Case study

Ace Combat 3: static recompilation for Windows

This is a native Windows port of Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere. The MIPS code is translated to C ahead of time and linked against rewritten Psy-Q libraries. ac3.exe draws in software. ac3_enhanced.exe adds a Vulkan renderer with higher resolution, 16:9, and a longer draw distance.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 44
Last commit: 2026-10-02
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a download method observed; no demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Both Japanese revision 1 discs, SLPS-02020 and SLPS-02021, as 2352-byte .bin files. Windows x64, Visual Studio 2022, clang 22.1, CMake 3.20 or newer, Ninja, Python 3 as python, the Vulkan SDK, and SDL3 3.4.8.
The README names no license.

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BibTeX

@misc{ace-combat-3-recomp,
  title = {{Ace Combat 3: static recompilation for Windows}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/sal063/Ace-Combat-3-static-recompilation}},
  url = {https://github.com/sal063/Ace-Combat-3-static-recompilation},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/ace-combat-3-recomp/}}
}

Plain text

Ace Combat 3: static recompilation for Windows. https://github.com/sal063/Ace-Combat-3-static-recompilation (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/ace-combat-3-recomp/

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README.md GitHub · sal063/Ace-Combat-3-static-recompilation · Revision 0dfb149