Know Your Role Recomp v0.2.0

The first public release of Know Your Role Recomp: a native Windows port of the 2000 PlayStation wrestling game (NTSC-U, SLUS-01234), built on your PC from your own disc. This release contains no game data.

Highlights

• Native code, no emulator, no BIOS: the game's code is recompiled with RecompOne and compiled on your PC.
• One-click setup: pick your .cue; the disc is checked, the game is built (about three minutes) and starts.
• Every part of the game recompiled and reached in testing: all exhibition match types, Season, the create modes, Rankings, Belt Records, Options.
• 1-4 players with an automatic multitap; controllers through SDL with per-player cards, live tests and mapping in the launcher; the game's own vibration.
• Memory card saves kept as files, carried over when you update.
• Clear error messages instead of crashes (graphics driver, read-only folder, missing Visual C++ runtime with an Install it button).

Download

File	Size	SHA-256
KnowYourRole-win-x64.zip	122 MB (127,898,385 bytes)	5771e291f13c621537301922bb63fbb8e3b9645ec30a7c3bc8359fe978da4e2a
SHA256SUMS.txt	91 bytes	the line above

To verify, run this in a command prompt in the download folder and compare the result with SHA256SUMS.txt:

certutil -hashfile KnowYourRole-win-x64.zip SHA256

What you need

• Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit, with a graphics driver that supports OpenGL 3.3 or newer
• 4 GB of memory; 1.5 GB of free disk space for setup (the built game takes about 250 MB)
• Your own NTSC-U disc image (serial SLUS-01234) as .cue + .bin. No BIOS file.
• The Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable (x64); most PCs have it, and setup offers an Install it button if not.

Quick start

1. Extract the zip to a folder you can write to, for example C:\Games\KnowYourRole (not Program Files, not a OneDrive folder).
2. Double-click KnowYourRole.exe.
3. Pick your disc image's .cue file (the .bin next to it is found automatically). The game is built and starts. Later, KnowYourRole.exe opens the launcher: press PLAY.

Controllers

• Tested on hardware: DualSense over USB (menus and a match).
• Xbox, DualShock 4, Switch Pro, Joy-Con, 8BitDo and generic pads: supported through SDL, tested with simulated controllers.
• Bluetooth: supported, not yet hardware-tested.
• Keyboard for players 1 and 2.

Known issues

• Loading a saved Season with CONTINUE was not confirmed in the latest tests (saving works).
• A graphics driver with only OpenGL 2.1 starts the game and draws the menus; a match was not tested on one.
• Bluetooth controllers are supported but not yet tested on real hardware.
• The game has no analog stick support of its own; the left stick works as the d-pad.

What was tested, and how: docs/STATUS.md · Everything in this release: CHANGELOG.md

This is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by the game's publishers or developers or by Sony Interactive Entertainment.