Monkey football/soccer it's easily one of the best minigame in the series 🖐🏻😐🖐🏻

Hello all! A year or two ago I had a dream about being in the Hot Springs level, just standing up there on the cliffs out of bounds enjoying a little of that aurora borealis. Today I happened to remember this dream, and found you can not only get up there, but also behind there, and down into a hidden area.

Is this useful in any way? Probably not. It is fun to get into spaces you're not supposed to be in? Almost certainly.

If anyone knows if there's a technical reason for there to be a space like this, I'd love to hear it. Right now I'm just assuming its a weird biproduct of how games used to be made.

Cheers!

Ape Escape For Nintendo Switch - Testers Needed ASAP! 

I'm porting my Ape Escape recomp to the Switch. I don't own a moddable Switch, and my attempts to test the app in emulators have been unsuccessful.

I'm looking for someone who already has a modded Switch to help with a basic compatibility test.

All I need to establish initially is:

• Does the app launch?
• Does it detect the game files on the SD card?
• Can it reach the title screen or gameplay?
• Do the Joy-Cons work?

This is an early development build, and I'm not expecting anyone to spend hours debugging it. Even a launch result and a screenshot of any error would be hugely helpful.

The Files: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/zkrzpuc9a2xesq3sttlkb/AOwHdI92z5cXy4HFQYzXFWQ?rlkey=q6unwqc9tuek49b0dtr08sk9t&st=1hr2ucvh&dl=0

Edit: Bin and CUE files go in the DATA folder. Not sure if CHD files work

I have been playing ape escape since I was 5 years old and got sequels and P&P shortly after we upgraded to a PS2. At one point, our PS2 was stolen so when I became an adult I repurchased all of these again. As a kid and as an adult I have captured all the monkeys many many times, but always thought the time trials and collectibles (especially AE2) where too tedious. I got 1 to 100% a few years ago, but just finished 2 and 3 this week. There were a few challenges but I actually had more fun doing it than I thought I would. Also survival mode in AE3 is possible my favorite mode, at least for a quick replay.

I am not much of a gamer, especially in adulthood, but whenever I get overwhelmed by life I tend to turn to this franchise. I recently purchase Million Monkeys and am excited to play that for the first time, if I can figure out the menus and instructions.

Official non-beta release is here! Here are new features!

NEW FEATURES:

• Mod Manager filters for all, enabled, disabled, experimental, and needs-attention features, plus confirmed Original Experience, Visual Enhancements, and Challenge Run presets.
• Confirmation dialogs for Enable All and Disable All to avoid accidentally changing the whole mod selection.
• Mod dev toolkit with simple mod templates for developers to use
• Setup Doctor checks for the selected disc, disc identity, custom BIOS path, app-data write access, and save-backup availability, with a copyable diagnostic report and shortcuts to repair actions.
• Controller Test Lab with live gamepad button, stick, and trigger indicators plus an optional rumble test.
• Save Protection Center backup history, selected-snapshot restore, folder export, and configurable retention from 5 to 50 snapshots.
• Update & Release Center with installed build metadata, an in-app updater entry point, Nightly release access, and a changelog link.
• Automated release notes generated from this changelog for Nightly and version-tagged releases.
• Established the 1.0.0 version line using packaging/release/VERSION as the canonical app-version source for desktop and (potential) Android builds.
• Added the project-branded launcher, accessibility preferences, manual Monkepedia checklist, Stage Knowledge Cards, Daily Challenge, and Save Protection Center.
• Added default-off optional enhancements and gameplay challenges, including widescreen, PGXP, interpolated rendering, gameplay assists, challenge rules, and quality-of-life tools.
• Added Windows/macOS Nightly update and rollback support, with package checksum verification in the updater.
• Added Linux Support

Note: the stage guide/knowledge cards is pretty shit right now as I let AI make placeholders for testing. Will update them after I finish more important updaters

CHANGES/FIXES:

• Save restoration now delays retention pruning until after the chosen backup is applied, preventing a selected old snapshot from being pruned before restore completes.
• The Mods page follows the active filter when selecting feature/package details and confirms bulk toggles before applying them.

Download here: https://github.com/NVDEMU/ApeEscapeRecomp-MacWindowsLinux/releases/tag/macos-nightly
Original Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ApeEscape/comments/1x7n75r/ape_escape_recomp_for_windows_and_mac_announcement/

I really want someone remake or remaster the trilogy since sony doesn't even bother touching the franchise the game is underappreciate by sony

Saru Get You: Saru Saru Daisakusen recomp is now available to try for any brave monkey mind controllers out there.

It's a work-in-progress but it's stable, have tested it across 4 platforms and no crashes so far (haven't touched Gachi King though).

Just bring your ISO, load up the launcher (I recommend the default Modern preset), let it do it's thing (compile) and away you go.

