Case study

Bunghole in One: statically recompiling a Win32 mini-golf game

Bunghole in One statically recompiles the 1998 Windows mini-golf game's EXE and DLL into C with pcrecomp, generating the lifted code from a user's own disc. A 32-bit host binds the modules and provides software DirectDraw, while a conformance harness tracks boot and play milestones.

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: 3
Last commit: 2026-09-30
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a demo observed; no download method found.
Checked: 2026-11-08

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A user-owned Bunghole in One CD or image, Windows 10/11, Python 3.10+, Visual Studio 2022 C++ tools and pcrecomp.
Testing evidence: Alpha stage; the author reports 17 of 18 conformance milestones on current pcrecomp, with the first putt stalled.
License: MIT license for repository code.

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BibTeX

@misc{bunghole-in-one-case,
  title = {{Bunghole in One: statically recompiling a Win32 mini-golf game}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/sp00nznet/bunghole}},
  url = {https://github.com/sp00nznet/bunghole},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/bunghole-in-one-case/}}
}

Plain text

Bunghole in One: statically recompiling a Win32 mini-golf game. https://github.com/sp00nznet/bunghole (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/bunghole-in-one-case/

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README.md GitHub · sp00nznet/bunghole · Revision 5c128a8
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