Case study

Metal Slug XX: recompiling the game with ReXGlue

A modified ReXGlue SDK tree for running Metal Slug XX. The README says the repository stores no Metal Slug XX files and that a legal copy has to be supplied. It also marks the project as early development, with breaking public API changes expected.

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: 41
Last commit: 2026-09-11
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

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

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A legal copy of Metal Slug XX is required. The README says no files from the game are stored in the repository.
Prerequisites: The README's build cheat sheet uses Visual Studio 2022, the CMake preset win-amd64-relwithdebinfo, the metalslugxx_codegen target, and a local recompile of default.xex.
Limits: The README marks the project as early development and expects significant changes and breaking public API updates.

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BibTeX

@misc{metal-slug-xx-recomp,
  title = {{Metal Slug XX: recompiling the game with ReXGlue}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/FluffyQuack/rexglue-MetalSlugXX}},
  url = {https://github.com/FluffyQuack/rexglue-MetalSlugXX},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/metal-slug-xx-recomp/}}
}

Plain text

Metal Slug XX: recompiling the game with ReXGlue. https://github.com/FluffyQuack/rexglue-MetalSlugXX (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/metal-slug-xx-recomp/

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README.md GitHub · FluffyQuack/rexglue-MetalSlugXX · Revision bb11ea6