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gt-2-pc

A native C++ port of Gran Turismo 2 for Windows PC, PCVR and Quest 3 Standalone VR

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GITHUB · launched Sep 20, 2026 · 28 upvotes (top 29%) · 1 view

Niche: video game source ports · 479 launches, 18 in the last 7 days ▼ -68% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Media & entertainment
  • Dev tools
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • gran-turismo-2
  • vr

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Could you build this?

No Decompiling, reverse engineering, and natively porting a classic PlayStation game to modern C++ with OpenVR/OpenXR and Quest rendering is an immense systems and graphics engineering feat.

What it would actually take: Requires binary disassembly of the original Gran Turismo 2 MIPS assembly code, static recompilation or clean-room recreation of the game physics and simulation engine in modern C++, and writing custom rendering backends (DirectX/Vulkan) integrated with OpenXR for 6DOF VR tracking. Demands elite assembly reverse engineering, console emulator internals knowledge, and low-level VR graphics pipeline expertise.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 1682 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #484 of 1683 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 323 days after the earliest competitor.

  • GT3-revisited · github · 2026-10-17 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.72
  • muguet · github · 2026-10-10 · 591 upvotes · similarity 0.66
  • LibertyRecomp · github · 2026-10-11 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • reGRANDIV · github · 2026-10-11 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • destiny-2-vr · github · 2026-09-09 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • crisis-zone-vr · github · 2026-10-15 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • ForzaInfinity · github · 2026-10-13 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • pgr2-recomp · github · 2026-10-17 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.59

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