Case study

Hell Night: Dark Messiah Recompiled: a PlayStation PC build

Hell Night: Dark Messiah Recompiled builds a native PC version of the European PlayStation game Hellnight by generating game code locally with PSXRecomp. It supplies disc identity settings, a setup launcher and patches for video positioning, tiled filtering and supersampling; the author reports early gameplay and save/load checks on Windows.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C1 partial scope or analysis entry

Stars: 7
Last commit: 2026-10-26
Language: Python

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Demo video thumbnail from the project's public documentation

Observed: Download and demo observed; the case covers part of the target software.
Scope: Partial
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Requires the user's Hellnight Europe SLES-01562 disc as a supported CUE/BIN dump.
Prerequisites: Linux and macOS source builds require CMake, Ninja, Python 3 and a C/C++ compiler.
Testing evidence: The author reports early Windows x64 tests; full playthrough and Linux/macOS packages remain untested.
License: The PSXRecomp framework is PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0; the recomp-ui launcher is MIT licensed.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{hellnight-recompiled-case,
  title = {{Hell Night: Dark Messiah Recompiled: a PlayStation PC build}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/goodshepherd23/Hellnight-Recompiled}},
  url = {https://github.com/goodshepherd23/Hellnight-Recompiled},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/hellnight-recompiled-case/}}
}

Plain text

Hell Night: Dark Messiah Recompiled: a PlayStation PC build. https://github.com/goodshepherd23/Hellnight-Recompiled (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/hellnight-recompiled-case/

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README.md GitHub · goodshepherd23/Hellnight-Recompiled · Revision 910251a