# Luna Purpura: reimplementing Purple Moon game formats and playback

> Luna Purpura works toward a portable interpreter for 1990s Purple Moon games, including Rockett's New School, using the user's original CD-ROM files. Ruby format-research tools, C decoders and Lua bindings support a developing LÖVE-based player. The author describes the implementation as an early research-stage work.

- 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/dressupgeekout/lunapurpura>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/dressupgeekout/lunapurpura/blob/74bba1e8d0f263233a779c076fc8427ddb7696e8/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/luna-purpura-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/luna-purpura-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/luna-purpura-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Original Purple Moon CD-ROM game files are the intended input for the interpreter.
- **Prerequisites:** CMake is required to build; Lua 5.1 or LuaJIT headers and libraries are needed when Lua bindings are enabled.
- **Limits:** The project remains in a research phase, with very few functions working.
- **License:** BSD-2-Clause license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/dressupgeekout/lunapurpura/blob/74bba1e8d0f263233a779c076fc8427ddb7696e8/README.md>

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