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EoWRecomp translates The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom's Switch ARM64 modules into C ahead of time and runs them with native Horizon-service and NVN replacements.
Reviewed Nycolazs/EoWRecomp@dd9c79d
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ssrecomp statically translates Pokémon SoulSilver's ARM9 code to C++ and runs it with a patched melonDS core supplying Nintendo DS hardware.
Reviewed ClickingMaster/ssrecomp@3146fb2
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Lufia2Decomp reconstructs Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals game logic as a portable C library for SNES recompilation consumers.
Reviewed Cellenseres/Lufia2Decomp@6fc15bb
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OpenJones3D reconstructs the Jones3D engine of Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine in C.
Reviewed smlu/OpenJones3D@a675b39
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bm64 reconstructs a decompressed ROM of the USA Nintendo 64 game Bomberman 64 from C, assembly and a user-supplied baserom.
Reviewed Bomberhackers/bm64@c7c5fd5
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Pokopia Native builds native Mac, iPhone and Windows versions of the Switch 2 game Pokémon Pokopia from the user's own dump.
Reviewed xFractals/pokopia-native@afebabf
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LOZ remakes the original The Legend of Zelda in C++ and Allegro, using graphics and data tables extracted from the player's ROM.
Reviewed aldonunez/Loz@945067f
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Shantae Recomp uses gbrecompiled to translate the USA Game Boy Color Shantae ROM into native code for Windows and Linux.
Reviewed vibecodekun/shantaerecomp@d870bd2
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Bubsy 3D reconstructs C for the USA game's SLUS_001.10 executable and compares compiled functions with the original bytes.
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OpenSWOS rebuilds Sensible World of Soccer in C from reverse engineering of the Amiga game and runs it across desktop, mobile and Amiga platforms.
Reviewed benbaker76/OpenSWOS@8fb768e
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GTA4Unity reconstructs GTA IV world loading and rendering in Unity 6 using the player's original game files.
Reviewed Infinity-Loops/GTA4Unity@c107e46
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openh4 reimplements the Heroes of Might and Magic IV engine in C++23 using data from a player's own GOG copy.
Reviewed tallowmere/free-heroes4@57d72e8
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OpenZ recreates the 1996 strategy game Z as a Unity 6 game with 3D battlefields, units, and newly produced media.
Reviewed playopenz/OpenZ@e96d13c
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Resident Evil 1 for PC Decompilation reconstructs the 1997 game’s logic from Ghidra analysis of its executable and runs it on Windows and Linux.
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BallPad ports Super Mario Strikers to iOS and iPadOS by compiling a community decompilation-based source port as native ARM64 code.
Reviewed chrissotraidis/ballpad@d733ade
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nfsu1-recompiled translates the x86 Speed.exe from Need for Speed Underground PC patch 1.4 into C with a patched pcrecomp lifter.
Reviewed codepdbh/nfsu1-recompiled@e27fbac
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Whippy reconstructs Kirby's Return to Dream Land source for the USA and Korean Wii releases, comparing rebuilt main.dol files byte for byte with the originals.
Reviewed Etrainquandt17/Whippy@2abb43f
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Ottsel ports OpenGOAL's decompiled Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy source to iPad, iPhone and Apple Silicon Macs.
Reviewed chrissotraidis/ottsel@397ed22
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Baroque translates the USA PlayStation 2 game's routines into a native Windows C++ port.
Reviewed Arch61s/Baroque-Decomp@9c4f695
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Xenosaga Episode I decomp reconstructs source for the NTSC-U PlayStation 2 release and builds its SLUS_204.69 ELF.
Reviewed SquareMan/xenosaga@4c969ed
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UltraCombo ports the arcade games Killer Instinct and Killer Instinct 2 to Windows and Linux using users' ROM and disk files.
Reviewed thefixinhixon/UltraCombo@b7ae26e
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Apocalypse-xport ports reconstructed code from the PlayStation game Apocalypse.
Reviewed psxports/Apocalypse-xport@df876af
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007: Agent Under Fire becomes a native Windows port by statically recompiling the original Xbox game's x86 XBE programs.
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OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast is ported from a C++ reconstruction of its PC executable to Switch, Apple silicon macOS, PS5 homebrew and Xbox Developer Mode.
Reviewed r4dius/outrun2-decomp@e1e1c59
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San Francisco Rush 2049: Recompiled translates the Nintendo 64 game's MIPS code to C with N64Recomp and runs it through N64ModernRuntime and RT64.
