Jak and Daxter
The Precursor Legacy535 source files in the treeSCUS-97124SCES-50361NTSC-U · PALOne seamless world with no loading screens, and Precursor orbs in every corner of it.
The four cores
The Jak games on PC, faithful to the disc.
See the roadmapJak II
Haven City847 source files in the treeSCUS-97265SCES-51608NTSC-U · PALHaven City, dark eco, and a much sharper edge than the first game.
Jak 3
The Wasteland1040 source files in the treeSCUS-97330SCUS-97516SCES-52460NTSC-U · PALThe Wasteland, light eco, and the end of the trilogy.
Jak X
Combat Racing780 source files in the treeSCUS-97429NTSC-UCombat racing across the trilogy's world, which OpenGOAL never ported.
How it works
Your disc in, your game out.
The launcher installs the runtime, imports each game from your own disc and keeps everything up to date. Phaethon ships no game data.
Install the launcher
Run the installer. A short setup wizard asks where the runtime and your games should live, and can install the runtime right away.
Import your own disc
Point a game at your disc image. The launcher checks the disc's serial, then extracts, decompiles and compiles the game.
Play
Every game starts retail-faithful. The enhancements are individual toggles in the game's options and in the launcher.
system requirements · windows 10 or 11 · a gpu with vulkan 1.3 · it would probably run on a potato
News
All the news
Latest from the work.
A new look for the launcher
Nearly every screen of the launcher has been redrawn since 0.2.1, with a new setup, a bell, screenshots, friends and clans, and reports that reach me. It's in testing now and arrives with the next launcher release.
Launcher 0.2.1 is here, and the beta opens
The launcher's first proper release is out, full of small things that make it nicer to live with. It also opens a beta, where a few invited players try each night's newest build and get online play first.
Bringing Jak X online, the direct way
Jak X's online menu has been a dead end on Phaethon since the first build. Its racing code starts as the disc has it, the layer under it is new, and on October 22nd two machines raced over LAN for the first time.
Built to the frame.
Phaethon is written from the games themselves. Each system is decompiled, compared with a PlayStation 2 capture and landed only when the two agree, frame for frame. The details are the work.