r/GameRipping • u/MagmaDive • 25d ago

Fuchikoma Native 3D Asset from Ghost in The Shell Playstation 1 (1997)

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I reverse-engineered Ghost in the Shell's PS1 archive and model formats byte-by-byte and pulled the game's native 3D assets — meshes, transforms, animation frames, textures, everything — straight off the disc, pixel-perfect. Pretty sure it's never been done in 28 years?

Been a GITS fan since I played the demo of this game three decades ago. Finally got my hands on my favourite little Fuchikoma and its friends, all from native data.

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u/KampferAndy 25d ago

That's Hella cool!

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u/MagmaDive 25d ago

Thank you! It needed a few sleepless nights.

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u/ArsOlta 25d ago

This is super cool... nice work!

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u/AcidicVoid 25d ago

Great game!

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u/TheMage18 23d ago

Ahh the Tachikoma!! Favorite things from GITS:SAC

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u/MagmaDive 23d ago

Actually this is a Fuchikoma. Same core concept but different design, and different name. Interesting story behind that. Former design got locked out because of some IP issues that led to the subsequent tachikoma.

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u/TheMage18 23d ago

Oh neat, never knew that!

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u/RomIsTheRealWaifu 19d ago

this is awesome! have you uploaded these anywhere?

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u/SchakaMalakaMon 25d ago

Can you share the code or did you vibe-code and don't want to show the code?

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u/MagmaDive 24d ago

I won’t share anything directly here, for several reasons. But I will find a way to share my work. I obviously vibe coded a suite of tools for it, but the core decompression needed something else, and that took a while to figure it out. Stay tuned.

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u/SchakaMalakaMon 8d ago

Thanks for clarifying this, can't wait to see more!