# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-08
- Original resource: <https://github.com/ByteDecompiler/link-faces-of-evil-pc>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/ByteDecompiler/link-faces-of-evil-pc/blob/98f32c8072e041d3e002e182fef8dd6151b925a9/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/link-faces-of-evil-pc-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/link-faces-of-evil-pc-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/link-faces-of-evil-pc-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/ByteDecompiler/link-faces-of-evil-pc/blob/98f32c8072e041d3e002e182fef8dd6151b925a9/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/ByteDecompiler/link-faces-of-evil-pc/blob/98f32c8072e041d3e002e182fef8dd6151b925a9/Makefile>

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