# Blackmoor reconstruction project: recovering Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor

> Blackmoor reconstruction project recovers the x86 GAME.EXE of Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor and develops a native ARM64 macOS port. It records function boundaries, assembly recovery and binary findings, and the author reports a source build matching the original executable's SHA-256. The native port remains incomplete and unplayable.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/albovsky/nd-blackmoor-decomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/albovsky/nd-blackmoor-decomp/blob/0a8118ec5744f744b3a916208ced3fe334bfcdff/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/blackmoor-reconstruction-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/blackmoor-reconstruction-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/blackmoor-reconstruction-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- A local copy of the GOG GAME.EXE is used to generate comparison objects.
- The x86 assembly build uses GNU as 2.43.1.
- The native reconstruction is incomplete and not yet playable.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/albovsky/nd-blackmoor-decomp/blob/0a8118ec5744f744b3a916208ced3fe334bfcdff/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/albovsky/nd-blackmoor-decomp/blob/0a8118ec5744f744b3a916208ced3fe334bfcdff/outputs/blackmoor-decomp/M0-binary-census-report.md>

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