# OpenMC2: incrementally rewriting Midnight Club 2

> OpenMC2 incrementally rewrites Midnight Club 2 while calling the installed game's original binary for functions it has yet to replace. Its Windows source and hooks support a partial reconstruction that runs alongside the original executable; development is abandoned.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/OpenMC2/OpenMC2>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/OpenMC2/OpenMC2/blob/794b6e7a52dc3e19ea842a9c0f8a4ec5d2193bbe/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/openmc2-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/openmc2-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/openmc2-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** An installed copy of Midnight Club 2 is required.
- **Prerequisites:** Build support is limited to Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 or later; Linux and macOS use Wine.
- **Limits:** The author has abandoned development and describes the implementation as partial.
- **License:** GPL-3.0.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/OpenMC2/OpenMC2/blob/794b6e7a52dc3e19ea842a9c0f8a4ec5d2193bbe/README.md>

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