 code of PS4 version 1.28 runs directly on the CPU, the PS4 system libraries are reimplemented, and GPU commands are translated to Vulkan, the way Wine and DXVK work. It’s playable on Windows from the menus through races, photo mode, and saves, at about 60 fps at 4K in the heaviest scenes on its test PC. Since 0.2.0 it replaces the game’s anti-aliasing with DLAA or FSR 3.1. It supports keyboard, any gamepad, and steering wheels with force feedback, pedals with a clutch, and an H-pattern shifter. It offers output from 720p to 8K, ultrawide with a field-of-view fix, an unlocked frame rate at normal game speed, a mods folder, and a benchmark in the launcher. DLC content can be unlocked from your own files. Online features don’t work. 2 of its 85 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own Driveclub PS4 dumps: the 1.28 update (with eboot.bin) and the base game (with game000.dat). It’s tested with the US release (CUSA00093) and also accepts the European one (CUSA00003). Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, an Intel Haswell, AMD Excavator, or Ryzen CPU or newer, a Vulkan 1.3 graphics card, and about 40 GB of free space.

WIN

The Sims Online (FreeSO)

riperiperi/FreeSO

FreeSO: a full reimplementation of The Sims Online built with MonoGame. It stays faithful to the original but renders in hardware at high resolutions, with its own dynamic lighting, and allows houses with more than two floors; it also adds neighborhoods, first- and third-person controls, open lot borders, and a 3D mode that rebuilds objects from their sprites’ depth buffers, with community-made models for many of them. It includes Volcanic, an editor for viewing, modifying, and creating objects alongside a live SimAntics virtual machine, and its engine is the base of Simitone, the same author’s reimplementation of The Sims, which is still incomplete. The official FreeSO server shut down on December 9, 2024; since then the project has been working on FreeSO Archive, a client for hosting your own server with no technical knowledge or joining someone else’s, in beta for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The latest, v0.8.5-beta, is from September 20. The project doesn’t accept AI-assisted contributions.

You needThe original The Sims Online files (objects, avatars, and interface), which according to the project can be downloaded from EA’s servers; FreeSO itself includes no copyrighted game material. The project’s classic installer, FSOInstaller, downloads them from there. Plus Windows, macOS, or Linux.

DOS

⑂ Fork of chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom

Doom / Doom II (Crispy Doom)

fabiangreffrath/crispy-doom

Crispy Doom: a “friendly fork” of Chocolate Doom, the faithful port built on the Doom source code id Software released in 1997. It doubles the internal resolution to 640×400 (320×200 is still available), removes the engine’s static limits, and adds optional visual, tactical, and physical enhancements while staying compatible with the original’s config files, savegames, netplay, and demos. It has widescreen rendering up to 24:9, uncapped frame rates with interpolation and optional VSync, and supports the “Doom Classic” WADs from Doom 3: BFG Edition, with the No Rest for the Living episode, and every version of SIGIL. The optional features, mostly off by default, are enabled in the “Crispness” menu: jumping, mouselook, a crosshair, a minimal HUD, translucency, randomly mirrored corpses, and secret notifications, among others. It also loads full DEHACKED and BEX and animation-smoothing mods, and plays limit-removing maps, but not Boom or ZDoom ones. Crispy Heretic, Crispy Hexen, and Crispy Strife are released from the same code. There’s a Windows build and packages for macOS (MacPorts and Homebrew) and Linux (Debian and Ubuntu). Version 7.2.0 (October 12) extended the extended BSP format to all games and fixed demo and savegame bugs.

You needThe IWAD file from your own copy of Doom, Doom II, or Final Doom, or the Doom 3: BFG Edition WADs; the free shareware DOOM1.WAD works too, as does Freedoom. For Crispy Heretic, Crispy Hexen, and Crispy Strife, each game’s IWAD. Plus Windows, macOS, or Linux.

PS1

Silent Hill

shdecompilations/silent-hill-decomp

Work-in-progress decompilation of the US 1.1 PS1 release, compiling to a binary identical to the original. Its README puts two things in writing that belong here. First: this project won’t produce a port, to PC or anything else, and the codebase isn’t ready for one because of incomplete documentation and constant reorganization. Second: the decompilation is human-driven, with no AI-generated code, reversed by hand by several contributors over years; forks may use AI to port it, but this project doesn’t.

360

Lost Odyssey (freefrank)

freefrank/LostOdysseyRecomp

Native PC port of Mistwalker’s RPG by PowerPC static recompilation, with Direct3D 12 and Vulkan renderers, optional frame generation (DLSS/FSR), and a Linux AppImage. A separate project from the other Lost Odyssey recomp already in the catalog, which uses XenonRecomp. Its author warns it’s still in early testing: some areas and scenes have been tested, but not a full playthrough.

You needYour own Lost Odyssey game files (Xbox 360). The importer accepts an extracted folder, default.xex, an XDVDFS ISO, or a GOD container.

WIN

World of Warcraft (benilla)

samwhosung/benilla

benilla: a World of Warcraft 1.12.1 client written from scratch in Rust on the Bevy engine, with no original client code. It reads the game data from your own 1.12.1 install and connects to a 1.12.1 server over the original protocol; it’s developed against vmangos and also works with cMaNGOS and other cores that speak the same protocol. It reimplements every file format (MPQ, BLP, DBC, ADT, WDT, WDL, M2, and WMO), the network protocol, and the interface engine: the stock 1.12 interface runs on its own FrameXML and Lua engine from your install’s files, and addons such as Questie, pfUI, or Bagnon work. Its author calls it complete and fully playable: character creation, quests and professions, dungeons and raids, battlegrounds and honor, groups, guilds, trade, mail, and the auction house. There are no prebuilt downloads: it’s built with Rust from each release tag, on Windows, Linux, or macOS. It doesn’t answer Warden, the anticheat, so servers that enforce it drop the session. The reverse engineering of the client lives in a separate repository, benilla-re. Version 0.2.0 came out on September 27. 868 of its 877 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needThe data from your own World of Warcraft 1.12.1 client (build 5875), in any locale, and a 1.12.1 server with Warden off, such as vmangos or cMaNGOS. To build it, stable Rust and a C compiler: on Windows, the MSVC build tools; on Linux, the ALSA and udev development packages and pkg-config; on macOS, the Xcode command line tools.

GBA

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap

zeldaret/tmc

An ongoing decompilation of The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, which aims to recreate a source code base for the game from scratch, using information found inside the game along with static and dynamic analysis. It can build the US, Japanese, and European ROMs and the US and Japanese demos, checked by SHA-1. The repository includes no assets: a prior copy of the game is needed to extract them. The README warns that the work is in progress, that some parts of the ROM can’t be shifted yet, and that the code can change drastically. Progress is tracked at zelda64.dev. The latest activity was on September 27.

360

GoldenEye 007 XBLA (SunJaycy)

SunJaycy/GoldenEye-Recomp

Native port of the canceled XBLA GoldenEye remaster (v1.0, June 2026): controller support, online multiplayer, post-processing, and 60 fps.

You needYour own GoldenEye 007 XBLA game files (Xbox 360).

XBX

Black (TGP482)

TGP482/BLACK-XBERecomp

A native Windows port of the Xbox version, built with XboxXBE-Recomp, the same author’s static recompilation tool. On first launch it compiles the game’s code for your machine. It replaces the original 640×480 with your monitor’s resolution and adds a 20–200% render scale, a 45–140° field of view, frame rates beyond the Xbox’s 30 fps cap, HDR, up to 8x MSAA and SMAA, ambient occlusion (SSAO or GTAO), and up to 16x draw distance. It has keyboard and mouse with raw input and rebindable controls, and SDL3 controller support with gyro aiming. V2 (October 18) added a controller options page and put every option page in the pause menu.

You needThe files from your own copy of Black for Xbox, US or European release, as an ISO or extracted. Plus 64-bit Windows 10, a CPU with SSE4.2, and a Direct3D 12 graphics card. Building it requires the US release’s default.xbe.

360

Blue Dragon

zolaware/reblue

“re:Blue,” a static recompilation of Mistwalker’s JRPG, built with the ReXGlue SDK. It reached 1.0 on August 27, 2026, and is now at 1.3.1 (October 5). A setup wizard copies the game from the images of its three discs, and from there it offers up to 4K at aspect ratios from 4:3 to 32:9, up to 8x MSAA, an unlocked or capped frame rate, saving anywhere from the camp menu, a field-of-view setting, native keyboard and mouse, a mod manager, and the official DLC. There are builds for Windows (DirectX 12), Linux (x86-64 and ARM64, Steam Deck included), and Apple Silicon macOS, with menus in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

You needImages of all three discs from your own copy of Blue Dragon (Xbox 360), global release (US and Europe); support for the Japanese and Asian release is coming.

DOS

System Shock (Shockolate)

Interrupt/systemshock

Shockolate: a cross-platform System Shock port using SDL2, based on the source code of the PowerPC Mac version released by Night Dive Studios. It aims to be for System Shock what Chocolate Doom is for Doom: an experience that closely mimics the original, but portable and with some quality-of-life improvements. It runs well on Windows and Linux, though some features need reviving because they weren’t in the released code. It adds an OpenGL renderer alongside the original software one, WASD controls with mouselook (toggled with F) and leaning with Q and E, fullscreen, MIDI music through FluidSynth and a SoundFont or FM synthesis through AdlMidi, and loads mods and fan missions (extra .res and .dat files). The latest stable release is 0.7.7 (April 8, 2019), with 2020 test builds for Windows, Linux, and macOS; development continues, and on October 18 a Zig build was added, used for Apple silicon macOS.

You needThe data from your own copy of the CD-ROM System Shock or System Shock: Enhanced Edition, in a res/data folder next to the executable; the floppy version’s data is older and can’t be loaded. For MIDI music, optionally, a SoundFont (.sf2) in the res folder. Plus Windows, Linux, or macOS.

N64

Super Mario 64 (Ghostship)

HarbourMasters/Ghostship

Ghostship: Harbour Masters’ port of Super Mario 64. It includes no copyrighted assets; you supply your own ROM.

WII

WheelWizard

TeamWheelWizard/WheelWizard

A Mario Kart Wii mod manager and automatic updater for Retro Rewind, a community track mod. Its authors are upfront about it: everything can be done without it, and the app exists so it only takes a few clicks. Retro Rewind runs in Dolphin with any region of the game, and also with Wiicompiled, the Mario Kart Wii recompilation by one of its authors that’s in the catalog, though that one only supports the PAL version. It’s free and open source (GPL-3.0). Its README warns that some antivirus programs flag it by mistake and explains how to check it.

You needYour own Mario Kart Wii backup, dumped by you (.iso, .gcm, .gcz, .ciso, .wbfs, .wia, or .rvz). To use it with Wiicompiled, the PAL version.

Raze

ZDoom/Raze

Raze: a port of the Build engine games backed by GZDoom technology that brings Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Redneck Rampage, Shadow Warrior, and Exhumed/PowerSlave together in a single program, and can also play NAM and WW2 GI. Each game builds on an earlier port: Duke Nukem 3D on JFDuke and EDuke 2.0, with World Tour extensions from DukeGDX; Redneck Rampage on Nuke.YKT’s reconstructed source (Rednukem); Blood on NBlood; Shadow Warrior on SWP and VoidSW; and Exhumed on PCExhumed, with enhancements inspired by PowerslaveGDX. It recognizes each game’s versions and add-ons, such as Duke Nukem 3D’s Atomic Edition, Plutonium Pak, and World Tour with Duke It Out in D.C., Duke Caribbean, and Nuclear Winter, One Unit Whole Blood and Cryptic Passage, Redneck Rampage Rides Again and Route 66, or Shadow Warrior’s Wanton Destruction and Twin Dragon, plus the shareware versions. From GZDoom it inherits OpenGL, Vulkan, and OpenGL ES renderers and a game picker at startup. Version 1.11.0 (February 22, 2025) brought fixes for every game and a widescreen menu background for Shadow Warrior. There are builds for Windows and macOS, and it builds on Linux.

You needThe data files from your own copy of one of the games (Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Redneck Rampage, Shadow Warrior, Exhumed/PowerSlave, NAM, or WW2 GI), with their add-ons if you have them; the free shareware versions work too. Plus Windows, macOS, or Linux.

ARC

CannonBall

djyt/cannonball

OutRun engine rewritten from scratch by Chris White: not a recomp or a decomp, but a reimplementation of the 1986 arcade game that reads the data from the original ROM. It’s the root of a family of forks: CannonBall-SE (J1mbo) adds CRT shaders and Raspberry Pi support, and CannonBall DX (Endprodukt) focuses on racing wheels, force feedback, and 21:9 cabinets.

You needYour own OutRun arcade ROM.

GC

Mario Party 4 (marioparty4)

mariopartyrd/marioparty4

Work-in-progress decompilation in which both US versions already build fully identical to the original, though almost everything outside the game engine remains undocumented. The European and Japanese versions are deliberately on hold: they involve a lot of repetitive work that will be far easier once there is tooling to carry splits and symbols between versions.

WIN

Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor (OpenEnroth)

OpenEnroth/OpenEnroth

OpenEnroth: an open-source reimplementation of the Might and Magic VI, VII, and VIII engine that uses the game’s original data. For now only Might and Magic VII is playable; VI and VIII support is planned. It comes from a 2013 decompilation of the mm7.exe executable, which the project keeps separately as its prehistory and which the current code has been rewriting. There are builds for Windows (64- and 32-bit), Linux (as a Flatpak), and macOS (Apple silicon and Intel), plus an experimental Android one. It uses Lua for its scripts and has an in-game console to run commands. So far it only publishes nightly builds, which may have bugs, the latest from September 28; the first stable release, 0.1, is in progress. Since March, 252 of its commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needThe data from your own copy of Might and Magic VII, the GOG release or the original disc: at least the ANIMS, DATA, MUSIC, and SOUNDS folders. On Windows, running the GOG installer is enough; on Linux and macOS, extract them with innoextract. Plus Windows, Linux, or macOS.

98

Touhou PC-98 (ReC98)

nmlgc/ReC98

ReC98 (The Touhou PC-98 Restoration Project): a reconstruction of the source code of the first five Touhou Project games, which ZUN Soft released only for NEC’s Japanese PC-9801 computer in 1997 and 1998: The Highly Responsive to Prayers, the Story of Eastern Wonderland, Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream, Lotus Land Story, and Mystic Square. It’s a matching decompilation: the executables built from its code, with the same Turbo C++ 4.0J compiler ZUN used, are identical to the originals at every commit, and the code is written to be readable and moddable. It isn’t a port: it builds PC-98 DOS programs, which need your original game files on a PC-98 or in an emulator. According to its website, as of January 19 the first game is fully decompiled and 61% of the code across all five is finalized. Besides the branch faithful to the original, it maintains a “debloated” branch that’s easier to read and meant as the base for ports to other platforms, and an “anniversary” branch that also fixes bugs; it publishes their executables as downloads, the latest, P0335, on March 16, with TH03 fixes. It’s crowdfunded, and its blog documents what it finds in ZUN’s code. The repository includes none of the games’ assets, but it does include, as disassembly, the original executables’ code that hasn’t been decompiled yet.

360

Dante's Inferno

florinp93/hells-gate-recomp

Native PC port of Dante's Inferno (Xbox 360) by static recompilation with the ReXGlue SDK: the PowerPC XEX executable is translated to portable C++ and runs on D3D12 on Windows or Vulkan on Linux, with no emulation and no JIT at run time. 4 of its last 100 commits list Claude, Cursor or Devin as a co-author.

You needYour own copy of Dante's Inferno for Xbox 360.

WIN

Fallout 2 (Falltergeist)

falltergeist/falltergeist

Falltergeist: a new open-source engine for Fallout 2, written in C++ with SDL2 and OpenGL, for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It doesn’t start from the game’s code: it reimplements the engine from scratch and reads the original .dat files, the way OpenXcom or OpenTTD do with their games. By 0.4.0 it could load maps, travel between locations on the world map, use skills on objects, open doors and containers, take ladders, stairs, and elevators, and barter in a basic way, and it had an inventory and a character screen; according to its roadmap, NPCs, combat AI, and full script support were still missing before the game would be playable. That 0.4.0, from May 20, 2022, is its last release, with no published executables, and the last commit is from July 2022. In 2024 one of its main developers wrote that they no longer have time for the project and don’t think it will ever be finished or even playable.

You needThe master.dat and critter.dat files from your own copy of Fallout 2, or the game’s CD mounted. Plus Windows, Linux, or macOS, and building it yourself with SDL2, SDL2_mixer, SDL2_image, GLEW, GLM, and zlib.

WIN

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (OpenMoHAA)

openmoh/openmohaa

OpenMoHAA: an open-source reimplementation of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and its Spearhead and Breakthrough expansions, built on ioquake3 and the Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.² SDK, and compatible with the original’s assets, scripts, and multiplayer. There are builds for Windows, Linux, and macOS, ARM included. According to the project, the whole campaign of all three games should work, and multiplayer is almost fully stable, with every official mode, including Spearhead’s Tug-of-War and Breakthrough’s Liberation, and popular mods like Freeze-Tag; you can join OpenMoHAA servers or host your own. It includes every fix from Spearhead 2.15 and Breakthrough 2.40b, and adds bots for offline practice, 4K support with automatic UI scaling, an adjustable field of view, smoother animations, OpenAL sound, demo recording, IPv6, multiple master servers through 333networks, and, on servers, IP bans and packet flood protection, plus many fixes for bugs and exploits in the original. It hasn’t reached 1.0 yet; the latest release is 0.82.1 (August 5, 2025). Its contribution guidelines forbid using AI to generate code.

You needAn installation of your own copy of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, preferably GOG’s War Chest, which includes both expansions; if it’s the CD release, with the official patches (1.11 for Allied Assault, 2.15 for Spearhead, and 2.40b for Breakthrough). The free demos work too. OpenMoHAA’s files are copied into the game folder. Plus Windows (x64, x86, or ARM64), Linux, or macOS (Apple silicon or Intel).

OpenNFS

OpenNFS/OpenNFS

OpenNFS: a new engine, written from scratch in C++ with OpenGL and Bullet physics, that aims to recreate the classic Need for Speed games, the first through the fifth, by loading the cars, tracks, and music from their original files. It’s at an early stage. It reads, to varying degrees, the formats of the PC versions of Need for Speed II, II Special Edition, III: Hot Pursuit, High Stakes, and Porsche Unleashed (the last one still without a stable parser), and partly those of the PlayStation versions of II, III, and High Stakes; III for PC is the most complete, and the first Need for Speed doesn’t load yet. In 2026 it gained menus to pick a car, color, and track, skid marks, adjustable weather, and the High Stakes PC driving physics Bluv wrote for the Velocity project, which make the cars drivable. Its plans include each original game’s gameplay, configurable menus, automatic import of the games, an open world joining all the classic tracks, and multiplayer. Its last published release, 0.3 (July 14, 2020), is a build from late 2018; current builds come from its continuous integration for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The repository also includes the 11 sky textures of a Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit track, extracted from its sky.fsh file, which it uses for the cars’ reflections.

You needThe files from your own copy of Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit for PC (the gamedata and fedata folders), which are required; those of Need for Speed II, II Special Edition, High Stakes, and Porsche Unleashed for PC are optional. Plus Windows, macOS, or Linux; for the current version you have to build it or grab a build from its continuous integration.

NSW

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (kuraeow)

kuraeow/ultratears

UltraTears is an unofficial native Windows port of version 1.4.3 for the Switch. It isn’t an emulator: the game’s code is translated ahead of time (static recompilation, ARM64 to C to x86-64), and the console’s system and NVN graphics API are replaced by the port’s own implementations on Windows and Vulkan; shaders and textures are converted when the game is built, not while playing. No executable with the game is published: you download a builder that translates and compiles the game on your PC from your own dump, or build from source. The README calls it early: the title screen, a new game, the prologue and the Great Sky Island play, at the game’s own 30 fps with hitches while new shaders compile. Steam Deck and Linux are planned. The only release, v0.1.0-beta, is from October 25. 1 of its 3 commits lists Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own copy of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom with update 1.4.3, as two ordinary folders: exefs (main, subsdk0, sdk, main.npdm…) and romfs (about 304,000 files, 16 GB). .nsp, .xci, .nca and other encrypted packages don’t work, and it reads no keys. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, a CPU with AVX2, a GPU with Vulkan 1.3 and VK_EXT_shader_object, 16 GB of RAM, and about 32 GB free for the build.

PS1

Silent Hill (SlickAmogus)

SlickAmogus/silent-hill-decomp

Feature-rich PC port based on the PlayStation decompilation of Silent Hill 1. In beta and under active development. A separate project from the Vatuu decompilation.

PS4

Bloodborne (bbhost)

droogie/bbhost

bbhost: a translation layer for playing Bloodborne on Windows and Linux, a project separate from bbport with the same approach. The game’s 1.09 executable runs unmodified on the CPU, bbhost reimplements all 660 PS4 system functions the game imports, PlayStation Network ones included, and the graphics are being moved from emulation to native code: each draw is built from FromSoftware’s engine objects and nearly all GCN shaders are decompiled to SPIR-V, though compute work still goes through an emulated command processor. About 30 of the game’s functions are already rewritten as source. Its author calls it playable, with the world, the bosses, and online sessions. It adds any resolution, ultrawide included (21:9 and 32:9), FSR 1, 30, 60, 90, or 120 fps or uncapped with the game’s timing corrected, keyboard and mouse with rebindable keys, PC settings pages inside the game’s own menus, the character appearance editor cut from the final game, mods that leave the game files alone (a randomizer, a boss rush, and the developers’ debug menu come with it), and online play between bbhost players on the private server The Hunter’s Dream, whose backend bbport also uses. It runs on the Steam Deck. 194 of its 224 commits list Claude as a co-author. The latest version is 0.2.18 (October 10).

You needYour own Bloodborne dump with the 1.09 update (copied over it or in its own folder beside the game, like CUSA00900 and CUSA00900-UPDATE) and the 1.09 eboot.bin decrypted to an ELF, with SHA-256 941f887a562aae054fac35af8cc8f27cf075f3d4cc2e029fb5ae2a663aaa5ae7; any other eboot won’t start. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 or Linux, or a Steam Deck, and a Vulkan 1.3 graphics card; 16 GB of RAM and 8 GB of video memory are recommended (6 GB NVIDIA cards play at 1080p). No game files are included.

Sonic Mania (decompilation)

RSDKModding/Sonic-Mania-Decompilation

Complete C decompilation of Sonic Mania, along with the RSDKv5/v5U engine and a mod loader (v1.1.1). Cross-platform; you supply your own game assets.

You needThe assets from an official Sonic Mania copy (the Netflix version isn’t supported).

MAC

Marathon Trilogy (Aleph One)

Aleph-One-Marathon/alephone

Aleph One: an open-source continuation of the Marathon 2 and Marathon Infinity engine, born from the Marathon 2 source code Bungie released under the GPL in 2000; Bungie released Marathon Infinity’s source as well in 2011. It plays all three Marathon games, originally released for the Mac, and dozens of community scenarios, from new levels to total conversions, picked with a scenario chooser. There are builds for Windows, macOS, and Linux (as a Flatpak), and the three games are on Steam as Classic Marathon, Classic Marathon 2, and Classic Marathon Infinity, with achievements and Steam Workshop. It can run at 30 fps like the original or with interpolation at 60 or 120 fps or uncapped, and it adds 3D audio with HRTF, Lua scripting, game recording with video export, and multiplayer and co-op for up to eight players over LAN or the internet, with a lobby to find games, dedicated servers so no router setup is needed, and monthly leaderboards with an optional lhowon.org account. The latest release, 1.11.1 (September 30), fixes bugs and security issues. Each game’s download includes its data, which Bungie allowed to be distributed for free in 2005 and which the project distributes under a limited license Bungie granted it in 2021.

You needNo copy needed: Bungie has allowed the three games to be distributed for free since 2005, and each of the project’s downloads already includes the game data, which can also be downloaded separately from its website. Plus Windows, macOS, or Linux.

DOS

Blood (NBlood)

NBlood/NBlood

NBlood: a port of Blood and its Cryptic Passage expansion, rebuilt through reverse engineering on top of the technology of EDuke32, the Duke Nukem 3D port that uses Ken Silverman’s Build engine; EDuke32 developers such as Hendricks266 and TerminX work on it too. If you have the digital Steam or GOG release installed, it finds it without copying anything, and it supports the Blood: Fresh Supply data. It can use the CD music as FLAC or OGG instead of MIDI and the original CD’s cutscenes, and it ships graphics adapted to widescreen made by community members. It has a strict vanilla mode, optional voxels, controller rumble, and multiplayer. The same repository holds Rednukem, for Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition, Redneck Rampage, Redneck Rampage: Rides Again, Duke Nukem 64, NAM, and World War II GI, and PCExhumed, for the PC version of Exhumed (PowerSlave). It publishes 32- and 64-bit Windows builds; the latest, r14388, is from September 14.

You needThe files from your own copy of Blood 1.21: BLOOD.INI, BLOOD.RFF, GUI.RFF, SOUNDS.RFF, SURFACE.DAT, TILES000.ART to TILES017.ART, and VOXEL.DAT, plus Cryptic Passage’s if you want to play it; with the Steam or GOG release installed, nothing needs copying. Plus Windows; on Linux and other systems you have to build it.

DOS

⑂ Fork of OpenTTD

Transport Tycoon Deluxe (JGR's Patchpack)

JGRennison/OpenTTD-patches

JGR’s Patchpack: a version of OpenTTD, the open-source reimplementation of Transport Tycoon Deluxe, with a long collection of added features and changes. It’s installed and played separately from standard OpenTTD; it isn’t a mod loaded from inside the game. It keeps up with OpenTTD’s development branch, and nearly all of its patches, many of them from the TT-Forums boards, have been modified or extended. Among what it adds: realistic train braking, routing restrictions, programmable pre-signals, drive-through train depots, template-based train replacement, multiple rail types per tile, signals in tunnels and on bridges, tunnels under water, one-way roads and overtaking, improved breakdowns, automated timetables and scheduled dispatch, infrastructure sharing in multiplayer, maps of up to 256 million tiles, and more cargo distribution modes. It warns that it isn’t aimed at beginners, and its savegames can’t be opened in standard OpenTTD. The first release came out in August 2015 and the latest, 0.73.4, on October 12. Its contribution guidelines forbid using AI to generate code.

You needNo copy is needed: like OpenTTD, it runs on OpenGFX, OpenSFX, and OpenMSX, the free graphics, sounds, and music OpenTTD publishes. If you have Transport Tycoon Deluxe, for DOS or Windows, it can use its graphics and sounds (sample.cat and the trg*.grf files) and its music. Plus Windows (64- or 32-bit, or ARM), macOS, or Linux.

GBA

⑂ Fork of 999sian/tmc (Project Picori)

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (3DS)

EstebanPdN/zelda-tmc-3ds

Native Nintendo 3DS port of The Minish Cap with true dual-screen support, based on Project Picori and samyost1’s dual-screen Android base, both of which come from the zeldaret/tmc decompilation. Not a PC port: it runs on the 3DS itself as homebrew.

You needYour own legal Minish Cap ROM (GBA) and a 3DS running homebrew.

360

Skate 3 (Skate 3 Rust Engine)

SK8-ENGINE/skate-3-rust-engine

A reimplementation of Skate 3 in Rust on the Bevy engine, built from reverse engineering the Xbox 360 version. It rests on more than two years of work by dumbad, who studied the game’s file formats, animations, and systems and built tools for maps, meshes, collision, challenges, and DLC; Chasm then worked on a recompilation and a custom renderer before moving to this rewrite. It has skating, tricks, grinds, off-board movement, difficulty settings, and custom maps in the .skate format, with a Lua modding API, and its sound is a native port of the game’s audio system. Setup converts the skater, animations, and every disc map from your copy, then starts in University; maps can be switched without restarting. It’s played with a controller and has a built-in updater. GitHub only has test builds, the latest being build 49 (October 9), and the project itself notes that not every system behaves exactly like the original yet. Its README states that AI coding tools were used to write this rewrite, and eight of its commits list Cursor as a co-author.

You needYour own copy of Skate 3 for Xbox 360, as an ISO or an extracted folder with its default.xex; converting the ISO needs an internet connection, since it downloads extract-xiso from GitHub, and the first conversion can take a while. Plus 64-bit Windows and an SDL3-compatible controller (Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, or generic); it can’t be played without one.

