Comment by BrtByte
If PS2Recomp ends up giving us even a fraction of what OpenGOAL unlocked for Jak and Daxter, it could be a huge deal for the rest of the PS2 catalog
If PS2Recomp ends up giving us even a fraction of what OpenGOAL unlocked for Jak and Daxter, it could be a huge deal for the rest of the PS2 catalog
Absolutely. OpenGOAL really just set a new standard for what games preservation looks like.
It's incredible seeing the community taking a 25 year old game, modernising it with accessibility features and quality of life, and even creating entirely new expansions to the game [1].
Like beyond just keeping the game preserved on modern platforms, it's keeping the spirit of the game and the community attached to it alive as well in a way that it can continue to evolve and grow.
I can only pray that PS2Recomp makes this a fraction as accessible to other games from this era.
Oh and a similar project but on the nintendo side of the world is Ship of Harkinian by HarbourMasters [2] and the Zelda RE Team [3]. Zelda RET have half the Zelda games and are well on their way decompiling and reverse engineering the other half. And HarbourMasters have taken these decomps and used them as the groundwork for building comprehensive ports and remasters of these original games to a degree that fans could only dream that first party remasters and ports would attempt.
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIrSHz4qw3Q
2. https://www.shipofharkinian.com/
3. https://zelda.deco.mp/