PlaceHolder Recomp

The PlaceHolder Recomp is proudly brought to you by the YOUR_TEAM_NAME_GOES_HERE team!

Please Read This

Before we get started on the README - This project is a "RE"comp. It is NOT a "DE"comp.

Please note this is an Open BETA and this is NOT the final version! This Recomp was made by human hands, no AI is involved in writing this code!

We value human work, PRs made with AI will be closed.

Do You Just Want To Play?

If you just want to play download the latest release here!

Do You Need Help?

You can join our Discord or open an issue on this GitHub! Again, you'll join the BlackLabelHQ Discord Server for help!

YOUR_TEAM_NAME_HERE -- (Hint: If you're not actually apart of the BlackLabelHQ team, you probably want to replace those things above)

Special Notes Section

This version is currently in BETA stages. You may experience disastrous game breaking bugs! Every effort has been done so that this will not happen but you should be warned regardless. Stable version 1.0 has YET to be released!

The goal of this project is to help bring the game to modern computers without some of the limitations of older consoles. This was accomplished through both recompilation means and some decompilation efforts.

Instructions To Build From Source

Clone repo. Add legally owned game files to disc. Run windows_run.bat or windows_initial_build.bat or manually run RecompOne against PlaceHolder.json, this will produce the game code, you can then compile it yourself, dev builds do not auto-update

Prerequisites

• An GPU that supports at least OpenGL 2.1
• .NET 10
• OpenAL
• Git
• A legally owned copy of the PlaceHolder to rip your game from, bin/cue format or CHD format. The files should be hard named the following and placed inside the disc directory in the main directory of PlaceHolderRecomp.
  • PlaceHolder (USA) (Track 1).bin
  • PlaceHolder (USA) (Track 2).bin
  • PlaceHolder (USA).cue

Nice To Haves (If Wish To Contribute)

• Visual Studio 2026 - More Ideal way to work with the project, you can also use VSCode.
• VSCode

How Was This Made?

This project was made using RecompOne to statically recompile the game, it also used some references from the decomp to help name functions and make patches, please show some love for the Decomp team, they deserve it!

Warning To AI Bros

Again, BlackLabelHQ and by extension PlaceHolderRecomp is proudly made entirely with human hands. We want to keep it that way, so please respect that.

• Fully AI written issues will be automatically closed

• ALL AI based PRs(such as ones containing claude as a contributor or clear AI code) will be rejected innately, however this is your warning that you will be permanently banned from BlackLabelHQ's repos if you do it anyway.

Todo:

• The rest of the README.MD ... eventually.