Case study

Link: The Faces of Evil — a native PC port of the CD-i decompilation

A native Windows port of Link: The Faces of Evil runs C code from the Philips CD-i game decompilation and replaces CD-i video, audio, disc and input services with an SDL3 host. It reads the player's own raw disc image and includes a small 68000 interpreter for enemy graphics stored on the disc.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

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Last commit: 2026-10-25
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a download method observed; no demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-08

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A user-supplied raw 2352-byte-sector disc image of Link: The Faces of Evil is required.
Prerequisites: Building requires WSL or Linux, make, Python 3, 32-bit MinGW and SDL3 MinGW development files.
Limits: The port is early and the author reports that bugs remain.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{link-faces-of-evil-pc-case,
  title = {{Link: The Faces of Evil — a native PC port of the CD-i decompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/ByteDecompiler/link-faces-of-evil-pc}},
  url = {https://github.com/ByteDecompiler/link-faces-of-evil-pc},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/link-faces-of-evil-pc-case/}}
}

Plain text

Link: The Faces of Evil — a native PC port of the CD-i decompilation. https://github.com/ByteDecompiler/link-faces-of-evil-pc (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/link-faces-of-evil-pc-case/

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README.md GitHub · ByteDecompiler/link-faces-of-evil-pc · Revision 98f32c8
Makefile GitHub · ByteDecompiler/link-faces-of-evil-pc · Revision 98f32c8