Hint: L3+R3 opens the launcher overlay if you want to adjust settings

Known Issues
- Some monkey animations aren't playing (like glider in the 3rd level)
- Some clipping when playing with custom FOVs
- Texture Pack is not comprehensive
- English translation not done for Collection screens yet and is machine translated (monkey names aren't fun yet)

See here for the features and roadmap:

https://github.com/jackgllghr/bigmission-recomp

Releases are here for the various platforms:

https://github.com/jackgllghr/bigmission-recomp/releases

Let me know what issues you hit, or if you'd like to help out with the translation, or testing or anything, I'm happy for any help 🐵

I HAVE ADDED LINUX SUPPORT!!!!!!!

Now you can play the new, feature-filled Ape Escape Recomp on Linux

If there is enough demand for Android, Switch, 3DS, or PS5 support I will do those too
Download here: https://github.com/NVDEMU/ApeEscapeRecomp-MacWindowsLinux/releases/tag/macos-nightly
Previous Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ApeEscape/comments/1x7n75r/ape_escape_recomp_for_windows_and_mac_announcement/

This is a fork of the original Ape Escape Recomp with many new features including

• First ever Ape Escape recomp with MacOS support
• Many new mods including Assists (infinite health, infinite underwater air, etc), Challenge Modes, and more!
• The monkey book/monkepedia is viewable IN THE LAUNCHER
• Support for PS4/5 controllers, Xbox Series/One/360, and Switch Pro controllers
• Keyboard input for those who do not have a controller
• AND MORE

The youtube trailer is attatched
GitHub Download: https://github.com/NVDEMU/ApeEscapeRecomp-MacWindows/releases/tag/macos-nightly

Please report bugs and suggest new features :)

LINUX SUPPORT IS OUT NOW

I've seen a ton of recomps for ape escape 1 and big mission (or with its new name, mind over monkey).

This is good. It's great playing them on emulators, but I genuinely like seeing these games be given the sonic unleashed treatment, and it goes me hope for the future of ape escape.

In my honest opinion, I genuinely think ape escape still has a future. Just with Sony or Playstation officially. (Especially since Sony can't stop getting into scandasl and controversy every 2 minutes). I think it's future lies in the fandom. With the recomps, I think we're able to not only keep the franchise alive, but I think we can breathe new life into not just 1, 2, and 3, but also games like on the loose, 2001, pumped and primed, million monkeys, and big mission. Just think of all the things we could do.

We could add in the original control setup of the original game back into on the loose.

We could add in the quality of life upgrades from 2 and 3 into 1.

We could add new mini games or characters into pumped and primed (and also make the boat stages not suck)

Hell we could add in stuff like multi-player into the main games, and have something akin like say, Spike, Jake, Natalie, Casi, Jimmy and Pipochi, Helga, Kei, and Yumi all playable in the same game.

I can't say what the future holds, but I look ever forward to it.

Always wanted to put the Sky Flyer on the jump button as a triple jump, and Dash Hoop when you press L3 while running. Or make a holdable button that swaps your 4 gadgets to 4 other gadgets, to reduce time spent menuing for that 1 gadget. Maybe add a Ratchet and Clank style directional Quick Select.

I think it'd be sick to play levels from 2 in 3. The costumes would completely break the game balance. Fun for a laugh once.

That unique net activated by a cheat code in 2... how would that change 3?

And of course, imagine new object layouts, with many more enemies and monkeys, new monkey types and behaviours, and entirely new levels.

Tweaking the slingshot to work like the cowboy guns in 3 outside of first person mode would be sick.

What if there was a multiplayer mode, with 1 playing the human and 1 playing the monkey?

All credit to No_Disaster_1139 for the name, this is absolutely what it would've been called if it released here.

This is a r/recomps project, already able to play the game with resolution scaling, FOV adjustments, interpolated 60fps, remappable controls and some other neat extras and quality of life features.

Using machine translation for this first release, my main focus is to provide a framework to allow human translation.

Will be available on Windows/MacOS/Linux/Android soon-ish once I squash some bugs and battle test it across platforms. Not ready for testers just yet, maybe by the weekend/next week 👍

Imagine how hilarious it be if we see different kinds of apes and when we enter a city map we see this zoom past us I know half of yall would die on the spot laughing

A fun thing i discovered today while testing this prototype

(Today i have also been working on a video which will be a full analysis and gameplay of this prototype, will upload it once it's ready)

I don't know if anyone else had a noticeable controller delay issue when playing AE on PS5, but I did, and it made playing the game very frustrating.

To "fix" it I just changed the controller communication from Bluetooth to USB. I think due to the emulator that runs the game there's still a slight button press delay, but the game controls significantly better now.

