Dayz of the Samurai

Way of the Samurai 2 came out on the PS2 in 2004. It drops you into a town full of factions and lets you decide whose side you're on, or nobody's. Nothing else plays quite like it, and it's been stuck on the PS2 ever since.

Dayz of the Samurai rebuilds it in Godot 4.7. It doesn't emulate the PS2 or wrap the old code. It reads the game's own data from your disc and rebuilds the towns, people, fights and story as Godot scenes. Every file format and behaviour comes from my decompilation of the original.

What works

• The towns. All 87 maps by day and night, with the doors, exits, fog, sky and lights. The collision grid is the game's own.
• The people. Every townsperson runs its own scripted task, ported from the game's task interpreter. They wander, watch, react when you bump them, and talk. Conversations branch the way the game wrote them.
• The fighting. Swords, combos, guards, parries and guard breaks all come from the game's own weapon database. Enemies use its fight AI.
• The story. The original event scripts run on a port of the game's script VM, with their camera work, subtitles and choices.
• The sound. Footsteps, clashes and the music are streamed from the disc.

Where it's going

The goal is all four Way of the Samurai games in one engine, as one connected experience. The engine already keeps the game-specific readers apart from the core so the other titles can plug in.

The disc

You need your own copy of the game. Nothing from it ships with this project: on first run it reads the files off your disc image and converts them locally.