Showcasing ps2modloader, a PS2 toolchain experiment I made in 2022. It's based on ps2sdk and it compiles high level (C++) code to binary patches for existing PS2 games (can therefore run on console, unlike approaches like PCSX2 PINE).

You get access to C++20. No access to STL, but you get an STL-like library ("ETL", normally used in embedded devices).

My framework supports hooking game functions. Calling functions is possible, albeit manually created assembly shims are currently required for some functions/games to account for ABI / calling convention differences between ps2sdk and whatever the particular game uses (even different official SDK versions have differing ABIs, and many developers used patched/different toolchains).

Here's a silly demo I had made to showcase progress to the Sly Modding Discord: