Case study

ash: reimplementing a Dark Souls slice for PSP

ash reimplements a limited Dark Souls: Remastered experience in a C99 engine for Sony PSP hardware. Local converters prepare models, animations and parameters from the user's game copy; the engine provides combat, rendering and AI bytecode execution. The author reports playing from the Northern Undead Asylum to Firelink Shrine on a PSP Street E1000.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 10
Last commit: 2026-10-25
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a demo observed; no download method found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Own legally obtained Dark Souls: Remastered installation; converted game data must remain local.
Prerequisites: Linux x86-64, pspdev v20261001, CMake, Ninja, Python 3.13 and the documented asset-conversion dependencies.
Testing evidence: PSP custom firmware is required for hardware play; the author tested PSP Street E1000 with 6.60 PRO-C.
Limits: The data-cooking commands were not rerun in the reported release pass, and there is no single cook-all script.
License: MIT license.

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BibTeX

@misc{ash-dark-souls-case,
  title = {{ash: reimplementing a Dark Souls slice for PSP}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/meshoklv/ash}},
  url = {https://github.com/meshoklv/ash},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/ash-dark-souls-case/}}
}

Plain text

ash: reimplementing a Dark Souls slice for PSP. https://github.com/meshoklv/ash (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/ash-dark-souls-case/

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README.md GitHub · meshoklv/ash · Revision 3ffe1c4
docs/README.md GitHub · meshoklv/ash · Revision 3ffe1c4