OpenGOAL - Outset Island with level boundaries, tasks and progress menu page 

It’s not like naughty dog or any other company is gonna soon anyways we might as well maybe they’ll make a new game finally

This is a dream come true

@@CPTClank1 honestly may as well leave jak 4 to the fan base

I've always wanted a sequel to the first jak game, maybe someone can combine fan levels into one single game

@@samhein321 You mean something closer to the first game, without all the guns and edgy-ness? Me too. Jak 2 is just too different for my tastes.

Loving the revival I’m seeing lately

Its the new Mario Maker, and I couldn't be happier. I love that this beloved game is having new live breathed into it.😀😊

Really hoping to see some challenging custom maps that will take full advantage of Jak 1's entire moveset.

1 year later... 0 levels.

They would've been....thunderstruck!

Holy crap, yesss! That would be incredible! And, make it a finished level, Collectibles, textures, and all!

That's my favorite one

I think technically yes. The cutscene for the Powercell in each location is always the same, and is calculated by some hash function. You just need to keep moving it until it selects the slam dunk one. Due to it's sensitivity even moving the Powercell a minuscule amount will change the hash.

My 3D modelling skills are basically non-existent, so I didn't make any changes to the model, but yeah, it would be possible to do.

I'm not a speedrunner or anything, but I had to test the level a few times, so I've almost started to develop a route lol

@@HatKid you did a boosted though

@@ronaldofortniteI watch speedruns a lot and I can do some of the speedrun tech, but boosteds are the only thing I can do somewhat consistently

@@ronaldofortnite I'm the same as Hat. I'm not a speedrunner by any means but I use speedrunner tricks for easier movement sometimes.

Boosteds are just really fun lol

Yes, I added support for floats in res-lump tags so I could give the launcher a spring-height without having to set it manually. I also did the same for vectors so I could set the movie-pos for each scout fly crate, but I don't think that's strictly necessary for them to work. You can see all the changes I made here. github.com/open-goal/jak-project/commit/3e74ee1c098bc0bb1550dcea0abc3b2e4124d54b

@@HatKid Nice! Will you add the Entity.cpp changes to base OpenGOAL? Others could benefit from it. I remember in one of my custom levels I had a 'launcher', and I could not set its 'spring-height', int32 was not okay for example. So I just changed the default value in the launcher type itself - as a temporary workaround haha.

@@LuminarLight Yes, I can make a pull request for it.

An open world Jak game of that size would be so dope today. I can only imagine the story.

@@MrLethalShots Gol and Maia traveling in time to get their Revenge on Jak and Daxter.

There have been previous efforts to reverse engineer Jak and Daxter: Somebody made a blog post in 2017 (www.codersnotes.com/notes/disassembling-jak/ ) about a small project they worked on called "goaldis", which reverse engineered the game's linker, allowing us to get a full disassembly of all the game's code, but nothing else beyond that. It was more out of curiosity than an actual effort to allow for modding/porting the game to other platforms. OpenGOAL, which allowed for all of this to be possible, didn't start development until August 2020. It built upon goaldis by writing an actual decompiler which eventually gave us the ability to figure out the game's source code and port the game to PC. Once Jak 1 was ready for release around April 2022, with the entire source code available for us to mess around with, people soon began working on mods. Long story short, to answer your question: It's mostly just that we haven't had anybody take a really deep dive into the game's internals until goaldis and OpenGOAL came along. Modding the original PS2 game to such a degree was simply not feasible before and having the full source code available is the only reason things like this became possible.

Yes. Orbs are called "money" and scout flies are called "buzzer".

OpenGOAL still hasn't covered Jak 3. Some people speculate that, by the end of this year, it could be done. Some mods have already popped up for Jak 2, so it's probably only a matter of time that we get some custom levels like this one there.

It would make zero sense to skip the first game. Naughty Dog themselves built upon the previous Jak game when making a new one.

You can’t skip over the first game, it is literally the dna to the rest of the series, even Jak X is based on the modified game engine that originated with this game.

im guessing you played jak II first

Someone must’ve missed The Lost Frontier

I came back to it when the remastered came out and it was way more fun than I remembered. Even though I liked it as a kid I preferred the sequels more.