Case study

OpenLW: recreating Sonic Lost World from Ghidra decompilations

OpenLW recreates Sonic Lost World from Ghidra decompilations of its Wii U and PC versions. Its source aims to reproduce the PC game’s structure and records function addresses; the repository also hosts LWAPI bindings for PC DLL mods. The author describes the recreation as a major work in progress.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06

Stars: 21
Last commit: 2024-04-15
Language: C++

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Building currently requires the proprietary Criware SDK and Havok 2012 SDK, plus the Direct3D 9 SDK.
Limits: The project is a major work in progress with little source documentation so far.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{openlw-sonic-lost-world-case,
  title = {{OpenLW: recreating Sonic Lost World from Ghidra decompilations}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Radfordhound/OpenLW}},
  url = {https://github.com/Radfordhound/OpenLW},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/openlw-sonic-lost-world-case/}}
}

Plain text

OpenLW: recreating Sonic Lost World from Ghidra decompilations. https://github.com/Radfordhound/OpenLW (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/openlw-sonic-lost-world-case/

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README.md GitHub · Radfordhound/OpenLW · Revision 73ea9a6