# International Rally Championship: an x86-to-C native recompilation

> ircrecomp statically translates International Rally Championship's RAL.EXE x86 functions into C and compiles a native 64-bit Windows game from the user's CD image. An SDL3 runtime replaces Windows 98 and DirectX 5 interfaces; analysis covers code discovery, relocations and jump tables.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-09
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/ericodeoliveira/international-rally-championship-recomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/ericodeoliveira/international-rally-championship-recomp/blob/d09e1fe474d75420c4996630585af56f4bf83515/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/international-rally-championship-recomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/international-rally-championship-recomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/international-rally-championship-recomp-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Use the CD image with RAL.EXE 4.81, supplied as .cue and .bin files.
- **Prerequisites:** Windows 10 or 11 64-bit is supported; source use requires Python 3.10+.
- **Limits:** Physical gamepad and steering-wheel controls are unfinished; network multiplayer is outside scope.
- **License:** MIT licence.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/ericodeoliveira/international-rally-championship-recomp/blob/d09e1fe474d75420c4996630585af56f4bf83515/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/ericodeoliveira/international-rally-championship-recomp/blob/d09e1fe474d75420c4996630585af56f4bf83515/PESQUISA.md>

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