Dragon Ball Z: Budokai is one of the most iconic games in Dragon Ball Z history. Launching on the PlayStation 2 in 2002, it marked the beginning of the Dragon Ball Z: Budokai series, which saw a total of three games and paved the way for the separate Budokai: Tenkaichi series.
With a flood of games getting "vibecoded" (yuck) browser versions recently, it was only a matter of time before another classic made its way there—and it has. The original PS2 version of Dragon Ball Z: Budokai is now fully playable in Chrome, Firefox, and on your mobile devices.
Vibecoding is a bit of a dangerous buzzword at the moment. Historically, when players decompiled a game, they came together to decipher its binary code, translate it into C++, and port it to PC. Generative AI is doing much of the legwork, and we're seeing a flurry of these titles. Titles like Halo: Combat Evolved and Need for Speed Underground 2 have received browser versions because of this.
While it's great for overall game preservation, it completely destroys the community element of decompilation, and ultimately, it's AI.
The latest game to receive this treatment is the PS2 classic, Dragon Ball...
