# Dreerally: a Death Rally engine reimplementation

> Dreerally recreates the Windows version of Death Rally as a replacement executable that reads files from an original game copy. Its C source covers game systems and rendering, and accompanying scripts extract or decrypt BPA, BPK, music, and save data.

- 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/enriquesomolinos/DreeRally>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/enriquesomolinos/DreeRally/blob/bb0712748a658d00b0bb9672d78a61f367e53fde/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/dreerally-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/dreerally-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/dreerally-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** An original Windows copy of Death Rally and its listed game files are required.
- **Prerequisites:** Build with Visual Studio 2010–2017 or the Linux Makefile.
- **Limits:** Multiplayer is not implemented.
- **License:** The project describes its code as public domain; the included license file states CC BY-SA 4.0 for repository contents unless otherwise noted.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/enriquesomolinos/DreeRally/blob/bb0712748a658d00b0bb9672d78a61f367e53fde/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/enriquesomolinos/DreeRally/blob/bb0712748a658d00b0bb9672d78a61f367e53fde/LICENSE-CC-BY-4.0.md>

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