Case study

bully-re: reconstructing the Bully: Scholarship Edition engine

bully-re reimplements the PC engine of Bully: Scholarship Edition from analysis of its executable. The C++ code and technical notes cover RTTI-derived classes, Lua API bindings, action-tree AI and loaders for original game files, with host tests comparing parsed values against the user's copy.

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: 6
Last commit: 2026-11-09
Language: C++
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0

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Evidence

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

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A user-owned copy of Bully: Scholarship Edition for PC is required for runtime use and data tests.
Limits: The author reports 1,077 recreated functions, covering 7.0% of executable code bytes.
License: GPL-3.0 licence.

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BibTeX

@misc{bully-re-case,
  title = {{bully-re: reconstructing the Bully: Scholarship Edition engine}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/LiquidSnake0/bully-re}},
  url = {https://github.com/LiquidSnake0/bully-re},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/bully-re-case/}}
}

Plain text

bully-re: reconstructing the Bully: Scholarship Edition engine. https://github.com/LiquidSnake0/bully-re (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/bully-re-case/

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README.md GitHub · LiquidSnake0/bully-re · Revision ce2d429
docs/avancement.md GitHub · LiquidSnake0/bully-re · Revision ce2d429