# Marble Love: a differential TypeScript port of Marble Madness

> Marble Love ports Marble Madness arcade routines from 68010 disassembly into a TypeScript engine and browser frontend. MAME traces and focused Musashi execution provide comparison data for gameplay, rendering and audio behavior; the project also documents a Slapstic prefetch finding.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/magno73/marble-love>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/magno73/marble-love/blob/113cf5de969ff62cb1d7b901340206f30122f658/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/marble-love-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/marble-love-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/marble-love-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Node.js 22 or newer, npm and legally obtained Marble Madness MAME ROM ZIPs are required for ROM-backed gameplay.
- **Limits:** The browser port remains under development; complete audio PCM parity and some sounds remain unfinished.
- **License:** MIT licence.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/magno73/marble-love/blob/113cf5de969ff62cb1d7b901340206f30122f658/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/magno73/marble-love/blob/113cf5de969ff62cb1d7b901340206f30122f658/docs/STATUS.md>

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