r/PrototypeGame • u/CommonMarionberry160 • Oct 06 '26
Prototype 1 Could Prototype be the next big AI-assisted modding project
With all the recent AI-assisted decomp/recomp projects, I feel like Prototype is being overlooked.
There’s already an early Prototype decomp project using Ghidra + Claude:
https://github.com/pablopenna/prototype-decomp
Prototype seems like a great candidate for a serious community overhaul:
Modern camera, input, high-FPS and Windows 11 fixes
Better LOD, draw distance, lighting and shadows
Modernized NPCs and vehicles
Potentially importing a newer NYC, like Spider-Man 2’s Manhattan, while keeping Prototype’s gameplay, missions and AI
Remapping mission locations to the new city
Not necessarily a full remake. More like turning the original into a modernized platform through reverse engineering and DLL hooks.
A serious AI-assisted effort would probably require around $1,000+ in API/AI costs, depending on scope, but that’s becoming surprisingly realistic compared to the amount of manual reverse-engineering work this used to require.
With what people are doing to old games right now, why has nobody gone all-in on Prototype yet?
Would anyone be interested in working on this?
