r/recomps

Not ready to share this yet because it's still kind of crap and needs a lot of hand tuning for translating the tiles to proper voxelized models. But the potential is there :). Will share more as it improves.

Based on pokemon-gen1-recomp-project

https://github.com/OpokXeno/xenogears-recomp

Important disclaimer for anyone interested: This project is being developed with AI assistance and welcomes AI-assisted contributions.

Hello there! I’d like to present this recompilation I’m working on for the game Xenogears, using the psxrecomp framework for PS1 games!

It’s in a very early stage of development and has some minor graphical glitches, but based on what I’ve tested so far, it’s playable.

The recomp offers some improvements, though they’re still being worked on, and more are planned for the future. For example, in the images you can see the game with 4x supersampling and native 16:9 widescreen (without the culling error that occurs in all the emulators I’ve tried)

Finally had a chance to boot this up and found a few cool nuggets. If you find anything notable, please share!

Has this game been decompiled? I really see a lot of potential in this game. Action RPG style with possible Co-OP and can have QOL improvements and mods. I really would like to see this happen.

Full text:

>Over the past few months, the ReXGlue team has been hard at work developing the SDK and researching how to improve the runtime that wraps around each 360 title. Recently, it's come to our attention that a significant number of projects being released using our toolset are broken and unoriginal slop. I've touched on this topic before, but I want to take this opportunity to make it very clear where I and the project team stand. We need to be real about how programming works today. The AI/LLM tools that exist right now are powerful and can produce pretty good results. That's exciting, and we get it. The issue comes down to a few main things:

>Lack of forward progress. People generating code (and documentation) with LLMs without understanding what they're doing don't move anything forward. It creates chaos and misinformation, not progress.

>Overhype drowns out real work. It takes away from the people actually putting in serious time learning and implementing a proper recompilation / PC port. It diminishes the effort that goes into doing this the right way. I've said it before and I'll say it again: these recompilations don't happen overnight, and that was never the intent of ReXGlue. It was built as a recompilation framework with basic rendering/audio subsystems from Xenia, meant to assist with runtime reverse engineering, not a shortcut to a finished product.

>This isn't about tearing down anyone who utilizes AI/LLMs in a responsible manner. It's about the people clout chasing, looking for fame with little to no effort behind it. That's just the reality of how this goes. If you want to burn tokens and put together a Frankenstein project on your own time, that's fine. But don't make a big show of it online using language that doesn't reflect the actual work you put in. It doesn't just make you look bad, it makes the project look bad. What you do with your own time and money is your business, but don't make it the community's problem. Open discussion about responsible LLM/AI use is healthy, and we encourage it. What we won't tolerate is shameless bragging about low effort work. If you don't know what you're doing yet, that's fixable. There are plenty of resources out there to learn. The energy spent arguing with and about LLMs online could be spent actually learning this material. We will be making some changes to the rules and how the⁠showcase is used over the coming days.
Thanks Tom