Reviewed n64hub/rush-2049-recomp@a938c73
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Alien Resurrection Recompilation turns the user's USA PlayStation disc image into a native build by generating C# with a RecompOne fork and compiling it locally.
Reviewed Heromachine/AlienResurrection-Recompilation@9244c8c
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SMA2 disasm reconstructs the US Game Boy Advance ROM of Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 as Armips assembly.
Reviewed KarisaAdvynia/sma2-disasm@b75c69f
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Harvest Moon 64 PC Port / Recomp uses N64Recomp and RT64 to build a native port of Harvest Moon 64 from locally provided ROM and ELF files.
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inFamous PC builds a native Windows port of the European PlayStation 3 release of inFamous by statically recompiling its PPU and SPU code with ps3recomp.
Reviewed whompay/inFAMOUSreborn@2e9405c
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The project maps the Game Boy Camera SRAM save format through comparisons of dumps from real hardware.
Reviewed Raphael-Boichot/Inject-pictures-in-your-Game-Boy-Camera-saves@467c723
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Un-Banished rebuilds the Banished 1.0.7 engine in Rust for desktop and browser play using data from the user's own game copy.
Reviewed tanepiper/unbanished@ab22835
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Project Tandem statically recompiles the USA GameCube release of Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
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TA3D rebuilds Total Annihilation gameplay in an OpenGL 3D engine that loads original game maps, units and animation scripts from separate resource files.
Reviewed zuzuf/TA3D@da96975
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Dunk Shot documents the 1986 MSX game's code and data through a commented disassembly generated from a user-provided cartridge image.
Reviewed antxiko/DunkShot-disassembly@2023245
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Strider 2 Recompiled uses psxrecomp to generate C from the US PlayStation release of Strider 2 and compiles a playable build locally from the user's disc.
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ToeJam & Earl reconstructs two Sega Genesis retail revisions as matched C and readable 68000 and Z80 assembly.
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Kirpich recreates the Game Boy Tetris game in native C++ on Polyrhythm using behavior specifications derived from the original.
Reviewed etroimcasso/Kirpich@61e0a0f
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Shadow of the Colossus-PC runs the PS4 version of Shadow of the Colossus on Windows 10 and 11 using the user's game dump.
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Gears of War: Judgment for PC translates the Xbox 360 game's PowerPC program to C++ ahead of time and compiles it as a native Windows application on ReXGlue.
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skyroads-port reconstructs the DOS game SkyRoads as a portable C11 engine after disassembling SKYROADS.EXE and documenting its file formats and algorithms.
Reviewed ammaarreshi/skyroads-port@d865dfe
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Need for Speed: Most Wanted Native translates the user's PC version 1.3 speed.exe from x86 into C and compiles it for Apple Silicon Macs.
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SuperMarioRPGSNESRecomp applies snesrecomp to Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, compiling qualified 65816 code paths to C while other paths run through an interpreter.
Reviewed mstan/SuperMarioRPGRecomp@1f48aca
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The God of War: Chains of Olympus project combines game-specific ahead-of-time translated Allegrex blocks with an interpreter fallback for PSP code.
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Rockstar Table Tennis Decompilation reconstructs the Xbox 360 game's PowerPC functions as C++.
Reviewed OZORDI/tt-decomp@cfc8400
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OpenTIE reimplements Star Wars: TIE Fighter for Windows, macOS and Linux using data from the original 1995 Collector's CD-ROM or 1998 Windows release.
Reviewed elyosh/OpenTIE@8b24fb9
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xenogears-decomp-port combines a partial matching C decompilation of PlayStation Xenogears with a native Linux x86-64 port.
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The Way of the Exploding Fist presents a SkoolKit disassembly of the ZX Spectrum game.
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Dodge It is an annotated disassembly of the Fairchild Video Entertainment System game.
Reviewed alex-west/ves-16@74248db
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OpenGG reimplements Gearhead Garage: The Virtual Mechanic as a Godot and C# engine that loads cars, jobs, decals, sounds and scenes from a user's game folder.
Reviewed tymsky/OpenGG@ba557b1
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Super Mario Advance 4 Recomp builds a native Windows version of the GBA game through gbarecomp using a locally supplied ROM and BIOS.
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FFT-1997-Decomp is an early decompilation of Final Fantasy Tactics starting with the PlayStation executable SCUS_942.21.
