Case study

CannonBall: rewriting the OutRun arcade engine in C++

CannonBall rewrites the OutRun arcade game's 68000 and Z80 assembly as a C++ engine. It reads graphics and audio from the user's original ROMs and supports higher frame rates, widescreen output and SDL2-based rendering.

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: 891
Last commit: 2022-01-30
Language: C++

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

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

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Requirements & limits

Requires the original OutRun revision B ROM set.
Builds with a C++11 toolchain, CMake, SDL2 and Boost.
The author maintains the Windows build but not the other platform ports.

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BibTeX

@misc{cannonball-outrun-case,
  title = {{CannonBall: rewriting the OutRun arcade engine in C++}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/djyt/cannonball}},
  url = {https://github.com/djyt/cannonball},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/cannonball-outrun-case/}}
}

Plain text

CannonBall: rewriting the OutRun arcade engine in C++. https://github.com/djyt/cannonball (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/cannonball-outrun-case/

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README.md GitHub · djyt/cannonball · Revision 27493eb