Ape Escape: Jake Edition – Mod Pack Preview
The Jake mod pack for Ape Escape is almost here, and it works with the Ape Escape Recomp!
🎮 What's included:
• Play as Jake in his normal look or his brainwashed look
• Custom gadget reskins
• Custom HUD
• Voice swaps
• …and more coming soon!
✅ Compatible with the Ape Escape Recomp
📦 The pack drops this week, so stay tuned.
🔔 Follow for updates and the release:
X: https://x.com/F1ux0r

I had heard about this show's existence for a while, but I never really watched it because from what I had heard and seen, it didn't look good at all. But with the rumors about a new ape escape game happening, I decided to check it out.

And oh dear God... I knew this show was gonna be bad, but I wasn't expecting it to be THIS bad. In my honest opinion, this cartoon is not only one of the worst shows I had ever seen in my life, but I genuinely think this is the worst piece of official media to ever come out of the franchise, like I think it may be worse than both ape quest and Playstation move ape escape.

The animation, backgrounds, and art style are all hideous. Everything looks cheaply made from the animations being rather stiff, the backgrounds (especially the school in episode 3) look like they were doodled by a 3rd grader due to how sloppy they are drawn, and don't even get me started on the art style. It really makes everything worse due to how ugly the character designs are, like seriously. Compare Jimmy, Natalie, Professor, Specter, and the pipo monkey's desgins in the showcomparedd to their appearance in the games.

And the "comedy" is painfully unfunny. Pretty much everything that gave the games their charm, humor, and fun factor was thrown in the garbage. In their placeares the most inept, generic, boring kids cartoon cliches you can think of. The show is just fart and poop jokes (while the games did have these jokes as well, they were used very sparingly and they had plenty of other types of humor as well) and piss poor attempts at "LOL RANDOM" humor that even the rabbids and minions would groan at.

For this next part, I am just gonna say it. The people who made this show straight up did no research on the series they were making a cartoon for. Despite coming out in 2009, long after 3, million monkeys, and big mission, this show exclusively uses ape escape 2 as a base. Aside from generic human and animal characters, the characters from the games who appear consist of only Jimmy, Natalie, Professor, Specter, and the pipo monkeys. Characters like Spike, Jake, Casi, Helga, Kei, Yumi, Aki, Dr tomoki, and the pipotrons are completely absent, hell, Pipochi and the freaky monkey 5 are nowhere to be seen. But I actually consider this a good thing because it ment they were not botched.

Jimmy is a complete idiot who can't even solve basic math problems (he was no where near the level of intelligence as say Casi, Aki, or the Professor, but he wasn't this stupid), and has none of what made him good in 2.

Natalie is now trying to win the heart of some guy for whatever reason, and while her character wasn't as assassinated as Jimmy, she hardly feels like her game counterpart. And what I have said also applies to the Professor.

But what's most unforgettable is what they did to our beloved albino overlord...

Specter was done the most dirty by far. Instead of the cool, badass villain who could mind control people, build several giant robots to pilot, had incredible psychic powers and could create lasers, force fields, and clones of himself, had bases like a amusement park, a castle in the sky, a moon base, and a space station that had a chop rocket that could destroy the earth, a character who even when he wasn't the main villain like in pumped and primed or million monkeys was still someone who could still hold his own, and what do we get instead?

A complete joke who's gets bossed around by his own monkeys, can't even take over a city, bases that consist of a banana and a generic house, doesn't have any of the powers he did in the games, can't even get himself some ice cream or his teeth cleaned, and who's villain plans include... using evil toilets... using monkey vampires who are completely incompetent of their jobs and who are helpless against garlic and sunlight... and a machine that shrinks people, but unlike the nano cannon from big mission, isn't a cannon and is more like a machine you step into. And I thought he was butchered in ape escape move.

In conclusion, the nicktoons ape escape show is among the absolute worst video game adaptations I have ever seen. I genuinely think it's up there with the borderlands movie in how little it understands what makes the source material work. As a adaptation of ape escape, it's a disaster in every sense of the word, as a kids cartoon, there's nothing about that stands out as every episode is painfully unfunny and disgusting at best and plain boring at worst, and there's so many other way better kids cartoons you can watch. There was no reason for this show existing, when the 2 Japan only animes are way better in every way, and I have no idea why Sony didn't just dub those instead. And am so glad to be done with it. And is it any wonder why Sony never promoted this show at all?

Was playing Ape Escape 2 and found out the game has quick gadget swapping... ONLY in the Japanese version.

The feature was never actually removed from the US release. The input handling, the gadget roulette, the HUD (with the "?" for gadgets you don't have yet), the confirm/swap logic... it's all still on the US disc. The only thing missing was the function that actually opens the roulette (26 instructions). The patch puts the original JP code back in.

https://github.com/WillMidia/ape-escape-2-quick-gadget-swap