{
  "added_at": "2026-11-09",
  "category": "reconstruction-cases",
  "class": "game",
  "description_en": "Duke2Reconstructed rebuilds Duke Nukem II's DOS source in C and assembly from disassembly of the original executable. The author reports that an era-appropriate build produces a byte-identical binary after LZEXE compression, while original names and file organization remain approximations.",
  "description_zh": "Duke2Reconstructed 根据 Duke Nukem II 原版可执行文件的反汇编，以 C 和汇编重建 DOS 源码。作者报告，使用当年的工具链构建并经 LZEXE 压缩后可得到逐字节一致的程序；原始命名和文件组织仍属推测。",
  "entry_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/duke2reconstructed-case/",
  "entry_url_zh": "https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/duke2reconstructed-case/",
  "evidence_url": "https://github.com/lethal-guitar/Duke2Reconstructed/blob/980cee990879fa5f9e53706ef63ad25df8e32d2d/README.md",
  "group": "cases",
  "id": "duke2reconstructed-case",
  "json_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/duke2reconstructed-case/record.json",
  "kind": "case-study",
  "markdown_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/duke2reconstructed-case/index.md",
  "markdown_url_zh": "https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/duke2reconstructed-case/index.md",
  "name": "Duke2Reconstructed: matching Duke Nukem II source reconstruction",
  "name_zh": "Duke2Reconstructed：Duke Nukem II 源码匹配重建",
  "reconstruction_method": "matching-decompilation",
  "record_type": "resource",
  "relationship": "independent-reconstruction",
  "requirement_facets": [
    "prerequisites",
    "limits",
    "license"
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "An era-appropriate DOS toolchain is required for the documented build.",
    "Original identifiers and source-file organization cannot be recovered exactly from the executable.",
    "GPL-2.0 license."
  ],
  "requirements_zh": [
    "按文档构建需要相应年代的 DOS 工具链。",
    "原始标识符及源文件组织无法从可执行文件中精确恢复。",
    "采用 GPL-2.0 许可证。"
  ],
  "targets": [
    "game"
  ],
  "url": "https://github.com/lethal-guitar/Duke2Reconstructed",
  "verification": "source-reviewed",
  "verified_at": "2026-11-06"
}