# doukutsu-rs: a Rust reimplementation of the Cave Story engine

> doukutsu-rs reimplements the Cave Story engine in Rust and runs on separately supplied game data. It supports the original freeware release, Cave Story+ and Nintendo Switch data, with additional controls and platform ports.

- 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/doukutsu-rs/doukutsu-rs>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/doukutsu-rs/doukutsu-rs/blob/17d64623538f6048da62ae08eb83fd307adcc045/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/doukutsu-rs-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/doukutsu-rs-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/doukutsu-rs-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Requires supported Cave Story data files, which the repository does not include.
- **Limits:** The Nintendo Switch data path requires an updated release; version 1.0 data is unsupported.
- **License:** MIT license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/doukutsu-rs/doukutsu-rs/blob/17d64623538f6048da62ae08eb83fd307adcc045/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/doukutsu-rs/doukutsu-rs/blob/17d64623538f6048da62ae08eb83fd307adcc045/Cargo.toml>

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