# 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.

- 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/LiquidSnake0/bully-re>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/LiquidSnake0/bully-re/blob/ce2d429573b2318d8d8a2dbcb9756742ea4a1f38/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/bully-re-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/bully-re-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/bully-re-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/LiquidSnake0/bully-re/blob/ce2d429573b2318d8d8a2dbcb9756742ea4a1f38/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/LiquidSnake0/bully-re/blob/ce2d429573b2318d8d8a2dbcb9756742ea4a1f38/docs/avancement.md>

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