Reviewed FFT-RE/FFT-1997-Decomp@64d902a
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WolfensteinRPG-RE reconstructs Wolfenstein RPG in C++ for desktop builds.
Reviewed Erick194/WolfensteinRPG-RE@444675d
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Crash Bandicoot PC ports the North American PlayStation game to native C11 on macOS and Linux from a matching decompilation.
Reviewed khasinski/crash-bandicoot-pc@fc2a181
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Gears of War 3 — PC port builds a native Windows version from a user-owned Xbox 360 disc image.
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AVP2 Reconstructed recovers C++ for the LithTech 2.2 engine executable and DirectDraw/Direct3D renderer used by Aliens versus Predator 2 v1.0.9.6.
Reviewed lemiur/AVP2-Reconstructed@f5377f0
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Digimon World 2 Decompilation reconstructs the USA PlayStation game's main executable and seven stage overlays as C source.
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Mario Tennis (GBC) reconstructs the USA and Europe Game Boy Color releases as named RGBDS assembly.
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Hot Shots Tennis: Get a Grip reconstructs the PSP game's main executable and Game Sharing program in C and C++.
Reviewed Jstar269/HST-Decomp@f7517ea
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Rogue Galaxy reconstructs the NTSC-U PlayStation 2 game's main executable and five overlays as C or C++.
Reviewed Dorgengoa/RGDecomp@c8c8b3c
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The Ocarina of Time 1.0 disassembly provides a labelled MIPS assembly listing and a function-address index.
Reviewed GlitterBerri/oot@0c5472b
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openQ4 replaces the Quake 4 engine and game binaries with a GPL engine and SDK-licensed game modules that use the player's retail game assets.
Reviewed themuffinator/openQ4@8250fb4
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A Link to the Past 3DS adapts the reverse-engineered Zelda3 engine for Nintendo 3DS with gameplay on the upper screen and maps, inventory and settings on the lower screen.
Reviewed EstebanPdN/zelda-alttp-3ds@c85d243
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aw2bhr reconstructs Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising for Game Boy Advance with C source and assembly.
Reviewed Eebit/aw2bhr@63a2694
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openblack reimplements Black & White (2001) in C++ with OpenGL and Vulkan rendering, loading assets extracted from the user's original game.
Reviewed openblack/openblack@744c0fe
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Star Fox Adventures kiosk default.dol is a work-in-progress reconstruction of the executable found in the game's kiosk ROM.
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Quest 64 Tale: Recompiled builds a native Windows and Linux port of the USA release of Quest 64 using N64Recomp, N64ModernRuntime and RT64.
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NHLPA93Genesis reconstructs NHLPA Hockey 93 for Sega Genesis as 68000 and Z80 assembly.
Reviewed abdulahmad/NHLPA93Genesis@c7b3ca2
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F-15 Strike Eagle 2 source port brings reconstructed source for the 1991 DOS game to modern architectures with SDL3 input and presentation, OpenGL rendering and AdLib emulation.
Reviewed neuviemeporte/f15se2-ex@5095f35
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OpenLW recreates Sonic Lost World from Ghidra decompilations of its Wii U and PC versions.
Reviewed Radfordhound/OpenLW@73ea9a6
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Mother3Recomp translates MOTHER 3's Game Boy Advance ARM7TDMI code into C for a native PC build using gbarecomp.
Reviewed agray0425/Mother3Recomp@5196a14
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ff9-decomp reconstructs the US PlayStation Final Fantasy IX boot executable and code overlays as C that the author reports compiles to byte-identical binaries.
Reviewed maurizi/ff9-decomp@8091d4d
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cannon-seed reconstructs C source for Galaxian³: Project Dragoon on PlayStation across Japanese and European boot executables and game payloads.
Reviewed s-ilent/cannon-seed@16a73c3
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th10 reimplements Mountain of Faith 1.00a in C++ for a portable browser runtime.
Reviewed Ritosa2333/th10@8a44f50
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ALTTP-DX rebuilds The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past as a native PC game that extracts its assets from a user-supplied US ROM.
Reviewed YeOldPress/alttp-dx@3091260
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apes-escaped reconstructs the USA PlayStation Ape Escape executable as C compiled with a PsyQ-era GCC 2.8.1 toolchain.
Reviewed SSZero88/apes-escaped@78a9100
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OpenIGI reimplements the engine for Project I.G.I.
