Game · Case study:
Firestaff rebuilds runtime paths for Dungeon Master, Chaos Strikes Back, Dungeon Master II and Theron's Quest using original media supplied by the player.
Reviewed yeager/firestaff@4d3da20
Game · Case study:
Freelancer.Reverse.Runtime reconstructs part of Freelancer (2003)'s runtime DLL interface through a compatible dacom.dll proxy.
Game · Case study:
Wolfenstein (2009) SP rebuilds single-player engine behavior in C++ on idTech4A++, using game data from the user's PC copy.
Reviewed CheffCorleOne/wolf2009-sp@82324ee
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Chicken Invaders 1 rebuilds the original 1999 game in C++ with a separate UveDX engine layer.
Game · Case study:
recherno investigates Chernobyl: The Legacy Continues by running its original Fortran/Win32 engine inside a custom virtual machine.
Reviewed vlasta-labsky/recherno@6d998ba
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Goldenland 2 format research maps the game’s PAK archives, CSX sprites, SDB string databases and ITM item records.
Game · Case study:
WCW/nWo Thunder reconstructs source for the PlayStation game from a work-in-progress disassembly.
Reviewed martinbean/thunder@4dd2b6f
Game · Case study:
alive-serv reconstructs part of the SIF2 MIRACLE LIVE!
Reviewed miraclealive/alive-serv@1278e03
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TL2BetaMiniLobby reconstructs the lobby service required by the May 2012 Torchlight 2 beta.
Reviewed Crypto137/TL2BetaMiniLobby@6c50083
Game · Case study:
Uncharted Waters: New Horizons is statically recompiled into a native Windows 10/11 application that uses the player's own USA/Canada NTSC ROM.
Reviewed Junior-Jones/Uncharted-Waters-New-Horizons-SNES-Static-Recomp@5c49167
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Battalion Wars 2 is reconstructed as a native Rust and Bevy engine that loads archives, models, terrain, audio and Lua 5.0 mission bytecode from a user-supplied Wii disc image.
Game · Case study:
This project decompiles the PAL PlayStation 2 Rayman main executable, SLES_500.44, into C and hand-written assembly.
Game · Case study:
AutoZone Hot Pursuit reconstructs the 1998 Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit and Modern Patch in C++ from analysis of their binaries.
Reviewed americusmaximus/AZHP@4b89dc0
Game · Case study:
wotb-dvp reconstructs the layout of WOTB DVPM files and the DVPD footer.
Reviewed Pyogenics/WOTBDVPFormat@ac63a95
Protocol · Case study:
Haxball Rooms API documents the binary room-listing response used by the Haxball game and displays parsed rooms in a browser table.
Reviewed Skarmunds/haxball_rooms_api@0f8c997
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Splitgate Backend implements local TypeScript service routes for the game's backend and redirects Splitgate's AccelByte requests to them through Fiddler or mitmproxy.
Reviewed SplitgateDevelopment/Backend@ebdbb7a
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This project disassembles code from the USA Game Boy Advance release of Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku into ARM and Thumb assembly and reports a byte-identical ROM rebuild using data from the user's own copy.
Game · Case study:
MDK in Godot ports the 1997 game MDK to Godot 4.7 using analysis of its data files and MDKD3D.EXE.
Reviewed nautilusbits/mdk-godot@d6ce122
Game · Case study:
Paper Hexagon ports reconstructed Super Hexagon game code from the GOG Linux build to modern Linux and Playdate.
Reviewed captn3m0/paperhexagon@e440e44
Game · Case study:
TFM2DB Field Notes maps selected Teamfight Manager 2 database records and provides template-based CSV roundtrip tools.
Reviewed KiroZYH/tfm2db-field-notes@0c4c3d5
Game · Case study:
Speedos reconstructs the Spe_ed game rules as a Mesa model with interfaces shared by the original game.
Reviewed jubra97/speedos@dd8b84a
Game · Case study:
AFS200Tools documents the AFS Volume 2.00 archive format found in PlayStation Tenchu games.
Reviewed stedestro/AFS200Tools@7010f0d
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Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon's CD-i main program is reconstructed as C compiled with Apple MPW C 3.0.
