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Project-2099

Unofficial Windows recompilation of Spider-Man: Edge of Time with PC controls, settings, localization, achievements and mod support.

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GITHUB · launched Sep 21, 2026 · 31 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views

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
  • modding
  • pc-port
  • spider-man
  • static-recompilation
  • xbox-360

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Could you build this?

No Static recompilation of a console game (PS3/Xbox 360/Wii) to native PC requires deep reverse engineering, binary disassembly, low-level architecture translation, and graphics API re-implementation.

What it would actually take: Building a native PC recompilation of a console title requires tools like Ghidra/IDA Pro, custom LLVM frontends/backends to translate PowerPC or specialized CPU machine code into x86_64 C/C++, and reimplementing console OS system calls and proprietary graphics APIs in DirectX/Vulkan. The hard parts are handling timing-dependent code, endianness conversions, custom audio/graphics microcode, and debugging desyncs without source code. This demands elite reverse-engineering and systems programming expertise.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 2028 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #494 of 2029 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 324 days after the earliest competitor.

  • ArkWeb · github · 2026-10-02 · 150 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • SM2-Recomp · github · 2026-10-05 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • project-8-plus · github · 2026-10-25 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • Project-RE-Visited-RE3 · github · 2026-10-12 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • sotc-decomp · github · 2026-10-13 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • MojoRecomp · github · 2026-09-28 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • Ace-Combat-5-Static-recompilation · github · 2026-09-15 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • arwing · github · 2026-10-11 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.58

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