Case study

Marble Knights Recompiled: an iOS game port by static recompilation

Marble Knights Recompiled ports the iOS game to Windows by translating ARM64 functions in its UnityFramework into C and compiling them into a GameAssembly.dll for the Unity 2019.4.17f1 Windows player. A compatibility layer replaces iOS services, while preparation scripts process the player's own game data; the project also describes an Android path using a Mach-O loader.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 1
Last commit: 2026-11-05
Language: C
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a download method observed; no demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A copy of Marble Knights iOS 2.3.1, build 760642, is required; game data is not included.
Prerequisites: Windows builds require Visual Studio 2022 Build Tools, LLVM, Python 3 with Capstone, and Unity 2019.4.17f1 Editor and Windows IL2CPP Build Support.
Testing evidence: The early pre-release was tested on one Windows 11 PC with an NVIDIA GPU and one ARM64 Android device; AMD and Intel graphics drivers are untested.
License: MIT License.

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BibTeX

@misc{marble-knights-recompiled-case,
  title = {{Marble Knights Recompiled: an iOS game port by static recompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/YuutaTsubasa/MarbleKnightsRecompiled}},
  url = {https://github.com/YuutaTsubasa/MarbleKnightsRecompiled},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/marble-knights-recompiled-case/}}
}

Plain text

Marble Knights Recompiled: an iOS game port by static recompilation. https://github.com/YuutaTsubasa/MarbleKnightsRecompiled (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/marble-knights-recompiled-case/

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README.md GitHub · YuutaTsubasa/MarbleKnightsRecompiled · Revision 0ffcd43