Case study

Bumpy's Arcade Fantasy: reconstructing a DOS game in C

Bumpy's Arcade Fantasy reconstructs the 1992 DOS game's engine as C source guided by Ghidra analysis. It includes a build target for a faithful executable and a playable target with a host layer, plus Python decoders for PAV, DEC, BUM, VEC, BIN and CAR resources. The original game files are supplied separately by the user.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06

Stars: 2
Last commit: 2026-10-07
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A user-supplied copy of the DOS game and Open Watcom 16-bit DOS toolchain are required for the reconstruction build.
Limits: The faithful BUMPY.EXE target is described as link-only and never run; the separate BUMPYP.EXE target is playable.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{bumpys-arcade-fantasy-decomp-case,
  title = {{Bumpy's Arcade Fantasy: reconstructing a DOS game in C}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/GeReV/bumpy-reverse}},
  url = {https://github.com/GeReV/bumpy-reverse},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/bumpys-arcade-fantasy-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Bumpy's Arcade Fantasy: reconstructing a DOS game in C. https://github.com/GeReV/bumpy-reverse (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/bumpys-arcade-fantasy-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · GeReV/bumpy-reverse · Revision 346d05c
docs/README.md GitHub · GeReV/bumpy-reverse · Revision 346d05c