Case study

Noble Archimedes: recompiling Castlevania: Curse of Darkness for PC

Noble Archimedes recompiles Castlevania: Curse of Darkness. The primary path turns the original Xbox release into native x64 code with Direct3D 12 and XAudio2. An experimental PlayStation 2 path covers the USA release SLUS-21168. The Windows beta compiles the game locally from the player's USA Xbox files on first run.

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: 43
Last commit: 2026-11-09
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

Windows x64 and a Direct3D 12 GPU. Building needs Python 3, Git, CMake 3.25 or newer, Ninja, LLVM Clang/LLD, and the Visual Studio C++ Build Tools. Put an extracted USA Xbox disc, including default.xbe, under extracted/. The documented commands are .\Build Noble Archimedes.cmd --full-game and .\Launch Noble Archimedes.cmd.
License: GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-or-later for the project's own code. The README says the Xbox donor stays GPLv2, its SDK patch stays MIT, PS2 GPLv3-derived components stay GPLv3, and branding in assets/noble/ is CC0.

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BibTeX

@misc{noble-archimedes,
  title = {{Noble Archimedes: recompiling Castlevania: Curse of Darkness for PC}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/sergiomanzur/noble-archimedes}},
  url = {https://github.com/sergiomanzur/noble-archimedes},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/noble-archimedes/}}
}

Plain text

Noble Archimedes: recompiling Castlevania: Curse of Darkness for PC. https://github.com/sergiomanzur/noble-archimedes (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/noble-archimedes/

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README.md GitHub · sergiomanzur/noble-archimedes · Revision 81934b8