# Angry Birds Decompilation: Lua script recovery

> Angry Birds Decompilation documents recovery of Lua scripts from the PC ports of the Angry Birds games. The README's automatic path runs birdout.py with Python 3, 7-Zip, and a JDK, and the manual path uses OpenSSL, 7-Zip, and unluac. It points readers to their own PC-port files.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/jooapa/Angry_Birds_Decompilation>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/jooapa/Angry_Birds_Decompilation/blob/9a149cb26727b6816ce1e8ce3dd85b16a7e23c69/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/angry-birds-decomp/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/angry-birds-decomp/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/angry-birds-decomp/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Python 3, 7-Zip on PATH, and a JDK. The manual path also uses OpenSSL and unluac.jar.
- **Prerequisites:** The scripts read Lua files from the reader's own Angry Birds PC ports.
- **License:** GitHub's license metadata for this repository is empty.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/jooapa/Angry_Birds_Decompilation/blob/9a149cb26727b6816ce1e8ce3dd85b16a7e23c69/README.md>

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