# Doom64EX: a reverse-engineered recreation of Doom 64

> Doom64EX recreates Doom 64 as a buildable engine with added modding features. Its data generator produces the required WAD and soundfont files from a user-supplied Doom 64 ROM.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/svkaiser/Doom64EX>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/svkaiser/Doom64EX/blob/e6170320a22973fa3aab05f499030bf6778ce602/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/doom64ex-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/doom64ex-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/doom64ex-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A Doom 64 ROM is required to generate doom64.wad and doomsnd.sf2.
- **Prerequisites:** Building requires a C++14 compiler, CMake, SDL2, SDL2_net, zlib and libpng; Linux, Windows and macOS are supported.
- **License:** Licensed under GPL-2.0.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/svkaiser/Doom64EX/blob/e6170320a22973fa3aab05f499030bf6778ce602/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/svkaiser/Doom64EX/blob/e6170320a22973fa3aab05f499030bf6778ce602/COPYING>

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