Case study

The Minish Cap: a native PC port of the GBA decompilation

The Minish Cap PC port compiles the GBA game's recovered C source for Linux, Windows and macOS. It replaces GBA hardware with SDL3, a software PPU renderer and agbplay audio, extracts assets from the user's ROM, and currently supports the USA and EU releases for native play.

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: 404
Last commit: 2026-05-17
Language: C

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: An original game ROM is required; the repository does not include game assets.
Prerequisites: The PC build uses Python 3, xmake, SDL3, libpng, fmt and nlohmann-json.
Limits: The PC port currently supports USA and EU ROMs; the author describes rendering and gameplay paths as unfinished.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{minish-cap-pc-port-case,
  title = {{The Minish Cap: a native PC port of the GBA decompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/MatheoVignaud/tmc}},
  url = {https://github.com/MatheoVignaud/tmc},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/minish-cap-pc-port-case/}}
}

Plain text

The Minish Cap: a native PC port of the GBA decompilation. https://github.com/MatheoVignaud/tmc (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/minish-cap-pc-port-case/

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README.md GitHub · MatheoVignaud/tmc · Revision 52701ac
CONTRIBUTING.md GitHub · MatheoVignaud/tmc · Revision 52701ac