PS4

Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection (BilalReloaded)

bc160201983/Uncharted-The-Nathan-Drake-Collection-PC-port

A Windows port of the PS4 collection (Drake’s Fortune, Among Thieves, and Drake’s Deception), separate from Supermedo’s: the three games’ x86-64 code runs directly on the CPU, a runtime that started from gow3_pc’s (the God of War III port) replaces the PS4 system libraries, and a shadPS4-derived renderer runs the GPU work on Vulkan, with fixes for this game. Its author calls all three games playable, with the collection menu, switching between games, saves, sound, movies, and controllers; Uncharted 3 has had less testing. It has a launcher with per-game settings and presets, resolutions from 540p to 4K (Drake’s Fortune renders at most at 2880×1620), 16:10, 21:9, and 32:9, upscaling with FSR 1, FSR 3.1, FSR 4, or DLSS with the HUD at the output resolution, TAA, a 30–120 fps limit, remappable keyboard and mouse alongside a controller, the games’ 22 text languages, an in-game menu, and an option to unlock every chapter. It uses update 1.02 when it finds it and updates itself. 40 of its 46 commits list Claude as a co-author. The latest version is 0.4.1 (October 19).

You needYour own dump of the PS4 collection (the CUSA02344 folder, with eboot.bin and sce_sys) and, recommended, update 1.02; with the US release (CUSA02320) and 1.02, the game stops at start for some players. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, an Intel Haswell (4th-gen Core) or newer CPU or any AMD Ryzen, a Vulkan 1.3 graphics card with at least 6 GB of video memory, and 16 GB of RAM recommended. No game files are included.

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Need for Speed II: Special Edition

zaps166/NFSIISE

A cross-platform port of Need for Speed II: Special Edition (1997) for Windows, Linux, and macOS (up to Mojave), plus Android. The game code is the original, taken as a disassembly: on x86 it’s reassembled with Yasm, and on other CPUs it uses a translation of that assembly to C++, which its author says is somewhat slower and less stable. Around it sits a wrapper written from scratch that replaces what the game asked of Windows: Glide graphics, 3dfx’s API, go to OpenGL (or OpenGL ES on Android), and network play runs over TCP and UDP. Game controllers, force feedback, serial-port connections, brightness, and sound work; modem play will never work again. During a race, F1 to F12 toggle rain, car detail, draw distance, each player’s HUD, the mirror, music, or sound effects. The latest release, 1.4.0, came out on March 16, 2024. The repository includes, as submodules, the disassembly of the game’s executable (NFSIISE-ASM) and its C++ translation (NFSIISE-CPP), plus the game’s text files in six languages adapted to the TCP version; the game data comes from your CD.

You needYour own Need for Speed II: Special Edition CD, from which you copy the fedata and gamedata folders (with the regular Need for Speed II you get a “MOVIE FILE NOT FOUND” message). Plus Windows XP or later, or x86 Linux with the 32-bit glibc, OpenGL, and X11 libraries; on Linux the files from the CD must be lowercase, and the package includes a script that renames them. On other CPUs, you build it with Clang as a 32-bit program.

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Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (OpenJKDF2)

shinyquagsire23/OpenJKDF2

OpenJKDF2: a function-by-function reimplementation in C of Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, with 64-bit versions for Windows 7 or later, macOS 10.15 or later, and Linux. Its files are organized as closely as possible to the original game, based on symbols from the Grim Fandango Remastered port for Android, Linux, and macOS and on assertions from other games, and it includes the original versions of byacc and flex to parse COG scripts. It plays the original soundtrack from Ogg Vorbis files (the GOG version is recommended) and has a WebAssembly demo. The latest release, 0.9.9 (July 5, 2026, marked as a pre-release), has debug builds for 64-bit Windows and macOS, an Android APK, and a Nintendo DSi version; its notes include multiplayer fixes.

You needYour own copy of Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, available from GOG (the recommended version, DRM-free and with the soundtrack in Ogg Vorbis) or Steam; no original assets are included. 64-bit Windows 7 or later, macOS 10.15 or later, or Linux.

DOS

Doom / Doom II (DOOM Retro)

bradharding/doomretro

DOOM Retro: a Doom source port for Windows by Brad Harding, who released it on December 10, 2013, for the game’s 20th anniversary. It started from Chocolate Doom, which builds on the source code id Software released in 1997, and is now its own port of about 120,000 lines of C. It supports vanilla, limit-removing, Boom, MBF, and MBF21 maps and mods, with DeHackEd (including the DEHEXTRA extension, which began here), DSDHacked, and partial MAPINFO and UMAPINFO, but it doesn’t record or play back demos and has no multiplayer. It draws with a 256-color software renderer at 640×400, twice the original resolution, scaled up with Direct3D or OpenGL, with a widescreen mode and a choice of two HUDs, uncapped frame rates, and a 45–135° field of view. It fixes most of the original engine’s bugs and over 1,400 errors in the official Doom and Doom II maps, and adds translucency effects, blood that leaves permanent splats, monster shadows, bobbing liquids, a WAD launcher, a console, an automap that can go on a second display, stats, controller rumble, and mouselook, plus a “vanilla” mode to compare it with the original. It recognizes SIGIL and SIGIL II, the BFG Editions with No Rest for the Living, Freedoom, Chex Quest, HacX, and REKKR. It also includes E1M4B and E1M8B, two maps by John Romero played with the Doom IWAD. Version 6.3 (August 8) improved ID24 compatibility and added a cylindrical sky projection, radial lighting, and Discord Rich Presence.

You needThe IWAD file from your own copy of Doom, Doom II, or Final Doom (DOOM.WAD, DOOM2.WAD, PLUTONIA.WAD, or TNT.WAD), for example from Steam, GOG, or the Epic Games Store; it tries to find where it’s installed on its own. It also takes the shareware DOOM1.WAD, though PWADs can’t be loaded with it, and the free Freedoom IWADs. Plus 64-bit Windows; the source can also be built on Linux and macOS, without support.

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Return to Castle Wolfenstein (iortcw)

iortcw/iortcw

iortcw: a Return to Castle Wolfenstein port that brings ioquake3’s features and fixes to the source code id Software released, with separate executables for the campaign and multiplayer. It uses SDL and adds full 64-bit support, OpenAL sound with multi-speaker support, Ogg Vorbis, in-game and Mumble VoIP, AVI video capture of demos, PNG textures, desktop resolution, an aspect-corrected HUD and interface for widescreen, and many bug fixes. It also includes rend2, an alternate renderer with HDR, tone mapping, cascaded shadow maps, MSAA, and screen-space ambient occlusion, compatible with most mods. In multiplayer it stays compatible with the original 1.4 servers and clients. There are builds for Windows, Linux, and macOS; the latest, 1.51c, is from March 16, 2019, and the code got changes until May 2024. Each release separately offers patch-data-141.zip, which collects the data files from the official patches up to 1.41 (without executables) and, according to its authors, isn’t needed if your copy is already up to date, plus language packs for the campaign in German, Spanish, French, and Italian.

You needThe .pk3 files from the Main folder of your own copy of Return to Castle Wolfenstein: pak0.pk3 and sp_pak1 through sp_pak3 for the campaign; mp_bin.pk3, mp_pak0 through mp_pak5, and mp_pakmaps0 through mp_pakmaps6 for multiplayer. It must be patched to 1.41. Plus 32- or 64-bit Windows, x86 or x86-64 Linux, or macOS.

NS2

Donkey Kong Bananza

Lucas-blip-png/dkb-pc-recomp

DKB Recomp: a static recompilation of Donkey Kong Bananza, for Switch 2, into a native Windows x86-64 application with a Vulkan renderer: the game’s ARM64 code is translated to C ahead of time, and its graphics calls are answered by its own implementation of NVN 2, the console’s graphics API. It builds on TotK Recomp, the Tears of the Kingdom recompilation that is also in the catalog, and for shaders it uses the Eglantine emulator’s Ampere-to-Maxwell lowering. According to the README, it isn’t playable yet: it boots, gets past the title screen, and into the tutorial cave, where you can walk and punch with the guide movies playing, and one run reached the Ingot Isle Cave-In section; it can still crash, and many effects are missing. There are no releases: an installer builds the game from your copy, and progress is logged day by day in its devlog. The repository was created on November 1.

You needYour own copy of Donkey Kong Bananza for Nintendo Switch 2, dumped from your console. Windows.

360

Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)

sonicnext-dev/MarathonRecomp

“Marathon Recompiled”: a static recompilation of Sonic ’06 (Xbox 360 version) for PC, targeting Windows, Linux, and macOS. Actively developed, with no public release yet. It’s the actual Sonic ’06 recomp, and it complements P-06, which is a remake.

You needYour own copy of Sonic ’06 (Xbox 360): the disc plus the Title Update for the same region. The PS3 version won’t work.

WII

Mario Kart Wii (KartPad)

chrissotraidis/kartpad

KartPad: a static recompilation of Mario Kart Wii based on Wiicompiled, patchzyy’s project already in the catalog, which provides the translator and runtime; KartPad, maintained separately, adds the Apple and Android integration, the controls, the game chooser, game data management, and the releases. The PowerPC code is translated ahead of time and compiled as native ARM64 code, with no emulator or JIT, and graphics go through Metal on Apple platforms and Vulkan on Android. On PC there’s only the Apple silicon Mac version, which its documentation calls experimental and less tested than the Android, iPhone, and iPad ones: PadMint, by the same author, builds it from your disc, and 0.7.9 through 0.7.13 also had a ready-made download that no longer gets updates. On Mac you play with keyboard or controller, with remappable controls, controller support for up to four players in split screen (three- and four-player play isn’t fully tested yet), and an experimental mode for connecting a Wii Remote and Nunchuk over Bluetooth. It also runs Retro Rewind, a community track mod: PadMint downloads its pack when building the app and translates its code too, and playing it is optional; online play through Retro WFC has been tested on Android. 0.8.5 (October 21) updated Retro Rewind to 6.13.4. Its README states that it’s developed with substantial AI assistance for code, tests, documentation, debugging, and maintenance.

You needYour own PAL copy of Mario Kart Wii (RMCP01, revision 0); other regions aren’t supported. PadMint needs it as a disc image to build the app, and KartPad then asks for the DATA folder extracted with Dolphin or the one PadMint prepares. Plus an Apple silicon Mac (M1 or later) with macOS 14 or later, PadMint 0.5.1 or later, and Xcode.

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Vangers

KranX/Vangers

The source code of Vangers (also Vangers: One for the Road), K-D Lab’s 1998 game that mixes racing and role-playing, published under the GPLv3 in KranX’s repository. Playing requires the resources from a purchased copy of the game (maps, sounds, textures), and the README points to the Steam and GOG releases. In July it moved to SDL 3, replaced the old options.dat and controls.dat with a settings.toml file, which imports them on first launch without changing them, and added SDL 3 controller support with hot-plugging, rebindable buttons, and rumble on strong collisions. For multiplayer, it stopped building its old C++ server in September: you now use vangers-srv, a separate server written in Rust with the same network protocol, and native clients connect over TCP. It doesn’t publish releases on GitHub: the builds for 64-bit Windows, Linux (also as a Flatpak bundle), and macOS come from GitHub Actions, and September added scripts to build it on Windows with MSVC or MSYS2. The repository also includes about 55 MB of game data: the Fostral world (about 28 MB), which Association K-D Lab released in August under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, plus text, scripts, interface graphics, and 12 videos.

You needThe resources from your own copy of Vangers (maps, sounds, textures), such as the Steam or GOG release; the game is launched from its data folder. Plus 64-bit Windows, Linux, or macOS; to build it, SDL 3.2 and SDL_net 3.2, libvorbis, clunk, FFmpeg 6.0 or later, toml11 4.4, and zlib.

PS4

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (GetLostIn)

GetLostIn/CTR-NitroFueled-PC

A Windows port of Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled for PS4, from the same family as the Bloodborne one: it’s the Windows fork of SacredFire, T3CHNOLOG1C’s native Linux port, whose original repository is no longer available. As in bbport, which it starts from, the game’s x86-64 code runs directly on the CPU, a small runtime replaces the PS4 system libraries, and a renderer derived from shadPS4 translates the GPU work to Vulkan; the Windows layer comes from Supermedo’s port. The author calls it playable: menus, Adventure and Arcade, races with sound, cutscenes, controllers and keyboard, saving, split screen, the community patches (60 fps, no motion blur), and DLC from your own packages. It renders from 480p to native 4K with AMD FSR 1, 3.1, and 4 or NVIDIA DLSS, has FSR 3 frame generation, an FPS limit of up to 240, and 21:9 and 32:9 with a centered HUD, and its launcher handles controllers and turns trophies into achievements. Online features are stubbed, so the game runs offline. Its author states it was made with the help of Claude. Version 0.4 (October 19) added the European edition.

You needYour own decrypted PS4 dump of Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, as folders (from your console or extracted with PS4 PKG Tool): the base game (01.00) and the 1.21 update, from the US edition (CUSA13795) or, since 0.4, the European one (CUSA14876); both builds of 1.21 (for firmware 5.05 and 6.72+) work. DLC is optional, from your own .pkg files. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 (1903 or later) or 11 and a Vulkan 1.3 graphics card. No game files are included.

PS2

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3

z3xox/Tenkaichi3Decomp

Native PC port built on BT3-Decompiled, the matching decompilation of the US release (SLUS-21678): it’s the game’s own code compiled for PC, with a new renderer, sound, and input layer underneath, not an emulator. The whole loop works (boot, opening movie, menus, saving, fights, and split screen), with a Vulkan renderer that keeps the PS2’s effects (outline, glow, depth tint, and distance blur), each one toggleable, plus an OpenGL 3.3 fallback. Internal resolution from 1x to 8x, and widescreen up to 21:9 and beyond without stretching the fights.

You needYour own disc image of the US release (SLUS-21678). The repository holds no game data: setup reads it from your disc and it stays on your machine.

Sonic CD (2011, decompilation)

RSDKModding/RSDKv3-Decompilation

Complete decompilation of Sonic CD (2011) along with Retro Engine v3 (v1.3.3). Cross-platform; you supply your own game assets.

You needThe assets from an official Sonic CD copy (the FMVs only come from the Steam release).

DOS

Ultima VII: The Black Gate / Serpent Isle (Exult)

exult/exult

Exult: a new engine for Ultima VII, written in C++ with SDL, that uses the original data and graphics files of the game, a DOS title with a very nonstandard memory manager that is hard to run on current computers. It fully supports The Black Gate and Serpent Isle, both of which can be finished, their Forge of Virtue and Silver Seed add-ons, and the Serpent Isle beta. It adds any resolution with scalers up to 8x, a game area larger than the original 320×200, Serpent Isle’s paperdoll in Black Gate too, a shortcut bar, combat options, and MIDI music through a real device, FluidSynth, an emulated MT-32, or FM synthesis. Since 1.8 it plays Serpent Isle’s long intro, which Origin cut down to save floppy disks. It includes Exult Studio, an editor for making mods, and the Windows installer offers to install some, such as Keyring or the Ultima VI remake made by other fans. There are builds for Windows, macOS, and Android, and on Linux it’s on Flatpak. The latest stable release is 1.12.1 (January 8); 1.13 snapshots, already on SDL3, come out often, the latest on October 21. The repository includes that intro, restored from an old recording (about 10 MB of animations), and, in its documentation, a disassembly of Black Gate’s usecode, the code behind the game’s scripts and dialogue (about 6 MB). Separately, its website offers as optional downloads the game’s music recorded on a Roland MT-32 and its sound effects recorded on a Sound Blaster and on an MT-32, which the Windows installer can download.

You needThe files from your own copy of Ultima VII: The Black Gate, Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle, or both, already installed (the GOG, CD-ROM, and floppy versions all work), without mixing one game’s files with the other’s; the Forge of Virtue and Silver Seed add-ons are optional. For the emulated MT-32, the ROMs from your own MT-32 or CM-32L. Plus Windows 7 or later, macOS 10.12 or later (snapshots need 10.15), Linux, Android, or iOS.

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Command & Conquer: Generals / Zero Hour (Thyme)

TheAssemblyArmada/Thyme

Thyme: an open-source reimplementation of Generals: Zero Hour in C++. It’s a bottom-up rewrite of the game that uses the original executable for functions not yet implemented, with the intent of fixing bugs, adding features, and porting the game to platforms the original didn’t support. Today it only runs on Windows. Its own launcher only supports the English disc version of Generals: Zero Hour patched to 1.04; running it any other way means following the README’s instructions. It has no affiliation with EA. Licensed GPL-2.0; the “latest” tag and the last commit are from October 31, 2024.

You needYour own installation of Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour; with the project’s launcher, the English Windows disc version patched to 1.04 (the README links the patch). Windows.

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Civilization III (OpenCiv3)

C7-Game/OpenCiv3

OpenCiv3 (formerly known by its codename, C7): an open-source remake of Civilization III by the fan community, built with the Godot engine and C#, with Lua for the game rules. It describes itself as a mechanically compatible black-box reimplementation: it rebuilds the gameplay with its own code and community-made art, based on public information and on observing the game, ships nothing from Civilization III, and can load the art from your own install to look closer to the original. Its goal is a game that looks and plays like Civ3 and its Conquests expansion, but without its arbitrary limits, with broken features fixed, and much more open to modding. It reads Civ3 BIQ and SAV files, though support for scenarios and saves is incomplete. The project is in pre-alpha: it’s playable, but many mechanics and the late-game content are missing. The latest release, 0.3 “Dutch” Preview 1 (December 7, 2025), introduced a standalone mode with placeholder graphics that doesn’t need the Civ3 files, with builds for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Development continues: in October it added the logic for wonders and conquest and domination victories.

You needRecommended: the files from your own copy of Civilization III with Conquests or the Complete edition (the game itself doesn’t have to run); on Windows it finds them through the registry, and on Linux and macOS you point to them with the CIV3_HOME variable. Without them, standalone mode uses placeholder graphics. Plus 64-bit Windows, x86-64 Linux, or macOS (Intel or Apple silicon).

3DS

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (TriAevum)

coccofresco/TriAevum

TriAevum: an ahead-of-time static recompilation of the 3DS remake, with its own NRI/Vulkan renderer, a single-screen interface, and graphics options. It doesn’t recompile the N64 original but Grezzo’s version. It leans on code from mature projects (Azahar, Ship of Harkinian, NRI), and its author states that the TriAevum-specific work is entirely AI-assisted, under human direction. In alpha.

You needYour own Ocarina of Time 3D ROM (European or US version), decrypted and in .3ds or .cci format. Windows x64 and a Vulkan-capable GPU.

MD

Sonic 3 & Knuckles (Sonic 3 A.I.R.)

Eukaryot/sonic3air

Sonic 3 A.I.R. (Angel Island Revisited): a fan-made widescreen remaster of Sonic 3 & Knuckles. It runs on the Oxygen Engine, its own engine that emulates the parts of the Mega Drive hardware the game needs, and the game logic is rewritten function by function in lemonscript, the same author’s scripting language, from the original’s 68000 code: about 7 MB of scripts in the repository, each function marked with its ROM address. Graphics, levels, and sound are read from your ROM. It adds widescreen, upscaling filters (xBRZ, HQ3x, and HQ4x), Time Attack, Competition mode, the Blue Sphere minigame on its own, Act Select, achievements and unlockable secrets, new moves such as the drop dash, controller rumble, and an experimental mode, Ghost Sync, that shows other players connected to a server. It supports mods, which can bring their own scripts, with documentation and a dev mode. SpinnRG’s remastered soundtrack is downloaded from the options menu. There are builds for Windows and Linux; the macOS one is published by Sappharad. The latest stable release is v26.03.28.0 (March 28), which added a file browser for importing mods, more skippable cutscenes, and pause and Act Select menus written in scripts, and test builds have followed since, the latest on August 15. The repository also includes, from the game and the series, music from the Sonic 3 prototype, the Sonic 1 and Sonic 2 boss themes, Sonic 2’s Super Sonic theme, and Sonic CD’s peel-out sounds.

You needA compatible ROM from your own copy of Sonic 3 & Knuckles, such as the one from Sonic 3 & Knuckles on Steam (part of SEGA Mega Drive & Genesis Classics), which is no longer sold. Plus Windows (32- or 64-bit) or Linux; on macOS, Sappharad’s build.

PS4

⑂ Fork of GetLostIn/CTR-NitroFueled-PC

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (Ryu7w7)

Ryu7w7/OCTR-NitroFueled-PC

An online-play fork (OCTR) of CTR-NitroFueled-PC, the Windows build of SacredFire, T3CHNOLOG1C’s native Linux port. The game’s x86-64 code runs directly on the processor, a small runtime replaces the PS4’s system libraries, and a renderer derived from shadPS4 translates the GPU work to Vulkan. It adds public races, private rooms, groups, friends, and the Pit Stop through the community RyuNET server, with your own nickname and Discord invites. The README states the Windows status as playable: menus, Adventure and Arcade, races, sound, cutscenes, controllers, saving, the community patches (60 FPS, no motion blur), and the game’s DLC from your own packages. Version 0.7.1 (October 29) is the latest release; 0.7 added native Vulkan (experimental). 88 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own dump of Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled for PS4 (CUSA13795, v1.21) and its 1.21 update, in either build: the one for firmware 5.05 (the reference) or the one for 6.72 and later; its documentation also covers loader support for the European package CUSA14876 01.21. DLC is optional, from your own packages. Windows 10 or 11, or Linux.

GC

⑂ Fork of PrimeDecomp/prime

Metroid Prime

Odrannnn/MetroidPrimePort

Native Linux, Windows, and Android port compiled straight from the source decompiled by PrimeDecomp, which has its own catalog entry, and rendered through Aurora on SDL3 and WebGPU. No emulator involved. It adds 4:3, 16:9, or window-following widescreen, with the HUD spread to the edges and the menus, pause, and map screens aspect-corrected.

You needYour own Metroid Prime disc image (GameCube, GM8E01_00, US version 1.00).

360

Need for Speed: Most Wanted (SpeedBreaker)

SpeedBreakerProject/speedbreaker

SpeedBreaker: a static recompilation of the Xbox 360 version of Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005), built with XenonRecomp and a runtime that adapts parts of Unleashed Recompiled’s. There are builds for Steam Deck and Steam Machine, Steam Frame, x86-64 Linux, and Apple Silicon Macs, plus an experimental iPhone and iPad build; Windows and Android are announced. It renders up to 4K, widens the view on ultrawide screens instead of stretching it, runs up to 60 fps, brings back the console’s sun glare, and adds FSR 1, sharpening, and anisotropic filtering. An installer verifies the 49 files of your disc as it copies them, and a settings menu pauses the race. Xbox 360 saves can’t be imported. All 10 of its commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needAn image of your own US (NTSC-U) Need for Speed: Most Wanted Xbox 360 disc (full ISO, XISO, or extracted folder) and about 7.2 GB of free space. On Linux and SteamOS, an AVX2 CPU and Vulkan 1.2; on Mac, Apple Silicon with macOS 15 or later.

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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (GLSMAC)

afwbkbc/glsmac

GLSMAC: a free reimplementation of Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri and its Alien Crossfire expansion, written from scratch in C++ with OpenGL and SDL2, that loads the images, sounds, and other resources from your installed copy of the game. It doesn’t disassemble the original executables or link to their libraries. It aims to replicate the original game, with its models, texts, factions, and rules, but rewrites the graphics engine and the network code, which won’t be compatible with the original’s; map generation, AI, and dynamic music are recreated from scratch. It already has a random map generator, most of the interface, a map editor, and, since v0.3, a multiplayer lobby for hosting and joining games, with chat. The game logic and interface are written in moddable JavaScript-like scripts (.gls.js). The game itself is still under construction: the 2026 work, on the way to v0.4, focuses on bases (production, facilities, and worked tiles). There are 64-bit builds for Windows and Ubuntu; the latest stable one is v0.3-db4dbc9 (May 31), and development builds are kept up to date. It builds on macOS but crashes because of OpenGL issues. Its author states that they don’t use AI-generated code, though they accept contributions made with it: three commits by one contributor declare it, one of them listing Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own copy of Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri with the Alien Crossfire expansion installed; the GOG, Steam (Planetary Pack), Loki, and Legacy releases are supported. On first launch it asks for the game folder. Plus 64-bit Windows or Linux and, for 60 fps, a graphics card along the lines of an Intel HD 4400, Radeon R7, or GeForce GT 710, with 2–4 GB of RAM.

SNES

Super Mario World (snesrev)

snesrev/smw

smw: a reverse-engineered reimplementation of Super Mario World in C, by the author of zelda3. It reimplements every part of the original game and is playable from start to end. It also reimplements part of what the Lunar Magic level editor adds to ROMs, so it accepts some ROMs edited with it; mods that use ASM hooks don’t work, except wall jump. It uses LakeSnes’s PPU and DSP, with many speed optimizations, and while you play it runs an emulated version and compares RAM every frame; on a mismatch it saves a snapshot to send to the authors. It has snapshots that keep the input history so playthroughs can be replayed, turbo mode, two gamepads, and OpenGL output with shaders. The same repository holds Super Mario Bros. and The Lost Levels, reimplemented from Super Mario All-Stars: with your ROM of that game they’re extracted and played with the same program. Version 0.1 (August 16, 2023) includes a Windows executable that patches your ROM at startup; if you build it yourself, the assets are extracted once and the ROM is no longer needed.

You needYour own unheadered US Super Mario World ROM (smw.sfc, SHA-1 6B47BB75D16514B6A476AA0C73A683A2A4C18765). For Super Mario Bros. and The Lost Levels, your US Super Mario All-Stars ROM, the one without Super Mario World (SHA-1 c05817c5b7df2fbfe631563e0b37237156a8f6b6), and Python with zstandard. The 0.1 executable is for Windows; to build it, SDL2 and Python, with TCC, MSYS2, or Visual Studio on Windows, or make on Linux and macOS.

N64

⑂ Fork of sm64-port/sm64-port

Super Mario 64 (SM64Plus)

MorsGames/sm64plus

SM64Plus: a fork of the sm64-port PC port focused on customization, with settings that fix problems in the original and expand the game, nearly all optional. It offers more responsive controls, an improved camera, an extended moveset, the option to stay in the level after getting a star, extra modes such as Encore, Green Demon, and Hard Mode, 60 fps through interpolation, and bug fixes, plus presets such as “Vanilla” to play it like the original. It includes no game assets: a launcher, made with GameMaker, builds the game on your machine from your ROM and manages the settings. Version 4.0 (March 11, 2026) switched to OpenGL only, added V-Sync, MSAA anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, an N64-style blur, and fixes for the text’s typos, and reworked the internal resolution. Its author considers it feature complete.

You needYour own US Super Mario 64 ROM (.z64) and an internet connection during setup, since the launcher downloads what it needs to build the game. The launcher is for Windows; for Linux there are launcher builds and a guide to build it by hand, Steam Deck included; there’s no guide for macOS.

WIN

Nox

opennox/opennox

OpenNox: an open-source community project that extends the Nox engine. It supports all of the original version’s features: you can complete the campaign and play online. It adds new features, listed in the project’s documentation, and a scripting API for maps. Releases come from the “dev” branch: the latest, 1.9.0 alpha 13 (January 27, 2024), has an executable and zip for Windows and a tar.gz and AppImage for Linux, and there’s a Snap package, AUR packages, and nightly builds. Licensed GPL-3.0; the project is still receiving changes (September 2026) and says it includes no assets, text, or art from the original game. The repository includes legacy C code (the src/legacy folder, several MB) and data dumps (src/common/memmap, about 0.7 MB) from the original executable.

You needYour own copy of Nox; the README gives no versions or checksums. Windows or Linux.

DOS

Descent / Descent II (DXX-Rebirth)

dxx-rebirth/dxx-rebirth

DXX-Rebirth: a Descent and Descent II port that continues the discontinued D1X and D2X, which in turn built on the original Descent source code and LDescent. It has one engine per game, D1X-Rebirth and D2X-Rebirth, which work independently, and it’s compatible with both full games, all of their expansions, and third-party levels, as well as with the pilot files, savegames, demos, and missions from the DOS versions. It renders with OpenGL, with optional transparency, colored lighting, texture filtering, and FSAA, at any resolution and aspect ratio your monitor supports, with VSync. It supports several joysticks at once alongside keyboard and mouse, MIDI, CD, or your own music files, and add-on packs that replace or expand the games’ content. Multiplayer runs over UDP, on a LAN or over the internet. It records smaller, less glitchy demos that stay compatible with the original games’, and it avoids the glitches that higher game speeds used to cause, such as overly fast homing missiles or excessive collision damage. The latest numbered releases on GitHub date from 2016 and 2018 (0.60 beta 2); to play without building it, the project points to the GitHub Actions builds for x86-64 Windows, macOS 14 on Apple silicon, and x86-64 Linux (AppImage). Four of its last 100 commits, from August and by a single contributor, state in their messages that they were made with help from OpenAI Codex.

You needThe data files from your own copy of Descent (descent.hog and descent.pig) or Descent II (descent2.ham, descent2.hog, descent2.s22, and its environments’ .pig files), for example from the GOG release; Descent II’s movies are optional. The free Descent shareware and Descent II demo data, PC or Mac, work too. Plus Windows, macOS, or Linux.

