# openmx: porting the MX Unleashed simulation to Rust

> openmx ports the PlayStation 2 game MX Unleashed's riding simulation to Rust and supplies new desktop and browser presentation. It reads tracks, vehicles, art and sound from the user's disc dump; the author reports comparing simulation functions, PCSX2 captures and frame-by-frame replay state hashes with the original.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-08
- Original resource: <https://github.com/FIZL0/openmx>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/FIZL0/openmx/blob/267aada332ae9aaa6a183b5a5d6986e3fa4eafab/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/openmx-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/openmx-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/openmx-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** The user's own MX Unleashed PS2 disc dump, serial SLUS-20767, is required.
- **Prerequisites:** Rust and Cargo are required to build from source.
- **Limits:** Campaign races and AI opponents are unfinished.
- **License:** MIT license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/FIZL0/openmx/blob/267aada332ae9aaa6a183b5a5d6986e3fa4eafab/README.md>

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