Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly

Category: devtools

Tags: emulation, webassembly, webgpu, recompilation, ps2

Score: 8.3/10 (Innovation: 9, Technical: 9, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

PS2 Web Recomp statically recompiles PlayStation 2 games to WebAssembly, allowing titles like Gran Turismo 4 and God of War II to run in the browser via WebGPU. It combines ahead-of-time translation of the Emotion Engine with a runtime for the PS2 OS and hardware, achieving full-speed emulation with impressive technical depth.

Target audience: game preservationists, emulation developers, performance engineers

Repository: https://github.com/snuri00/ps2-web-recomp · C++ · MIT · 1200 stars

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