Case study

God of War II: static recompilation for Windows

This statically recompiles God of War II for the PlayStation 2, NTSC-U SCUS-97481 v1.01, into a Windows executable with PS2Recomp. The function map has 6,607 functions, 76 Sony library stubs, and 240 hardware-register accesses. The current build reaches the first playable area, Rhodes, with sound, cutscenes at 30 fps, and memory-card save and load. The menu is reported at 60 fps, and combat in that area at about 44 to 59 fps.

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: 33
Last commit: 2026-10-28
Language: C++
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

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

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Requirements & limits

Windows and Visual Studio 2022. scripts/extract-iso.ps1 checks the ELF SHA-1 against NOTES.md. Then run scripts/recompile.ps1 and scripts/run.ps1 -Config RelWithDebInfo.
License: GPLv3, the same license the README names for PS2Recomp.

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BibTeX

@misc{gow2-native,
  title = {{God of War II: static recompilation for Windows}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/cxldsakeb/GoW2-nativo-PS2}},
  url = {https://github.com/cxldsakeb/GoW2-nativo-PS2},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/gow2-native/}}
}

Plain text

God of War II: static recompilation for Windows. https://github.com/cxldsakeb/GoW2-nativo-PS2 (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/gow2-native/

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README.md GitHub · cxldsakeb/GoW2-nativo-PS2 · Revision 5145dad