360

Fable II (himdo)

himdo/Fable-2-Recomp

Recompilation of Fable II on the ReXGlue SDK: the PowerPC code is translated to C++ at build time. A separate project from the other Fable II recomp already in the catalog, which uses XenonRecomp. Its author says they started it to gauge what a local, open-source AI (Qwen3) could do, that it got the game booting within an hour, and that the rest was human trial and error until it could be completed. It adds an uncapped frame rate, keyboard and mouse support, and Lua scripting. 15 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own copy of Fable II for Xbox 360 (US or European GOTY edition, title 4D5307F1).

PS4

⑂ Fork of deadinside28/bloodborne_pc

Bloodborne (Mrsuss60)

Mrsuss60/bloodborne_pc_windows_port

A Windows adaptation of the native Linux port bbport. It replaces the Linux kernel layer, memory mapping, and POSIX threading with a native Win32 runtime: the PS4 executable’s x86-64 code runs directly on the processor, with no emulation or JIT, and shadPS4’s Vulkan video core, with a multithreaded draw pipeline and FSR 3.1 and FSR 4 upscaling, handles the GPU. The README says it is playable on Windows: it boots, loads saves, and runs with audio and gamepad support. It adds a graphical launcher, 360-degree mouse look, 30, 60, 90, or uncapped frame rates through community patches, and persistent Vulkan pipeline caches. Version 0.7.2 (October 28) is the latest release.

You needYour own decrypted dump of Bloodborne for PS4 (CUSA03173, version 1.09), with eboot.bin. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, a Vulkan 1.3 graphics card (GeForce GTX 10-series or newer, Radeon RX 400-series or newer, or Intel Arc A-series), and an x86-64 processor with AVX 1.0 and SSE4.2.

N64

Mario Kart 64

sonicdcer/MarioKart64Recomp

MarioKart 64: Recompiled: a static recompilation with N64Recomp and RT64 as its renderer, for Windows, Linux, and macOS. You load your ROM from the menu and start playing, with no extraction step. It keeps the N64’s graphical effects without hacks, runs at any frame rate (your monitor’s by default) and any aspect ratio, ultrawide included, with an option to keep the HUD at 16:9, and has settings menus you can use with mouse, controller, or keyboard, low input lag, and mods and texture packs, with a template for making them. The latest version is 0.9.2 (February 13, 2026). sonicdcer’s repository was down for a while and is available again; the downloads are on GitLab.

You needYour own North American Mario Kart 64 ROM. Plus a graphics card with Direct3D 12.0 (Shader Model 6), Vulkan 1.2, or Metal (at least a GeForce GT 630, Radeon HD 7750, or Intel HD 510) and, on x86-64 PCs, an SSE4.1 CPU; on a Mac, Apple silicon or a 7th-gen Intel with macOS 13.

NSW

Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition

GRAnimated/MinecraftLCE

Decompilation of Minecraft: Legacy Console Edition, approached through the Nintendo Switch Edition v1.0.17 because it’s the most recent of the family: LCE also shipped on Xbox 360, PS3, PS Vita, Wii U, Xbox One, and PS4. For porting symbols, they recommend leaning on the Wii U edition’s executable. The repository ships no assets and can’t be used to play. The project insists on being strictly clean-room: Microsoft hasn’t acted against the dumps in circulation, but it has taken down projects that weren’t.

DOS

Cannon Fodder (Open Fodder)

OpenFodder/openfodder

Open Fodder: an open-source reimplementation of the engine of Cannon Fodder, Sensible Software’s 1993 action strategy game, and of Cannon Fodder 2, for modern systems. According to the project, it keeps the original’s timing, soldier handling, and weapon physics. It reads the data from Cannon Fodder for DOS CD, Amiga, and Amiga CD32, and from Cannon Fodder 2 for DOS CD and Amiga; if you have both versions, F1 and F2 switch between the Amiga and PC ones. It adds a random map generator written in JavaScript, with hostages, rescue tents, vehicles, and a helicopter, windowed play with scaling, options to skip the intro and the briefings, and playback of the CD32 version’s intro video if you extract it from your disc; new campaigns and maps are made with OpenFodder Editor, a separate project. There’s a Windows installer and a Flatpak for Linux, and it builds on other systems such as OpenBSD or RetroPie. Version 2.0.0 (December 16, 2025) added the missing unarmed helicopters and fixed soldier animation bugs carried over from the original engine. The Windows installer includes seven magazine cover-disk demos (six Amiga, one PC) and the campaign data, which the original game kept inside its executable; on Linux or when building from source, that data has to be downloaded separately from the OpenFodder/data repository on GitHub.

You needFor the full campaigns, the files from your own copy of Cannon Fodder or Cannon Fodder 2: from the DOS CD version (GOG’s, for example), Cannon Fodder’s CF_ENG.DAT or all of Cannon Fodder 2’s files; from Amiga, the disks unpacked with SOS Unpacker or installed with WHDLoad; and from CD32, the CD’s Fodder folder. Without a copy, only the bundled demos are playable. Plus Windows, Linux, or another Unix-like system.

DOS

Tyrian (OpenTyrian)

opentyrian/opentyrian

OpenTyrian: a port of Tyrian, the vertical scrolling shooter for DOS developed by Eclipse Software and published by Epic MegaGames in 1995. Jason Emery, who released it as freeware in 2004, gave the OpenTyrian developers a copy of the Tyrian 2.1 source code, which they ported from Turbo Pascal to C and moved to SDL so it runs on modern systems. It has the story mode, one- and two-player arcade modes, and networked multiplayer: a game is started from the command line with the other player’s IP address and, thanks to UDP hole punching, usually no ports need to be opened. v2.1.20260912 (September 13) brought self-contained builds for Windows, macOS, and Linux that already include the game data, and reworked keyboard and mouse input in menus and cutscenes; the latest, v2.1.20260913 (September 14), keeps settings and saves next to the executable if an opentyrian.cfg is already there.

You needNo copy needed: Tyrian 2.1 has been freeware since Jason Emery released it in 2004, and the published builds include its data. If you build it yourself, the get_data.sh script downloads the Tyrian 2.1 data from camanis.net, the site the project points to. Plus Windows (x86-64 or Arm64), macOS (universal), or Linux (x86-64 or Arm64).

WIN

OutRun2006Tweaks

emoose/OutRun2006Tweaks

A wrapper DLL that adds fixes and tweaks to the PC version of OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast and points it to new multiplayer servers. It locks the game logic to 60 Hz and interpolates at higher frame rates instead of speeding the game up, brings back effects from the console and arcade versions such as bloom and the car base shadow, scales the UI to any aspect ratio without stretching, lets you replace textures with higher-resolution ones, and fixes crashes and save corruption. Note that the published releases are old; up-to-date builds come from GitHub Actions.

You needYour own copy of OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast for PC.

PS2

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (PS2)

gothamor/gta-vcs-recomp

A native Windows and Linux port of the PS2 version (USA, SLUS-21590), made by recompiling the PS2 executable into C++ with PS2Recomp, which the project vendors with its own changes. It builds from the same source with Direct3D 11 on Windows and Vulkan on Linux. The repository contains no game code or data: the build reads the executable from your ISO and the finished game reads everything else from it. A Windows launcher walks through four steps (folder, disc, Microsoft build tools, and build, 20 to 60 minutes the first time) and manages save backups. Its progress document marks it as in development: the game loop runs and the intro scene renders, with a hardware graphics backend that shows the loading screen, and movies are skipped for now. Launcher version 0.1.0 is from November 1. All of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories PS2 ISO (USA, SLUS-21590). On Windows, Microsoft’s C++ tools (about 6 GB; the launcher installs them) and 20 to 60 minutes for the first build; a Linux build is also available.

PSP

Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD

TeamGDB/Yakumo

Yakumo: a native port by static recompilation, with Vulkan and SDL3. The game’s PSP code is translated ahead of time into C++, compiled for your machine, and run on a reimplementation of the PSP system software. Its README is emphatic in both directions: it isn’t an emulator, since there’s no interpreter or JIT at its core, and it isn’t a decompilation either. On YouTube, Video Game Esoterica covered it as the first 100% complete PSP recomp. 66 of its last 100 commits list Codex as a co-author.

You needThe files from your own copy of Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD Ver. (NPJB-40001). The installer checks your copy and accepts only the original release.

NS2

⑂ Fork of drakolordx7/switch2-recomp

Pokémon Pokopia (featureJosh)

featureJosh/Recompia

Recompia (formerly pokopia-recomp): a static recompilation of Pokémon Pokopia, for Switch 2, into a native Windows program, with online play. It comes from drakolordx7’s Pokopia Recomp, whose first commits it keeps, builds on that author’s nxrecomp recompiler, and follows the updates of pokopia-native, which it also takes code from. The launcher compiles the game on your PC from your copy, in about 7 minutes, and then translates about 99,000 shaders, one to two hours that can be paused. Link Play lets you visit a friend’s island or invite them to yours on the same network, by address, or over the internet through a relay with a room code, also with pokopia-native players; co-op in the story areas is experimental and off by default. It supports any resolution, render scale, quality presets (Switch 2, High, and Ultra), HDR, windowed, borderless, or fullscreen, FSR 1 and NVIDIA Image Scaling (FSR 3 and DLSS are there but don’t look good yet), Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch Pro controllers with rumble and motion, keyboard and mouse with remappable keys, the Joy-Con 2 mouse mode for placing items, importing your Eden or Ryujinx save, profiles with separate saves, mods that replace romfs files without touching your dump, and an updater with stable and testing channels. The launcher also works on Linux and SteamOS, where the game runs through Proton; players measured 26 to 53 fps on the Steam Deck and 55 to 75 on the Legion Go S. v0.8.0 (November 8) is the latest of 15 releases. The README says it’s developed mostly with AI, with the author as a supervisor who reviews and tests every commit. 23 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own extracted copy of Pokémon Pokopia for Nintendo Switch 2, version 2.0.1a: a folder with base and updates (each with exefs and romfs) or a .nup file; .nsp and .xci files have to be extracted first, and the base game alone isn’t enough. 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 with a Vulkan 1.3 GPU and about 14 GB free (31 GB if the shaders are left loose). On Linux or SteamOS, also Steam’s Proton Experimental; the first time, the launcher downloads Python and Zig (about 100 MB).

DOS

X-COM: Apocalypse (OpenApoc)

OpenApoc/OpenApoc

OpenApoc (OpenApocalypse): an open-source reimplementation of X-COM: Apocalypse, written in C++ with SDL2, that needs the original game’s files. PmProg founded it in July 2014, and its README quotes Julian Gollop, X-COM’s designer, saying they know about the project and support it. It runs at modern resolutions, with display scaling and at 60 fps, plays sound without the original’s pops and stutters, and adds a “More Options” menu with dozens of optional improvements, an experimental skirmish mode for quick fights, a debug system, and saves stored as XML in a ZIP file that you can edit. Almost everything can be changed with mods. It’s still in alpha: there are bugs and crashes, and its roadmap still lists what’s needed for a “truly playable” alpha, such as agent training from tactical combat. It publishes dated builds for 64-bit Windows, with an installer; on Linux and macOS you build it yourself. The latest is 20260916 (September 16), and the September builds applied the original’s combat experience rules, medals from victory points, and the end of the game on the final victory or the loss of the last base, and the launcher now detects the CD or ISO on its own.

You needYour own X-COM: Apocalypse CD as an ISO image (cd.iso) or a folder with all its files, the Steam release’s cd.iso, or the GOG release’s XCOM.cue and XCOM.bin; it must be complete, music included. Plus an OpenGL 2.0 graphics card and, on Windows, the latest Visual C++ Redistributable; the published builds are for 64-bit Windows, and on Linux and macOS you have to build it.

DOS

The Settlers II (Return to the Roots)

Return-To-The-Roots/s25client

Return to the Roots (RTTR): a fan-made open-source reimplementation of The Settlers II that rewrites the whole game and keeps its original graphics and sounds, which it reads from your copy. According to the project, almost all of the original game’s features are already implemented, including the Roman and world campaigns, whose missions are scripted in Lua. It adds online multiplayer through its own game lobby server, higher resolutions, AI players, replays, a random map generator, and a list of add-ons that change game rules, such as the leather economy that reached the nightly builds in February, with skins, tanneries, and armor for soldiers. The latest stable release is 0.9.5 (February 28, 2022); according to the project, most players use the nightly builds, for 32- and 64-bit Windows, macOS, and Linux, the latest from October 21. Seven of its last 100 commits, all from 2026, list Claude as a co-author.

You needThe DATA and GFX folders from your own copy of The Settlers II Gold Edition, copied into the folder RTTR points to. Plus Windows (Vista or later), macOS, or Linux with SDL2 and SDL2_mixer.

NSW

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD

Apolinario-coder/SkyRecomp

Sky Recomp: a static recompilation of the Switch version of Skyward Sword HD for Windows, Linux, and macOS. The game’s ARM64 instructions are translated to C and compiled as native code (x86-64 with AVX2 and FMA, or ARM64 on Apple silicon Macs), and the console’s graphics are translated to Vulkan 1.3 on Windows and Linux and to Metal 3 with MetalFX on macOS. Much of its architecture (the recompiler, the graphics translation layer, the runtime, and the launcher) comes from LAS Recomp, the Link’s Awakening port, adapted to this game. It runs at 60 fps at the resolution you choose, ultrawide included, with FSR 1 or NVIDIA Image Scaling upscaling, controller or keyboard and mouse, button icons for the controller you use, an in-game settings menu (Esc), and a mod manager with LayeredFS. Version 1.0.5 (October 20) added an experimental 120 fps mode and fixed crashes with an NPC and on entering a cave; the author notes random crashes may still happen.

You needYour own Skyward Sword HD files, version 1.0.0 without updates: the folder of extracted files or, per the repository’s instructions, the .nsp or .xci with your console’s prod.keys and title.keys. The project doesn’t explain how to obtain them. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, Linux with glibc 2.35 or later, or macOS 11 or later; a CPU with AVX2 and FMA or an Apple silicon Mac; a Vulkan 1.3 graphics card (Metal 3 on Mac); 8 GB of RAM (16 recommended); and about 15 GB of free space.

360

Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation (sal063)

sal063/AC6_recomp

Native port of the Xbox 360 exclusive: it boots and reaches gameplay, with a D3D12 or Vulkan renderer. Expect bugs, crashes, and missing features.

You needThe default.xex file and the game data extracted from your Ace Combat 6 ISO (Xbox 360).

GC

⑂ Fork of doldecomp/melee

Super Smash Bros. Melee (melee-pc)

999sian/melee-pc

Native Melee port (NTSC-U 1.02) built from the doldecomp/melee decompilation on aurora (a GX compatibility layer with a WebGPU backend) and SDL3. By the same author as Project Picori. It’s in declared beta: it ships LAN play, internet friend codes, and best-of-three matchmaking, with rollback netcode still in development. The decompiled game code isn’t licensed; only the port code is (GPL-3). 18 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own Super Smash Bros. Melee disc image (NTSC-U 1.02). No game data is distributed.

NSW

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (ssbu-recomp)

OpenSmash-Ultimate/ssbu-recomp

OpenSmash-Ultimate: a native Windows port of Switch version 13.0.4 or 13.0.5, made by statically recompiling the AArch64 code to C, with its own runtime reimplementing the system libraries, the NVN graphics API on Vulkan, audio, video, input, and the file system. An installer finds your keys and game, applies the update and DLC, and builds the game on your PC, with no Visual Studio and no firmware (the fonts are open source). It runs at 59–60 fps in fights by its author’s measurements, with in-game settings, any controller, and the fighter scripts converted into readable C++ checked against the original, which enables mods. Online play is experimental: Local Wireless works over a LAN, a room code, or a lobby server; rollback is in progress. Its author states that almost all of the code was written by AI coding agents (Claude) under the author’s direction.

You needYour own dump of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (version 13.0.4 or 13.0.5) and the keys from your own console; DLC is optional. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 and a graphics card with Vulkan.

NSW

Bayonetta 2

K0NL/B2recomp

B2recomp: an unofficial static recompilation of the Switch version for Windows. The AArch64 code is translated to C on your own PC, from your dump, and runs on a reimplemented system layer (threads, file system, audio, input, and the NVN graphics API on Vulkan). The compiled game is never published: what you download is the source and a package with the tools to build it, about 5 minutes on a fast PC. In its author’s tests, the prologue plays through with no crash and chapter 1 was played by hand past its first part; later chapters are being tested. It has resolution scaling, windowed or fullscreen modes, and, in beta, up to 120 fps. A Linux version is in testing. The lifter and runtime started from OpenSmash-Ultimate’s, and its author states that AI helped with the reverse engineering.

You needYour own extracted copy of Bayonetta 2 with update 1.2 applied (ExeFS and RomFS as plain files; encrypted packages aren’t accepted). Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, a graphics card with Vulkan 1.3, and about 1.5 GB free for the builder package.

XBX

xrevive

Teraflopping/xrevive

Desktop launcher for original Xbox games recompiled with Xrecomp, with online services through xb.live, a project that brings back Xbox Live: you sign in once and see friends, lobbies, community events, and leaderboards. You add your own ISO or game folder, and the launcher downloads the matching recompiled executable; it includes no games. The first game with online play is Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition, since version 0.1.5 (October 13); 0.1.6 added a save editor for it and conversion of saves from the PS2 version. It also offers NINJA GAIDEN Black, with its own save editor since 0.1.13 (October 16). The library sorts games into Release (fully playable), Beta (playable with rough edges), and Alpha (barely working yet), and asks for confirmation before installing one of the last two. The game executables are 64-bit Windows only; the launcher also has macOS and Linux builds.

GC

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (BlueWake)

chrissotraidis/bluewake

BlueWake: a static recompilation of the GameCube version, separate from sp00nznet’s Wind Waker recomp already in the catalog. It translates the main program and its 415 PowerPC modules to native code ahead of time, with an interpreter only for a few rare instructions; the rest of the hardware (graphics, sound, memory card, timing) comes from RecompCore, a Dolphin-derived runtime, and the translator is a fork of DolRecomp. Elliott Tate’s Wind Waker Recomp moved here, and Elliott now maintains it with Chris Sotraidis. The Windows build comes ready-made: according to its authors, it contains the game code translated from their own disc and nothing else from the game; on Linux and Mac you build it from your disc, and there are also iPhone and iPad (via PadMint), Apple TV, and Android versions, the last two experimental. It offers up to 4x internal resolution, 16x anisotropic filtering, 16:9, 16:10, or 21:9 widescreen with the HUD repositioned, HD texture packs (plus an importer that pulls them from your own Wind Waker HD), an optional Wind Waker HD–style look, Better Wind Waker options such as Swift Sail and instant text, and Smooth Motion, which interpolates frames up to 240 fps with game logic at 30. Tested areas include the prologue, Outset Island, sailing, Windfall, and a late-game Hyrule save; later dungeons and bosses are largely untested, and the README calls the desktop versions experimental. 0.8.0 came out on October 18. Its README states that it’s developed with substantial AI assistance for code, testing, documentation, and debugging.

You needYour own disc image of The Wind Waker for GameCube, US version GZLE01 revision 0, as .iso or .gcm (a Dolphin .rvz must be converted to ISO first); other versions are rejected. On Windows, Windows 10 or 11 with an AVX2 CPU and a Direct3D 12 graphics card (since 0.8.0 it tries Direct3D 11 on older ones). On x86-64 Linux and Apple silicon Macs it’s built from your disc.

XBX

⑂ Fork of sp00nznet/burnout3

Burnout 3: Takedown (xenophobentx)

xenophobentx/takedawn

Takedawn: native Mac, Windows, Linux, and Steam Deck port by static recompilation. The original Xbox x86 executable is translated to C and compiled for x86-64 and arm64, and a runtime draws the NV2A graphics commands with Metal or Vulkan. Adds render scale up to 4x, a widescreen HUD fix, ultrawide, your own music, and 5.1 surround.

You needYour own copy of the North American (NTSC-U) Xbox disc. The project ships no game files.

WIN

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (Jazz² Resurrection)

deathkiller/jazz2

Jazz² Resurrection: a free reimplementation of Jazz Jackrabbit 2, written in C++ on a heavily modified version of the nCine engine; the code lives in the jazz2-native repository, and this one hosts the releases. It works with the Shareware Demo, Holiday Hare ’98, The Secret Files, and Christmas Chronicles, and partially supports features of the JJ2+ extension and MLLE. On first launch it converts the game files into a cache while the intro cinematics play. It has optional gameplay enhancements (Reforged), online multiplayer since 3.7.0 (August 1), which also added player color customization and Direct3D 11 and Vulkan backends, and a dedicated server as a Docker image. There are builds for Windows, Linux, and macOS, plus Android, iOS, Switch, Xbox, and other consoles. Version 3.9.0 (October 17) greatly improved the accuracy of physics and movement outside Reforged and added the Reforged Camera option and Rev Up. Its browser version, on the project’s website, plays with the data from the free Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Shareware Demo and can import the episodes from your copy.

You needThe contents of your own Jazz Jackrabbit 2 folder, copied into the Source subfolder; The Secret Files is recommended, and the free Shareware Demo works too. Plus Windows 7 or later with the Visual C++ Redistributable, Linux, or macOS, and a graphics card with OpenGL 3.3 (OpenGL ES 3.0 on ARM).

PS1

The Legend of Dragoon

Legend-of-Dragoon-Modding/Severed-Chains

Severed Chains: The Legend of Dragoon brought to PC from the game’s assembly code, disassembled and rewritten by hand in Java. It isn’t an emulator and needs no BIOS: assets are extracted from your discs on first launch, and the code includes nothing official from the game. Monoxide began decompiling it in December 2020 and now maintains it with a small team. It’s fully playable with no known crashes and fixes many of the original’s bugs. Always on: near-instant loading, no disc swapping, 60 fps outside battles, unlimited save slots, and keyboard or controller. As options: native 4K and beyond, true widescreen in battle and on the world map, a CRT filter, saving almost anywhere, faster game speed, skippable movies, swapping Additions mid-battle, removing the 9,999 damage cap or the need to have Dart in the party, and a modding API that several projects already use. Its authors state that no AI was used to make it. Version 3.0 (October 17) is the first recommended build since July 2023.

You needYour own four discs of the North American release of The Legend of Dragoon (SCUS-94491, SCUS-94584, SCUS-94585, and SCUS-94586), dumped as raw ISO or BIN images (2,352 bytes per sector) in the isos folder; the European and Japanese releases won’t work. Plus Windows, macOS (Intel or Apple silicon), Linux (x86-64 or ARM64), or Steam Deck, an OpenGL 3.3 graphics card, and an internet connection on first launch, when Java 25 is downloaded.

GC

SMS Launcher

chasem-dev/sms-launcher

A launcher for Windows, macOS, and Linux that sets up and starts the native Super Mario Sunshine port. It guides the install in three steps: it downloads the setup files, checks the user’s disc image (the North American GMSE01, revision 0, as .iso, NKit .iso, .gcm, or .ciso; it recognizes and flags RVZ, WIA, and GCZ images), and prepares the game on the computer, with optional HD textures and enhanced cutscenes reconstructed from the disc. Afterwards it offers a Play button and settings for display, graphics, controller, and keyboard, 30, 60, or 120 frames per second, backup and restore of saves with import of Dolphin saves, save states, and support for the Super Mario Eclipse mod; on Linux it can add the game to Steam. Per its README it includes neither the game nor a disc image. Version 0.1.68 is from October 28 and the beta 0.1.68-beta.297 from October 29. 15 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

WII

Super Mario Galaxy (Nebula)

keepvaibin/nebula

Nebula: a static recompilation of Super Mario Galaxy for Windows, with macOS and Android planned. The installer translates the game’s PowerPC code to C++ and compiles it on your PC from your own copy, so the download contains nothing from Nintendo; the runtime renders with Direct3D 12. It supports 4:3 to 32:9, internal resolution up to 16x, keyboard and mouse, Xbox controllers, and the Switch and Switch 2 Pro Controllers, which aim with the gyro. It’s playable from the start, but the author still calls it a work in progress: some areas drop below 60 fps on weaker hardware, and bugs remain.

You needYour own copy of the US version (RMGE01, revision 0) as an ISO, RVZ, or extracted folder, plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, a Direct3D 12 graphics card, and an internet connection for the first install.

N64

Donkey Kong 64

Rainchus/Donkey-Kong-64-Recompiled

DK64 Rekongpiled: a static recompilation of the US release, built with N64Recomp and with RT64 as its renderer. It isn’t based on the decompilation, though it uses its headers and some functions for its patches. It runs at any frame rate (your monitor’s by default) without changing game speed, and at any aspect ratio, ultrawide included, with an option to keep the HUD at 16:9. It adds in-game settings menus you can use with mouse, controller, or keyboard, longer draw distance, mouse and gyro aiming, adjustable deadzone and axis inversion, near-instant loading, and low input lag. It supports mods and texture packs, with an in-game page to discover mods. It fixes the bug that kept Hideout Helm medals from being collected if you left without picking them up, and since modern performance changed some timings, it slows down the second Fungi Forest rabbit race and the harder Krazy Kong Klamour so they stay fair. There are builds for Windows, Linux (also as a Flatpak and for ARM64), and Apple silicon macOS. 1.0.0 came out on August 29 and the latest, 1.0.3, on September 30.

You needYour own US 1.0 Donkey Kong 64 ROM for N64; if it isn’t a .z64 it’s converted automatically, and no other ROM is accepted. Plus a graphics card with Direct3D 12.0 (Shader Model 6) or Vulkan 1.2 (at least a GeForce GT 630, Radeon HD 7750, or Intel HD 510) and a CPU with AVX.

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Grand Theft Auto (Carnage3D)

codenamecpp/carnage3d

Carnage3D: an open-source remake of the first Grand Theft Auto, written in C++ with OpenGL, Box2D for physics, and OpenAL for sound, played with the original game’s data files. Its author describes it as being at a very early stage. The controls mimic the original’s, and it supports Xbox-compatible controllers, split screen for up to four players, and a free-look camera; the level is chosen on the command line. It runs on Windows and Linux, and macOS build support was added in December 2021; there are no published releases, so you build it yourself. That is also the last change to the code: since then only the repository’s funding settings have been touched. The Makefile has a target that downloads the game’s free demo from a copy of Rockstar’s website saved on archive.org, and the README links to a browser version that plays without supplying any game files.

You needThe data files (the GTADATA folder) from your own copy of Grand Theft Auto, the full game or the demo; their path goes in gamedata/config/sys_config.json. Plus Windows, Linux, or macOS, and building it yourself: on Linux, with clang, GLEW, GLM, and OpenAL; on Windows, with Visual Studio 2015.

PS4

The Last Guardian (HayatoG)

HayatoG/tlg_pc

A native Linux and Windows port of the PS4 release (US CUSA03627 or European CUSA03745, with update 01.03): the game’s original code runs directly on the CPU, with no CPU emulation, a runtime reimplements the PS4 system libraries, and the GPU’s commands and shaders are translated to Vulkan with shadPS4’s video core. It builds on gow3_pc (now SpartanPort) and bloodborne_pc, and shares fixes with the same author’s inFAMOUS Second Son port. Its author calls it playable: it boots, reaches gameplay, and holds up through sessions of more than 10 minutes without failures, with native 1080p output, audio, autosave, DualSense, DualShock 4, Xbox, and 8BitDo controllers through SDL3 with real or simulated gyro, and keyboard and mouse with mouse camera control and remappable keys. It runs at 30 fps as on PS4, with 60 fps or an unlocked rate as experimental options, and adds SMAA anti-aliasing, RCAS or CAS sharpening, color adjustments, its own in-game menu, and a launcher that also loads cheats in the shadPS4 and GoldHEN format. The Linux build is tested; the Windows one is built automatically but hasn’t been tested in game yet. It publishes a release with every change, the latest on October 22. 67 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own dump of The Last Guardian for PS4, CUSA03627 (US) or CUSA03745 (Europe), with the base game and update 01.03 in one folder (about 25 GB), taken from your console with GoldHEN and Itemzflow; for audio, also the libSceNgs2.sprx file from your PS4’s firmware. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 or x86-64 Linux (glibc 2.39 or later), a Vulkan 1.3 graphics card (6 GB of VRAM recommended), and about 25 GB of free space. On CPUs without MOVBE, BMI1, or LZCNT (Intel before Haswell) it emulates those instructions.