Reviewed OpenIGI/OpenIGI@ed97501
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Pocket Puyo Puyo Tsuu is a matching disassembly of the Japanese Game Boy game.
Reviewed pizdex/pocketpuyotsuu@34e9bde
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Twisted Metal Re-Arc reconstructs code and data from the Japanese 1995 PlayStation release of Twisted Metal using matching decompilation.
Reviewed OpenTrac/tm1_Re-Arc@d9e4afb
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OpenRedRacing reimplements Big Red Racing in a portable C++ engine using SDL2 and OpenGL 3.3.
Reviewed nynjardin/OpenRedRacing@61c09dd
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Pokémon Sword and Shield's Pawn AMX scripts are reconstructed from game files.
Reviewed lincoln-lm/swsh-pawn-decomp@d35b78e
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Sid Meier's SimGolf reconstructs C and C++ source for the English 1.03 game's executable and three DLLs, comparing recompiled functions with the originals.
Reviewed SMSG-decomp/SMSG-decomp@0f0a4cd
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Reconstructs the 17 July 1998 beta of Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome as C++ source compiled with Visual C++ 5.0.
Reviewed dcostap/aoe1-decomp@6d6d8b1
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Mortal Kombat: Deception decomp reconstructs the USA GameCube release as C and C++ source.
Reviewed ShulkMaster/mk-deception@33b1e00
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Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! reconstructs the NTSC-U revision 0 PlayStation executable and overlays from C source and assembly.
Reviewed TheMobyCollective/spyro-2@17f91a7
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daggerfall-decomp reconstructs The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall 1.07.213 FALL.EXE with Watcom C 10.0a and separately translates its XnGine assembly engine into C.
Reviewed brotchie/daggerfall-decomp@6c82057
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Age of Empires II Decompilation reconstructs C++ for The Conquerors 1.0c and Age of Kings 2.0a on PC, plus PAL and Japanese PlayStation 2 editions of Age of Kings.
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Riiablo rebuilds Diablo II in Java with LibGDX, OpenGL, FlatBuffers, and Netty, loading game assets from the user's own installation.
Reviewed collinsmith/riiablo@59aa8d5
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DKR-GC ports the Diddy Kong Racing N64 decompilation to native GameCube PowerPC code.
Reviewed RyoSaeba89/DKR-GC@55fd0a5
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Crusader: No Remorse — DECOMP reimplements the 1995 game's engine in C++20 and SDL2 for Windows and Linux.
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OpenHoW is an early-stage reimplementation of Hogs of War designed to use content extracted from the PC release.
Reviewed hogsy/OpenHoW@e61ec25
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Soulcalibur II Recomp translates the Xbox release's program ahead of time into C and runs it on a native runtime for macOS, Linux, Windows and Android.
Reviewed tmcleroy/soulcalibur2-recomp@8a914a8
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fci-recomp builds Windows ports of the original Xbox games Far Cry Instincts and Far Cry Instincts: Evolution by translating their disc code to C ahead of time.
Reviewed VinceIP/fci-recomp@4ed3f68
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NFSU2Recomp statically recompiles Need for Speed: Underground 2 PC executable SPEED2.EXE into a native Apple Silicon application.
Reviewed TalhaMudo/NFSU2Recomp@3423ba5
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The George of the Jungle and the Search for the Secret decompilation reconstructs the USA PS2 game's main CPU code with a byte-matched assembly baseline and selected C/C++ functions compared against the retail executable.
Reviewed 2gifts/george-decomp@09880fd
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DuperHex reimplements the Super Hexagon engine in Rust with SDL3 and wgpu.
Reviewed DavidBuchanan314/duperhex@a972222
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GHVanHRecomp statically recompiles the Xbox 360 release of Guitar Hero: Van Halen into a native Windows port.
Reviewed ElGuslml/GHVanHRecomp@2a1bd0f
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BackstabRecomp runs the user-supplied Android ARMv7 library from BackStab HD 1.2.8d in a Windows x64 host through AndroidRecomp.
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WWE 2K16 PC Recomp statically recompiles the Xbox 360 game for a PC build using the ReXGlue SDK.
Reviewed itsbybanshee/wwe2k16-pc@be305ec
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Game Creator implements a cross-platform .NET engine for games created with classic Game Maker versions through 8.1.
Reviewed joshwyant/game-creator@859ed7d
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shock2quest recreates the Dark engine for a virtual-reality version of System Shock 2 on Meta Quest.
Reviewed tommy-xr/shock2quest@d965836