# Virtua Cop 2: investigating PC game assets

> The Virtua Cop 2 investigation examines the 1997 PC game's asset files with parsers, ImHex patterns and a browser explorer. The explorer displays models and textures from a selected game directory and offers experimental browsing of stage maps in P_STG*.BIN files.

- 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/jevarg/re-virtua-cop-2>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/jevarg/re-virtua-cop-2/blob/7ae9d0fe5472304339475391bb9f29a480187c8d/tools/explorer/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/re-virtua-cop-2-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/re-virtua-cop-2-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/re-virtua-cop-2-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Requires the user's Virtua Cop 2 game files, including its executable.
- **Prerequisites:** Local explorer development uses pnpm.
- **Limits:** Stage-map browsing is experimental, and the project remains in progress.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/jevarg/re-virtua-cop-2/blob/7ae9d0fe5472304339475391bb9f29a480187c8d/tools/explorer/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/jevarg/re-virtua-cop-2/blob/7ae9d0fe5472304339475391bb9f29a480187c8d/README.md>

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