A recompiled version of Pepsiman lets you play the PS1 cult classic natively in your browser at 60 FPS
Press · Notebookcheck · 2026-07-28
Notebookcheck reports on Pepsiman in the browser: the 1999 cult classic recompiled to WebAssembly and running at 60 FPS.
Independent coverage from Notebookcheck, written by Rahim Amir Noorali. This is outside reporting on a community project, distinct from the team's own posts, and it covers an unusual PSXRecomp derivative: a recompilation of Pepsiman that runs natively in the browser.
The article describes how the community project used PSXRecomp to produce WebAssembly instead of a desktop binary, turning the 1999 PlayStation cult classic into a web app running at 60 FPS with widescreen support. The browser packaging brings browser-native extras: saves in the browser, online leaderboards, and PWA installation for offline play. Compatibility is reported as best on Chromium-based browsers, with known issues elsewhere.
As a demonstration of what static recompilation output can compile to, this is the piece to point at. The same pipeline that produces native executables produced a web target, because the result is portable C rather than an emulator dependency.
Related: Pepsiman on PlayStation.