VAGRANT STORY GOES NATIVE ON PC, WITH RAY-TRACED SHADOWS AND A LIVE EDITOR
Vagrant Story gets a native PC port with ray-traced lighting
rood-boi is an unofficial native PC port of Vagrant Story for Linux, with Windows builds made from Linux or WSL. It runs the decompiled C from the rood-reverse decompilation compiled for x86-64, with no emulator or MIPS interpreter, and a host layer standing in for the PlayStation's GPU, sound, CD drive, memory cards and pad. On top sits a new renderer: native meshes on Vulkan or OpenGL, hardware ray-traced shadows, path-traced or probe-based global illumination and volumetric haze, while keeping the PS1 look. A live, Unreal-style editor lets you fly a free camera and place lights while the game runs. It's source only, and work is ongoing.
You need: Your own Vagrant Story disc image. No game data is included. Building needs Linux (Ubuntu 24.04 packages listed in the README), and ray tracing needs a capable Vulkan GPU.
How to play Vagrant Story on PC
- Clone the repo and install the packages from the README.
- Extract the game data from your own disc image as described.
- Build and run; open the editor to move the camera and lights.
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