# FUEL: decompilation of the 2009 PC game

> This decompiles FUEL, the 2009 PC game by Asobo Studio, US retail. The executable FUEL.exe has SHA-256 ac1b2077137b7c6299c344111857b032635fe3d4794bc5135dad7c35feeda856. The build uses the patched MSVC 8.0 compiler and the August 2008 DirectX SDK.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/widberg/FUELDecompilation>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/widberg/FUELDecompilation/blob/bd6b69976602b2758ab8559a1557fde24861f193/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/fuel-decomp/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/fuel-decomp/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/fuel-decomp/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- Git, CMake, Ninja, Python 3, msvc8.0p, and the August 2008 DirectX SDK. Configure from the Visual Studio 2005 command prompt with FUEL_INSTALL_DIR and DXSDK_DIR.
- The README names no license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/widberg/FUELDecompilation/blob/bd6b69976602b2758ab8559a1557fde24861f193/README.md>

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