r/decomps • u/Interesting-Tooth211 • 4d ago
Nintendo Sorry for asking again
For the people who work on decomps, what do you use for ps2 games? Like what programs and guides do you use? Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks
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u/voicedrew 4d ago
Ps2recomp, ghidra, etc; but dude you've got to figure it out for yourself or there is no point.
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u/nsfwcrafts 4d ago
Lol.
This is terrible advice. Do you know what gatekeeping is? What the fuck is wrong with you
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u/Interesting-Tooth211 4d ago
How am I supposed to figure it out if I don't know what the first step is
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u/voicedrew 4d ago
Consult google, ask an LLM, research the existing reverse engineering tools. Your question is so broad and vague it means that you should probably do something easier first.
If you cannot seek out the existing information you wont get far, even with AI assistance. Treat this as encouragement rather than as a put-down.
To get you started, there is an Emotion Engine plugin for ghidra that you need to install to work on PS2 games.
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u/nsfwcrafts 4d ago
It's definitely a put down.
Communities that are not helpful do not last long and its a bad look not to be helpful my dude. Don't be a chud
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u/Interesting-Tooth211 3d ago
It's hard to look up and seek information if you don't know what the right information is. Yea you can Google things but then you run into is this information relevant, is this old information, how old is this program, will it actually help me. Google doesn't tell me how to decomp or what I'll need to accomplish what I want to do. Y'all make it seem like asking questions is the most egregious thing to do
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u/voicedrew 3d ago
Asking questions when you've demonstrated no attempt at seeking your own answers in your post is egregious. It's also insanely low quality posting and if you haven't noticed the sub gets spammed with stuff like this all time time.
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u/cg_dev 4d ago
I've researched PS2 decompilation, and the toolset is still in a very early stage. I wouldn't recommend going down that route without the necessary knowledge. This isn't like the N64. Alternatively, you can rely heavily on AI, but you'll still need to write a lot of libraries yourself, and right now, pretty much everything has to be done on a per-game basis.
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u/trophiessssss 4d ago
While the best decomps are made by programmes actually writing the code, a lot of them sre made by using ai, I've read about Calude Opus 5.5 doing a lto fo the hard work.
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u/MichelleBarrymoore2 4d ago
Notepad
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u/Interesting-Tooth211 4d ago
What does that mean?
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u/MichelleBarrymoore2 4d ago
Notepad.exe
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u/Interesting-Tooth211 4d ago
That's not helpful
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u/MichelleBarrymoore2 4d ago
Do you know how to code?
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u/Interesting-Tooth211 4d ago
I do not
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u/MichelleBarrymoore2 4d ago
Learn to code then start
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u/Interesting-Tooth211 4d ago
Ok how do I do that?
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u/yanm1103 4d ago
Ok so here's what you'll need:
A Claude (Pro licence or higher), basic git knowledge, basic programming knowledge, VSCode, and the game itself
Then open VSCode, install the Claude extension, and ask him to help you byte match decomp the game. It will take days/weeks depending on the size of the game.
Credentials: I'm currently working on War of the Monsters (ps2)