Case study

Adventure Island II: a static recompilation of the NES game

Adventure Island II is statically recompiled from its NES ROM into a generated C catalog of fixed bank and program-counter identities for a native Windows frontend. The runtime includes NES CPU bus, PPU, APU, DMA, controls and MMC3B mapper behavior, validates a user-supplied USA ROM by SHA-256, and stops on unknown execution identities.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 4
Last commit: 2026-11-09
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: 2026-11-08

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Supply the original Adventure Island II (USA).nes ROM with the documented SHA-256 hash.
Prerequisites: Building requires 64-bit Windows 10 or later, Visual Studio 2022 C++ tools and CMake 3.20 or newer.
Limits: The separate static-core certification gate remains incomplete.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{adventure-island-ii-nes-static-recomp-case,
  title = {{Adventure Island II: a static recompilation of the NES game}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Junior-Jones/Adventure-Island-II-NES-Static-Recomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/Junior-Jones/Adventure-Island-II-NES-Static-Recomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/adventure-island-ii-nes-static-recomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Adventure Island II: a static recompilation of the NES game. https://github.com/Junior-Jones/Adventure-Island-II-NES-Static-Recomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/adventure-island-ii-nes-static-recomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · Junior-Jones/Adventure-Island-II-NES-Static-Recomp · Revision 8e5fa91
docs/STATIC-CORE-STATUS.md GitHub · Junior-Jones/Adventure-Island-II-NES-Static-Recomp · Revision 8e5fa91