NSW

Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate

morerokk/MHGURecomp

A native PC port of Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate (Switch version 1.4.0), made by statically recompiling the game’s 32-bit ARM code to C and running it on a host runtime: the Switch’s system services and the NVN graphics API are reimplemented on Windows, with Vulkan for rendering. The README describes it as fully playable, with possible bugs, and says multiplayer also works. It adds graphics settings (resolution, MSAA, FXAA, supersampling, VSync), any widescreen aspect ratio, a frame rate cap from 30 to 240 fps, support for almost any controller, experimental keyboard and mouse controls, mod support, and cheat codes in the Ryujinx and Atmosphère format. Online multiplayer arrived with 0.11.2 on October 29, the first public release to include it. 72 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own copy of Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate for Nintendo Switch, version 1.4.0 (title ID 0100770008DD8000; the main executable’s build ID starts with FB08F1D20FD1204F), with the exefs and romfs folders and the updates already applied. 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, or Linux, an AVX2 CPU (2014 or newer), a GPU with Vulkan 1.2 and at least 1 GB of VRAM, and 4 GB of RAM.

SNES

Super Metroid (snesrev)

snesrev/sm

sm: a reverse-engineered reimplementation of Super Metroid in C, by the author of zelda3. Its author presents it as an early version, with bugs and messy code. It reads the game’s data from your ROM on every launch, and while you play it also runs the original game and compares the two frame by frame: on a mismatch it saves a snapshot in saves/ and shows a countdown from 300 on screen. It has snapshots that keep the input history so playthroughs can be replayed, turbo mode, window scaling and fullscreen, an optimized PPU renderer, an option to remove the per-scanline sprite limit, OpenGL output with GLSL shaders, and autosave on quit. There are no prebuilt releases: you build it yourself, and its last change dates from April 2023. RadzPrower’s Super Metroid Launcher downloads and builds it on Windows in nearly one click.

You needYour own US Super Metroid ROM, named sm.smc (SHA-1 da957f0d63d14cb441d215462904c4fa8519c613), needed every time you play. To build it, SDL2 and, on Windows, MSYS2, Visual Studio 2022, or TCC; on Linux and macOS, make.

N64

⑂ Fork of pmret/papermario (Paper Mario DX)

Paper Mario (PaperBoat)

HarbourMasters/PaperBoat

Paper Mario 64 port by Harbour Masters, the Ship of Harkinian team, built on the Paper Mario DX decompilation. It’s a decomp port, not a static recompilation, unlike the other Paper Mario project in the catalog, which does recompile the binary. A compatibility checker lets you verify your dump is supported before you start.

You needYour own copy of Paper Mario (N64, US version; SHA-1 3837f44cda784b466c9a2d99df70d77c322b97a0).

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Cave Story (NXEngine-evo)

nxengine/nxengine-evo

NXEngine-evo: an extended and refactored version of NXEngine, Caitlin Shaw’s complete open-source clone of the Cave Story engine. It moves the engine to SDL2 and adds more resolutions with proper widescreen up to 1080p, animated character portraits, a new main menu, credits graphics specific to the Mimiga Mask ending, translations (Russian, Japanese, French, German, Polish, Italian, Chinese, Arabic, and Korean, among others), controller rumble, strafing, configurable OK and Cancel buttons, separate music and sound volumes, custom soundtracks (Cave Story+’s “New” and “Remastered” ones too), a more accurate Organya and Pixtone player, optional lighting effects, and basic mod support, such as Seriousface’s boss rush; it also fixes many gameplay, weapon, and AI bugs. The latest release is 2.6.5-1 (July 8, 2021), for 64-bit Windows, Linux (AppImage), and macOS, plus PS Vita and Switch; development continues at a slow pace, with the last commit on March 3.

You needNo purchase needed: it uses the original freeware release of Cave Story with the fans’ English translation, which the project’s wiki links in its translations repository; you copy the engine and its data folder into the game folder and run extract once, which pulls the resources out of the original executable. For the “New” or “Remastered” soundtracks, the Ogg or Ogg11 folders from your own copy of Cave Story+. Plus 64-bit Windows, Linux, or macOS.

PS1

Doom / Final Doom (PsyDoom)

BodbDearg/PsyDoom

PsyDoom: PlayStation Doom and Final Doom brought back to PC through reverse engineering. The code comes straight from the PlayStation machine code: it began as emulated MIPS instructions and was gradually turned into structured C++ that runs natively, with help from Erick194’s PSXDOOM-RE, which recreates the source for the PlayStation itself. The classic renderer emulates the console’s GPU and sound chip (SPU) internally so the game looks and sounds like the original; the Vulkan renderer, on by default where available, draws at high resolutions and in widescreen. It reproduces exactly four complete playthroughs recorded as demos (Doom and Final Doom, NTSC and PAL). It adds uncapped frame rates with interpolation, save files, a launcher, keyboard and mouse, the link cable multiplayer over TCP (co-op and deathmatch, on a very low-latency connection), Lua-scripted mods, and raised engine limits. The latest stable version is 1.1.1 (June 13, 2023); 1.2.0-preview1 (March 22, 2025) is a test build.

You needYour own Doom or Final Doom PlayStation disc (any region or edition) as an image with its .cue file; the one-level demo works too. Plus 64-bit Windows with the Visual C++ redistributable, macOS (Intel or Apple silicon), or Linux based on Debian Buster or later (x86-64, ARM64, or ARMhf, with PulseAudio for sound). The Vulkan renderer needs Vulkan 1.0 (on a Mac, a Metal-capable graphics card); without it, the classic renderer is used.

N64

Banjo-Kazooie (Lighthouse)

HarbourMasters/Lighthouse

Harbour Masters’ port of Banjo-Kazooie, from the Ship of Harkinian team. It ships no copyrighted assets. Its README says the project has used AI assistance for information gathering, particularly when the decomp documentation was younger, and accepts AI-assisted contributions within HarbourMasters’ policy.

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Jagged Alliance 2 (JA2 Stracciatella)

ja2-stracciatella/ja2-stracciatella

JA2 Stracciatella: a port of Jagged Alliance 2, the 1999 tactical game, to more platforms, improving its stability, fixing bugs, and providing a platform for mod development. It builds on the source code Strategy First released in 2004 under its own license, and continues the project Tron started in 2006 to clean up that code and make it portable, with over 7,000 commits in its original repository; today it’s written in C++ and Rust, with some Lua, and in 2021 it had 30% less code than the original. The name is a nod to the ice cream: it keeps the “vanilla” game with improvements mixed in like the chocolate pieces. It adds a launcher, high resolutions, new hotkeys, touch controls, a “Dead is Dead” mode that saves for you in a single slot, unlimited named saves, the built-in map editor, debug screens, and support for the Wildfire maps through a mod. Much of the game data lives in external JSON files that are easy to edit. It supports the Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Polish releases and both Russian ones. Version 0.22.0 (September 28, 2025) added JSON patches for mods and moved armor, explosives, and NPC script records to external files, with at least 38 bugs fixed, 19 of them from the original game; 0.22.1, from October 2025, fixed one bug. There are builds for Windows (32- and 64-bit), Linux (AppImage and Flatpak), macOS, and Android, plus nightly builds. 8 of its last 100 commits, from September 2026, list Claude as a co-author. The repository also includes, as a mod, the Simplified Chinese localization: the game’s text and fonts in that language.

You needA full, clean install of your own copy of Jagged Alliance 2 (not one with the 1.13 mod), for example from GOG or Steam’s Jagged Alliance 2 Gold, whose files are in the JA2Classic subfolder; in the launcher you pick the folder and the language version. For the Wildfire maps, Wildfire and the conversion mod too. Plus Windows, Linux, or macOS.

NSW

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (NotRexed)

NotRexed/SkyboundTotk

An experimental static recompilation project of the base game version 1.0.0 for Windows x64 and Linux x86-64: the AArch64 code is translated to C ahead of time and compiled on your PC, a runtime implements the services the game expects, and the renderer translates the graphics work and shaders to WebGPU (wgpu-native). It is not a general Switch emulator. The README warns of graphical problems and incomplete compatibility, and that some graphics translation still happens at run time; a contribution added version 1.2.1. F6 tries to adjust the camera and HUD to wider screens and is off by default. It has no published releases: you build it with build.bat or from source. 21 of its 32 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own unmodified copy of base version 1.0.0 (or 1.2.1), with exefs and romfs already extracted into the project’s game folder (it doesn’t extract .nsp or .xci). Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 or x86-64 Linux with Vulkan, Python 3.10 or newer with lz4, Visual Studio 2022 Build Tools on Windows, clang, clang++ and lld, and at least 45 GB free in addition to the dump.

N64

Super Smash Bros. (BattleShip)

JRickey/BattleShip

Port of the N64 Super Smash Bros. to PC, Mac, and Linux, with full modding support.

PS2

Gran Turismo 4

moesuito/gt4-staticrecomp

A static recompilation of Gran Turismo 4 (NTSC-U) for Windows x86-64: the game’s code is translated ahead of time into C++ and compiled to native code, including every VU1 and VU0 microprogram, and the PS2 hardware is reproduced in software. It is what the README calls a hybrid recompilation: the image goes out through Vulkan with PCSX2’s GSdx renderer in a separate process, which the launcher downloads, while an in-house one (CoreGS 2.0) is in development. It advertises a locked 60 FPS at 100% game speed in the scenes it tests, 1080p by default and up to 8K, widescreen and ultrawide, custom texture packs, a crash-safe memory card, and gamepads through SDL3. It ships an installer and a launcher that set the game up from your disc. Version 1.3.0-rc6 (October 26) is a test build; 1.2.5 is from the same day. 51 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own .iso image of Gran Turismo 4 USA v2.00 (SCUS-97328). 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, a processor with SSE4.1, a graphics card with Vulkan 1.2, and about 6 GB free (the launcher keeps a 5.3 GB copy of your image).

GBA

⑂ Fork of MatheoVignaud/tmc

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (Project Picori)

999sian/tmc

Project Picori: a native PC port (Linux, Windows, and macOS) of The Minish Cap, built on the zeldaret/tmc decompilation. 8 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

PS4

⑂ Fork of aarvsn/Ryty

Gran Turismo Sport

mlgprorektm8/RyGT

RyGT: Gran Turismo Sport for PS4 (CUSA03220, update 1.69) as a native Windows program. It isn’t emulated: its converter turns the game’s executable into GTSport.exe, the code runs directly on the CPU, and RyGT’s libraries replace the PS4 system ones; graphics go to Vulkan through the renderer of shadGT, a shadPS4 fork, built as the game’s video output library. It’s a fork of Ryty, a general tool for porting PS4 and PS5 executables, with everything this game needs. Boot, menus, car and track selection, races (at 42–60 fps, depending on the cars on screen), results, sound, controllers, and two-player split screen work; online features don’t. The livery editor works offline with scripts generated from your files with Nenkai’s tools, and the Lewis Hamilton Challenge is unlocked. The launcher converts the game from your dump and offers AMD FSR 3.1 or FSR 1, and DLSS if you add your own NVIDIA files. The latest test builds add an experimental native renderer, racing wheels and pedals with force feedback, and Linux through Proton. 47 of its 100 commits list Claude as a co-author. The latest stable build is from October 18.

You needYour own decrypted Gran Turismo Sport PS4 dump (CUSA03220) with update 1.69, plus the system modules and fonts from your own PS4’s firmware. Plus 64-bit Windows (or Linux with Proton 10 or later, in the test builds) and a Vulkan 1.3 graphics card. No game or firmware files are included.

DOS

Doom / Doom II (DSDA-Doom)

dsda-org/dsda-doom

DSDA-Doom: a Doom source port, the successor of PrBoom+ in the Boom line, which builds on the source code id Software released in 1997 and adds tools for recording and playing back demos, with a focus on speedrunning and quality of life. It was created by kraflab, who maintained it from 2020 to 2024; it’s now maintained by Fabian Greffrath, the author of Crispy Doom and Woof!, and four other developers. Besides Doom, it plays Heretic and Hexen, compatible with their original demos, and supports MBF21, UDMF, UMAPINFO, and DSDHacked. It has a console with scripting, full controller support, a palette-based OpenGL renderer, rewind, a strict mode for speedrunning, advanced TAS tools, and debugging features for testing maps; there’s also a dedicated launcher, dsda-launcher, in a separate repository. Version 0.30.0 (September 29) moved UMAPINFO to revision 3, with Heretic support, removed ZDoom MAPINFO support, added mouse navigation in the menus, and brought back the ENDOOM window; the latest, 0.30.1 (October 9), lets you choose the audio output device. There are builds for 64-bit Windows (Windows 7 and later), Linux (AppImage), and macOS (universal binary).

You needThe IWAD from your own copy: doom.wad, doom2.wad, tnt.wad, or plutonia.wad for Doom, Doom II, and Final Doom; heretic.wad for Heretic; or hexen.wad, plus hexdd.wad for its expansion, for Hexen. It also recognizes the free Freedoom IWADs and the Chex Quest ones. Plus 64-bit Windows, 64-bit Linux, or macOS.

PS2

⑂ Fork of nathanialf/ico

ICO

nathanialf/ico-pc

Native port of the PS2 ICO to Windows, Linux, the Steam Deck, 64-bit ARM handhelds, and Android, built on the same author’s decompilation, which is also in the catalog. It runs the game’s own code, so it plays and sounds like the PAL original. The extras (sharper picture, widescreen, smoother motion) stay off until you turn them on, and the frame rate is only locked to the PS2’s if you pick Original.

You needYour own copy of the PAL ICO disc. The game isn’t included in the repository or in the downloads.

PS1

Tomb Raider: Chronicles (TOMB5, PS1)

TOMB5/TOMB5

A C decompilation of Tomb Raider: Chronicles (Core Design, 2000) based on the final PlayStation (NTSC, SLUS_013.11) and PC releases, since the original source code was lost. It doesn’t aim for code that matches the original 1:1, only for the same behavior; function, variable, and structure names come from debug symbols (.SYM and .MAP), TRosettastone 3.0, and GAMEWAD.OBJ. Its stated goal was to decompile everything up to the title screen and then move on to in-game code. Besides the PS1 build, it builds PSXPC_N: the PS1 code for Windows and Linux (32-bit x86) on a layer that emulates the console hardware, meant for debugging and reading the files from your disc. There’s also code for the PC release with DirectX 7 (PC_N). Its latest Windows builds are from October 2020 and its last commit from March 2021. The repository includes, as MIPS assembly, the disassembly of parts of the PS1 executable (about 470 KB).

NS2

Pokémon Pokopia (drakolordx7)

drakolordx7/switch2-recomp

Pokopia Recomp: a static recompilation of Pokémon Pokopia, for Switch 2, into a native Windows program. It builds on nxrecomp, the same author’s Switch recompiler, with code from Ryujinx, Mesa, yuzu, Eden, and other Switch recompilations. The launcher compiles the game on your PC from your copy, in about 7 minutes, and then builds the shader cache, which takes one to two hours and can be paused. These are test builds: 0.1.0 (November 2) was tested through the opening and the first area, and the rest is untested. 0.1.1, from the same day, fixed fog, water, and other animated effects, brought the mouse to the menus, and added DLSS, DLAA, and FSR 3. The middle mouse button toggles the Joy-Con 2 mouse mode for placing items, and F1 opens the in-game settings.

You needYour own extracted copy of Pokémon Pokopia for Nintendo Switch 2, version 2.0.1a. 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, a GPU with Vulkan 1.3, and 16 GB of RAM.

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Dungeon Keeper 2 (OpenKeeper)

tonihele/OpenKeeper

OpenKeeper: an open-source, cross-platform remake of Dungeon Keeper 2 and its engine, written in Java with jMonkeyEngine. Its goal is to reimplement the whole game, version 1.7 with the three bonus packs, with few or no changes and using the original assets, so you need the game to play; later on it could get fan-made graphics, which would allow a standalone version, and new features. It includes a converter that turns the assets from your install into the engine’s format. It has been in development since 2014 and has no stable releases: it publishes a development build that is updated as changes come in, the latest on October 20, and it can also be run from source with Gradle. Since September it has added a minimap, a full-screen map, ceilings, visual effects, the level-won movies, and an in-game options menu. Two of its last 100 commits, from September, list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own installed copy of Dungeon Keeper 2; the project targets version 1.7 with the three bonus packs. Plus, to run it from source, the Java JDK 25 and an internet connection; Arch Linux has an AUR package.

MAC

Bugdom

jorio/Bugdom

Bugdom, Pangea Software’s 1999 Mac game, updated for Windows, macOS, and Linux by Iliyas Jorio with Pangea’s approval, after Pangea offered to let them port it once their Nanosaur port was done. The original used QuickDraw 3D, which never went past Mac OS 9, so until this port, playing it required a PowerPC Mac running OS 9. Version 1.3.0 (December 29, 2020) made it work on modern systems at any resolution beyond the original 640×480, with widescreen touch-ups and built-in save and settings dialogs, and 1.3.1 replaced the QuickDraw 3D code, which had been running on Quesa, with a renderer made for the game. Later releases added smoother movement at high frame rates, controller-driven menus, an option to constrain the picture to 4:3, Retina and Apple silicon on the Mac, and ARM64 Linux; the latest, 1.3.4 (January 3, 2024), fixed gameplay differences that showed up above 100 fps. Since then the code has moved to SDL 3, not yet in a release. It fixes gameplay bugs but aims to stay faithful to the original, with no changes to its design. The downloads, free or pay-what-you-want on itch.io, include the whole game, which the author publishes under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license with permission from Pangea Software.

You needNo copy needed: the game is published in full with permission from Pangea Software, and each download already includes its data. Plus Windows, macOS, or Linux (x86-64 or ARM64).

NSW

Super Mario Odyssey

MonsterDruide1/OdysseyDecomp

Work-in-progress decompilation of Super Mario Odyssey 1.0.0, aiming to recreate a source code base from scratch. It doesn’t produce a playable game: you still need the original on a Switch. 4 of its last 100 commits list Claude or Devin as a co-author.

360

FIFA Street (2012)

samuelit0davila/fifa-street-pc-port

ReStreet: a recompilation of the Xbox 360 version for Windows, built with the ReXGlue SDK, with free online play on community servers (Europe and South America). It comes with a one-file installer and a launcher with friends, chat, and rooms that bring both players to the same lobby, plus an in-game friends guide. Since 2.0 it uses a new graphics engine based on AnDr3zF’s “Deck” port, with Direct3D 12 and Vulkan, FSR 1, up to 4x internal resolution, ambient occlusion, MSAA, and FXAA. The installer includes the generated game binaries, but not the ISO or the game files. Online play is still in beta. Its author states it was developed with help from ChatGPT, OpenAI Codex, and Claude Code.

You needYour own FIFA Street (2012) Xbox 360 ISO. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, a Direct3D 12 or Vulkan graphics card, 8 GB of RAM, and about 12 GB of free space.

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FreeSpace 2 (FS2Open)

scp-fs2open/fs2open.github.com

FreeSpace Open (FSO): the continuation of the FreeSpace 2 source code that Dave Baranec, one of its developers, released in 2002, maintained ever since by the FreeSpace Source Code Project. The released code lacked parts such as the PXO multiplayer code and video playback; over the years the project added a new multiplayer network system, glow and shine mapping, OpenGL, deferred lighting with shadows (3.7.4, 2016), FFmpeg video playback, physically based rendering, TrueType fonts and Unicode text, a libRocket-based interface, a Lua scripting API, IPv6 multiplayer, and dozens of new mission operators (SEXPs). The current code also includes a Vulkan renderer alongside the OpenGL one and virtual reality through OpenXR, plus the FRED2 and qtFRED mission editors. Many mods and total conversions are built on it. Releases come for Windows (x86, x64, and, from 26.2, ARM64), Linux (x86-64 and ARM64), and macOS (Intel and Apple silicon); the latest stable release is 26.0.1 (September 15), and 26.2.0 is at the release-candidate stage (RC2, October 19). Its wiki recommends installing it, along with mods, through the Knossos.NET manager. 44 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author, and one lists Codex.

You needThe files from your own copy of FreeSpace 2 (it’s on GOG and Steam). FreeSpace 1 is played through the FreeSpace Port mod, which needs FreeSpace 2 installed. Plus Windows 7 or later, Linux, or macOS.

DOS

One Must Fall 2097 (OpenOMF)

omf2097/openomf

OpenOMF: a from-scratch C reimplementation of the engine of One Must Fall 2097, the robot fighting game by Diversions Entertainment, published by Epic MegaGames for MS-DOS, that uses the original’s data files. The team built it through a mix of disassembly, memory inspection, and trial and error, and aims for the closest possible compatibility with the original: it supports its tournament saves, scoreboard files, and REC recordings. It was started because the original multiplayer ran over IPX and was a pain to set up: OpenOMF replaces it with rollback netcode over UDP. It has an OpenGL renderer, every mode (one player, two players, and tournament), and mod support. It calls itself an alpha, with nearly everything implemented and tournament mode fully playable. Version 0.8.6 (July 5) added mods packed as ZIP files that replace sprites, backgrounds, and portraits, also at 2x or 4x, and change robot, arena, and tournament attributes (most are disabled in netplay), music mods in OGG or Opus, with remixes by Shady Monk and DeBisco included, an optional 1024-color palette, scaling filters, rival pilots who spend their money in tournaments, and an AppImage build; since then it has published a rolling test build, last updated on October 21. There are builds for Windows (x64 and ARM64), Linux (AppImage, .deb, .tar.gz, and Flathub), and ARM macOS 14 or later. The downloads include the original game’s data files, since the game was later released as freeware; the project’s build process downloads them from omf2097.com.

You needNo copy needed: One Must Fall 2097 was later released as freeware, and OpenOMF’s builds already include its data files. If you build it yourself, you need those files in the resources folder. Plus Windows, Linux, or macOS 14 or later on Apple silicon.

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Phobos

Phobos-developers/Phobos

Phobos: a community-made engine extension for Command & Conquer: Yuri’s Revenge, with new features and fixes aimed at mod makers. It’s a DLL (Phobos.dll) that SyringeEx, an extended, open-source version of Syringe, injects into the game’s executable, gamemd.exe: its code hooks into specific addresses in the binary, found by disassembling it. It’s designed to accompany Ares, the other major engine extension, without introducing incompatibilities, but doesn’t need it to work, and it’s compatible with the CnCNet 5 spawner. On its own it changes almost nothing beyond a few fixes: its features are enabled from each mod’s INI files and documented on its website, in Chinese too. They include new projectile trajectories, shields, damage multipliers, a building production queue, new orders for aircraft, parabombs, and dozens of fixes for bugs in the original game. It started in 2020, and its first stable release came out in February 2021. The latest stable release is 0.4.0.2 (January 28), and the latest pre-release, 0.5-alpha2 (October 10), bundles SyringeEx’s Syringe.exe. The README warns that the project isn’t maintained actively enough and is looking for maintainers, though it has received about a hundred commits in the last six weeks. Its contributing guide encourages using AI coding agents (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and similar tools) to write hooks, review code, and write documentation, and the repository includes instructions for them; none of its last 100 commits lists an AI as a co-author.

You needYour own copy of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 with the Yuri’s Revenge expansion for PC. Phobos.dll, Phobos.pdb, and SyringeEx’s Syringe.exe (0.1.0.2 or later) go in the folder with gamemd.exe, and the game is launched through Syringe.exe or Ares’s RunAres.bat. Installing Ares too is recommended for the full feature set. Saves don’t carry over between Phobos versions. Plus Windows.

360

Spider-Man: Edge of Time

goliathret/EdgeOfTimeRecomp

Unofficial port of the Xbox 360 version by static recompilation, with Windows, macOS, and Linux support. It uses the ReXGlue SDK to turn PowerPC assembly into static C++, plus its own XenosRecomp fork to translate the Xbox 360 shaders from their compiled container into static HLSL. Its stated goals include high resolutions, ultrawide, high frame rates, and modding.

You needThe files from your own legally acquired copy of Spider-Man: Edge of Time (Xbox 360). The repository ships no game assets.

SNES

Zelda 3 Launcher

RadzPrower/Zelda-3-Launcher

A Windows tool, written in C#, that bundles into nearly one click the steps to download, extract, compile, and launch snesrev’s A Link to the Past reimplementation. The button goes from Download to Building and then to Launch; Restore redoes the whole process and Update flags a change in the zelda3 repository. It does not include the game: it asks for a legitimate copy of the US ROM (SHA-256 66871d66be19ad2c34c927d6b14cd8eb6fc3181965b6e517cb361f7316009cfb). Version 1.3.7.0 (October 20), a .NET modernization, is the latest release; the previous one, from October 7, updated SDL2.

WIN

Counter-Strike (CS16Client)

FWGS/cs16-client

CS16Client: a reverse-engineered Counter-Strike 1.6 client, designed for mobile platforms and others the game doesn’t officially support, that runs on Xash3D FWGS, the Half-Life-compatible engine. It was started by a1batross and is maintained by Velaron. Besides the client library, it builds the server library, with ReGameDLL_CS, for your own games, the YaPB bots, with navigation graphs for the official maps that it downloads at build time, and the menu. It adds crosshair options (color, size, thickness, gap, dot, T shape, and dynamic crosshair), HUD color, centered weapons, and weapon sway, plus touch controls. It publishes continuous builds; the latest is from October 18, and this month’s changes fixed the HUD’s scoreboard and money counter. There are builds for Windows (x86 and x64), Linux (i386 and x86-64), and macOS (Apple silicon and Intel), the macOS ones untested, plus Android and PS Vita. The repository, and with it the downloads, also includes files for the game: four training maps (tr_1, tr_1a, tr_2, and tr_3) with 25 voice lines, 487 bot radio sounds with their profile and chatter files, and menu graphics and sounds.

You needYour own copy of Counter-Strike on Steam: its valve and cstrike folders, copied into the Xash3D FWGS folder, which must be the latest development build. Plus Windows, Linux, or macOS.

MAC

Nanosaur

jorio/Nanosaur

A port of the Nanosaur source code that Pangea Software released in 1999, updated for macOS, Windows, and Linux with Pangea’s permission. To carry it over, the author wrote Pomme, a partial reimplementation of the Macintosh Toolbox API; the first release rendered with a fork of Quesa (an implementation of QuickDraw 3D) and since 1.4.2 it has its own renderer. It adds arbitrary resolutions and fixes gameplay bugs without changing the game’s design. Unlike almost every project in the catalog, the repository includes the Data folder with the game’s audio, models, images, and movies, released by its owner. The code is licensed CC NC-BY-SA 4.0. The latest version is 1.4.4 (February 5, 2023), with packages for macOS, Windows, and Linux (x86-64 and ARM64 AppImages).

You needNo copy of the game is needed: the data comes with the port, released by Pangea Software. Just macOS, Windows, or Linux.

Vanilla Conquer

TheAssemblyArmada/Vanilla-Conquer

Vanilla Conquer: a portable version of the first-generation Command & Conquer engine that runs Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert on Windows, Linux, macOS, and the BSDs with SDL and OpenAL. It builds on the Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code EA released alongside the Remastered Collection and aims to keep the games as they were at release, working as a drop-in replacement for the original executables (vanillatd and vanillara) with bug fixes, compatibility fixes, and quality-of-life improvements. It also builds both games’ DLLs as mods for the Remastered Collection, which makes it useful for Remastered mod development. It includes a tool for MIX files. There are no numbered releases: it publishes development builds for Windows (32- and 64-bit), Linux, and macOS with every change, the latest on July 16. The README links to the editions EA released as freeware: the Command & Conquer Gold ISOs (GDI and NOD) on ModDB and the Red Alert CD through EA’s archived page, plus the official Red Alert demo.

You needThe files from your own copy of the classic games: you copy vanillatd.exe or vanillara.exe (on Windows, along with SDL2.dll and OpenAL32.dll) into the game folder. The freeware Command & Conquer Gold and Red Alert releases work, and the Red Alert demo is fully playable; data from the Remastered Collection, The Ultimate Collection, or The First Decade isn’t supported yet. The Remastered mods need your copy of the Remastered Collection. Plus Windows, Linux, or macOS.

XBX

Splinter Cell: Double Agent

TGP482/SCDA-XBERecomp

A native 64-bit Windows port of the Xbox version, built with XboxXBE-Recomp, the same author’s tool, which was first made for this game. On first launch it compiles the game’s code for your machine. It replaces the original 640×480 with your monitor’s resolution and adds a 20–200% render scale, a 45–140° field of view, frame rates beyond the 30 fps cap, HDR, up to 8x MSAA and SMAA, shadows up to 8192×8192 that reach farther, ambient occlusion, and a Shader Model 3 mode with the effects of Chaos Theory’s PC version. Co-op plays online by connecting to an IP address, over LAN, or in split screen, with a higher update rate and less delay than the original, and Versus also works online. It has keyboard and mouse with raw input and SDL3 controller support. V2 came out on October 18.

You needYour own copy of Splinter Cell: Double Agent for Xbox, as an ISO or extracted; building it requires the extracted files (default.xbe, sc4_adv.xbe, and the Default, Media, and adv folders). Plus 64-bit Windows 10, a CPU with SSE4.2, a Direct3D 12 graphics card, and about 6 GB of free space.

