CLUSTER DESKTOP-GAME-LAUNCHER · 3 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-08-11
Fan-game launchers for classic remakes
This cluster consists of desktop launchers that manage fan-made remakes or rewrites of classic PlayStation 2 and PC games, handling installation from disc images, version management, and game launch. The dated entry history is too thin to read a shape from—it predates the index or its members are undated. Among traction leaders, rerac-launcher leads with 2 stars, while the other two have none.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 2 unlabelled
Operator · 2 hobby · 1 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 3 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01rerac-launcher3★22 dayslivehobbyDesktop launcher that installs, updates, and starts a fan-made rewrite of Ratchet & Clank using the player's own PS2 disc image.
- 02randcrw-launcher0★25 days—hobbyDesktop launcher for a fan-made remake of a PlayStation 2 game that installs game data from disc images, manages versions, and launches the game.
- 03keeperfx-tux-launcher0★1 molivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop launcher that finds an existing Dungeon Keeper install, copies needed files, and configures the KeeperFX remake for play.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.