swbf2-browser-reconstruction
Rebuild Star Wars Battlefront II (2017) maps in the browser from your own installed copy: extraction, decoding and a three.js runtime. No game content included.
Get picks like this daily. Today's launch numbers, the top launches, AI and tech news, and a daily opportunity pick, straight to your inbox.
Want to reach these readers? Sponsor an issue.
GITHUB · launched Oct 16, 2026 · 28 upvotes (top 44%) · 0 views
Niche: video game source ports · 479 launches, 18 in the last 7 days ▼ -68% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- battlefront
- battlefront-2
- frostbite
- game-preservation
- gltf
- modding
- +5 more
Visit website ↗ Source listing ↗
More like this: all 479 launches in video game source ports →
Could you build this?
No Reconstructing Frostbite engine levels in a browser requires deep reverse engineering of EA's proprietary game formats, compression algorithms, and custom 3D shader rendering.
What it would actually take: The tool requires reverse engineering proprietary EA Frostbite archive files (CAS/CAT), decompressing custom chunk formats (e.g., Oodle), and parsing binary mesh and terrain data structures. It then requires a high-performance WebAssembly extraction pipeline and custom Three.js/WebGL shaders to reconstruct the game's complex lighting and material systems in-browser.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 215 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #99 of 216 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 237 days after the earliest competitor.
- SWROTS-PC · github · 2026-09-29 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- gears-of-war-2-pc-port · github · 2026-10-14 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- StarWarsTrilogyNative · github · 2026-11-06 · 75 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- spiderman-2002-pc · github · 2026-11-05 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- gears-of-war-3-recomp · github · 2026-10-22 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- SpaceAnimalsRecomp · github · 2026-11-10 · 150 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- geometry-wars-retro-evolved-2-recompiled · github · 2026-10-11 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- gears2-nx · github · 2026-10-22 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.41
The niche, labels, vibe code rating and competitor comparison on this page are analysis by Nicheloom. If you use them, please credit nicheloom.com. How you may use our data.