Case study

BT2 Recomp: a Budokai Tenkaichi 2 PS2 static recompilation

BT2 Recomp translates the North American PlayStation 2 release of Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 to native Windows C++ with PS2Recomp. Its runtime supplies memory, system services and Vulkan GS rendering for the translated game code. The author reports playable versus battles and runs of story mode, Ultimate Battle Z, tournaments and training lessons without input; memory-card saving remains unconfirmed.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 17
Last commit: 2026-11-09
Language: C++
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

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

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A personal copy of the North American SLUS-21441 game disc image is required.
Prerequisites: Building requires Windows 10 or 11 x64, Visual Studio 2022 C++ tools and CMake.
Limits: Memory-card saving has not yet been tried in the game.
License: GPL-3.0 License.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{bt2-recomp-case,
  title = {{BT2 Recomp: a Budokai Tenkaichi 2 PS2 static recompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/oric212/BT2-Recomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/oric212/BT2-Recomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/bt2-recomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

BT2 Recomp: a Budokai Tenkaichi 2 PS2 static recompilation. https://github.com/oric212/BT2-Recomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/bt2-recomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · oric212/BT2-Recomp · Revision 852d94e
docs/project/PROGRESS_TRACKING.md GitHub · oric212/BT2-Recomp · Revision 852d94e