# God of War — Native Port: a PS2 static recompilation with native hardware services

> God of War — Native Port translates the NTSC-U PlayStation 2 game's executable into C++ with PS2Recomp and supplies native replacements for graphics, sound, input, memory cards, and other PS2 services. The repository provides configurations, overrides, code generators, build instructions, and zone tests for its Windows port.

- 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/Waffle565/God-Of-War-Native-Port>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Waffle565/God-Of-War-Native-Port/blob/514f89186f1926edaf4807696a59557679c7d517/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/god-of-war-native-port-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/god-of-war-native-port-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/god-of-war-native-port-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- A legally owned God of War USA disc and its SCUS_973.99 executable.
- Windows 10 or 11 x64, OpenGL 4.3 GPU, MSVC build tools, Python 3.11, and the repository's runtime branch.
- The build pipeline remains manual; the Nintendo Switch build is planned.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Waffle565/God-Of-War-Native-Port/blob/514f89186f1926edaf4807696a59557679c7d517/README.md>

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