faligame/Parasite-Eve-2-HD-Remaster

A native PC version of Parasite Eve II, rebuilt from the original PlayStation game and remastered in high definition.

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Parasite Eve II HD Remaster brings Square's 2000 survival horror classic to modern PCs.

This is not an emulator. The original PlayStation game code has been statically recompiled into a native Windows executable, which lets us enhance the game from the inside: sharper 3D, stable geometry, high resolution pre-rendered backgrounds and a fully remastered texture pack.

This repository is the public home of the project: news, screenshots and progress. It does not contain source code, builds or any game data.

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Backgrounds	Characters
Menus and HUD	Geometry (PGXP)

Both menus are drawn with the game's own panels, frames, font and cursor, so they feel like part of the original game.

Remaster options Opens from Options in the main menu

Save states SELECT + R1 on the controller

Optional 16:9 mode: the scene fills the whole screen while the HUD, text boxes and menus stay exactly where they were.

HD dialogue lettering

Japanese menus and item names in HD

• Static recompilation of the original game into a native Windows executable. No emulator required.
• High internal resolution rendering for sharp 3D models, up to 4K.
• PGXP geometry precision: no more wobbling polygons or warping textures, and precise polygon culling so distant characters no longer lose triangles.
• 60 FPS gameplay (experimental): the game logic still runs at its original 30 FPS, but the renderer builds an intermediate frame with every 3D polygon halfway between two game frames. Characters and enemies move at 60 FPS with no added input lag; text, HUD, videos and camera cuts are untouched.
• FXAA antialiasing on the game image, leaving text, menus and videos crisp.
• Widescreen 16:9 (optional): the 4:3 scene is enlarged to fill the screen, trimming a little at the top and bottom, and every camera has its own framing so heads and feet stay in view. The HUD, text boxes, the pause menu and item examination keep their original 4:3 place and size, and 60 FPS keeps working. The 4:3 mode is untouched.
• A single launcher: just open pe2.exe. The language you chose decides which engine runs, so the options menu always matches the game you are playing.

• Opens from Options in the main menu, before you start playing.
• Original mode: the game exactly as it was on PlayStation, with a choice of sharp or smooth texture and video filtering. HD mode: every enhancement enabled.
• Internal resolution (Original, HD, Full HD, 4K), HD textures, HD videos, FXAA, scanlines, 60 FPS, fullscreen and window size.
• Faster loads in HD mode: doors and camera changes load in a fraction of the time, with music and cutscenes still in sync, and the "Now Loading" screens take about 3 seconds instead of 8.
• Widescreen on or off.
• When a change needs a restart, the game saves it and restarts by itself.
• Drawn in six languages: the menu translates itself on the fly while you pick the language. Its lettering is generated from the Teko, Rajdhani, Barlow and Noto Sans JP typefaces, with the PlayStation button glyphs in color, and every action has its own sound.

• Left stick: modern controls. Aya walks in the direction you push, relative to the camera, as in the Resident Evil remake. Turns are instant, pushing the stick all the way makes her run, and when the camera cuts the direction is kept until you move the stick, so she never spins round on a scene change.
• D-pad: classic tank controls, untouched. Both work at the same time, with no setting to choose.
• Also in combat: with the weapon ready, the stick moves Aya instantly; release it and the game's own auto-aim turns her back to the locked target, ready to shoot. Starting to walk, run or lower the weapon no longer waits for the long animation blends.

Inspired by the quality-of-life boosters Square Enix added to its modern re-releases of classics like FINAL FANTASY VII, they are toggled at any time with the controller, and every active booster stays on screen as an icon in the top-right corner.

Speed x4 Hold L2 (or Tab on the keyboard)

Infinite HP SELECT + ✕

Infinite MP SELECT + □

Also available: SELECT + △ keeps your BP at the maximum and SELECT + ○ keeps EXP at 6000 to upgrade Aya.

• Save states menu with 12 slots, a thumbnail and the date of each save (SELECT + R1).
• Single-disc experience: both discs play as one game. When the story moves on to disc 2, or you continue a disc 2 save from the title screen, the disc is swapped instantly and the disc change screen never appears.
• Exit in the pause menu closes the game.

