Case study

BombermanRecomp: statically recompiling Super Bomberman for Windows

BombermanRecomp statically recompiles the North American SNES release of Super Bomberman into a native Windows program. A pinned snesrecomp engine generates C from a hash-checked user ROM; the project adds an interactive Win32 host with video, audio and SRAM persistence plus a deterministic headless host. Its changelog reports battle gameplay in a 3,000-frame test.

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

Stars: 14
Last commit: 2026-08-26
Language: C

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

Prerequisites: A user-owned North American Super Bomberman ROM matching the documented size and hashes.
Prerequisites: Python 3 and a Rust toolchain for generation; Visual Studio 2022 with the Desktop C++ workload for the Windows host.
License: No licence file in the repository; the bundled snesrecomp engine uses PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0.

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BibTeX

@misc{bomberman-recomp-case,
  title = {{BombermanRecomp: statically recompiling Super Bomberman for Windows}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/elliotttate/BombermanRecomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/elliotttate/BombermanRecomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/bomberman-recomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

BombermanRecomp: statically recompiling Super Bomberman for Windows. https://github.com/elliotttate/BombermanRecomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/bomberman-recomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · elliotttate/BombermanRecomp · Revision 5610659
CHANGELOG.md GitHub · elliotttate/BombermanRecomp · Revision 5610659