Case study

Age of Empires II: matching PC and PlayStation 2 decompilation

Age of Empires II Decompilation reconstructs C++ for The Conquerors 1.0c and Age of Kings 2.0a on PC, plus PAL and Japanese PlayStation 2 editions of Age of Kings. Its generated Ninja build and objdiff comparisons track functions matched against user-supplied original binaries.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06

Stars: 6
Last commit: 2026-11-05
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Original game files and the licensed compilers for the selected edition are required.
Prerequisites: Python dependencies from requirements.txt and Ninja are required for the documented build.
Limits: Matching is in progress; the author reports that multiple C++ slices and functions have matched.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{age-of-empires-ii-decomp-case,
  title = {{Age of Empires II: matching PC and PlayStation 2 decompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/samuelcaldas/age-of-empires-2-decomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/samuelcaldas/age-of-empires-2-decomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/age-of-empires-ii-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Age of Empires II: matching PC and PlayStation 2 decompilation. https://github.com/samuelcaldas/age-of-empires-2-decomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/age-of-empires-ii-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · samuelcaldas/age-of-empires-2-decomp · Revision 553f323
docs/README.md GitHub · samuelcaldas/age-of-empires-2-decomp · Revision 553f323