WIN

MadnessPatch

Wemino/MadnessPatch

An unofficial patch for the PC version of Alice: Madness Returns: a DLL (dinput8.dll) you copy next to the game’s executable, with every option in MadnessPatch.ini. It makes Alice, the enemies, the camera, and PhysX objects behave at any frame rate exactly as they do at 30 fps, fixes crashes and endless loading screens during map transitions, and removes the pillarboxing on ultrawide and the letterboxing on 16:10, adjusting the field of view. It adds an in-game achievement list with the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions’ achievements, PlayStation and Switch controllers through SDL3 with matching button prompts, 2x to 16x MSAA, supersampling, fog fixed with anti-aliasing on, cutscenes upscaled with FSR 1, textures always at full resolution, windowed and borderless modes, a frame rate limit, safer saving with a backup, audio moved to XAudio 2.9 so it isn’t lost when the output device changes, the Complete Edition content unlocked, the developer console, and mod loading from loose files, plus fixes to the game’s scripts and maps, such as the Chapter 1 softlock on the Hatter’s elevator. 4.0.1 came out on October 21.

You needYour own copy of Alice: Madness Returns for PC, from Steam or the EA app. Plus Windows; if the game doesn’t start with the patch, update the Visual C++ (x86) redistributable.

XB1

Forza Horizon 2 Extra Options

RokkuDayo/ForzaHorizon2_ExtraOptions

A tweaks mod for the Xbox One version of Forza Horizon 2 when it runs on PC through Azimuth or Mezcal, another translation layer. Its DLLs, placed next to Azimuth.exe or next to the game executable, check that executable and patch it in memory. It adds changing cars from the pause menu, autodrive to your GPS destination, a drift camera like Forza Horizon 4 to 6’s, field-of-view sliders for every camera, removable roofs, lights, turn signals, and hazards on every car, a category with every stock rim, an unrestricted photo mode, 4K liveries, a custom gamerpic, and a “mediapc” folder for replacing files without touching the originals. Most of it is set in the game’s own menus. By default it also skips the intro videos and Azimuth’s save checks, and grants all DLC and VIP status. Version 0.2.98 (October 17) works only with Azimuth 0.9.10. The author warns that fake installers using the mod’s name carry a keylogger. Its author states Codex was used to write the DLL, and that the research was done by hand.

You needYour own copy of the Xbox One version of Forza Horizon 2, running through Azimuth (0.2.98 needs 0.9.10) or Mezcal. On Linux, with Wine or Proton, add WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winmm.dll=n,b".

360

Tekken 6 (Ekspym)

Ekspym/Tekken6-native-online

Tekken 6 Native Online: Tekken 6 for Xbox 360 recompiled for Windows, with no emulator, rollback netcode (on the GGPO principle), and an online lobby in the launcher. The launcher checks your disc image, copies the game data, translates the game’s code from your copy, and compiles it on your PC in about 3 to 10 minutes, depending on the CPU. It’s built for online matches: the game starts straight into the fight, the first player to win three rounds takes the match, and there’s MMR-based ranked matchmaking, a leaderboard, a history of your last 100 matches, and custom character looks. Since 2.3.2 it has a practice mode, and 2.3.4 (October 20) added Tekken 8-style frame data and the move list. The launcher updates itself, and most updates don’t require rebuilding the game. The source code is published in a separate repository (Ekspym/tekken6-native-online-source), without the full history: each release is added as one commit. Its author credits mahmoud-mess’s Tekken 6 recompilation for faster recompiled code. 3 of its 4 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own Tekken 6 Xbox 360 disc image, the USA and Europe release, revision 1 (.iso or the extracted disc folder); the launcher refuses other versions. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, a DirectX 12 graphics card, and about 10 GB of free space (6.7 GB of game data plus the build). Both players must use the same version.

GBC

⑂ Fork of bryanthaboi/gen1recomp (Gen1Recomp)

Pokémon Gold / Silver / Crystal (Gen2Recomped)

UNDERdecoded/Gen2Recomped

Gen2Recomped: a native Lua/LÖVE recreation of Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal, forked from Gen1Recomp, which is also in this catalog. As in the original, the engine, script VM, and map behavior are hand-written, and the data, graphics, and sound are decoded from your ROM when you import it. On top of Gen1Recomp’s engine it adds its own Generation II half (the Gold and Silver script VM, Johto and Kanto, day and night, breeding, the Pokégear, shinies, and held items) and has gone further since: it also imports FireRed and Emerald (alpha), Platinum, HeartGold, SoulSilver, Black, and White (pre-alpha), and the Polished Crystal and Prism romhacks. Around the games there’s a Monster Walker inspired by the Pokéwalker, map and save editors, machine translation into 25 languages, cloud saves, the DRAMATIC_SHAPE voxel renderer, and link play over UDP. There are builds for Windows, macOS, Linux, Steam Deck, Android, and iOS, plus homebrew Switch, Xbox in Dev Mode, and the Anbernic RG34XXSP. The Generation II components aren’t open source but source-available. 65 of its 378 commits list Claude as co-author. Version 0.8.45 came out on October 20.

You needYour own dump of Pokémon Gold, Silver, or Crystal (revision 0 or 1) for Game Boy Color, or of another supported game, which the importer checks by SHA-1 before creating anything; it’s only needed at import. Plus Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, or iOS; to run it from source, LÖVE 11 and Python 3.

NSW

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (WindowSmash)

OpenSmash-Ultimate/WindowSmash

WindowSmash: an experimental native Windows port of Switch version 13.0.5, the game’s last update, built with its own static recompiler and runtime. The recompiler finds the functions in the AArch64 code (NEON included), also those in the fighter modules, which are loaded when the game asks for them, and translates them to C, which Clang compiles on your PC; the runtime implements the system services the game uses, turns its graphics into Direct3D 11 and its shaders into HLSL, compiled the first time each one appears (a tool can prepare them ahead of time). An installer sets up Python, the compiler, and SDL3 if they’re missing, finds your files, applies the 13.0.5 update, and builds the game, which takes from 30 minutes to a few hours; the repository publishes no prebuilt game. It supports up to eight controllers plus the keyboard, windowed, borderless, or fullscreen at 16:9, the DLC fighters you own, and a tool that unlocks the base-game roster on your save. Online play uses Local Wireless through an internet relay, with open rooms, lobby codes, or player-hosted rooms, and the game’s own Online mode is being tested against a server that’s part of the project, with no connection to Nintendo. According to the project, menus and matches run, but much of it hasn’t been widely tested; complete matches between two PCs, for example, haven’t been fully verified. It can also be built, experimentally, on Linux, using DXVK on Vulkan, and on Apple silicon Macs, with a Metal renderer of its own. It’s a separate project from the OpenSmash-Ultimate recomp (ssbu-recomp), which adapted part of its network code and its lobby design with permission; both repositories now live in the same GitHub organization. 64 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own dump of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate at version 13.0.5: the game (ideally 1.0.0) with its 13.0.5 update as an .nsp, a dump with 13.0.5 already merged in, or the game installed and updated in yuzu or Ryujinx; DLC is optional. Also your own console’s keys (prod.keys and title.keys) and firmware, which the fonts come from. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, a CPU with AVX2, a DirectX 11 graphics card, 16 GB of RAM recommended, and about 60 GB free plus room for your files (about 17 GB). Linux and macOS 14.5 or later on Apple silicon, experimentally.

PS1

Crash Team Racing (CTR-tools)

CTR-tools/CTR-ModSDK

CTR-ModSDK: the toolkit for writing Crash Team Racing mods in C for the PS1 game, which also houses the effort to decompile the whole game and rebuild its source code. ctr-native, the same team’s native port, was built on that decompilation, and High Octane and Turbocharged, also in this catalog, come from it. The toolkit’s mods are built with psx-modding-toolchain and run on the original PS1 game; several of them, such as playable Nitrous Oxide, were later folded into those PC ports.

DarkPlaces

DarkPlacesEngine/DarkPlaces

DarkPlaces: a game engine based on Quake’s. It began as a Quake mod and, when id Software released the engine’s source code, LadyHavoc turned it into an engine of its own, which adds modern rendering features, extends QuakeC, the language the game logic is written in, and supports more map and model formats while staying compatible with Quake mods. It runs Quake and its two expansions, The Scourge of Armagon and The Dissolution of Eternity, mods such as Nehahra, Quoth, Arcane Dimensions, or Quake 1.5, and standalone games built with it, such as Nexuiz, Xonotic, Transfusion, or Steel Storm; the game is picked with a command-line option or by renaming the executable. Its features include real-time bump-mapped lighting and shadows, improved with .rtlights files; redesigned smoke, blood, and explosion effects, decals, fog, and skyboxes; replacement textures, JPEG included; Ogg Vorbis audio tracks instead of the CD ones; surround sound up to 7.1; and a server browser. Its latest published release, from 2014, was re-uploaded by the project to GitHub in December 2023, though it advises against it for new projects. Since 2021 it has been developed on GitHub, with Linux x86-64 builds in its continuous integration; the most complete builds, for Windows, Linux, and macOS, are the ones published in Xonotic’s engine packages, though the project points out it has no special relationship with Xonotic.

You needThe files from your own copy of Quake (the id1 folder with its .pak files) and, for the expansions, their hipnotic and rogue folders; standalone games built with DarkPlaces come with their own data. Plus Windows, Linux, or macOS; to build it, GCC or Clang with SDL2 (on Windows, through MSYS2 and MinGW).

WIN

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee / Abe's Exoddus (R.E.L.I.V.E.)

AliveTeam/alive_reversing

R.E.L.I.V.E.: a fan-made, open-source engine that replaces the executables of the PC versions of Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee and Abe’s Exoddus, Digital Dialect’s ports (AbeWin.exe and Exoddus.exe). It started as reverse engineering: the team decompiled those executables’ machine code and spent years rewriting the output into readable code, fixing bugs along the way; to avoid regressions it records full playthroughs with a stable build and replays them on development builds, which flag any desync. According to the project, both games can be played through in their entirety with it, though bugs, crashes, and differences from the original can still occur. It fixes over a hundred bugs in the originals and the stuttering cutscenes, runs in a window, supports controllers without third-party tools and any resolution, and has keys for the screen filter, keeping the aspect ratio, and fullscreen, plus quicksave and quickload in Exoddus. The team also made a new level editor that replaces Paul’s Level Editor; levels edited with it don’t work in the original engine. It isn’t compatible with the Abe HD mod, which comes from a different team. The latest stable release is 1.0.9 (March 21, 2025), for Windows (32- and 64-bit) and Linux (.deb), also on the AUR; development continues, and in August it moved to SDL3.

You needYour own PC copy of Abe’s Oddysee or Abe’s Exoddus, from Steam, GOG, or disc (the early disc release too); relive.exe and the SDL DLL go in the game’s folder. Plus Windows, Linux, or macOS (with SDL installed through Homebrew).

DOS

Warcraft II (Wargus)

Wargus/wargus

Wargus: Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness and its Beyond the Dark Portal expansion on Stratagus, a free real-time strategy engine. The repository holds the importer, which on first launch asks for your copy of Warcraft II and extracts and converts its data (graphics, sound, music, videos, and campaigns), and the Lua scripts that recreate the game. It looks and sounds almost exactly like Warcraft II, with very similar gameplay and slight enhancements in the style of StarCraft and other more modern strategy games. It runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS, plays in high resolution with OpenGL shaders to change the look, has LAN and online multiplayer, and lets you tweak many game parameters in Lua or from the command line. The latest stable release is 3.3.2, from July 2022, and development builds are made from every commit. On macOS you use a GitHub Actions build and, until its own extractor works properly there, the data is extracted with a third-party script.

You needYour own copy of Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, with Beyond the Dark Portal if you want its campaign; the importer recognizes, among others, the DOS CD release and the Battle.net Edition. Plus Windows, Linux (an Ubuntu PPA and openSUSE packages), or macOS.

360

Forza Horizon (Dyotson)

FH1-ReImagined/ForzaHorizon1-ReImagined

“Forza Horizon 1: ReImagined”: a static recompilation of the Xbox 360 version for Linux and Windows, with the ReXGlue SDK and its own patches. It’s a separate project from Pinyon Shift: it builds on the same author’s Halo: Reach recomp, and takes only a few pieces from Pinyon Shift, such as the HDR presenter. The launcher generates and compiles the game on your machine from your copy, in about 4 minutes on 8 cores; no game binaries are published. The single-player game has been played through, from the opening drive to the end of the festival. It includes Title Update 4 with Horizon Rally and the 1000 Club, all 23 DLC packs, 60 to 144 fps (up to 240) without changing physics or timing, keyboard and mouse, racing wheels, ultrawide, FSR, DLSS and DLAA on NVIDIA, and saves from Xenia Canary. Since Xbox Live is gone, it ships Forza Live, a server you can host yourself, with a public instance: online races, Horizon World (a shared open world for eight players), leaderboards, Rivals, car clubs, and the Message Center. The launcher is experimental, and the macOS build for Apple silicon is source-only. v0.1.24 (October 19) added a photo gallery to the launcher. About 60 of its commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own copy of Forza Horizon for Xbox 360 (title 4D5309C9), base version: the Games on Demand package or the disc 1 ISO, any printing; optionally Title Update 4 (for Horizon Rally and the 1000 Club) and your DLC. Plus x86-64 Linux or 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, a Vulkan 1.3 graphics card, about 4 GB of free RAM, and about 15 GB of disk space.

PS3

inFAMOUS

whompay/inFAMOUSreborn

An unofficial native Windows port of the European PS3 release (BCES00220), by static recompilation with ps3recomp: the PowerPC and SPU code is translated to C/C++ and graphics go through Direct3D 12. An installer takes your disc image or folder, checks for Python and the C++ build tools and offers to install them, regenerates the recompiled code from your copy, and builds it on your machine. Updates download only what changed. It plays with a controller, as on the console, or with keyboard and mouse, and F10 opens the settings for VSync, frame cap, and resolution. On CPUs without AVX2, the installer builds a slower compatibility version. Version 1.0 came out on October 18.

You needYour own European copy of inFAMOUS for PS3 (BCES00220), as an image (if encrypted, with its .dkey next to it) or a folder with PS3_GAME; if you only have the encrypted EBOOT.BIN, RPCS3 to decrypt it. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, a Direct3D 12 graphics card, a CPU with SSE4.1, Python 3.10 or later, the Visual Studio 2022 Build Tools with Clang, about 10 GB of free space, and 16 GB of RAM.

NS2

Pokémon Pokopia (Pokopia Native)

xFractals/pokopia-native

Pokopia Native: a tool that builds, from your copy of Pokémon Pokopia for Switch 2, a native Mac app and an iPhone app. It isn’t an emulator: on top of nxnative, the game’s ARM64 code runs directly on the Apple chip and the graphics go through Metal. It supports updates 2.0.0 (v327680) and 2.0.1 (v655360), checks that the copy is one of them, and needs no keys. The first build takes about an hour, nearly all of it the game’s 3,800 shaders; later ones take a couple of minutes. On iPhone it runs at 30 fps, as the Switch 2 does in handheld mode, but the app only starts when signed with a paid Apple Developer Program account; there is also a Windows builder that prepares the iPhone app. Its author says they played until after the first wake-up with no issues. The latest release is 1.0.3 (November 3). 14 of its 22 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own copy of Pokémon Pokopia for Nintendo Switch 2 with update 2.0.0 (v327680) or 2.0.1 (v655360), dumped as exefs and romfs folders; the base game alone isn’t enough. An Apple silicon Mac (M1 or later) with about 20 GB free, Xcode 27 with its Metal tools, Python 3.12, and .NET 10; for the iPhone, also a paid Apple Developer account.

NSW

⑂ Fork of valentderah/totk-pc-recomp

Astral Chain (captainj-sparrow)

captainj-sparrow/astral-chain-pc-recomp

A static recompilation of Astral Chain, the 2019 Switch game, into a native Windows x86-64 application with a Vulkan renderer, built on the pipeline of TotK Recomp, Valiantsin Dzerakh’s Tears of the Kingdom recompilation, which is also in the catalog. Its installer extracts the game’s data, merges the 1.0.1 update, lifts the code to C, and builds astralchain.exe on your PC, so the result contains the game and is for your own use only; it ships no game data and no code derived from it. The README says it is playable through the story, with its audio and save data, and that outside testing (Reddit, YouTube) has taken it from the intro to the credits with no known visual issues. It runs at 60 fps by default (with a 30 fps option and a cutscene speed fix), with custom resolutions, FSR 1 upscaling up to 4K, anisotropic filtering up to 16x, an in-game settings menu (F1), keyboard, mouse, and gamepad with remapping, rumble, and gyro, and mods and cheats in the emulator formats. Shaders are built during play; preparing shaders at install and a Linux release remain planned. It published seven releases between November 3 and 4; the latest, 0.3.0, adds 60 fps and the 1.0.1 update. There is another Astral Chain recompilation in the catalog.

You needYour own copy of Astral Chain for Switch, dumped from your console: the base game (version 1.0.0, XCI or NSP) and the 1.0.1 update (NSP), and your keys (prod.keys). 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 (x86-64 with at least SSE4.2), a Vulkan 1.3 graphics card, about 14 GB for the installed folder, and about 11 GB of temporary space while the update is merged.

PS1

Crash Team Racing (ctr-native)

CTR-tools/ctr-native

Native port that came out of the Crash Team Racing decompilation project, by the CTR-tools team.

PS3

God of War: Ascension (arnaldolima1)

arnaldolima1/gow-ascension-pc

Ascension: an experiment in static recompilation of the European PS3 release for Windows, with a fork of ps3recomp that translates the main processor’s and the SPUs’ code to C++. It isn’t playable from start to finish yet: it gets from boot to the first level, with Kratos in chains, but the level runs at about 9 fps (the main menu at about 28), and the bottleneck is the recompiled SPU code. It has two renderers: RPCS3’s RSX code (Vulkan or OpenGL), which draws the game correctly, and its own Direct3D 12 one. A launcher in Portuguese, English, and Spanish covers video, keyboard, mouse, and controller controls, nine languages with subtitles, save backups, and mods; one of them builds Brazilian Portuguese from your US disc. There’s no release yet. It’s a sibling of the same author’s ports of the PSP God of War games. 93 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own European copy of God of War: Ascension for PS3 (BCES-01741, version 1.00), taken from your disc, with EBOOT.BIN decrypted using RPCS3 or your own keys file; for the Brazilian Portuguese mod, your US disc too. To build it, 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, Visual Studio 2022 (clang-cl), CMake, Ninja, the Vulkan SDK, and 16 GB of memory; the first build takes 20 to 40 minutes.

360

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (XBLA)

birabittoh/NocturneRecomp

Static recompilation of the XBLA release of Symphony of the Night for Windows and Linux, built on the ReXGlue SDK. A separate project from the PS1 recomp.

You needYour own copy of Symphony of the Night (XBLA, Xbox 360).

WIN

Super Mario Bros. X (TheXTech)

TheXTech/TheXTech

TheXTech: a direct continuation of the Super Mario Bros. X 1.3 (SMBX) engine, the fan-made platformer written in Visual Basic 6 for Windows, built from its source code, which was released as open source. Its author converted all of it to C++ with SDL2, aiming for an accurate reproduction, so much of the code is identical to the VB6 original. It fully reproduces the SMBX 1.3 engine, except for its editor, including many of its logic bugs (the ones that crashed or froze the game are fixed), so old levels and episodes play the way they did in the original, without Wine outside Windows and on ARM and MIPS processors too. It starts almost instantly, uses 80–150 MB of memory instead of the original’s 600–800 MB, and adds UTF-8 file names, PNG graphics, multiple checkpoints, per-episode and per-level music and sounds, a GIF recorder, LunaScript (an implementation of LunaDLL’s Autocode language), and, since 1.3.6, a built-in editor you can use with keyboard, mouse, controller, or touch screen; LunaLua and SMBX2 content aren’t compatible. Version 1.7.4 (October 5) changed the version numbering and added iOS, tvOS, and Haiku, and the latest, 1.7.4.1 (October 18), lets some graphics exceed their original sizes in levels made for TheXTech. There are builds for Windows, Linux, and macOS, plus Android, iOS, Switch, Wii, Wii U, 3DS, and Vita. The project forbids using AI to generate code for contributions. The “Super Mario Bros. X” downloads include the SMBX 1.3 assets (graphics, music, and sounds), others include Adventures of Demo, a fan game set in raocow’s A2XT universe, and both also come in a browser version; there are asset-free executables as well.

You needNo copy is needed: SMBX 1.3 was a free game, and the “Super Mario Bros. X” downloads already include its assets. The asset-free executables work with the folder of an SMBX 1.3 install, with its graphics converted to PNG. Plus Windows (32- or 64-bit, or ARM64), Linux, or macOS.

N64

Diddy Kong Racing

DavidSM64/Diddy-Kong-Racing

Decompilation of Diddy Kong Racing for the N64. All versions are supported, with US 1.0 as the default. You need an original ROM to extract the assets.

360

The Simpsons Game

YesterMester/TheSimpsonsGameRecomp

Recompilation of The Simpsons Game (2007, Xbox 360) with ReXGlue. Work in progress: the current goal is getting the game running.

You needYour own copy of The Simpsons Game (Xbox 360).

360

Fable II (Fable2Recomp)

Fable2Recomp/Fable2Recomp

Recompilation of Fable II (Xbox 360) with XenonRecomp. A popular project, still in development and not yet playable.

You needYour own copy of Fable II (Xbox 360).

DOS

Jazz Jackrabbit (OpenJazz)

AlisterT/openjazz

OpenJazz: a free, open-source version of Jazz Jackrabbit, Epic MegaGames’ 1994 platformer, that uses the original game’s files. AJ Thomson started it on August 23, 2005, and released the first playable version on January 15, 2006, and networked multiplayer followed in 2009. It has been on GitHub since 2014, where Carsten Teibes maintains it and has merged the ports to other platforms. According to the project, it’s compatible with every released version of Jazz Jackrabbit, from the shareware ones to the CD edition with The Lost Episodes, though its FAQ warns that the physics aren’t exactly the original’s and that fan-made levels can’t always be finished. Version 20260218 (February 18) added SDL3, brought back the scaling options, fixed networking on Windows, and added builds for Switch, Android, and Mac (by Mac Source Ports); the latest, 20260301 (March 1), centered the menus, added a HUD like the ones in first-person shooters, and made Jazz’s and the enemies’ health depend on the difficulty. Since then it has gained the ability to save games and debug and cheat menus. There are builds for 64-bit Windows and Linux, plus the browser and several consoles and handhelds; it also builds on macOS and BSD. The browser version linked from its README (openjazz.github.io) includes the shareware versions of Jazz Jackrabbit 1.1, Holiday Hare, and Holiday Hare ’95, which Epic MegaGames released as shareware, along with their distribution license.

You needThe files from your own copy of Jazz Jackrabbit, not Jazz Jackrabbit 2: the free shareware version, the Christmas Edition, Holiday Hare ’95, Jazz Jackrabbit CD with The Lost Episodes, the Complete edition, or GOG’s Jazz Jackrabbit Collection, which the author says is fully compatible, all work. They go next to the executable or in a folder passed as a command-line argument. Plus Windows, Linux, macOS, or BSD.

DOS

Quake (ezQuake)

QW-Group/ezquake-source

ezQuake: a modern client for QuakeWorld, the version of Quake built for online play, based on the Quake and QuakeWorld source code id Software released in 1999. It combines the features of the other modern QuakeWorld clients and is geared toward competitive play: modern graphics, rich menus, multiview, QuakeTV support, a built-in server browser, a recorded games browser, MP3 player control, customization of every graphical element including the HUD, and extensive scripting. It runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD with SDL2, and comes with only the bare minimum of game media. Version 3.6.9 (March 1) brought the modern renderer to macOS, and work in October continues on the renderer, with interpolation between model frames and particles that behave the same at any frame rate. 63 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needThe pak0.pak and pak1.pak files from your own copy of Quake, in the id1 subfolder; you can also unzip ezQuake into an existing Quake install. Plus 64-bit Windows, x86-64 Linux, or macOS.

360

Call of Duty 3 (FrankHUN88453)

FrankHUN88453/CoD3Recomp

CoD3Recomp: a static recompilation of the Xbox 360 version with XenonRecomp. All 19,462 functions of the PowerPC code are translated to C++, all 179 kernel functions the game imports are implemented, and a Direct3D 11 renderer built for PC draws with the game’s own shaders translated to HLSL. It covers the campaign only, since the multiplayer executable hasn’t been recompiled yet: all fifteen levels load and play, and finishing a mission leads into the next, with sound, films, and checkpoints. It renders at your window’s resolution, with resolution scaling, a 21:9, 32:9, or window-fitting aspect ratio, a 65–100 field of view, 2x–8x MSAA and FXAA, shadows up to 4096, and the most detailed models at any distance; in levels the frame rate is uncapped (about 100 fps where the console ran at 60). It plays with a controller or with keyboard and mouse with raw input, in the game’s own menus too, which show your keys instead of the buttons, and it brings back the multiplayer’s sprint. The options are on a VIDEO page in the game’s own menu and in a separate menu (F11). Version 0.5.0 (October 21) is a single executable that updates itself. All 159 of its commits list Claude as co-author.

You needAn image of your own Call of Duty 3 Xbox 360 disc, the US and European release (XGD1, XGD2, XGD3, and trimmed images all work); setup checks that the disc’s default.xex is the same size as the one that was recompiled, and extracts the game to a folder you choose. Plus 64-bit Windows and a Direct3D 11 graphics card.

N64

GoldenEye 007 (Project Midas)

murkantor/Project-Midas

Project Midas: a work-in-progress GoldenEye 007 port for Windows and Linux built on the N64 decompilation. It reads the game data from your own US cartridge. It has widescreen, mouse look, modern controller support, and in-game settings, plus player profiles, lifetime multiplayer stats, and custom multiplayer weapon sets. Co-op, netplay, and mod loading are in development. Its author states that Claude was used to make it.

You needAn image of your own US GoldenEye 007 cartridge. There are builds for Windows, Linux, and Steam Deck; the Linux one needs 32-bit SDL2 and OpenGL.

GC

Super Mario Strikers

new-coke/strikers

Native port to Windows, macOS, Linux, and Nintendo Switch built on the community decompilation. Its own repository is explicit: it’s ported from decompiled code, not a recompilation. It adds a high frame rate with configurable limits and VSync, widescreen and ultrawide with an expanded view of the pitch and corrected aspect ratios, and configurable controls, with attention to performance on both powerful and low-power hardware.

You needThe game data from your own copy of Super Mario Strikers (GameCube). No assets are included.

PS3

Demon's Souls (JonathanDC64)

JonathanDC64/Soulbrandt

Soulbrandt: a native Windows and Linux port of the US (BLUS30443) and European (BLES00932) PS3 releases, by static recompilation with a fork of ps3recomp: the game’s PowerPC and SPU code is translated to C ahead of time, and graphics go through DirectX 12 or Vulkan. 0.1.1 is an alpha, but the game can be beaten from start to finish. It offers 30 to 240 fps or unlocked with the game’s timing fixed, resolution up to 4K, ultrawide and 16:10, HDR, FXAA or SMAA, turning off depth of field and motion blur, Souls-on-PC-style keyboard and mouse, Xbox controllers, DualSense and DualShock 4, remappable controls, a movable HUD, rolling in any direction while locked on, an optional stat respec in the Nexus, trophies, and an updater that keeps your saves. It has online play on its own server, with messages, bloodstains, ghosts, co-op, and invasions. Setup builds the game on your PC from your copy. 58 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own copy of Demon’s Souls for PS3, US (BLUS30443) or European (BLES00932) release, version 1.00, as a folder with PS3_GAME (ISO files aren’t supported yet), and RPCS3 to decrypt its files, or the 27 files you decrypted yourself. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 with a DirectX 12 GPU, or x86-64 Linux with glibc 2.35 or newer and Vulkan; an SSE4.1 CPU, about 4 GB free for the build, and a connection during setup.

