Case study

War of the Monsters: statically recompiling the PS2 game for PC

This statically recompiles War of the Monsters for the PlayStation 2 to Windows, and has a Linux x86-64 path. The Windows program is wotm.exe. PS2Recomp translates the executable, including VU0, into C++ that is generated locally. A decompilation build ends with build/SCUS_971.97.rom: OK. The Linux target needs AVX2, BMI2, POPCNT, and LZCNT. Mods go in mods next to wotm.exe.

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: 29
Last commit: 2026-11-10
Language: C++
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

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

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Requirements & limits

Windows: Git, Python 3, CMake 3.24 or newer, and MSVC 14.40 or newer. Put an NTSC-U ISO in ISO/ and run tools\setup_runtime.ps1. Linux uses tools/setup_runtime.sh.
License: GPL-3.0 for the code in this repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{wotm-recomp,
  title = {{War of the Monsters: statically recompiling the PS2 game for PC}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/yanm1103/War_of_the_Monsters_recomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/yanm1103/War_of_the_Monsters_recomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/wotm-recomp/}}
}

Plain text

War of the Monsters: statically recompiling the PS2 game for PC. https://github.com/yanm1103/War_of_the_Monsters_recomp (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/wotm-recomp/

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README.md GitHub · yanm1103/War_of_the_Monsters_recomp · Revision 55204ad