Case study

coastline: reconstructing Top Gear Rally across N64 and PC releases

coastline reconstructs Top Gear Rally source across three Nintendo 64 releases and two Windows renderer libraries. It builds N64 cartridge images using user-provided ROM assets, compares reconstructed routines with original code and provides an SDL 3 game build.

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

Stars: 2
Last commit: 2026-11-09
Language: C
License (GitHub): MIT

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A matching Top Gear Rally cartridge image is required for N64 assets and ROM builds.
Prerequisites: N64 builds use libdragon GCC; Windows library builds use 32-bit mingw-w64 GCC.
Prerequisites: SDL builds use SDL 3 and the documented dependencies.
License: MIT license.

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BibTeX

@misc{coastline-top-gear-rally-case,
  title = {{coastline: reconstructing Top Gear Rally across N64 and PC releases}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Tatsh/coastline}},
  url = {https://github.com/Tatsh/coastline},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/coastline-top-gear-rally-case/}}
}

Plain text

coastline: reconstructing Top Gear Rally across N64 and PC releases. https://github.com/Tatsh/coastline (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/coastline-top-gear-rally-case/

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README.md GitHub · Tatsh/coastline · Revision bb57c49
PROGRESS.md GitHub · Tatsh/coastline · Revision bb57c49