360

Gears of War 2 / Gears of War 3 / Gears of War: Judgment (COGBox)

Shagg88/COGBox

Native Windows versions of Gears of War 2, Gears of War 3, and Gears of War: Judgment for Xbox 360, made by static recompilation (with a preview of the first Gears of War since 0.3.0), with a launcher called COGBox that sets up your copy of each game and starts it. The Xbox 360 code is translated ahead of time to C++ and compiled into Windows programs; the hardware parts are supplied by its own renderer on Direct3D 12 (or Vulkan, experimental), which offers resolution from 1x to 4x, SMAA, FSR, DLSS, and XeSS, high frame rates, HDR10, ultrawide, split screen (in Gears 2), keyboard and mouse, and DLC and zip mods. The author says it is playable with a few hiccups: in Gears 2 every chapter plays in testing, and Gears 3 and Judgment are playable; on SteamOS (via Proton) there are texture glitches. Since 0.3.0 (October 31) releases are labelled pre-release. The Windows download is a zip of about 510 MB with the already compiled programs, which we haven’t checked inside; the README says it includes no game content. 88 of its 93 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own copy of each game: Gears of War 2 (US disc, version 0.0.0.5, plus Title Update 6), Gears of War 3 (disc plus Title Update 6), and Gears of War: Judgment (disc plus Title Update 4), as an .iso image, Games on Demand copy, or folder; for the Gears of War preview, the disc plus Title Update 5. 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 with Direct3D 12 and about 8 to 16 GB free per game if COGBox unpacks the image.

360

The Darkness (portingpete)

portingpete/The-Darkness-Recomp

Native Windows x64 port: the Xbox 360 executable is translated to C++ ahead of time and built into DarkRecomp.exe, with its own D3D11 renderer and no emulation at run time. Playable today from start to finish, with mouse look, controller support, video settings (resolution, FOV, gamma, bloom, frame cap, and VSync), XMA audio, and saves.

You needYour own The Darkness dump (Xbox 360): the original default.xex plus the Content and System folders. The repository ships no game code, assets, or binaries.

PS4

Dragon's Crown Pro

saulob/dragons-crown-pro-pc

An unofficial native port of Dragon’s Crown Pro, Vanillaware’s PS4 beat ’em up, to Windows and, experimentally, to Linux and the Steam Deck. It belongs to the Bloodborne port family: the game’s original x86-64 code runs directly on the CPU, with a runtime that replaces the PS4 system libraries, and the graphics go to Vulkan through a renderer derived from shadPS4; according to the README, its loader, runtime, and video core come from gow3_pc (now SpartanPort) and its descendants. The launcher installs the game straight from your .pkg file after checking the version and the eboot.bin hash, and looks for new releases of the port. It offers render resolutions from 480p to 4K, aspect ratios from 16:10 to 32:9 (which for now stretch the picture, since the game is laid out for 1280×720), SMAA, anisotropic filtering, FSR 1 with RCAS sharpening, windowed or borderless mode, a choice of menu and subtitle language, Japanese NPC voices on the US release, offline local trophies, cheats, local multiplayer with up to four controllers, and Xbox button prompts; the game runs at its own 60 fps and has no online play. v0.7.0 (October 21) added an arachnophobia mode that redraws the giant spiders, keyboard rebinding, and the US 1.01 update. The Xbox prompts and the redrawn spider are applied by two patches bundled with the port that modify textures inside the game’s archives in your installed copy. The project states that AI tools were used for code analysis, development, debugging, and documentation, and 3 of its 69 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own decrypted Dragon’s Crown Pro PS4 .pkg file, from a supported release: US (CUSA10454) 1.00, with the optional 1.01 update; Japanese (CUSA07001) 1.00, 1.02, or 1.03; or Asia and Hong Kong (CUSA10209) 1.00 or 1.02. US 1.00 is the most tested. About 6 GB of free space for the installed game and, to see the trophy list, your own Trophy Key. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 (1903 or later) or 11, or x86-64 Linux with glibc 2.31 or later (experimental), and a Vulkan 1.3 graphics card. No game files are included.

N64

Star Fox 64

sonicdcer/Starfox64Recomp

Starfox 64: Recompiled: a static recompilation with N64Recomp and RT64 as its renderer, for Windows, Linux (ARM64 and Flatpak too), and macOS. It was made alongside Starship, the decompilation port, and the two projects coexist on different technologies. You load your ROM from the menu and start playing, with no extraction step. It keeps the N64’s graphical effects without hacks, runs at any frame rate (your monitor’s by default) and any aspect ratio, ultrawide included, with an option to keep the HUD at 16:9, and has settings menus you can use with mouse, controller, or keyboard, low input lag, instant loading, and mods. 1.0 came out on December 24, 2025 with a development mod (level select, cheats, and debug options), and the latest is 1.0.3 (December 30, 2025). sonicdcer’s repository was down for a while and is available again; the downloads are on GitLab.

You needYour own North American Star Fox 64 ROM, version 1.1 (Rev A). Plus a graphics card with Direct3D 12.0 (Shader Model 6), Vulkan 1.2, or Metal (at least a GeForce GT 630, Radeon HD 7750, or Intel HD 510) and, on x86-64 PCs, an SSE4.1 CPU; on a Mac, Apple silicon or a 7th-gen Intel with macOS 13.

PS4

The Order: 1886 (theorder1886-port)

mateussmeneses/theorder1886-port

Windows port of The Order: 1886 for PS4, still in development. As with the Bloodborne and God of War III ports, the original executable runs directly on the PC’s CPU, with a runtime of its own replacing the PS4 system libraries, and the graphics are translated to Vulkan through shadPS4’s video core. For now it boots, starts a new game, and plays the prologue at the game’s own 30 fps; saving, AMD and Intel graphics cards, and other versions of the game haven’t been tested yet. 76 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own dump of the PS4 version (CUSA00035, version 01.02). Windows 10 or 11.

NSW

Metroid Dread

yozander2009-stack/Metroid-Dread-Recomp

A single Windows executable that sets up, configures, and runs a native PC build of your own copy of Metroid Dread 2.1.0. It is the SwitchRecomp runtime (by MZ Labs) with a Metroid Dread front end: a first-run setup that compiles the game with a bundled GCC, a Play and settings screen, and an in-game menu. The renderer is ScarletNX’s native Vulkan renderer, vendored in the repository, with the project’s own DLSS code. The repository contains no Nintendo files: only anchored patches applied to the C that setup generates from the player’s ExeFS, and a manifest of RomFS file names, sizes, and hashes used to verify it. The README warns that it is a work in progress and that the 0.x builds are early previews, with crashes and rough edges. Version 0.5.0, from October 30, reached Linux and the Steam Deck, where it was tested, with a self-updating AppImage. It states that large parts of the project were written with Claude; 38 of its 41 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own dumped copy of Metroid Dread 2.1.0 for Nintendo Switch, with both parts: the ExeFS (the game code) and the RomFS (the data, with the 2.1.0 update merged in). A RomFS alone is not enough. Windows, or Linux and the Steam Deck since 0.5.0, with its AppImage.

GC

Pikmin 2

projectPiki/pikmin2

Work-in-progress decompilation of Pikmin 2 for GameCube. It covers the US, PAL, and Japanese retail releases plus two US demo builds (Demo 17 and Demo 18), and has a section on modding.

GC

Super Mario Sunshine

doldecomp/sms

Work-in-progress decompilation of Super Mario Sunshine for GameCube, targeting Rev 0 of both the Japanese (GMSJ01) and PAL (GMSP01) releases. The repository ships no game assets or assembly. 10 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

GC

Resident Evil 4

adonis-singh/re4

Complete, byte-identical decompilation of the GameCube debug build: G4BE08, the two-disc November 25, 2004 prototype. What made it possible is that this build shipped with Bio4.sym symbol files naming every function. Building the repository reproduces the exact original files (main.dol and its 114 REL overlays), checked against their SHA-1 hashes on every build. About 570,000 lines of C and C++, with not a single assembly file, built with the original compilers. One of its last 100 commits lists Cursor as a co-author.

GC

Metroid Prime

PrimeDecomp/prime

Work-in-progress decompilation of Metroid Prime for GameCube. Code and data progress are tracked separately across six builds: US 1.088, 1.093, and 1.111, Korean 1.097, PAL 1.110, and Japanese 1.111.

PS2

Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (ProjectCane)

theclub654/ProjectCane

Playable port of the NTSC release, rebuilt through reverse engineering. It started as a map viewer and grew into a complete port, the opposite route to the other Sly Cooper project in the catalog, which recompiles the PS2 binary and is still stuck before graphics. Windows only for now, with Linux planned. You build it in Visual Studio 2022, and it ships a file extractor you drag your own ISO onto.

You needYour own NTSC ISO of Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (PS2) and Visual Studio 2022 with the Desktop C++ workload.

XBX

Black (Spark198rus)

Spark198rus/black-pc

An unofficial native Windows port of the Xbox version, independent from TGP482’s recomp and built a different way: nothing is recompiled. Since the Xbox has an x86 CPU, black.exe loads the default.xbe from your copy and runs the original code directly on the PC’s CPU; what gets replaced is what the game uses from the console: the kernel, Direct3D 8 (on Direct3D 9), DirectSound (on XAudio2), and the controller library. It offers any render resolution, anti-aliasing, 16:9 widescreen (the game’s own mode) or 4:3, an adjustable field of view, 60 fps by default or the original 30, mouse look, keys bound to the game’s actions, XInput controllers, room reverb, skippable movies, and auto-aim off by default. Its settings live in the game’s own menus (Options > PC SETTINGS and the pause menu). It also fixes flickering seams on destructible objects and a grid pattern in the blur effects, which the Xbox’s low resolution hid. At 60 fps something may still run at the wrong speed, on-screen prompts show Xbox controller buttons, and 3D sound is approximate. On Linux it runs through Wine 9 and DXVK. Its README says the game is fully playable. Version 0.2.0 (October 14) is the only release so far, and its README says it was developed with Claude Code.

You needYour own copy of Black for Xbox, NTSC-U release (title 45410083), dumped to an ISO and extracted with extract-xiso into a game folder; default.xbe must match the SHA-256 given in the README. The European PAL release is supported in the code since October 21, not yet in a published release. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 (the program is 32-bit) and a Direct3D 9 (Shader Model 3) graphics card; on Linux, Wine 9 or later with DXVK and a Vulkan 1.1 card.

PS2

Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike (3SX)

crowded-street/3sx

3SX: a native port of Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, a continuation of 3s-decomp, the matching decompilation of the PS2 version. It’s neither a recomp nor emulation: it’s C code running directly on your machine, with SDL3. It aims to be the ultimate version of 3rd Strike, with first-class support for Windows, macOS, and Linux, rollback netcode through GekkoNet, and an option to restore the arcade balance that the PS2 version changed (still in development and unstable). You can set fullscreen, how the internal 384×224 buffer is scaled (sharp pixels, integer, or square pixels for CRTs), a scanline filter, and drawing the characters in front of the HUD, as in Street Fighter IV. The goals for 1.0 are a stable PC experience, easy online play, automatic updates, and the arcade ROM as the only dependency. In October it kept restoring arcade behavior and fixing training mode and CPU matches. Right now there are no releases on GitHub, so you have to build it. The repository includes data tables taken from the game, written as C code, among them those of its sound system (about 2.5 MB).

You needYour own copy of Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike or Street Fighter Anniversary Collection for PS2: the startup wizard asks for it, or you copy THIRD/SF33RD.AFS from the disc into the resources folder by hand. Arcade balance also needs the arcade ROM, sfiii3nr1.zip. Plus Windows, macOS, or Linux.

N64

⑂ Fork of sm64pc/sm64ex

Super Mario 64 (Render96ex)

Render96/Render96ex

Fork of sm64ex with HD models and textures for Super Mario 64. Lineage: sm64-port → sm64ex → Render96ex.

You needA Super Mario 64 ROM (N64) to extract the assets from.

DOS

Blake Stone (BStone)

bibendovsky/bstone

BStone: an unofficial source port of the Blake Stone series, Aliens of Gold and Planet Strike, built on the source code Apogee released; its engine derives from Wolfenstein 3D’s. It supports Aliens of Gold versions 1.0, 2.0, 2.1, and 3.0, full or shareware, and Planet Strike 1.0 and 1.1. It offers the original software rendering at high resolution or a hardware 3D renderer (OpenGL 2.0 or 3.2, OpenGL ES 2.0, and, since 1.3.0 on December 21, 2025, Vulkan), a widescreen mode, a texture upscaling filter, replacement of wall, floor, ceiling, and sprite textures with PNG or BMP images, rebindable controls, 3D sound through OpenAL, separate sound effect and music volumes, emulated AdLib music (with DOSBox’s OPL code or Nuked OPL3), and mod loading with the --mod_dir option. The latest release is 1.3.4 (May 27), which fixed audio decoding with Nuked OPL3; there are builds for 32- and 64-bit Windows and Linux, and experimental ones for macOS.

You needThe files from your own copy of Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold (.BS6) or Planet Strike (.VSI); with the GOG or Steam versions you just extract BStone into any folder, and with others, next to the game files. The shareware version of Aliens of Gold (.BS1) is free and works too; the project offers it on its website. Plus Windows, Linux, or macOS (experimental).

DOS

Duke Nukem II

lethal-guitar/Duke2Reconstructed

A complete reconstruction of Duke Nukem II’s source code (Apogee Software, 1993) from the disassembly of the original executable, in commented C and assembly. It builds with era-appropriate tools, such as Borland C++, into a binary that’s byte-for-byte identical to the original after LZEXE compression. It was made by the author of Rigel Engine, the reimplementation for playing on modern systems that’s also in this catalog, building on the reverse engineering done for that project. It’s meant to document and preserve the code and to make modified versions that run on DOS; for playing on a modern PC, the author points to Rigel Engine. It includes no game data.

WIIU

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Wii U)

ryderclanky/BotW-Native

A static recompilation of the Wii U version (1.5.0) into a native Windows program with a Vulkan renderer: the PowerPC code is translated to C++ and runs on a Cafe OS runtime, and Cemu’s Latte GPU layer draws through Vulkan. There is no emulator or JIT. The README calls it work in progress, not a full-game release: with the USA 1.5.0 version, the opening, audio, the title screen, loading a save, combat, the map and fast travel, and Hateno Village with its NPCs and shops work at about 60 fps; a European copy with DLC was verified through the title scene, without a full play-through. Some effects, parts of the controller mapping and some cutscene text are unconfirmed. v0.1.2 (October 31) is the latest of three releases.

You needYour own copy of Breath of the Wild for Wii U, USA or Europe, with update v208 (1.5.0), as an already extracted folder with code, content and meta (the SHA-256 of code/U-King.rpx must be ba58da5b95ce929e005d058ceb08b9b2788d1ab2bbc8a6c189bbadca0bb34d30); base game, update and DLC must come from the same region. Plus Windows 10 or 11 and a GPU with a Vulkan 1.1 driver; to build, MSYS2 with UCRT64 (MinGW gcc).

FTEQW

fte-team/fteqw

FTEQW: an advanced, portable Quake engine that grew from the Quake source code id Software released and plays several id Tech games, plus the games other developers have made with it. It supports Quake and its mission packs, QuakeWorld, Quake II and its mission packs, Quake III Arena and Team Arena, and Hexen II and its expansion; Half-Life and Half-Life 2 run through the Rad Therapy project. It finds games installed through Steam on its own, including the Quake and Quake II re-releases, as well as the classic Linux game folders. It renders with Direct3D 8, 9, or 11, OpenGL, or Vulkan, with a material system that accepts HLSL and GLSL shaders and video presets that make the games look like the originals or more modern, with real-time lighting. It has split-screen for Quake and most of its mods, Opus or Speex voice chat, a server browser covering every protocol it supports, a dedicated server, games with hundreds of players, IPv4 and IPv6, CD music replacement with Vorbis, MP3, WAV, or FLAC files, plugins (FFmpeg, Bullet or ODE physics), and its own QuakeC compiler, FTEQCC, which can run in-game, with a debugger. It runs on Windows, Linux, OpenBSD, and other systems, on x86, x86-64, ARM, and PPC64LE, and also on Android and the web. The builds for Windows (64- and 32-bit) and Linux (x86-64 and x86) are downloaded from its website; the GitHub repository is its official mirror, and its latest change is from June 4.

You needThe files from your own copy of one of the games (Quake, Quake II, Quake III Arena, or Hexen II, with their expansions if you have them), with the engine copied into the game’s folder; it also finds Steam installs on its own. For Quake II with the 64-bit build of the engine you also need 64-bit game logic, which the project recommends taking from Yamagi Quake II. Plus Windows, Linux, or another supported system.

360

Silent Hill: Downpour

LittleBitUA/DownpourRecomp

Native Windows port via static recompilation of the Xbox 360 binary. The stable v1.0 unlocks 60 fps and adds a pre-warmed ROV cache and a standalone executable.

You needYour own copy of Silent Hill: Downpour (Xbox 360).

PS4

Killzone Shadow Fall

lesca-191204/killzone-shadowfall-pc

Native Windows port of Killzone Shadow Fall for PS4: the game’s code runs directly on the CPU, and the graphics are translated to Vulkan in real time. It’s a public beta, but the whole campaign is playable from start to finish. The launcher, in English and Spanish, checks your dump and lets you pick the render resolution from 720p to 4K and the frame rate limit (30, 60, or higher as an experimental option). 15 of its 30 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own dump of the PS4 version (CUSA00190, version 01.81). Plus 64-bit Windows 10 (1903 or later) or 11, a Vulkan 1.3 graphics card, 16 GB of RAM, and 6 GB of video memory recommended.

DOS

Star Wars: TIE Fighter

elyosh/OpenTIE

OpenTIE: an open-source reimplementation of Star Wars: TIE Fighter for Windows, macOS, and Linux that runs on the original game’s data. It supports the 1995 Collector’s CD-ROM edition for DOS and the 1998 Windows release, and with both installed it can combine the 1995 menus, cutscenes, and adaptive iMUSE music with the 1998 flight engine and 3D models, the combination it recommends; each part is chosen separately. It reimplements the iMUSE soundtrack, which shifts with what happens in the mission, and can play it on an emulated Roland SC-55 (with your own ROMs), with OPL3 FM synthesis, or with FluidSynth and a SoundFont of your choice. It has a classic and a modern graphics mode, toggled with TAB; the modern one adds shadows, ambient occlusion, bloom, motion blur, MSAA, FSR 3.1.4, and HDR. Flight can be simulated at up to 240 Hz, or with each edition’s original timing, and is played with mouse and keyboard (including a virtual-stick mode), gamepad, joystick, or HOTAS, with remappable keys. It imports your existing pilot files. Version 0.0.7 (October 4) rewrote much of the code to follow the original more closely and fixed an original bug that kept Star Destroyer turrets from firing. It’s still in development, and bugs and differences from the original are still possible.

You needA complete installation of your own copy of Star Wars: TIE Fighter, the 1995 Collector’s CD-ROM or the 1998 Windows release, or both; the Special Edition is sold on GOG and Steam. For music on the emulated Roland SC-55, its ROMs too. Plus a 64-bit system with a modern graphics card: x86-64 Windows (Direct3D 12 or Vulkan), macOS 13 or later (Metal; the published build is for Apple silicon), or x86-64 Linux with glibc 2.35 or later (Vulkan).

PS4

Gravity Rush Remastered (LucaPazienza)

LucaPazienza/gravityrush_pc

A native Windows port of Gravity Rush Remastered for PS4 (CUSA01113). It isn’t an emulator: the game’s original x86-64 executable runs directly on the processor, a runtime written for this port replaces the PS4 system libraries, and the graphics go to Vulkan through the shadPS4 video core. With 0.1.8 (October 23, 2026) the whole story has been played from start to finish, with sound and saves. It renders at up to 4K, with high-quality shadows, anisotropic filtering, and FXAA, TAA, FSR 3.1, or DLSS for anti-aliasing or upscaling. It supports controllers through SDL3, keyboard and mouse, the touchpad, and the DualSense gyro, which steers the gravity camera as on the PS4. The launcher comes in English, Italian, French, German, and Spanish, and finds and installs new versions by itself. It builds on the God of War III port and grew out of a fork of the PS4 MediEvil port. It has only been tested on Nvidia graphics cards, and trophies aren’t saved yet. The first preview came out on October 17, and the first official release, 0.1.2, on the 18th.

You needYour own copy of Gravity Rush Remastered for PS4, as an unpacked game folder (eboot.bin, sce_module, and sce_sys) that you prepare with your own tools; no game files are included. It was tested with the European release CUSA01113, version 01.00, and the resolution and shadow patches only apply to that one. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 (1903 or newer) or 11 and a graphics card with Vulkan 1.3.

XBX

Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks

OAleex/OpenShao

A PC port of the Xbox version by static recompilation with XboxXBE-Recomp: the original Xbox code runs natively. There are Windows builds, with Direct3D 12, and since 0.2.0 (October 19) Linux builds too, with Vulkan. Its author reports finishing the whole campaign, though some graphical issues remain; Mortal Kombat II and The Suffering demo, both on the disc, don’t run. It adds resolution and render scale settings, display modes, keyboard and mouse, and remappable controller buttons. It has six languages with their voice acting, some of them as separate language packs, and an official mod catalog, the Krypt, that the launcher installs and updates. It states that AI is used for analysis, code changes, debugging, tests, and documentation, reviewed by the maintainer.

You needYour own copy of Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks for Xbox, US or European release (ISO, XISO, ZIP, extracted folder, or default.xbe). Plus Windows 10 (1903 or later) or Linux (glibc 2.38 or later), an x64 CPU with SSE4.2 and POPCNT, and a Direct3D 12 or Vulkan 1.3 graphics card.

NSW

Bayonetta 3

Zexyen/Witch-Time

An unofficial static recompilation for PC, in the spirit and architecture of B2recomp: the game’s AArch64 code is translated to C on your PC from your dump and runs on a reimplemented system layer (threads, file system, input, audio, and NVN on Vulkan). It isn’t an emulator. The README’s status table says it boots and plays, at 60 fps in the parts tested (Tokyo and Shibuya), with occasional short hitches; menus and cutscenes run at 30 by default and can run at 60; the default resolution is the game’s own 1600x900 and can be raised up to 4K with a scale factor. It supports controllers and keyboard with mouse (the keyboard tested only with synthetic events), and has an in-game PC settings panel. The releases bring their own compiler, the already built runtime and the build tool, for Windows and Linux; v0.4.5 is from October 31. 69 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own dump of Bayonetta 3 in one folder with exefs (main, sdk, subsdk0, rtld, main.npdm, plain NSO files) and romfs (the .pkz archives and movie/), extracted with your own tools; the project decrypts nothing and its verify step only accepts the build named in the code. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 or x86-64 Linux, with a Vulkan driver (and OpenGL on Linux).

DOS

The Settlers (Freeserf)

freeserf/freeserf

Freeserf: an open-source reimplementation of The Settlers (also known as Serf City), Blue Byte’s strategy game, that uses the data from the original’s DOS or Amiga version and loads its saved games too. Version 0.4 (October 4), the first release since 0.3 in 2019, moved the project to SDL3, fixed many game logic bugs by comparing it with the Amiga original, and added the original’s special click and ambient sounds; 0.5, the next day, added the Amiga original’s AI for opponents in missions and custom games, the castle’s emergency program, the six tutorials, the end of the game, zoom, autosave, and an option to mix graphics, sounds, and music from different versions. Since then it has added translations of the texts and a TrueType font made from the DOS original’s. The DOS version’s MIDI music plays through a free SoundFont, TimGM6mb, which is included. There are builds for Windows (32- and 64-bit), Linux, and macOS. About 50 of its last 100 commits, from October 4 to 6, list Claude as a co-author.

You needThe data files from your own copy of The Settlers: from the DOS version, the SPAE.PA, SPAD.PA, SPAF.PA, or SPAU.PA file, depending on the language, or from the Amiga version, the gfxheader, gfxfast, gfxchip, gfxpics, sounds, and music files. They go next to the executable or in ~/.local/share/freeserf, and data from several versions can be installed together. Plus Windows, Linux, or macOS.

WIN

Romanov's Vengeance (Red Alert 2)

MustaphaTR/Romanovs-Vengeance

A third-party OpenRA mod, based on OpenRA’s Red Alert 2 mod, that aims for a Red Alert 2 with balanced multiplayer, OpenRA’s own improvements, and others taken from more recent Command & Conquer games. It installs like any other mod made with the OpenRAModSDK, and its releases bundle the engine: installers and portable builds for 32- and 64-bit Windows, a Linux AppImage, and a macOS DMG. On first launch it copies Red Alert 2’s and Yuri’s Revenge’s base files and music from your copy of the game. It includes new community-made artwork for units, buildings, icons, and animations, with each author credited, and expanded terrain sets. Its author warns that it’s still in development: even the playtest builds have bugs, a few features of the original game are missing, some artwork is a placeholder, and the planned custom campaign has barely been started. The latest release is playtest-20241215 (December 15, 2024), and the last commit is from July 2025.

You needYour own copy of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 and Yuri’s Revenge: Red Alert 2’s files can be copied from an English disc (Allied or Soviet), and both games’ files from a The First Decade, Origin, or Steam install. The music is optional. Plus Windows, Linux, or macOS.

WIN

VorpalFix

Wemino/VorpalFix

An unofficial patch for the 2011 remaster of American McGee’s Alice, the one designed to be launched from Alice: Madness Returns; it doesn’t work with the 2000 version. It’s a DLL (winmm.dll) you copy next to alice.exe, without overwriting any game file, configured through VorpalFix.ini and its own in-game menu. It lets the game start on its own, without Madness Returns, and fixes the weapon sounds and Cheshire Cat summon the remaster broke, the “Hard Disk Full” error with more than 2 TB free, crashes when saving at resolutions such as 1366×768, remastered textures for several characters that didn’t load because of typos in their files, models rendered black and lost shading in some areas, and fog banding. In widescreen it keeps the menus, videos, and HUD in proportion and adjusts the field of view. It adds PlayStation and Switch controllers through SDL3 with gyro aiming and button prompts, raw mouse input and side buttons, anisotropic filtering, MSAA and supersampling, models always at full detail, borderless mode, a frame rate limit, the HUD placed as in the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions, those versions’ title screen, switching between the remastered and original models, language selection (English, German, French, or Spanish), the developer console, and faster saving. On Steam Deck and Linux it works through Proton with a launch option. 4.2.1 came out on October 22.

You needYour own copy of the 2011 remaster of American McGee’s Alice for PC; the 2000 version won’t work. Plus Windows, or Linux and Steam Deck through Proton.

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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 / Yuri's Revenge (VERA20K)

YuriPlanet/vera20k

VERA20K: a community rewrite in Rust of gamemd.exe, the Yuri’s Revenge engine, which uses the original game’s files. It aims to keep the original’s gameplay, look, and atmosphere while adding bigger battles (up to 30 players and 20,000 units on 500×500 maps), familiar RTS features, and a built-in multiplayer client. Today skirmishes are playable on Windows, Linux, and macOS, with base building, harvesting, combat, and saving; campaigns launch but support is incomplete, and LAN and online multiplayer are available in source builds on macOS and Linux. According to the README, most of the code is written by AI coding agents, which study the original engine with Ghidra and check the result with comparison tools. The latest release, 0.2.1 (October 23, 2026), has an installer for 64-bit Windows, a .dmg for Apple silicon macOS, and a Linux AppImage. Licensed GPLv3. The repository includes data comparing against the original game’s behavior (the tools folder, about 760 MB).

You needYour own copy of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 – Yuri’s Revenge; the installer looks for the game’s folder. 64-bit Windows, Apple silicon macOS, or x86-64 Linux.

GC

Luigi's Mansion

rob646464/luigis-mansion-recompiled

Luigi’s Mansion Recompiled: a native port for Windows and Linux. On first launch it asks for your disc image, and its own recompiler translates the game’s main.dol to C++ and compiles it with the bundled clang in about 20 to 60 seconds; function boundaries come from the lm-decomp decompilation’s symbol map, and the GameCube SDK functions are replaced with host implementations on Aurora. It runs at any resolution, in Hor+ widescreen and ultrawide with the HUD anchored to the screen edges, and keeps game logic at 30 updates per second with interpolated in-between frames up to 320 fps, VRR-aware. It reproduces GameCube rendering accurately (EFB copies, depth textures, real-time shadows, indirect effects, 6-bit blending) and precompiles shaders before the game starts. It adds optional enhanced lighting (per-pixel and colored lights, soft shadows, a realistic flashlight, bloom), the European Hidden Mansion with its boss changes if you also supply the European disc, restored unused content that’s off by default (the two-player mode is unfinished), a model viewer, and difficulty settings. Version 1.1 (October 21) added automatic updates, new ambient occlusion, and a CRT filter with several signal types. 554 of its 641 commits list Claude as co-author.

You needYour own Luigi’s Mansion disc image for GameCube, US (GLME01) or European (GLMP01), or both, which is recommended to get all the content; ISO, GCM, RVZ, WIA, GCZ, CISO, NFS, and TGC are accepted, and other revisions or modified images are rejected. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 with Direct3D 12, or x86-64 Linux with glibc 2.34 or later and Vulkan, and about 2 GB of free space.

