Disney's Hercules

Game: Disney's Hercules (PS1, 1997)

Hercules Recompiled: a native Windows and Linux port of all five European releases of the game (English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish), built with psxrecomp plus eleven changes of its own to the framework, along with the decompilation it draws on, which covers the main executable and its overlays and rebuilds byte for byte. The game logic runs unchanged as statically recompiled code and only the platform layer is replaced: 1080p, true 16:9 (the game also draws the scenery, background, HUD and, since 0.5.4, the characters and objects in the side margins), HD sprites, level textures, and HUD, a CRT simulation, save states, and a launcher styled after the game’s menus, in five languages, that boots straight into the level you pick. Esc opens an in-game menu where everything changes live. Since 0.5.5 (October 18), the PAL releases run at the US release’s speed by default, with 30 pictures per second instead of 25; 60 fps isn’t possible, the author explains, because the game waits two frames per step. The launcher updates itself. After your first game it offers to download the HD pack for your release (about 1.6 GB, with the game’s graphics upscaled) from a release in the project’s own GitHub repository, or to leave it for later; if there’s no pack for your disc, it makes one on your PC from it in about 4 hours. 118 of its 120 commits list Claude as co-author.

You needYour own disc image (.cue with its .bin) of one of the PAL releases: SCES-00891 (English), SCES-00892 (French), SCES-00893 (German), SCES-00894 (Italian), or SCES-00895 (Spanish); the US and Japanese releases don’t work. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, or x64 Linux with glibc 2.35 or later (Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora 36, or newer). Making the HD pack on your machine needs 6 GB of free space while it runs.

How it gets to PC

Static recompilation

Console

PlayStation

Architecture

MIPS

Author

obaidr1

Original studio

Eurocom

Year

1997

Stars

111

Last activity

2026-10-23 · 7 days ago

Latest version

v0.5.6 · 2026-10-23

Language

Python