# OutRunners: native ports built on an arcade game decompilation

> OutRunners ports Sega's arcade game to native computer and handheld builds using the game's C decompilation. Its own runtime provides arcade and home versions, while extraction tools obtain graphics, sound and other data from a user-provided World ROM set.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-08
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/cheviman/outrunners-port>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/cheviman/outrunners-port/blob/8628b8a6b95c1c97668b5911e1e2b4d8a7bae3be/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/outrunners-port-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/outrunners-port-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/outrunners-port-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A user-provided MAME orunners World ROM set is required for game assets.
- **Prerequisites:** Building requires Python 3.10 or newer, CMake 3.20 or newer, a C11/C++17 compiler and SDL2 2.30 or newer.
- **Limits:** Four-player local play on Switch and iOS and New Nintendo 3DS ports are listed as future work.
- **License:** BSD-3-Clause license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/cheviman/outrunners-port/blob/8628b8a6b95c1c97668b5911e1e2b4d8a7bae3be/README.md>

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