DOS

Doom / Doom II (Woof!)

fabiangreffrath/woof

Woof!: a continuation of Lee Killough’s Doom source port MBF (Marine’s Best Friend) for modern systems, part of the Boom/MBF line, which builds on the Doom source code id Software released in 1997. It’s developed from WinMBF, Team Eternity’s 2004 Windows port of MBF, and many of its improvements, the network code among them, come from Chocolate Doom; it’s maintained by Fabian Greffrath, the author of Crispy Doom. It draws at any resolution up to your display’s native one, with dynamic resolution scaling to hold the frame rate you choose, in widescreen, uncapped with frame interpolation, and with an adjustable field of view. It adds voxels, 3D audio up to 7.1 with HRTF, several music backends (MIDI, FluidSynth, and an emulated OPL3), gamepads with rumble, gyro, and flick stick, and mouselook. It has Vanilla, Boom, MBF, and MBF21 compatibility levels, loads MBF.EXE saves, and supports recent modding formats such as UMAPINFO, DEHEXTRA, DSDHacked, UDMF, and ID24. Version 16.0.0 (September 8) moved to SDL3 and added rewinding, a minimap, a custom skill menu, and macOS builds.

You needThe IWAD file from your own copy of Doom, Doom II, or Final Doom (doom.wad, doom2.wad, tnt.wad, or plutonia.wad); the free shareware doom1.wad works too, as do the free Freedoom IWADs. It finds Steam and GOG installs on its own. Plus Windows 7 or later, Linux (as an AppImage), or macOS.

N64

Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon

klorfmorf/Goemon64Recomp

“Goemon 64: Recompiled Plus,” a native port of Konami’s action-adventure classic (v0.2.0-dev).

You needA Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon ROM (N64, US version).

N64

Conker's Bad Fur Day (sciaschi)

sciaschi/CBFD-Recompiled

Native port of the US version, statically recompiled with N64Recomp starting from the game’s decompilation. Ready-to-play builds are available for Windows, Linux, and Apple Silicon macOS: unpack it, run it, and pick your ROM in the launcher the first time. The package contains nothing from the game; everything is extracted from your ROM, on your machine, during the build.

You needYour own Conker's Bad Fur Day ROM (N64, US version).

N64

Dinosaur Planet

DinosaurPlanetRecomp/dino-recomp

Recompiled port of Rare’s canceled prototype (December 2000), the precursor to Star Fox Adventures. Very active (v0.3.0).

You needThe December 2000 Dinosaur Planet prototype ROM (N64, unpatched).

PS1

Crash Bandicoot Launcher

Matteo842/CrashBandicoot-Launcher

Unofficial launcher that recompiles Crash Bandicoot (SCUS-94900) on your own PC from your disc: you supply the .cue/.bin, it prepares the game folder and launches it. It doesn’t distribute the game. One of its last 100 commits lists Claude as a co-author.

360

Midnight Club: Los Angeles (mzzvxm)

mzzvxm/LARecomp

LARecomp: a static recompilation of Midnight Club: Los Angeles Complete Edition for x86-64 Windows, built on the ReXGlue SDK. It boots to the menu, free roam and races work, and saves load. It runs properly above 30 fps: instead of the usual Xenia unlock, which makes the game run fast, it feeds the simulation the real frame time, and it adjusts the camera and suspension so they behave the same at any frame rate. It has an in-game settings menu with eight tabs, a wizard that installs the game from your ISO, save import from Xenia and RPCS3, a radio with your own MP3s, a mod loader, and access to the German and Italian translations. It doesn’t publish builds: it’s built with ReXGlue SDK 0.10.0 and Clang. Known issues remain, such as visible dithering on shadows and foliage.

You needThe extracted files from your own copy of Midnight Club: Los Angeles Complete Edition for Xbox 360 (default.xex and the xarchive files). To build it, x86-64 Windows with ReXGlue SDK 0.10.0, CMake 3.25 or later, Clang, and Ninja.

DOS

Ultima Underworld / Ultima Underworld II (UnderworldGodot)

hankmorgan/UnderworldGodot

UnderworldGodot: an engine recreation of Ultima Underworld and Ultima Underworld II in Godot, written in C#, that supersedes the earlier Unity-based project and reboots the code to work more like the original games did. It builds on years of reverse engineering by other fans, whom it credits. Its author calls it pre-alpha, “an interactive map viewer with a lot of game logic implemented,” and warns not to expect it to be playable as normal. It already has full conversations, almost all triggers and traps, bartering, inventory, spells with the original logic, melee and missile combat, NPC AI and pathfinding, character creation, leveling up, an automap with notes, cutscenes, swimming, death and resurrection, speech and sound effects, and music synthesized in real time from the original XMI files through an emulated MT-32 or CM-32L (with your own ROMs), a bundled free SoundFont, or FM synthesis. Loading saves is fully supported, saving only partly. It publishes test builds for Windows and Linux, the latest, build 31, on June 20; on Apple silicon macOS it builds and runs. Its policy rules out AI-upscaled or AI-generated assets; two of its last 100 commits list Claude or Cursor as a co-author.

You needThe files from your own copy of Ultima Underworld, Ultima Underworld II, or both: the game folder with the DATA, CRIT, CUTS, and SOUND subfolders (in the GOG versions, the game.gog file is an ISO image you need to open or extract first). For MT-32 or CM-32L music, the ROMs from your own synthesizer. Plus Windows or Linux; on macOS, by building it with the .NET version of Godot 4.3.

GC

Pikmin

projectPiki/pikmin

Complete matching decompilation of Pikmin (GameCube, 2001). Five versions fully match: US Rev 0 and Rev 1, Japanese Rev 1 and Rev 2, and European Rev 0. Three demo discs are still being worked on.

360

Burnout Revenge (shipa-2)

shipa-2/Xerenge

Xerenge: a static recompilation of the Xbox 360 version. The PowerPC code is translated to C++ ahead of time and linked into a native executable, with no interpreter or JIT, on the project’s own fork of the ReXGlue SDK as its system layer; an earlier line, now frozen, used XenonRecomp with a runtime of its own. By default it draws with plume, the project’s own renderer, which takes the game’s Direct3D calls and uses its shaders translated ahead of time from your disc; Xenia’s GPU emulation remains available as a reference. According to the project, it’s fully playable: races at 60 fps (Crash mode at 30, as on the console), complete audio including the soundtrack, and the intro videos. It renders at the window’s resolution, in ultrawide, with optional FXAA, SMAA, and CAS sharpening, frame generation for 90–120 Hz displays, and an option to lift the frame cap. Online play works out of the box through a shared lobby server, or your own, and on a LAN without any server. There are installers for Windows, Linux, and Apple silicon Macs that ship the game already built and only ask for your disc image, plus an Android build. Version 0.4.7 (October 17) added the US release and fixed online games with three or more players. 194 of its 557 commits list Claude as co-author, and another 8 list Cursor.

You needAn image of your own Burnout Revenge Xbox 360 disc, the European release (SHA-256 34c1bd4d549c2c53f29d814fa5e5d1c04c533c5ca0c39e57b6c2538f44ff59b4) or the US one (SHA-256 7abf689f52b70666ba92052bd157cfcae9ed6290dae298fbf639baa1d169f92b); other regions and the beta aren’t supported. Plus a Vulkan graphics card, on Windows, x86-64 Linux, or an Apple silicon Mac; Intel Macs aren’t supported.

N64

F-Zero X

Zorkats/G-Diffuser

G-Diffuser: a native F-Zero X port with no emulator in the loop. It’s a full source port on top of the inspectredc/fzerox matching decompilation and the libultraship runtime (the same engine behind Ship of Harkinian and Starship). On top of the original game, it adds true widescreen, an in-game enhancements menu, quality-of-life features, texture-pack modding, and full 64DD Expansion Kit support, including Course Edit and the DD cups.

You needYour own F-Zero X ROM (N64) and, for the 64DD content, your own Expansion Kit dump as well. The repository ships no ROM, disk, IPL, or extracted assets.

WIN

⑂ Fork of electronicarts/CnC_Generals_Zero_Hour

Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour (Zero Hour Reforged)

olcayseygan/CnCGeneralsZH-Reforged

Zero Hour Reforged: Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour rebuilt from the source code Electronic Arts released in February 2025, moved to Visual Studio 2022 and 64-bit and, since October, to SDL3 for macOS and Linux, with no Wine or Proton. It renders with Direct3D 11 or 9 on Windows, Metal on macOS, and Vulkan on Linux and Steam Deck, with an uncapped frame rate and more of the battlefield on ultrawide screens. It fixes about sixty bugs EA shipped in 2003, most of them found by automated tests, and changes the game: the skirmish AI finally builds a base and scouts without seeing through the fog of war, vehicles accelerate and brake, each kill’s veterancy is shared among everything that damaged the target, and there’s a balance pass, a new command bar, much faster pathfinding and effects, the base game’s 481 original textures at four times the resolution of Zero Hour’s, new shadows and lighting, an option to go back to the 2003 look, and Turkish and German text. LAN multiplayer works; internet play and gamepads don’t yet. On Windows, a launcher installs it over your game, backing up what it replaces, and keeps it up to date; on macOS and Linux it’s built with a single command. The latest release, v3.2.0 (October 20), locked matches to 60 steps a second with an optional Turbo mode and opened every campaign mission. Its website says code changes are made with AI assistance, and 87 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author. The repository also includes modified versions of game data files, such as the skirmish AI scripts and the interface screens, and on Windows the build script downloads a pack of upscaled game art from the repository’s own releases, which on macOS and Linux is copied by hand or left out.

You needAn installation of your own copy of Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour along with the original Generals (Zero Hour uses the files of both), preferably the 1.04 release from Steam or the EA app; the project includes no game files. On macOS and Linux it finds installs in Steam libraries, ~/Games, /Applications, and CrossOver and Whisky bottles on its own, and a script lays the games out from a disc or an ISO, though the discs carry 1.00. Plus 64-bit Windows, macOS (Apple silicon or Intel), or x86-64 Linux.

DOS

Commander Keen in Goodbye, Galaxy! (Omnispeak)

sulix/omnispeak

Omnispeak: an open-source reimplementation of Commander Keen episodes 4, 5, and 6, written in C99, that aims to be a pixel-perfect, bug-for-bug clone of the original games and is compatible with the DOS version’s saved games. It runs on Windows and Linux, and there are ports to MS-DOS and other systems. It adds improved scaling, with optional aspect ratio correction, overscan border, and integer scaling, much better controller support, with remappable buttons and a “modern” mode that makes diagonal movement easier, QuickSave and QuickLoad on F5 and F9, and OPL chip emulation with DOSBox’s or Nuked OPL3, or real AdLib or OPL2 cards on Linux and MS-DOS. Keen 6’s “Impossible Bullet” glitch and its copy protection question can be turned off in its settings. The latest release is 1.1, and there’s a preview build with basic mod support, where mods change text, sprite actions, and game values through variable files. The repository includes, for each episode and version, data the original keeps inside its executable: the headers and compression dictionaries for graphics, sound, and maps, the tile info, the sprite actions, and all of the game’s text.

You needThe GAMEMAPS, EGAGRAPH, and AUDIO files from your own copy of Keen 4 v1.4 EGA, Keen 5 v1.4 EGA, or Keen 6 v1.4 or v1.5 EGA, together with the files from the project’s data folder that match your version; the Steam and GOG releases are 1.4. Other versions, such as the CGA ones, the v1.0 releases, the FormGen or GT Interactive retail versions, and the Keen 6 bundled with the id Anthology, will likely crash. The free shareware release of Keen 4 v1.4 is on the author’s website. Plus Windows (32- or 64-bit) or Linux.

XBX

Ninja Gaiden Black

gamboozino/ngbrecomp

A native Linux and Windows port of the US Xbox release by static recompilation with an adapted version of xboxrecomp, with its own Vulkan renderer that takes the game’s Direct3D calls instead of emulating the GPU. It runs at a steady 60 fps even on the Steam Deck, with render resolution up to 10x, anisotropic filtering, MSAA, sharper shadows, and 4:3, 16:9, 16:10, and 21:9 aspect ratios. It adds keyboard and mouse with on-screen key prompts, rebindable controls, mouse support in menus, skippable movies, options to unlock difficulties and costumes, and cheats. On first launch it installs the game from your disc image. The Ninja Gaiden arcade cabinet in Han’s bar doesn’t work, since on the disc it’s a separate program. There’s an experimental Apple Silicon Mac build you have to compile yourself. 9 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own US (NTSC-U, title ID 5443000D) Ninja Gaiden Black Xbox disc, as an image or extracted. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 or 64-bit Linux (glibc 2.35 or later), with Vulkan 1.3, and about 6 GB of free space.

NSW

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (daniel-madrid-07)

daniel-madrid-07/weeping-of-the-empire

Weeping of the Empire: a native Tears of the Kingdom for Windows and Vulkan, made by static recompilation. The game’s ARM64 code is recompiled ahead of time to x86-64 on your PC, a runtime answers the Switch’s system services, and graphics run on Vulkan; it isn’t an emulator. It supports game version 1.0.0 and, in beta, 1.4.3, and imports saves from later versions by converting them to 1.0.0. It offers 30 to 240 fps or unlocked, any resolution and ultrawide, HDR and VRR (not measured), DLSS, FSR 3.1 and frame generation, keyboard and mouse, Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch controllers, an in-game settings menu (F10), RomFS mods made for emulators, ExeFS code patches, and Atmosphère cheats. The author measured performance on one PC only (a Ryzen 7 9800X3D with an RTX 5080) and warns of lighting differences in parts of the Depths, stutter the first time a place is visited, and a graphics-device-loss crash it hasn’t been able to reproduce. Its installer downloads an optimization profile and a shader list (hashes and render states) made on the author’s PC while playing, which LEGAL.md details. The README states that most of the code is written by AI coding agents directed by one developer. The latest release, 0.1.9.1, is from November 4, one of 15 published; there is also an unchecked Linux test build.

You needYour own copy of Tears of the Kingdom 1.0.0 dumped from your console (.nsp or .xci; also .nsz, .xcz, or an unencrypted .nup, which needs no keys) and your own keys (prod.keys). For the 1.4.3 beta, also your dump of the 1.4.3 update. Optional: your console’s firmware, for the Korean and Chinese fonts. 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, a Vulkan 1.3 GPU, an NTFS drive with about 15 GB free (Setup says if it needs more; one install peaked at about 39 GB), and 30 to 60 minutes to install by its own estimate. Linux and Steam Deck through Proton are experimental and untested.

DOS

Supaplex (OpenSupaplex)

sergiou87/open-supaplex

OpenSupaplex: a 1:1 reimplementation in C and SDL of Supaplex, the 1991 puzzle game, whose source code was lost; fans disassembled it, fixed bugs, and added features (the so-called SpeedFix), and OpenSupaplex recreates that version. It only changes what’s needed to play with a controller and to port it to any platform, and new features that alter the game must be optional. There are builds for Windows, Linux, and macOS, as well as PSP, PS Vita, PS2, PS3, Nintendo DS, 3DS, Wii, Wii U, Switch, and RISC OS. Its tests replay thousands of level solutions recorded by players to check that it behaves like the original, and in October it kept tweaking details to match it. Version 7.2 (March 22) added Nintendo DS, RISC OS, and PS2 and moved the music to MOD and the sound effects to WAV to use less CPU; the latest is 7.2.2 (March 30). Two of its last 100 commits list Copilot as a co-author. Supaplex is freeware, and the repository includes the original game’s files and level packs, plus the disassembly of the executable (about 670 KB) and an IDA database with it.

You needNo copy needed: Supaplex is freeware and the game files are included. 64-bit Windows, Linux, or macOS.

N64

Bomberman 64

RevoSucks/BM64Recomp

Native recompilation of the 3D Bomberman for N64, with mod support (v1.0.0).

You needA Bomberman 64 ROM (N64, US version 1.0, .z64).

N64

GoldenEye 007 (jkdansereau)

jkdansereau/goldeneye-pc-port

A native GoldenEye 007 port for Windows, Linux, and Steam Deck built on the N64 decompilation (n64decomp/007), which its repository starts from: the game’s reconstructed C code is compiled for your PC, and a software RSP adapted from the Perfect Dark port translates its graphics to OpenGL. On first launch it extracts textures, audio, models, levels, and text from your ROM. According to its author it’s fully playable, with a few known issues: all 20 missions and the credits run without crashes, and the whole campaign was played start to finish on 0.4.0. It has native widescreen with the HUD at the screen edges, a steady 60 fps even on an Intel HD 3000, 2–4 player split-screen on every multiplayer map, mouse aiming in N64 or FPS style, modern controllers with rumble, rebindable controls, the N64’s and the Xbox release’s control styles, adjustable field of view and draw distance, up to 16x MSAA, an “Original N64” mode, and an in-game options menu, and it loads saves from emulators such as Project64. Version 0.5.0 (October 7) added split-screen and brought fog, water, and zoom closer to the N64. Its author states it was developed with AI coding agents (Claude Code and a local open-weight model) directed by one person, and that the project is also a study of that process. Like the decompilation it starts from, the repository includes the game’s level data (geometry, collision, and mission scripts) and all of its text as C code, about 25 MB.

You needYour own US (NTSC-U) GoldenEye 007 ROM for N64 in .z64 format (SHA-1 abe01e4aeb033b6c0836819f549c791b26cfde83), copied as data/ge007.ntsc-final.z64; European and Japanese ROMs don’t work yet. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 or x86-64 Linux with glibc 2.31 or later (Steam Deck included), and a graphics card with OpenGL 3.0. There’s no macOS build yet.

GC

⑂ Fork of projectPiki/pikmin

Pikmin

SSunnKing/Open-Nectar---Pikmin-Native-PC-Mobile-Port

Open Nectar: a native, open-source (CC0) port of Pikmin for Linux and Windows, built on the projectPiki decompilation. It runs the game code directly on the host and translates GameCube GX. Most of the game is playable from start to finish, at 30, 60, or 120 fps, with the original JAudio engine on a software DSP, true widescreen (HUD and culling at 16:9, not stretched), both retail discs (US Rev 1 and the European release in five languages), and optional post-processing. 54 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own Pikmin disc (GameCube): US Rev 1 or European.

WII

Project Reignition (Secret Rings)

kumapauz/project-reignition

From-scratch Godot remake of Sonic and the Secret Rings (Wii). Not a recomp or a decomp: for now, it’s the only way to play that Wii game on PC.

You needNothing: it’s a complete Godot remake (freeware).

PS2

Resident Evil - Code: Veronica X

AshfordFamily/recvx-decomp

Decompiles the Code: Veronica X PS2 ELF (MIPS back to C), US release only (SLUS-20184). The engine, gameplay, graphics code, and the CRI ADXT library are decompiled, and the README says the game is now fully decompiled. Contributors must disclose any AI-generated submissions.

DOS

Doom / Doom II (Odamex)

odamex/odamex

Odamex: a Doom source port focused on online multiplayer, with a client/server architecture, that aims to keep the original gameplay while adding many enhancements. It builds on the source code id Software released in December 1997, by way of Sergey Makovkin’s CSDoom 0.62, which itself came from Marisa Heit’s ZDoom 1.22. It supports up to 255 players, with lag compensation (unlagged, plus client-side interpolation and prediction), and besides classic deathmatch and co-op it has team deathmatch, capture the flag (three-way too), Horde, Survival, Last Man Standing, and Attack & Defend, with warmup, rounds, and a player queue for competitive play. It has compatibility settings to emulate vanilla Doom, Boom, or ZDoom physics, plays back vanilla demos, records netdemos with playback controls, removes most of the original engine’s static limits, and supports most Boom and MBF features, the Hexen map format, DeHackEd, BEX, DEHEXTRA, MBF21, and ACS. It renders in true color, widescreen, up to 8K, and at uncapped frame rates, loads WADs on the fly and downloads them from within the game, and comes with its own server, odasrv, and Odalaunch, a launcher that lists servers. Version 12.0.0 (December 26, 2025) added DSDHacked, which opens up mods such as Eviternity II and Legacy of Rust; the latest, 12.3.0 (August 6), added a 90 fps option, mouse navigation in the menus, a free camera for netdemos and for players out of lives in Survival, and ZDoom’s stacked sector portals. There are builds for Windows (an installer plus 32- and 64-bit portable builds), Linux (Flatpak for x86-64 and ARM64), and macOS.

You needThe IWAD from your own copy of Doom, Doom II, or Final Doom; the free Freedoom IWADs and the Chex Quest IWAD work too. Plus Windows, Linux, or macOS.

PS1

Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories (Recompiled)

Unchiga/Yu-Gi-Oh-Forbidden-Memories-Recompiled

A native port for Windows, Linux, and Apple silicon macOS of the US release (SLUS-01411), built from a hand-made decompilation: all 1,134 of the game’s C functions match the original executable byte for byte, building on memories-decomp. Despite the name it isn’t a static recompilation, and it’s the successor to the same author’s PSXRecomp-based recomp. It renders at up to 4x internal resolution, in widescreen and with HD text, and with 3D Monsters face-up monsters stand on the field as their battle models. It has a mod system (new cards past the original 722, fusions, card effects, textures, music, gameplay tables) and the FM Editor to make mods without writing JSON, plus save slots, save states, a fusion helper, card drop rates, rebindable controls, and importing saves from emulator memory cards. Separately, it publishes Forbidden Memories HD as an optional download, a pack of redrawn cards, frames, and portraits. The latest stable release is 0.3.0 (October 11), and 0.3.1-preview.1 (October 18) adds a tower mode for mods. There’s also an Android build. 6,862 of its 9,353 commits list Copilot or Claude as a co-author. The repository also includes the text of the five European releases, taken from the PAL discs, to play in English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish.

You needYour own disc image of the US release of Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories for PS1 (SLUS-01411), the .bin. Plus Windows, Linux, or Apple silicon macOS; building it on Linux takes gcc and Python 3.

Doomsday Engine

skyjake/Doomsday-Engine

Doomsday Engine: a port of id Software’s Doom and Doom II and Raven Software’s Heretic and Hexen with enhanced graphics, meant to refresh these games’ technology while keeping their gameplay. It’s written in C++ on Qt 5 and OpenGL, and the three games’ extensions live together in the libgamekit library. It has game profiles with add-on selection, an in-game overlay with settings and the console, particle effects and dynamic lights, bloom and vignette, geometry-based ambient occlusion, 3D models for objects (FBX and MD5), skyboxes, an upscaling texture filter, and stereoscopic rendering modes. 3D sound with reverb comes through the FMOD plugin, and it supports MP3 music and MIDI with FluidSynth (Unix only). In multiplayer it discovers LAN servers, has a master server for public games, and a tool for running servers in the background. The latest stable release is 2.3.1, from February 2021; 2.3 improved support for the original Doom render hacks used by TNT: Evilution and The Plutonia Experiment and expanded Doomsday Script, its scripting language. Since then only 2.3.2 candidate builds have come out, and the latest commit is from January 2024. There are builds for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

You needThe data files (IWADs) from your own copy of one of the games, such as Doom II; it can find the Steam and GOG releases of The Ultimate Doom, Doom II, Final Doom, Heretic, and Hexen on its own. Plus a graphics card with OpenGL 3.3 and Windows, macOS, or Linux.

360

Condemned 2: Bloodshot

psxrestore/Condemned2Recomp

Static recompilation of Condemned 2: Bloodshot, made with ReXGlue.

You needYour own copy of Condemned 2: Bloodshot (Xbox 360).

WIN

Resident Evil 2 (OpenBiohazard2)

OpenBiohazard2/OpenBiohazard2

OpenBiohazard2: an open-source reimplementation of the original Resident Evil 2 (Biohazard 2) engine, written in Go with OpenGL, that uses the files from the PC version. According to its task list, collision detection, event triggers, animation, pre-rendered backgrounds, and depth testing already work; still missing are audio (music and sound), the inventory system, enemy AI, puzzles, door transitions, sprites, and shadows. It’s played with the keyboard. Its only published release is 0.1.0 (May 17, 2024), an initial pre-release build for 64-bit Windows; otherwise it has to be built with Go. In September 2025 and in August, much of the code was reorganized and gained tests, OBJ model export, and debug markers for enemies; the latest change is from August 17. It comes with tools to unpack and convert the game’s files, and the project keeps a separate viewer for Biohazard 2’s scripts.

You needThe files from your own copy of Resident Evil 2 for PC, copied from its install folder into the project’s data folder. Plus 64-bit Windows for the published build, or Go to build it, and a graphics card with OpenGL.

NSW

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Nycolazs/ACNHRecomp

ACNHRecomp turns the AArch64 code of Animal Crossing: New Horizons into C++ ahead of time and compiles it for your computer; it is not an emulator. The system services the game calls are reimplemented natively and its NVN graphics calls are translated to Vulkan. It is built on the SuperMarioWonderRecomp framework. According to the README, boot, character creation, the opening movie, and free roaming on the island work at 30 frames per second; the first save hasn’t been verified in a full playthrough, native 60 fps isn’t done, and online features are unavailable. Builds exist for Windows, Linux, macOS (Apple Silicon), and Android. The latest, 0.6.0 (October 29), is presented as ready to play with ACNHRecomp-Importer. The README states that nearly all the new code was written by Claude, directed and tested by a person. 81 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needA folder with the executables and files of your own copy of Animal Crossing: New Horizons for Nintendo Switch (title ID 01006F8002326000; version 3.0.2 recommended, 3.0.3, 2.0.7, and 1.0.0 supported), prepared by you. The project does not decrypt or unpack the game’s containers.

PS2

Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec

matt-pulsipher/GT3-revisited

An open-source reimplementation of the Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec engine for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and Meta Quest (VR), called GT3 Revisited. It contains no game data or assets: at run time it reads your .iso image and decodes the assets without extracting them to disk. The README says the whole game is playable: GT Mode with dealers, garage, tuning, licenses, championships, and endurance races with pit stops, Arcade (single race, time trial, 2-player split screen), replays with the TV cameras, movies, music and sound, with the physics checked against the original. It adds online battle for up to 6 players with session codes, and saves that can be imported from and exported to the PS2 original. Version 0.4.1 is from October 29. 18 of its 19 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own .iso image of Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec. The NTSC-U releases (SCUS-97102 and the PBPX-95503 bundle disc) are verified; other regions are untested. Only .iso images are read. Linux needs a Vulkan driver.

N64

Paper Mario

SMCGames/Paper-Mario-ReCut-Deprecated

“ReCut”: a recompiled port of the papercraft RPG. It boots and supports live texture replacement; it’s AI-assisted, and widescreen never worked. Its author retired it on October 21 and recommends switching to PaperBoat, which has its own entry.

You needYour own Paper Mario ROM (N64, US version), validated by hash.

SNES

Donkey Kong Country (DKC1Recomp)

elliotttate/DKC1Recomp

Static recompilation of the original Donkey Kong Country (US version 1.0) on a snesrecomp fork, following the DKC2Recomp template. Unlike most recomps, it didn’t have to discover the code blind: it starts from Yoshifanatic1’s disassembly, which rebuilds the ROM byte for byte, and derives every instruction and jump table from it. It generates 100% of the game’s code, with native Windows and macOS hosts, continuous audio, and an optional 342×224 widescreen mode.

You needYour own Donkey Kong Country ROM (SNES, US version 1.0).

PSP

Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories

elmasas/lcs-recomp

PC port of the PSP version, with a Vulkan renderer for the GE and SDL2 for the window and audio in the native build. It requires the US v1.05 release (ULUS-10041): you add the decrypted EBOOT.ELF and the disc’s PSP_GAME folder, and the project does the rest. There are Windows and Linux builds.

You needYour own copy of GTA: Liberty City Stories for PSP, US v1.05 edition (ULUS-10041), with a decrypted EBOOT.ELF.

PS4

Bloodborne (macOS)

Wooloomooloo2/bloodborne_mac_port

bloodborne_mac_port: a port to Apple silicon macOS of the native Bloodborne PC port. It runs the game’s original PS4 executable (CUSA03173, version 1.09): its x86-64 code runs directly under Rosetta 2, a lightweight runtime written in C replaces the PS4’s system libraries, and a shadPS4-derived video core translates GPU commands to native Metal (since 0.5.0; MoltenVK before), in a separate arm64 process. The README states it isn’t an emulator and contains no game code. On an Apple M4 Max it boots, lets you create a character and load saves, and runs at a locked 60 fps at 1080p and 1440p (and at native 4K), or upscaled with MetalFX, FSR 3.1, or TAA. According to the README, the current version is mac-v0.5.5 (October 24, 2026), a full release that rolls up the 0.5.4.3 to 0.5.4.5 pre-releases and fixes red flashes, a rare crash, and lifts; the downloads are an app and a package extraction tool. 93 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author. Licensed GPL-2.0.

You needYour own decrypted dump of Bloodborne for PS4 (CUSA03173, version 1.09); no game files are included. An Apple silicon Mac (the README tests on an M4 Max); the game runs under Rosetta 2.

