# Egg of Time: a static-recompilation port of Chrono Trigger DS

> Egg of Time builds a native PC port of Chrono Trigger for Nintendo DS by statically translating its ARM9 code to C. Its pipeline extracts a user-supplied ROM, derives function and relocation data with ds-decomp, and links generated code with a runtime for DS hardware behavior.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-08
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/power-pudu/egg-of-time>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/power-pudu/egg-of-time/blob/8b012fee9f502a94b2987bfaaaba90c1fb63ea33/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/egg-of-time-chrono-trigger-ds-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/egg-of-time-chrono-trigger-ds-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/egg-of-time-chrono-trigger-ds-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Requires the user's own unmodified USA, Europe, or Japan Chrono Trigger DS ROM matching a listed hash.
- **Prerequisites:** Linux first-start builds require Python 3 and a C compiler.
- **Testing evidence:** Windows, Linux, and macOS are named targets; a full macOS game build is untested.
- **License:** The project's source code is MIT licensed.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/power-pudu/egg-of-time/blob/8b012fee9f502a94b2987bfaaaba90c1fb63ea33/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/power-pudu/egg-of-time/blob/8b012fee9f502a94b2987bfaaaba90c1fb63ea33/DESIGN.md>

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