Case study

Mickey Saves the Day 3D Adventure: matching decompilation and native ports

Mickey Saves the Day 3D Adventure reconstructs the game's C/C++ source and builds ports for Apple Silicon macOS and WebAssembly. The author reports checking functions against Visual C++ 5.0 or 6.0 output byte by byte; the ports read game data from a user-supplied German or British English CD image.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 2
Last commit: 2026-10-23
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 German or British English game CD as an ISO image.
Prerequisites: Apple Silicon macOS builds require Xcode command-line tools, cmake and ninja.
Testing evidence: The author reports 73.93% of game code matching original bytes.
License: MIT licence for the project-authored code.

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BibTeX

@misc{mickey-saves-the-day-3d-adventure-case,
  title = {{Mickey Saves the Day 3D Adventure: matching decompilation and native ports}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Japabu/mickey-saves-the-day-3d-adventure}},
  url = {https://github.com/Japabu/mickey-saves-the-day-3d-adventure},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/mickey-saves-the-day-3d-adventure-case/}}
}

Plain text

Mickey Saves the Day 3D Adventure: matching decompilation and native ports. https://github.com/Japabu/mickey-saves-the-day-3d-adventure (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/mickey-saves-the-day-3d-adventure-case/

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README.md GitHub · Japabu/mickey-saves-the-day-3d-adventure · Revision 38299e7
port/NOTES.md GitHub · Japabu/mickey-saves-the-day-3d-adventure · Revision 38299e7