Case study

Blast Corps: Recompiled — a native port of Blast Corps

Blast Corps: Recompiled uses N64: Recompiled to statically recompile Blast Corps into a native port, with RT64 for rendering. It accepts only the US 1.1 Nintendo 64 ROM.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 68
Last commit: 2026-10-29
Language: C
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a download method observed; no demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

A GPU with Direct3D 12.0 shader model 6, Vulkan 1.2, or Metal argument buffers tier 2. The player supplies the US 1.1 ROM. Formats other than .z64 are converted when the ROM is the correct one.
Prebuilt binaries are on the repository Releases page. Source build steps are in BUILDING.md.
The README does not name a license.

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BibTeX

@misc{blastcorps-recomp-case,
  title = {{Blast Corps: Recompiled — a native port of Blast Corps}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/SlaveOfIDO/blastcorps-recomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/SlaveOfIDO/blastcorps-recomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/blastcorps-recomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Blast Corps: Recompiled — a native port of Blast Corps. https://github.com/SlaveOfIDO/blastcorps-recomp (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/blastcorps-recomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · SlaveOfIDO/blastcorps-recomp · Revision b551045