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Yakumo

Static recompilation of a PSP game into a native executable. Vulkan and SDL3. Bring your own copy of the game.

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GITHUB · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 14 upvotes (top 55%) · 0 views

Niche: game decompilation and recompilation tools · 196 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▼ -38% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Media & entertainment
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • allegrex
  • cpp20
  • mips
  • playstation-portable
  • psp
  • recompilation
  • +3 more

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Could you build this?

No Statically recompiling a proprietary PSP binary into native code with Vulkan and SDL3 demands deep compiler engineering and console hardware reverse-engineering expertise.

What it would actually take: Building this requires a static binary translator that parses MIPS/Allegrex machine code, handles delay slots and VFPU vector instructions, and maps PSP OS kernel syscalls to native implementations. Additionally, the proprietary PSP Graphics Engine (GE) command pipeline must be completely reimplemented using modern Vulkan graphics and compute shaders, requiring expert-level systems programming and hardware-level emulation knowledge.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 1151 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #635 of 1152 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 311 days after the earliest competitor.

  • PortPS5 · github · 2026-09-27 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • psp-web-recomp · github · 2026-10-07 · 220 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • xc2-recomp · github · 2026-11-02 · 156 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • bayo3-recomp · github · 2026-11-07 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • xcx-recomp · github · 2026-10-31 · 197 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • ps2-web-recomp · github · 2026-10-08 · 229 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • dkb-pc-recomp · github · 2026-11-01 · 211 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • rpcs3-PS5 · github · 2026-10-07 · 43 upvotes · similarity 0.57

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