Killzone 2 (undecuple)

Game: Killzone 2 → (PS3, 2009)

Project Pyrrhus: an unofficial Windows port of the PS3 version, made by static recompilation with ps3recomp: the game’s PowerPC code is translated ahead of time to native x64 code; it is neither an emulator nor a rewrite. It uses the method and much of the general work of Project Helghast (the same author’s Killzone 3 port), adapted to Killzone 2. It is early and partly playable: the intro movie plays, the menus run with sound, and the first level loads and draws, at about 23 frames per second in one scripted run (the PS3 runs it at 30); the sky draws green, and keyboard and mouse have only been checked in scripted runs. It supports Direct3D 12 only; the README points to Tokisaki Port, by a different author, for a Vulkan version. The installer builds the game on your PC; version 0.1.6 (October 30) is the latest of 5 releases. Its author states it is developed with AI coding agents.

You needYour own Killzone 2 disc (US version, BCUS98116) dumped as a folder or a decrypted .iso, the 1.29 update from your copy (the dev_hdd0/game/BCUS98116 folder, on a PS3 or in RPCS3), and the decrypted EBOOT.elf made from that update’s EBOOT.BIN. The installer can find all three in your RPCS3 install. Plus 64-bit Windows and a Direct3D 12 graphics card.

How it gets to PC

Static recompilation

Console

PlayStation 3

Architecture

Cell/PPE

Author

undecuple

Original studio

Guerrilla Games

Year

2009

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