• English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Japanese, selected from the Remaster options menu. The game restarts by itself in the chosen language.
• Every language uses the official text of its own PlayStation release: dialogues with each language's own lettering, item and weapon sheets, memory card messages and menu labels. The few labels the original localizations left in English were translated as well, including the weapon sheet tags (RATE, RANGE…) and the Parasite Energy names, with short labels where the original box has little room.
• Japanese: a second engine built on the Japanese release, with its native menus, item sheets and dialogues. Choosing Japanese switches engine by itself; both engines share the save card, the HD pack and every enhancement.
• HD textures per language: any image of the pack can have a version for each language, so the title screen is shown translated, and every region shows the same publisher screen before the intro.
• Nothing on the discs is modified: each language is a small pack generated from that region's release and applied in memory while the game runs.
• On-screen messages (saves, speed, window mode) are shown in a window with the game's own style.

• HD pre-rendered backgrounds at 1440×1080, including the backgrounds streamed in strips during in-game scenes.
• Text boxes, door transitions, screen shakes and the battle start flash stay in HD. The original game froze the screen at 320×240 in all of them; the remaster keeps the full resolution.
• HD foreground layers generated from the HD backgrounds, so objects in front of the characters match the new art.
• Remastered textures for characters, enemies, weapons, HUD and menus.
• HD dialogue lettering in all six languages: every letter of the dialogue boxes and the speaker name tags is redrawn in high resolution, per language, and keeps the game's own colours (white, green selection, red and blue text). Latin alphabets use the CMU Sans Serif typeface; Japanese uses Noto Sans JP, slanted like the original.
• Japanese text in HD: each kanji was identified by reading every sentence in context and checked against the shape of the original letter; the few that could not be confirmed keep a clean upscale, so no wrong character ever reaches the screen. The Japanese menu, shop and item font is remastered too.
• High resolution cinematics: every FMV frame is recognized as the game decodes it and replaced by its high resolution version (for example, upscaled with AI), so the videos keep the game's own audio and timing and can never go out of sync. The original videos are still available from the options menu.
• Compatible with DuckStation texture packs: existing texpage-* and vram-write-* replacements work as-is.
• Made for texture artists: replacements are named after the game's own files (bs_N.png backgrounds, pe2img_N.png images), the pack reloads while the game is running (save a PNG and see it in-game instantly), and a color gallery of every image on the disc plus an identification tool for DuckStation dumps keep track of what is done, in progress and missing.

Asset	Remastered	Total	Progress
Pre-rendered backgrounds	1,328	1,759
Game images (characters, HUD, menus, foregrounds)	864	1,453

2026-09-17 — Widescreen, HD text in every language and a single launcher

• Widescreen 16:9, as an option in the Remaster menu. The 4:3 scene is enlarged to fill the screen and each camera has its own framing, so characters keep their heads and feet in view. The HUD, text boxes, the pause menu, item examination and effects stay in their original 4:3 place and size, and the 60 FPS mode keeps working. With the option off, the game looks exactly as before.
• HD lettering finished in Spanish, French, German and Italian, and now Japanese: every character used in the dialogues was identified by reading each sentence in context and then checked against the shape of the original letter. Letters that could not be confirmed keep a clean upscale instead of risking a wrong kanji. The Japanese speaker tags and the menu, shop and item font are in HD as well.
• Faster "Now Loading": those screens now take about 3 seconds instead of 8.
• Translations completed: weapon sheet tags (RATE, RANGE…), Parasite Energy names and a few menu labels that were still in English, shortened where the original box is small. The help text of Exit now says it closes the game.
• One launcher: only pe2.exe needs to be opened; the chosen language decides which engine runs, and the Japanese engine now lives in its own engine folder.
• HD textures per language: the pack can hold a version of any image for each language, used for the translated title screen, and every region now shows the same publisher screen before the intro.

2026-09-16 — HD dialogue lettering

• The letters of the dialogue boxes and the speaker name tags are now drawn in high resolution. Each room ships its own small letter atlas; the remaster recognizes every letter as the game draws it and replaces it with a sharp version drawn from the CMU Sans Serif typeface, fitted to the exact size and position of the original so the text keeps its layout. The game's own palettes are applied live, so white, green, red and blue text and the name tags all keep their colours.
• Each language has its own set, with its accents and punctuation (¡ ¿ ñ é ß ä ö ü « » …), and only the set of the language you are playing is used.
• English is finished; Spanish, French, German and Italian are generated and in testing. Japanese comes next.

