Case study

ht2-rev: reconstructing Hard Truck 2's king.exe in C++

ht2-rev reconstructs Hard Truck 2: King of the Road's king.exe as C++ source for a 32-bit Windows build. The work grew from a byte-matching disassembly and translates the helicopter step and trailer hitch solver from x87 instructions, with tests against the original machine code. It extracts resources from the user's executable at build time and runs with an installed game.

Targets: Binary · Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06

Stars: 5
Last commit: 2026-11-06
Language: C++

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Building requires the user's original king.exe for resources; running requires an installed game.
Prerequisites: Building requires VS 2022 Build Tools with the v142 x86 toolset, Windows 10 SDK, DirectX 7 SDK libraries, and Python with pefile.
Limits: About 2,300 calls still use original labels and untyped call helpers.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{hard-truck-2-king-exe-case,
  title = {{ht2-rev: reconstructing Hard Truck 2's king.exe in C++}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/KudryavtsevDmitry/ht2-rev}},
  url = {https://github.com/KudryavtsevDmitry/ht2-rev},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/hard-truck-2-king-exe-case/}}
}

Plain text

ht2-rev: reconstructing Hard Truck 2's king.exe in C++. https://github.com/KudryavtsevDmitry/ht2-rev (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/hard-truck-2-king-exe-case/

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README.md GitHub · KudryavtsevDmitry/ht2-rev · Revision 53627ed
CONVERSION_LOG.md GitHub · KudryavtsevDmitry/ht2-rev · Revision 53627ed