Case study

Celosia: statically recompiling Shadow of the Colossus for Mac and Vita

Celosia is a native port of Shadow of the Colossus for PlayStation 2, USA SCUS-97472, to macOS on Apple Silicon and to the PlayStation Vita. PS2Recomp translates the MIPS code to C++. The Mac renderer is Metal and the Vita renderer is OpenGL ES.

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: 55
Last commit: 2026-11-10
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

macOS on Apple Silicon, Xcode Command Line Tools, CMake, Ninja, pkg-config, FFmpeg, and Python. The player supplies a USA disc image. The README reports 60 frames per second on an M4 Pro at 1536 by 1344.
The Vita build runs. The README reports 18 to 25 frames per second in the Vita3K intro.
License: GPL-3.0.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{celosia,
  title = {{Celosia: statically recompiling Shadow of the Colossus for Mac and Vita}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/HenryKun55/celosia}},
  url = {https://github.com/HenryKun55/celosia},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/celosia/}}
}

Plain text

Celosia: statically recompiling Shadow of the Colossus for Mac and Vita. https://github.com/HenryKun55/celosia (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/celosia/

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README.md GitHub · HenryKun55/celosia · Revision d8c5eec