ICO

PC, Android, iOS and macOS port of the ICO (PS2) decompilation (nathanialf/ico): Windows, Linux, Steam Deck, Android, iPhone via LiveContainer and Apple-silicon Mac (contributed). Contains no game data.

This is ICO (Sony Computer Entertainment, 2001) made to run as a normal program on a Windows or Linux PC, the Steam Deck, 64-bit ARM Linux handhelds, Android phones and tablets, iPhones and Apple-silicon Macs. It runs the game's own code, so it plays, sounds and feels like the PlayStation 2 game, from the European, Japanese, Korean, North American or Asian disc, or from the August 2001 preview disc or the June 2001 magazine demo. There are extras, such as a sharper picture, widescreen and smoother motion. The sharper picture, widescreen and the other picture extras stay off until you turn them on, and the frame rate is not held to the PS2's unless you choose Original. The mouse camera starts on.

What you need Your own disc image of ICO: the European release (SCES-50760), the Japanese release (SCPS-11003), the Korean release (SCPS-56001), the North American release (SCUS-97113), the Asian release (SCPS-55001), the August 2001 preview disc or the June 2001 magazine demo (SCUS-97158). The number is printed on the disc and on the case (the preview disc has none). A disc image is one file that holds the whole disc. It ends in .iso, .chd or .bin (a .bin usually comes with a .cue file, which also works). The Japanese, North American and preview discs are CDs, so their images are most often a .bin and a .cue. The magazine demo is a big image, because the magazine disc holds other games too: the program needs the whole image once, at the first start. Other editions do not work. Which disc to pick. Something to play on: a 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 PC, or a Linux PC, with an up-to-date graphics driver (any recent NVIDIA, AMD or Intel graphics card works); a Steam Deck; a 64-bit ARM Linux handheld or board with an up-to-date graphics driver; or a 64-bit Android phone or tablet with Android 8 or later and Vulkan 1.0 graphics, usually one from 2017 or newer. More about Android; or an iPhone (iOS 15 or newer) or an Apple-silicon Mac (macOS 12 or newer); see Supported platforms. About 1 GB of free space for the game's files, which the first start copies out of the disc image.

Legal and licence The code in this repository is MIT licensed (LICENSE). The licence covers the code written for this project and grants no rights in the game, its data or anything else owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment or Team Ico. docs/LEGAL.md says what may and may not be in the repository, and docs/THIRD_PARTY.md lists the third-party code the program uses. The game code began as a fork of the ICO project, which rebuilds the game's source code from the PS2 release.