2026-09-16 — Modern controls, Japanese engine and a new Remaster menu

• Modern controls: the left stick moves Aya relative to the camera, as in the Resident Evil remake, with instant turns and running when pushed all the way; on a camera cut the direction is kept until you move the stick. The D-pad keeps the classic tank controls, and both work at once. It also works in combat: the stick moves Aya with the weapon ready and, when released, the game's auto-aim brings her back onto the target. The animation blends when starting to walk, run or lower the weapon were shortened so she responds right away.
• Japanese engine: the Japanese release now runs as a second engine with its native menus, item sheets and dialogues, and every enhancement of the project (HD pack, cinematics, 60 FPS, single disc, boosters). Choosing Japanese in the options menu switches engine automatically; both share one folder and one save card.
• Remaster menu redone: language first, translated on the fly while you pick it, new lettering generated from the Teko, Rajdhani, Barlow and Noto Sans JP typefaces, PlayStation button glyphs, plain frames, and sounds for opening, moving, choosing and saving. The save states menu and the on-screen messages follow the chosen language.

2026-09-16 — Six languages in one game

• The project moved to the US release as its base, and every other language is imported on top of it: Spanish, French, German, Italian and Japanese, chosen from the Remaster options menu.
• Each language brings the official text of its own PlayStation release: the dialogues, with each language's own lettering, the item and weapon sheets, the memory card messages and the menu labels. Where the original localizations kept some labels in English, they were translated too. A handful of rooms whose dialogue logic differs between regions use the US logic with the localized text, so nothing is left untranslated.
• Japanese dialogues did not fit on the US disc (kanji lettering is two to three times larger), so the letter images are delivered straight into video memory as the game loads each room. Japanese menus and item sheets use a different text engine; a dedicated build on the Japanese executable has started.
• Under the hood: the translation engine now scans each loaded module once instead of once per text, which removes the stutter on loading screens; and loading a save game with a translated language, which used to freeze on "Now loading", is fixed.

2026-09-15 — Remaster options menu, game boosters, save states and a single disc

• Remaster options menu inside the game, opened from Options in the main menu and drawn with the game's own style: Original or HD mode, resolution up to 4K, HD textures and videos, FXAA, scanlines, 60 FPS and window options. The game restarts by itself to apply changes that need it.
• Game boosters inspired by Square Enix's re-releases such as FINAL FANTASY VII: hold L2 for speed x4, and toggle infinite HP, infinite MP, max BP and EXP with SELECT and the face buttons. Active boosters are shown as icons.
• Save states menu redesigned with the game's look: 12 slots with a thumbnail and date.
• Single-disc experience: the runtime swaps discs by itself before the game asks for it, so the disc change screen is gone, also when continuing a disc 2 save or loading a save state.
• High resolution cinematics: FMVs are replaced frame by frame by their high resolution versions while the game keeps playing its own audio, so they stay perfectly in sync.
• HD everywhere: FXAA antialiasing, the black and white battle start flash and boss screen shakes now keep the full resolution, and in-game cutscenes stay in sync with faster door and camera loads.

2026-09-14 — 60 FPS, precise culling, Spanish menus and tools

• 60 FPS gameplay (experimental). Forcing the game to run at 60 doubled its speed, so instead the renderer records every polygon of each game frame and composes an intermediate frame with the 3D geometry halfway between two frames. It matches polygons by texture coordinates, keeps text and UI still, and switches itself off on camera cuts, loads, frozen screens and videos. No extra input latency.
• Precise culling: distant characters lost triangles because the PlayStation decides visibility on integer coordinates. The GTE now keeps sub-pixel precision through the game's own vertex reloads, and every culling decision is made with it.
• Spanish menus and item sheets: the last English strings (menu labels, ammo and armor sheets) are translated in memory and on the fly when read from the disc, so the game files stay untouched.
• For artists: the HD pack is now split into final, in progress and missing, files use the disc's own names, and the game reloads any PNG the moment it is saved.

Is it available for download? Not yet. The project is in active development. Watch this repository to be notified of the first release.

Will I need the original game? Yes. You will need your own legal copy of Parasite Eve II for PlayStation. No game data will ever be distributed.

Is this an emulator? No. The game code runs natively on your PC after being recompiled from the original PlayStation executable.

Is the source code available? Not at this time.

This project stands on the shoulders of these amazing projects and people:

Libraries: SDL3, xxHash (Yann Collet), stb_image (Sean Barrett), libchdr and zlib.

HD Remaster pack and project: faligame.

This is a non-commercial fan project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Square Enix. Parasite Eve, Parasite Eve II and FINAL FANTASY VII are trademarks of Square Enix Co., Ltd. All game content belongs to its respective owners. This repository does not contain, and will never distribute, game files, BIOS files or copyrighted game assets.