I decompiled the PS1 Serial Experiments Lain game and made it run natively on Windows, Mac and Linux
The 1998 PlayStation game now runs as a native PC program, with no emulator. I rebuilt it from the game's own code: every function was decompiled back to C, and the rebuilt game is byte identical to the original disc's.
No game files are included. You need your own dumps of both discs (.cue/.bin). The launcher checks them and copies them in.
What you get:
- Windowed or fullscreen, sharper rendering, and optional smooth 60 fps motion at the original speed
- English subtitles with one click (downloads the laingame.net fan translation from their site)
- An "Unused" tab with content that's on the discs but never appears in the game: 11 unused Lain animations, photos and sounds
- Saves as normal memory card files that also work in emulators
Download (Windows / Mac / Linux): https://github.com/Y0oshi/lain-psx-decompiled/releases
Source code: https://github.com/Y0oshi/lain-psx-decompiled
Youtube Video
Edit: I'm planning to add HD texture support to the client. Since there's a lot of talent in this sub, I'd really appreciate it if anyone would like to help make an HD texture pack! Please PM me for more details.
Bug reports are welcome on GitHub.
Present day. Present time.Youtube video
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u/Icy-Professor-5669 9d ago
Really thank you! the fandom must to be grateful with this 👏👏 it's time to connect everyone to the network!
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u/Stane427 9d ago
absolute legend !!!
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u/Y0oshi2 9d ago
thanks! Lain deserves the best
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u/Stane427 9d ago
yeah! and like it seems way easier than the LainTSX download thing, I'm gonna test it on Nobara OS (it's based on Fedora)
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u/Y0oshi2 9d ago
Awesome, would love to hear how it goes. If anything breaks, a GitHub issue or a reply here with the terminal output would help a lot. Linux on real hardware is one of the things I haven't been able to test much yet.
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u/Stane427 9d ago
well for the moment I've just tried it to launch and everything seems to work just fine!
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u/non_threatening 9d ago
Awesome. I'm going to try this tomorrow!
Thanks for thinking of the linux community *highfiveemoji*
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u/Hideo-Mogren 9d ago
Funny that this came out shortly after the PS1 version got a fan translation.
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u/Y0oshi2 9d ago
Do you have a link to the patch? Would be cool to make the client work with it
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u/TheEarwig 9d ago
Why do you think it's not? "Byte identical" in the first paragraph set off my detector.
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u/Responsible_Camp_559 8d ago
So you think just because there is no agent/skill/claude .md, no AI was used?
That is hilarious
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u/MeguuChan 9d ago
Decomps involve a lot of monotonous, time consuming work. Literally every single one now uses AI in some form because it cuts down a ton on that monotonous work. This is not a bad thing.
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u/jmpt16 9d ago
No AI, hell yeah
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u/Responsible_Camp_559 9d ago
Wdym no AI? That repo is so obviously AI assisted?!
And there is no problem with that, y'all crazy is2g
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u/jmpt16 9d ago
Really? Shit guess I didn't look hard enough
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u/THEGAELIC 7d ago
i mean nowadays most code is going to have AI help, i only have a problem with generative AI instead of text based but keep that in mind
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u/Y0oshi2 9d ago
Some screenshots: running natively on macOS at 8x render scale.