# Dark Souls PS2: a PlayStation 2 port of Dark Souls Remastered

> Dark Souls PS2 ports parts of Dark Souls Remastered to PlayStation 2 with a new C engine and hand-written VU1 programs. Python exporters convert maps, characters, animations, collision, scripts, and menus from the user's PC copy; executable findings document constants and rules used to reproduce behavior. The author describes it as an early prototype covering only the first few areas.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-08
- Original resource: <https://github.com/nekomancer01/DarkSoulsPS2>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/nekomancer01/DarkSoulsPS2/blob/f9c56f0df7ef9ed458114e710124e929c81b5d6f/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/dark-souls-ps2-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/dark-souls-ps2-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/dark-souls-ps2-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A user-owned Steam PC copy of Dark Souls Remastered is required; build 10943698 with English data is the checked version.
- **Prerequisites:** The developer setup requires Linux, ps2dev with gsKit, Python 3.10 or newer, and PCSX2 2.x.
- **Limits:** The prototype remains incomplete as a playable game; real PS2 hardware remains untested.
- **License:** GPL-3.0 license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/nekomancer01/DarkSoulsPS2/blob/f9c56f0df7ef9ed458114e710124e929c81b5d6f/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/nekomancer01/DarkSoulsPS2/blob/f9c56f0df7ef9ed458114e710124e929c81b5d6f/notes/EXE_FINDINGS.md>

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