Case study

Bounce Tales: decompiling the J2ME game

This repository is a decompilation of Rovio's Bounce Tales (2008), a J2ME game that shipped on Nokia Series 40 phones. It aims to reproduce the original behavior. A Jademula layer can run it as a Windows application.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07

Stars: 53
Last commit: 2023-02-07
Language: Java

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

The player supplies a Bounce Tales JAR. BounceComposer in the BounceTools NetBeans project decomposes it.
The phone build uses the Series 40 5th Edition SDK and NetBeans 8.2 with the Mobility plug-in. The Windows build runs bouncewin32.BounceWin32 with a 64-bit JDK.
The README does not name a license.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{bounce-tales-decomp,
  title = {{Bounce Tales: decompiling the J2ME game}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/HelloOO7/BounceTales}},
  url = {https://github.com/HelloOO7/BounceTales},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/bounce-tales-decomp/}}
}

Plain text

Bounce Tales: decompiling the J2ME game. https://github.com/HelloOO7/BounceTales (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/bounce-tales-decomp/

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README.md GitHub · HelloOO7/BounceTales · Revision 572ce41