# Nightmare Creatures II: a PlayStation local recompilation kit

> Nightmare Creatures II provides a title-specific psxrecomp setup kit for the USA PlayStation release. A setup wizard accepts the user's disc image and SCPH-1001 BIOS, then generates and compiles the game locally through psxrecomp and recomp-ui. The repository includes game configuration, symbols and setup code.

- 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/nightmare-creatures-ii-recomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/alexbeavs-ps1-ports/nightmare-creatures-ii-recomp/blob/add70c594a04952965b52059a9881ca9d4ca7a79/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/nightmare-creatures-ii-recomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/nightmare-creatures-ii-recomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/nightmare-creatures-ii-recomp-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** The user's own SLUS-01112 disc image and SCPH-1001 USA BIOS dump.
- **Prerequisites:** On Linux and macOS, CMake, Ninja, Python 3 and a C/C++ compiler are required for setup.
- **Testing evidence:** The author reports Windows setup and headless startup checks; Linux and macOS gameplay remain untested.
- **License:** GPL-3.0-only license for project-owned files.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/alexbeavs-ps1-ports/nightmare-creatures-ii-recomp/blob/add70c594a04952965b52059a9881ca9d4ca7a79/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/alexbeavs-ps1-ports/nightmare-creatures-ii-recomp/blob/add70c594a04952965b52059a9881ca9d4ca7a79/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md>

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