NSW

Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! / Let's Go, Eevee!

raulzrrs/letsgo-recomp

Let’s Go Recomp: a native Windows port of Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! and Let’s Go, Pikachu! (Switch), made by static recompilation on top of Peiikai’s LAS Recomp: the game’s ARM64 code is translated to C and compiled for your PC, and a runtime of its own stands in for the console (system services, NVN graphics on Vulkan, audio, and controllers). The README warns that the game hasn’t been completed from start to finish on this port yet. Version 0.7.0 (October 24, 2026) has internal resolution up to 4K, SMAA, TAA, or AMD FSR 3.1, ambient occlusion and global illumination, the game’s 30 fps or experimental 60 and 120 fps, frame generation, a 2x-resolution interface, keyboard and mouse, controllers, and LayeredFS mods such as fan translations; it includes catching during wild battles (experimental) and an option to skip the controller selection screen. Online features, the Poké Ball Plus, and the second player aren’t supported. Code under the MIT license.

You needYour own dump of Let’s Go, Eevee! or Let’s Go, Pikachu!, from any region, at version 1.0.0 (the 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 updates are accepted but less tested and lack some options); .xci and .nsp files must be extracted first, and you point it at the folder with exefs and romfs. 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, an x86-64 CPU with SSE4.2 (AVX2 recommended), a Vulkan 1.3 GPU, about 4 GB of RAM, and 6 GB of disk.

N64

Quest 64 (Rainchus)

Rainchus/Quest64-Recomp

Native recompilation of the N64 RPG (Holy Magic Century in Europe), playable from start to finish (v0.1).

You needA Quest 64 ROM (N64, US version 1.0).

NSW

⑂ Fork of valentderah/totk-pc-recomp

Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition

jmars125/xcx-recomp

XCX Recomp: a static recompilation of Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, the 2025 Nintendo Switch release, into a native Windows x86-64 application with a Vulkan renderer. It builds on TotK Recomp, Valiantsin Dzerakh’s Tears of the Kingdom recompilation, which is also in the catalog. Its installer, XCX-Setup, builds the game on your PC from your files, and the result contains the game, so it is for your own use only. The README describes it as early development: starting a new game, cutscenes, and gameplay work on Windows with sound, text, and menus, at 60 fps by default (30 to 360 in the settings; above 60 is experimental). It supports update 2.0.0 and the add-on content, and has an in-game settings menu (F1), a performance overlay (F10), and keyboard, mouse, and gamepad support. The first release came out on October 31, and 0.1.4, on November 1, added a Linux build as an AppImage. 0.1.13 fixed the crash at boot on Linux, which the person who reported it confirmed on a Steam Deck, and fit the interface to ultrawide screens, with the Load Game screen and the models in some menus still stretched. The latest is 0.1.14 (November 2), which gets movies playing on Linux. Mods made for emulators are still planned. According to the README, most of the code and documentation is written by AI coding agents (Claude Code) under its author’s direction, who plays every build and decides what gets merged.

You needYour own copy of Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition for Nintendo Switch, dumped from your console: the base game and the 2.0.0 update as NSP files (the add-on content is optional), plus your console’s keys (prod.keys). Windows 10 or later, an x86-64 CPU with AVX2, a GPU with Vulkan 1.3 and VK_EXT_external_memory_host, and about 36 GiB free during setup (20 GiB after). There is also a Linux build.

PSV

Killzone: Mercenary

TheLostPantheon/nativ

A static recompilation of the US PS Vita release with Project Nativ, which turns the game into a native program for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Steam Deck included): the game’s code is translated to C and Sony’s libraries are recompiled from your firmware. It supports version 1.00 and the 1.12 update, the recommended one, which is where Botzone and online play come from. Multiplayer and Botzone work online between copies of Nativ, on the same network or over the internet, where they find each other through the public BitTorrent DHT and connect directly; the program itself answers for the game’s login server. It plays with keyboard and mouse or a controller, and with a controller also in the PS TV layout, which moves every touch action to buttons and sticks; otherwise the touch screen is handled with the mouse or a controller cursor. It adds render scaling, 21:9 and 32:9 screens, field of view, scenery and character detail settings, and experimental 60 fps. It’s the game that takes longest to build the first time and to prepare its shaders, a few minutes. 0.1.5 (November 2), the latest release, fixed close-combat takedowns freezing at 60 fps, in Botzone and the campaign, and the HUD flickering at 60 fps; according to the guide, a line of dialogue now and then plays twice.

You needYour own US copy of Killzone: Mercenary for PS Vita (PCSA00107), at version 1.00 or, better, with the 1.12 update: the game folder copied from your Vita, with its license, or its PKG files, whose license Nativ fetches from your Vita over Wi-Fi once. Plus the PS Vita system software update file (PSVUPDAT.PUP), free from Sony’s website. 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, macOS 11 or later on an Apple silicon Mac, or x86-64 Linux, Steam Deck included.

ARC

Namco System 21 / 22 / 23

spacestate1/namco22-decompile

Namco 2x Systems: 1990s Namco arcade games from the System 21, 22, and 23 boards, rebuilt to run on an ordinary PC, on Linux or Windows. It covers ten games from 1993 to 1997: Prop Cycle, Rave Racer, Tokyo Wars, Dirt Dash, Armadillo Racing, Time Crisis, Ace Driver, and Cyber Commando on System 22; Cyber Sled on System 21; and Time Crisis II on System 23. All of them are playable (Prop Cycle from start to finish), the Time Crisis games support a mouse or a light gun, and Rave Racer and Cyber Sled have online play. Prop Cycle was hand-decompiled from Ghidra’s output; the others are translated to C by the project’s own tool and checked against MAME. You supply each game’s files yourself, from a MAME 0.271 or later ROM set. 56 of its 79 commits list Claude as a co-author.

PSV

Shovel Knight

TheLostPantheon/nativ

A static recompilation of the US PS Vita release (1.00) with Project Nativ, which turns the game into a native program for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Steam Deck included): the game’s code is translated to C and Sony’s libraries are recompiled from your firmware. It was the platform’s first proof, and the first release’s notes say this game isn’t enhanced and was mainly a proof of concept. It’s the quickest to build the first time, about two minutes. The 1.08 update (Treasure Trove) isn’t supported yet: the game runs without it.

You needYour own US copy of Shovel Knight for PS Vita (PCSE00640), version 1.00: the game folder copied from your Vita, with its license, or its PKG files, whose license Nativ fetches from your Vita over Wi-Fi once. Plus the PS Vita system software update file (PSVUPDAT.PUP), free from Sony’s website. 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, macOS 11 or later on an Apple silicon Mac, or x86-64 Linux, Steam Deck included.

PS2

Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus

TheOnlyZac/sly1

Work-in-progress decompilation of Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus for PS2. It builds the NTSC-U executable (SCUS_971.98), aims to turn the whole engine into matching source, and hosts online documentation of the code. 3 of its last 100 commits list Claude or Copilot as a co-author.

PSV

Uncharted: Golden Abyss

TheLostPantheon/nativ

A static recompilation of the US PS Vita release (1.00) with Project Nativ, which turns the game into a native program for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Steam Deck included): the game’s code is translated to C and Sony’s libraries are recompiled from your firmware, and the videos play through the firmware’s own MP4 player. The touch screen is handled with the mouse or a controller cursor, the motion sensor with the gyro of a controller such as a DualShock 4 or DualSense, and the F7 key turns on the camera’s light for the puzzles where you hold something up to the light. It adds render scaling with AMD FSR, 21:9 and 32:9 screens, field of view, draw distance, mouse camera control, and experimental 60 fps. The 1.03 update isn’t supported yet: the game runs without it. 0.1.5 (November 2), the latest release, fixed scrambled textures on AMD graphics cards at 2x scale and the black screen that could follow saving after the prologue. According to the guide, voices in cutscenes run about a third of a second ahead of the lips.

You needYour own US copy of Uncharted: Golden Abyss for PS Vita (PCSA00029), version 1.00: the game folder copied from your Vita, with its license, or its PKG files, whose license Nativ fetches from your Vita over Wi-Fi once. Plus the PS Vita system software update file (PSVUPDAT.PUP), free from Sony’s website. 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, macOS 11 or later on an Apple silicon Mac, or x86-64 Linux, Steam Deck included.

PSV

Unit 13

TheLostPantheon/nativ

A static recompilation of the US PS Vita release (1.00) with Project Nativ, which turns the game into a native program for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Steam Deck included): the game’s code is translated to C and Sony’s libraries are recompiled from your firmware. It has two-player online co-op between copies of Nativ, on the same network or over the internet, where they connect directly; voice chat and the leaderboards don’t work yet. The Network Pass, the game’s online pass, counts as owned. The touch screen is handled with the mouse or a controller cursor, and it adds render scaling, 21:9 and 32:9 screens, field of view, and experimental 60 fps. The 1.01 update isn’t supported yet: the game runs without it.

You needYour own US copy of Unit 13 for PS Vita (PCSA00014), version 1.00: the game folder copied from your Vita, with its license, or its PKG files, whose license Nativ fetches from your Vita over Wi-Fi once. Plus the PS Vita system software update file (PSVUPDAT.PUP), free from Sony’s website. 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, macOS 11 or later on an Apple silicon Mac, or x86-64 Linux, Steam Deck included.

360

Peter Jackson's King Kong

TekRantGaming/king-kong-recompiled

A native Windows port of the Xbox 360 version, by static recompilation with the ReXGlue SDK, with a launcher made for the couch. It gets past the “VENTURE” freeze that stops Xenia. It offers up to 8K, any frame rate up to 240 or uncapped, FSR 1 and NIS, ambient occlusion, the original Xbox 360 look or a modern one, up to a 110° field of view, keyboard and mouse, all ten cheats as switches, achievements with pop-ups, and an Add to Steam button. Since 2.0.0, from October 30, it also has a native Linux and Steam Deck build, experimentally. It’s in active development and a full play-through hasn’t been confirmed yet. Its author states it was made almost entirely with Claude Code.

You needAn image of your own Peter Jackson's King Kong Xbox 360 disc, USA/Europe release (Title ID 555307D3, the original version). Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, a DirectX 12 graphics card, and about 7 GB of free space.

PS4

⑂ Fork of AjncSystem/ShadowOfTheColossus-PC

Shadow of the Colossus (Oussama268)

Oussama268/ShadowOfTheColossus-PC

A native port of the PlayStation 4 version for Windows 10 and 11. The game’s x86-64 code runs directly on the PC’s processor and the PS4’s GPU is translated to Vulkan; the README states it is not a full emulator but a loader with the system functions the game needs, in the style of bloodborne_pc. Since 0.60.3 the game can be finished from start to end (played through the last colossus, the ending, and the credits), with high-quality textures, PS4 Pro mode, and 60 frames per second. Known issues include crashes at the Maximum texture quality in very wide views and characters glowing white on AMD GCN cards. Version 0.60.6-opt11 (October 24) is the latest release. 67 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own Shadow of the Colossus dump for PS4: the European release CUSA08809 1.01 or the US release CUSA08034 1.00 (same eboot as the European 1.01); for sound, two modules from your own console. Plus Windows 10 or 11.

N64

Mega Man 64

MegaMan64Recomp/MegaMan64Recompiled

Native port of the N64 version of Mega Man Legends, with modern rendering and quality-of-life tweaks (v0.9.1).

You needA Mega Man 64 ROM (N64).

DS

Metroid Prime Hunters

mstan/MetroidPrimeHuntersRecomp

Public alpha of the Metroid Prime Hunters recompilation built on ndsrecomp. Not a finished port: expect crashes and rendering and audio issues, and the multiplayer is in early access. 32 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own Metroid Prime Hunters ROM (Nintendo DS).

Spearmint

clover-moe/spearmint

Spearmint: a heavily modified version of the Quake III Arena engine, based directly on ioquake3, the port that carries on the source code id Software released, with code from Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, OpenArena, and other projects as well. It was made for creating new games and mods without modifying the engine, so much of its functionality moved into the game code, but it can still play the Quake 3 data: it runs Quake III Arena, Quake III: Team Arena, and Turtle Arena, and progress has been made toward Return to Castle Wolfenstein (multiplayer) and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, which don’t work yet. It isn’t compatible with Quake III Arena servers, mods (QVM or DLL files), or demos. For players it adds aspect-correct widescreen, high-resolution TrueType fonts, four-player split screen, improved bot AI, better gamepad support, an Instagib mode, and optional unlagged instant-hit weapons, plus touches such as smoothly sinking corpses and player shadows that follow the model’s animation. The Quake 3 game code lives in a separate repository, mint-arena. Its author stopped active development in October 2018 and only releases occasional fixes: the latest release is 1.0.3, from July 10, 2020, and the main branch, for 1.1, received commits as recently as May this year. Its contribution rules say LLM (“AI”) contributions aren’t wanted.

You needThe pak0.pk3 to pak8.pk3 files from your own copy of Quake III Arena, copied into Spearmint’s baseq3 folder (and Team Arena’s into missionpack to play it); it also works with the free data from the Quake 3 demo, the Team Arena demo, or OpenArena 0.8.8. Plus Windows XP or later (32- or 64-bit), macOS 10.5 or later (PowerPC or Intel), or x86 or x86-64 Linux with glibc 2.7 or later.

PS4

WipEout Omega Collection

AbdelmoumenDeghbouche/wipeout_pc

A native port of the PS4 version for Windows 10 and 11, in the style of bbport: the game’s original x86-64 code runs on the PC’s processor, a runtime replaces the PS4 system libraries, and the graphics are translated to Vulkan by shadPS4’s video core; there is no CPU emulator. The README calls it playable and in active development: menus and races (HD and 2048) run above 60 frames per second, up to 240, with resolutions from 1080p to 4K and ultrawide, HDR, sound, and a custom soundtrack. PS4 Pro mode is experimental, PSVR mode is not planned, and not every game and event type has been tested. The Linux build is compiled from source and has no package yet. The latest Windows version, 0.2.46, came out on October 29. 7 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own dump of WipEout Omega Collection from your own PS4, with the folder that contains eboot.bin (the program unpacks the game and its update). Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, a CPU with AVX, and a GPU with Vulkan 1.3.

WIN

Heretic II (Heretic2R)

m-x-d/Heretic2R

Heretic2R: a reverse-engineered port of Heretic II that replaces the original game’s executable and libraries and runs its data. It supports widescreen with automatic HUD scaling, decouples the rendering frame rate from the network packet rate (with a theoretical maximum of 1000 fps), updates most special effects at the rendering frame rate instead of 20 fps, plays music as OGG, and loads maps faster, plus many bug fixes and cosmetic tweaks so the game plays the way you remember it rather than how it actually played. According to its author, the single-player campaign is fairly well tested and can be completed without major issues; co-op and multiplayer work but are practically untested, and since R4 it can also run as a dedicated server. GameSpy online multiplayer, gamepad support, and HiDPI support aren’t implemented, and frame rates above 60 fps and resolutions above 1080p haven’t been tested. Its saves aren’t compatible with the original’s, and because of API changes neither are Heretic II’s renderers, sound backends, or game libraries. The first release, R1, came out on March 23; the latest is R6 (August 3), for Windows, which finished the compass the original game had left incomplete. The repository also includes, in its stuff folder, a ZIP of about 10.8 MB with the files of Heretic II’s official 1.06 patch (the Heretic II Enhancement Pack) minus its .exe and .dll files, which the README offers for updating your copy instead of the patch’s installer.

You needThe data from your own copy of Heretic II for PC, updated to version 1.06: without it, models, textures, and sounds are missing. Either overwrite the game’s binaries with Heretic2R’s or copy the game’s base folder, minus its .dll files, into the Heretic2R folder. For music, rip the CD’s tracks 2–14 to OGG (track02.ogg to track14.ogg) into the music folder inside base. Plus Windows.

360

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (tekken-tag-tournament-2-pc)

shihabal3amri/tekken-tag-tournament-2-pc

A native Windows port of the Xbox 360 version, by static recompilation with XenonRecomp, with graphics, audio, and online code written for PC. An installer builds the game on your PC from your disc image and Title Update 3. It renders from 720p to 4K at 60 fps, has all 59 fighters unlocked, including the 10 that relied on Namco’s servers, and offers online Player Match over Steam, in beta. By default it removes the 2 frames of input delay the original game adds in offline modes. Leaderboards, World Arena, and replays relied on servers that no longer exist. All 10 of its commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Xbox 360 disc image (USA, Europe) and its Title Update 3. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, a DirectX 11 graphics card, and about 13 GB of free space; for online play, Steam running and signed in.

DOS

Doom / Doom II (Eternity Engine)

team-eternity/eternity

Eternity Engine: an advanced Doom source port maintained by James “Quasar” Haley, descended from Simon “fraggle” Howard’s SMMU, part of the Boom/MBF line; most of the recent work is by Ioan Chera. It’s built for players and mappers alike: it has ACS with many of ZDoom’s enhancements; EDF (Eternity Definition File), a language to define and modify monsters, decorations, sounds, text strings, menus, and terrain types; and portals for skyboxes and fake 3D architecture that objects can pass through. It supports practically unlimited resolutions, PNG, ENDOOM and animated startup screens, UMAPINFO, MBF21, and DSDHacked, and plays Master Levels and No Rest for the Living without command-line options. It also runs Heretic, with its rules updated to match the 2025 release, and Hexen and Strife support is in progress. Version 4.06.00 “Nidhogg” (June 13) is a big bug-fix and improvement release, with wall texture scaling, non-power-of-two flats, and new ACS inventory functions.

You needThe IWAD from your own copy of Doom, Doom II, Final Doom, or Heretic. Plus Windows (32- or 64-bit) or macOS (Intel or Apple silicon); on Linux and the BSDs you build it from source.

PS3

Drakengard 3

soyjxck/dod3-recomp

Drakengard 3 Recompiled: a static recompilation of the US PS3 release for Windows and macOS, using ps3recomp. It’s playable on Windows with Direct3D 12 (60 fps at 4K on a high-end machine, 120 at lower resolutions) and on Apple Silicon Macs with Metal; the Windows Vulkan mode is experimental. It adds any internal resolution, including supersampling, windowed or full-screen display, and a frame cap of your choice. All 20 DLC packs are supported, including the Japanese voice pack. It’s in alpha and has been tested on few machines.

You needYour own US disc (BLUS31197), dumped to a folder or as a decrypted ISO, with the 1.01 update (required) and any DLC you own. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 with Direct3D 12, or macOS 13 or later on an Apple Silicon Mac, and about 16 GB of free space.

DOS

Syndicate Wars (SyndWarsFX)

swfans/syndwarsfx

Syndicate Wars Fan Expansion: a port of the DOS version of Syndicate Wars, Bullfrog’s 1996 game, to modern systems, continuing the one created by Unavowed and Gynvael Coldwind. It was made by disassembling the original DOS executable and replacing the DOS-specific parts with platform-independent code: SDL for video and input, Vorbis for music, and OpenAL for sound. Whatever hasn’t been remade yet is still the original code, which is being rewritten in C function by function; because of that, according to the project, nothing is missing from the single-player campaign, and some cut and beta features have even been revived. Multiplayer doesn’t work, since the network code is missing. It adds resources that weren’t in the game, such as extra sounds and higher-resolution graphics, fan-made translations, and mouse capture. According to the project it runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS, but only as a 32-bit x86 program. It publishes pre-release builds for Windows, with an installer, and for Ubuntu; the latest, 0.3.8.4358, is from October 5. The installer and the install script copy the files from your CD or disc image and also download from GitHub, from the project’s own repositories, Bullfrog’s original graphics, sounds and voices, and maps and levels, with fixes from the community; the script has no option to skip that download. The repository includes the disassembly of the game’s executable (about 3.7 MB) and the game’s text, in English and seven other languages, as translation files.

You needYour own Syndicate Wars CD for PC or a disc image from a digital store (those from the best-known stores include one of the tested versions); the multilingual European and the US releases have been tested, and German requires the German release. The CD is only used during installation. Plus Windows or Linux on x86 (the program is 32-bit; on Linux, build it or use the Ubuntu package if your system is compatible) or macOS, building it yourself; to convert the CD music to Ogg Vorbis, cdparanoia and oggenc.

N64

Super Smash Bros.

VetriTheRetri/ssb-decomp-re

Decompilation of Super Smash Bros. 64 that rebuilds the US ROM (the Japanese version is supported too) from your own dump. It publishes a web list of the functions still left to decompile. 7 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

WIN

Diablo (DGEngine)

dgcor/DGEngine

DGEngine: an implementation of the Diablo engine, written in C++ with SFML, in which the whole game is described in JSON files, played with the original game’s data files. With them it runs Diablo and its Hellfire expansion; also Diablo Flare, with the free assets of the game Flare, and Diablo Extended, which mixes Diablo’s and Flare’s. From Diablo II it loads the assets, except the level textures. According to its wiki, last edited in May 2021, it reproduces the original menus and lets you enter levels from the town, but nearly everything inside the game itself (items, players, spells) is missing, as is multiplayer. The latest release is 1.2 (December 22, 2023), for 32- and 64-bit Windows and Linux (AppImage, also in a variant with FFmpeg), and the last commit, from July 2025, fixes the build. The repository includes the English text of Diablo’s townspeople dialogue and quests (about 60 KB).

You needThe DIABDAT.MPQ file from your own copy of Diablo; for Hellfire, also hellfire.mpq, hfmonk.mpq, hfmusic.mpq, and hfvoice.mpq. Plus Windows or Linux.

NSW

Metroid Prime Remastered (gminustwo)

gminustwo/primerecomp

PrimeRecomp runs Metroid Prime Remastered, from the Nintendo Switch, natively on Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon), and Linux, including the Steam Deck. The game’s code is statically recompiled from the Switch’s ARM64 to C and compiled for your PC, and the console’s system services and NVN graphics are reimplemented with Vulkan; no emulator runs. It is built on Peiikai’s LAS Recomp, which the README credits for nearly everything that makes it possible. It offers mouse aiming that aims directly, ultrawide and any aspect ratio, 30, 60, or 120 frames per second, Steam Deck presets, gyro aiming, and skippable cutscenes. The README warns of numerous graphics issues. The latest release, 0.0.4 (October 29), is an early beta. 97 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own copy of Metroid Prime Remastered for Nintendo Switch, version 1.0.0 (no updates), dumped from your console and extracted into a folder holding exefs and romfs. 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit Linux with glibc 2.35 or newer, or a Mac with Apple Silicon and macOS 15 or newer; on Windows and Linux, an AVX2 CPU and a GPU with a Vulkan 1.3 driver. About 15 GB free.

PS1

MediEvil (BlackLabelHQ)

BlackLabelHQ/MediEvilRecomp

MediEvilRecomp: a static recompilation of the US PS1 release of MediEvil, made with RecompOne by BlackLabelHQ, the same team behind the Symphony of the Night recomp. It also drew on the game’s decompilation to name functions and write patches. There are Windows, macOS, and Linux builds, which need the .NET 10 runtime. It’s an open beta, and its authors warn of possible game-breaking bugs, so save often.

You needYour own copy of the North American PS1 release, as bin/cue or CHD.

GC

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

Odrannnn/MetroidPrime2Port

Echoes Unbound is an unofficial native port of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, built from PrimeDecomp’s decompilation, with the Aurora platform layer (SDL3 and WebGPU) and the MusyX audio engine; there is no emulator. It runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, and Android, and experimentally on iOS, with the US and PAL GameCube discs and the Metroid Prime Trilogy discs (US and PAL). It adds widescreen with an adapted HUD, render scale, vsync, high frame rates with interpolation, mouse, twin-stick, and gyro aiming, cutscene skipping, optional tweaks such as a fast Morph Ball, save states, suit colors, drop-in mod folders with an HD texture pack, a photo mode, an F1 menu with every setting, and an item randomizer. Version 0.6.6, from October 30, is the latest; the author himself calls it a pre-release. It states that parts of the port were written with AI coding assistants.

You needYour own disc image of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes for the GameCube, US (G2ME01) or PAL (G2MP01), or of the Wii Metroid Prime Trilogy (R3ME01 or R3MP01), as .iso, .gcm, .rvz, .wia, .gcz, .ciso, or .wbfs; no game data is included. x86-64 or aarch64 Linux, x86-64 or arm64 Windows, an Apple Silicon Mac, or arm64 Android.

XBX

Jet Set Radio Future (JuMatt)

JuMatt/JetSetRadioFuture-Unleashed

JSRF Unleashed: a static recompilation of the US Xbox release on xboxrecomp. The game’s x86 code is translated into C, and the graphics and audio hardware come from xemu’s models. The main build is for Apple Silicon Macs (with Metal or OpenGL); there are also builds for Linux, Windows (tested only under Wine), iPhone and iPad, and Android (tested only in the Android emulator). Its author calls it playable but early: the opening, the tutorial, and Dogenzaka Hill are the most tested parts, and later areas have seen little testing. It has unstretched 16:9 widescreen, a 1x–4x internal resolution, and SDL controller support. 11 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own US (NTSC-U) Jet Set Radio Future disc, as an extracted folder with default.xbe or as an ISO image; other regions’ discs won’t work. On Mac, macOS 12 or later on Apple Silicon; on Windows and Linux, OpenGL 3.3.

N64

Diddy Kong Racing (DKR-R)

ThatGuyMcd/DKR-R

Diddy Kong Racing recompilation by ThatGuyMcd. A separate project from the sp00nznet recomp and the Golden Balloon ports. 2 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needA Diddy Kong Racing ROM (N64).

PS2

Ratchet & Clank (rac-rs)

AsobiCodes/rac-rs

rac-rs: an unofficial Windows port written in Rust. On setup it translates the PS2 code from your disc into Rust (static recompilation), and that code runs on a PS2 CPU core also written in Rust; graphics, sound, movies, input, and saving are native code written for the port. Only the original functions that need a fix or a PC feature are rewritten in Rust, and changes are tested by playing the same frames on both versions and comparing the game’s memory. According to its author, the whole game is playable from power-on to the end credits, New Game+ included. It adds widescreen, keyboard and mouse, Xbox and PlayStation controllers, three camera styles (the classic one, a static one with free look and strafing, and a smooth one), lock-on, rebindable controls, and a graphics page with quality levels for enhanced lighting, global illumination, ambient occlusion, dynamic shadows, water with waves and reflections, vegetation, particles, sun rays, draw distance, in-between frames, and a sharp HUD; the “Classic” settings keep the PS2 look. Setup downloads its own copy of Rust, Python, and the GNU assembler (about 220 MB), builds the game in about 12 to 30 minutes depending on the CPU, and checks for updates at launch. Version 0.3.0 came out on October 21. Nine of its twelve commits list Claude as co-author.

You needYour own .iso image of the Ratchet & Clank PS2 disc, European v1.00 (SCES-50916) or US v1.00 (SCUS-97199); the US one has had less testing, and the Japanese release and the Platinum and Greatest Hits reissues aren’t supported. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, about 5 GB of free space (the finished install takes about 3.5 GB), and an internet connection for the first setup.

NSW

⑂ Fork of peiikai/LASRecomp

Pokémon Legends: Z-A (Hexveil404)

Hexveil404/PokeZ-ARecomp

An unofficial native Windows port made by static recompilation: the Switch’s ARM64 code is translated ahead of time to C and compiled for x86-64 on your PC, and the console’s operating system and GPU (NVN) are reimplemented on top of Vulkan. It isn’t an emulator. It is a fork of LAS Recomp by peiikai, the recompiler made for The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, with 208 commits of its own ahead. It offers 60 fps or 30 as on the console, internal resolution from 25% up to 4x, FSR 1, SMAA or FSR 2, HDR, ambient occlusion, HD texture packs, SDL3 controllers, keyboard and mouse with a mouse camera, a mods manager, and save backups. Linux x86-64 is experimental. v0.1.13 (October 31) is the latest of 22 releases; 96 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author. A separate macOS port, MonZaMac, is based on this project.

You needYour own copy of Pokémon Legends: Z-A 1.0.0, 2.0.0 or 2.0.2, optionally with the Mega Dimension DLC: the already extracted exefs and romfs folders, or a dump of the base game (.xci or .nsp) with the prod.keys from your own Switch. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 (1903 or newer) or 11, an x86-64 CPU with AVX2, a Vulkan 1.2 or newer GPU, 8 GB of RAM (16 GB recommended), and about 12 GB free.

360

LEGO Dimensions

NeverCookFirst/DimensionsRecomp

Static recompilation of the Xbox 360 release and, as far as we know, the first recomp of a toys-to-life game. It boots, plays, saves, loads DLC, and talks to a Toy Pad (real or emulated) like any ordinary Windows program, with an unlocked frame rate, mods, and multilingual support. Its author is explicit about why: they wanted to find out whether a figures game could be recompiled, and they say emulation remains a perfectly valid option for anyone it works better for.

You needYour own copy of LEGO Dimensions for Xbox 360. This is a public demo build.