Case study

Battalion Wars 2: a Rust and Bevy engine reconstruction

Battalion Wars 2 is reconstructed as a native Rust and Bevy engine that loads archives, models, terrain, audio and Lua 5.0 mission bytecode from a user-supplied Wii disc image. The project documents PowerPC main.dol analysis used to implement native Lua bindings. The author reports playable campaign and multiplayer maps while listing remaining physics, AI and shader parity work.

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

Stars: 0
Last commit: 2026-11-03
Language: Rust

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-08

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A user-supplied Battalion Wars 2 (USA), RBWE01, .wbfs or .iso image is required.
Prerequisites: Rust 1.95 is specified by Cargo.toml; the viewer uses Bevy.
Limits: Physics, AI and Wii shader parity remain incomplete.
License: MIT license.

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BibTeX

@misc{battalion-wars-2-rust-decomp-case,
  title = {{Battalion Wars 2: a Rust and Bevy engine reconstruction}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/bcain2121/battalion-wars-2-rust-decomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/bcain2121/battalion-wars-2-rust-decomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/battalion-wars-2-rust-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Battalion Wars 2: a Rust and Bevy engine reconstruction. https://github.com/bcain2121/battalion-wars-2-rust-decomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/battalion-wars-2-rust-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · bcain2121/battalion-wars-2-rust-decomp · Revision dd15d03