# 3D Pinball — Space Cadet: a Nintendo DS port of the decompilation

> 3dpinball-nds adapts the Space Cadet Pinball decompilation into a Nintendo DS port built with BlocksDS. Its ARM7 and ARM9 source implements the handheld platform layer, while game data comes from the user's Windows release.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/headshot2017/3dpinball-nds>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/headshot2017/3dpinball-nds/blob/2ec56be1a9553e4b0ad6280ce4271bc5c057ee29/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/3dpinball-nds-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/3dpinball-nds-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/3dpinball-nds-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Requires BlocksDS to build and the user's Space Cadet Pinball game data on the SD card.
- **Limits:** Full Tilt! Pinball's CADET.DAT is unsupported; some table lights display incorrectly in DS mode.
- **License:** MIT license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/headshot2017/3dpinball-nds/blob/2ec56be1a9553e4b0ad6280ce4271bc5c057ee29/README.md>

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