# Colony Wars: Red Sun — a local PSXRecomp build

> Colony Wars: Red Sun uses PSXRecomp and recomp-ui to generate and compile a native build from the user's USA PlayStation disc and BIOS. Its title kit includes configuration, symbol seeds and a movie-centering hook. The author reports Windows setup and headless-start checks and play testing on a private build.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/alexbeavs-ps1-ports/colony-wars-red-sun-recomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/alexbeavs-ps1-ports/colony-wars-red-sun-recomp/blob/8e48605680d41f0e6de5721421c5d8caf65bd329/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/colony-wars-red-sun-recomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/colony-wars-red-sun-recomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/colony-wars-red-sun-recomp-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** The user's SLUS-00866 disc image and SCPH-1001 USA BIOS are required.
- **Prerequisites:** Linux and macOS need CMake, Ninja, Python 3 and a C/C++ compiler.
- **Limits:** Linux and macOS setup and gameplay still await author verification.
- **License:** Project-owned files use GPL-3.0-only.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/alexbeavs-ps1-ports/colony-wars-red-sun-recomp/blob/8e48605680d41f0e6de5721421c5d8caf65bd329/README.md>

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