# Shadow of Rome Recompiled

> Shadow of Rome Recompiled is a native Windows port of the European PS2 Shadow of Rome, with up to 8x resolution, 60 FPS, widescreen and its own launcher.

Web page: https://emulationking.com/sony/ps2/games/shadowofrome/ports/shadowofromerecompiled/
Page updated: 2026-11-12

- Developer: Korvonordico
- Port type: Recompilation (A tool translated the game's original machine code into C automatically, which was then built as a native PC program.)
- Game: [Shadow of Rome](https://emulationking.com/sony/ps2/games/shadowofrome/index.md)
- AI use: Mostly AI-built. The project says: “Claude wrote most of the code, the scripts and the patches, and ran the tests.”
- Source code: /opt/buildhome/repo/content/sony/ps2/games/shadowofrome/ports/shadowofromerecompiled/index.md
- Runs on: Windows

What you need: Your own copy of the European PS2 disc (`SLES-52950`), or of its Russian translation, as an `.iso` file. Windows 10 or 11 64-bit with DirectX 12, DirectX 11 or Vulkan.

Shadow of Rome Recompiled is an unofficial PC version of Capcom's 2005 PS2 action game Shadow of Rome, made by translating the game's own code into a Windows program with PS2Recomp. The graphics card draws the game: up to eight times the PS2's resolution, 60 frames a second, in 4:3, 16:9 or 21:9, with DirectX 12, DirectX 11 or Vulkan. No game files are included; it reads the player's own European disc image, or its Russian translation.

A launcher with Play, Options, Graphics, Controls and Mods pages starts the game and holds every setting: a window or full screen, music and effect volumes, smoothed audio when the game slows down, field of view, sharpening, FXAA and a mouse with every key rebindable. ReShade comes with it, off at first, and the European disc's five languages are picked on the game's first screen.

It is still being tested. Chapter 1 has been played to the end, but chapters 2, 3 and 4 haven't been played by hand yet, and there may be graphics glitches or crashes, so the developer suggests saving often. The developer says Claude wrote most of the code under their direction.

## How to set it up

1. Download the zip and extract it into a folder of its own.
2. Run `ShadowOfRome.exe`. Windows may say the program isn't known: choose More info, then Run anyway.
3. Choose Play. The first time, pick your `.iso`: the launcher reads the files it needs into the `disco` folder and remembers the image, so keep it where it is.
4. Change the picture, sound and keys in the launcher's Options, Graphics and Controls pages. On the game's first screen, pick its language.

## Latest builds

Download these from the web page: https://emulationking.com/sony/ps2/games/shadowofrome/ports/shadowofromerecompiled/#download

- for Windows: 2.9.2 (2026-11-12)