Case study

Dragon Ball Z: Super Saiya Densetsu — recompiling the SNES game in Rust

This Rust project plays Dragon Ball Z: Super Saiya Densetsu for the SNES in Classic, recompiled, and remastered modes. Classic runs the 65816 code in a vendored jgenesis core and checks Rust routines in lockstep against 28 reference replays. crates/ssd-recomp writes one Rust function per entry address and register width. cargo run --release -p xtask -- recompile generates that code from the local ROM. The checksum-fixed Klepto v1.02 image is 1,048,576 bytes, CRC-32 A8CF4F2A, SHA-1 6b612f6d99f2efc26f26fb22290bc732ada0ea6f. Japanese Rev 1 is CRC-32 ADE7B968, SHA-1 6b5725765ddde078350ec61221ddb9bb252066a7.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C1 partial scope or analysis entry

Stars: 23
Last commit: 2026-10-29
Language: Rust
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Demo screenshot from the project's public documentation

Observed: Download and demo observed; the case covers part of the target software.
Scope: Partial
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Windows 10 or 11 x64 with Vulkan or DirectX 12, or Android 8 or later on 64-bit ARM. The ROM is one of the images in the table above.
License: GPL-3.0. The vendored SNES core is jgenesis, also GPL-3.0.

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BibTeX

@misc{dbz-ssd-rust,
  title = {{Dragon Ball Z: Super Saiya Densetsu — recompiling the SNES game in Rust}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/JackRushante/DBZ-Super-Saiya-Densetsu-Rust}},
  url = {https://github.com/JackRushante/DBZ-Super-Saiya-Densetsu-Rust},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/dbz-ssd-rust/}}
}

Plain text

Dragon Ball Z: Super Saiya Densetsu — recompiling the SNES game in Rust. https://github.com/JackRushante/DBZ-Super-Saiya-Densetsu-Rust (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/dbz-ssd-rust/

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README.md GitHub · JackRushante/DBZ-Super-Saiya-Densetsu-Rust · Revision ab66c13