project-8-plus
A PC recomp of Tony Hawk's Project 8, with HD textures, 60+ fps and mods
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GITHUB · launched Oct 25, 2026 · 15 upvotes (top 75%)
- Media & entertainment
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- recomp
- recompilation
- tony-hawk
- tony-hawks-project-8
Similar launches
See all 2417 similar launches →Could you build this?
No A native PC port of a PS3 game requires decrypting and decompiling game assets and recompiling PowerPC code, plus rebuilding the engine's runtime. This is specialist reverse engineering with legal and technical depth beyond vibe coding.
What it would actually take: It requires PS3 binary analysis and the PowerPC-to-x86 recompilation of game code, along with reimplementing the console's graphics, audio and input APIs (RSX and SPU equivalents). Custom asset pipelines for textures and models are also needed. This takes experienced reverse engineers and emulator or decompilation expertise, often built over months or years.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #1871 of 2418 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 358 days after the earliest competitor.
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