Matthew Stanley

🎃 Early alphas: MediEvil II Recompiled and Jersey Devil Recompiled are available now.

SyncScribe is a pay-as-you-go AI subtitle generator.

🚧 Co-op alpha: Playtest 22 is available for Windows and Linux.

🚧 Update - October 2, 2026.

Much of my time to date has been spent focused on the not so fun part, building a faithful foundation.

For a long time now, nearly everything I've written here has been about being faithful.

Astra released about this time about one week ago.

https://retroportingtoolkit.com For the past approximately 8 months, I have been hard at work exploring the possibilities of AI in the recompilation scene.

💡 This article is my own writing.

Weeks back, two separate PCs across the entire North American continent played two player across Twisted Metal 4, fully recompiled using PSXRecomp.

To date, many of my articles have been about getting games to boot within the confines of their ecosystem.

💡 This article heavily discusses AI.

My long term goal is to plant the seed for all legacy systems to have static recompilers – in hopes to blossom various types of ports and extensibility.

MegamanXSNESRecomp snesrecomp Megaman X for the Super NES has just gotten it's first fully playable build, making SNESRecomp's second fully playable game, with Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past remaining in active development towards MVP.

💡 This article discusses heavy use of AI, but the article itself was not written using AI.

0:00 /0:46 1× As I've become more experienced in the ecosystem that is recompilations and achieved my milestones of my other recompilation projects finally hitting their milestone of their first commercial title – I wanted to experiment with a more obscure

snesrecomp Super Mario World Recomp 0:00 /0:50 1× The SNES: A Different Class of Problem SNESRecomp as a project has been much harder than NESRecomp, and my other recomp projects, in ways that are not immediately visible from the outside.

0:00 /0:55 1× SegaGenesisRecomp Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Recomp Sonic the Hedgehog 2 now has a playable PC port build, marking SegaGenesisRecomp's important second-title milestone.

0:00 /2:00 1× This article is a follow up to my first ever article and attempt at a static recompiler ecosystem which can be found here When I first wrote about PSXRecomp, it was very much a tech demo that aimed to help me get into the ecosystem that is s…

0:00 /1:06 1× nesrecomp Super Mario Bros Duck Hunt Dr Mario Legend of Zelda Metroid Faxanadu Yoshi Megaman 3 Gumshoe The Significance of Ten Titles The NES is a small system compared to later consoles, but commercial NES games are not all built the same w…

nesrecomp LegendOfZeldaNESRecomp FaxanaduRecomp SuperMarioBrosNESRecomp DrMarioNESRecomp When I originally wrote about Faxanadu running through a static recompiler, it was effectively a proof of concept.

segagenesisrecomp: https://github.com/mstan/segagenesisrecomp Sonic runner: https://github.com/mstan/SonicTheHedgehogRecom EDIT March 26th, 2026 Addendum Second Pass Improvements After the initial write-up a few days , I took another pass at the project a…

In my previous article, I Built a PS1 Static Recompiler With No Prior Experience and Claude Code, I documented experimenting with static recompilation using the PlayStation game Tomba!