# Fallout: New Vegas: a work-in-progress decompilation

> Fallout: New Vegas is being reconstructed from the USA 2010-11-10 Fallout_Release_MemDebug.xex in a work-in-progress decompilation. The project builds source with Python and Ninja and configures objdiff to compare rebuilt objects with the original.

- 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/ieee802dot11ac/fnv>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/ieee802dot11ac/fnv/blob/074e045ef8220666fd8481e0745af6ecf197f24b/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/fallout-new-vegas-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/fallout-new-vegas-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/fallout-new-vegas-decomp-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** An existing copy of the supported game XEX is required in orig/425307E0.
- **Prerequisites:** Python and Ninja are required; objdiff is used for diffing.
- **Limits:** Decompilation is in progress.
- **License:** CC0-1.0 license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/ieee802dot11ac/fnv/blob/074e045ef8220666fd8481e0745af6ecf197f24b/README.md>

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