Game · Case study:
som-decomp reconstructs the North American SNES release of Secret of Mana with matching 65816 and SPC700 assembly, readable C routines and documentation of combat, AI, maps, menus and audio.
Reviewed cidwel/som-decomp@7158855
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A native Jade Empire: Special Edition port statically translates the user's x86 game executable into Odin.
Game · Case study:
Sengoku Basara 4 Sumeragi Native PC provides a Windows runtime for a user-supplied PS4 game folder.
Game · Case study:
nfsu2_decomp rewrites logic from the PS2 PAL release of Need for Speed: Underground 2 as native Linux C++ and uses the user's disc data at runtime.
Game · Case study:
TH05 reconstructs source for the Japanese PC-98 Touhou 5: Mystic Square programs MAIN.EXE, OP.EXE, MAINE.EXE and ZUN.COM.
Reviewed N0zoM1z0/th05@9df0ac2
Game · Case study:
Thrasher: Skate and Destroy is being reconstructed function by function as C for its US PlayStation executable.
Game · Case study:
xmen2-pc reconstructs X-Men 2: Clone Wars as handwritten C and ports it to Windows and Linux without 68000 emulation.
Reviewed crabsmack/xmen2-pc@4ad6207
Game · Case study:
xmen2disasm reconstructs the Sega Genesis game X-Men 2: Clone Wars as a byte-matching 68000 disassembly.
Reviewed crabsmack/xmen2disasm@2b13582
Game · Case study:
TH06 reconstructs the Japanese 1.02h game executable using a maintained source tree based on GensokyoClub/th06 and a pinned VC7.0 build.
Reviewed N0zoM1z0/th06@4e25087
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Playcard Cosmic recreates the 2000 Windows shoot-'em-up in C++20 and SDL3 for Windows, Linux and macOS.
Game · Case study:
Phantom Blade Zero Save Format documents the PBZS v3 save container used by the game's Steam PC release.
Game · Case study:
Ignition ports the 1997 racing game by reading routines in its Windows executable with IDA and rewriting their behaviour in portable C99.
Reviewed xesf/ignition@a64eca5
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kult-atari-st-c hand-reimplements the core of the Atari ST game Kult: The Temple of Flying Saucers in documented C, using an assembly decompilation as its behavioral reference.
Reviewed hunkstalker/kult-atari-st-c@beebb52
Game · Case study:
Dragon Ball Z on the Nintendo 64 statically recompiles ARM and Thumb code from The Legacy of Goku II and Buu's Fury into C for N64 builds.
Reviewed NaraKitty/DBZ64@75c8d28
Game · Case study:
Katten Project reimplements server behavior for the Plus+ social gaming network and the Touch Pets games.
Reviewed knot126/Katten@bb70659
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DEArmoredcoreV develops a Linux port of the Xbox 360 game Armored Core V by translating PowerPC instructions to C++ through ReXGlue.
Reviewed GrayRats/ArmoredcoreV-Port@eddd9d9
Game · Case study:
PC-3Ddot develops a native PC port of the PS3 game 3D Dot Game Heroes by statically recompiling its EBOOT for the ps3kit runtime.
Reviewed vs-sr-dev/pc-3ddotgameheroes@a9ef70d
Game · Case study:
TH11 reconstructs source for the original Japanese 1.00a executable of Touhou 11: Subterranean Animism.
Reviewed N0zoM1z0/th11@46bfd04
Game · Case study:
Link: The Faces of Evil Decompilation reconstructs the Philips CD-i game's cdi_link main program as C source.
Game · Case study:
358/2 Days for Android ports Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days to Android using the upstream khdays-port and its decompiled C game code.
Game · Case study:
Nagano Winter Olympics '98 decompilation reconstructs the USA Nintendo 64 release with compiled source and a mapped ROM data region.
Game · Case study:
pc-abelsmt ports the FM Towns game ABEL - Shin Mokushiroku Taisen to PC by statically recompiling its 386 programs and TBIOS to C++ on fmtownskit.
Reviewed vs-sr-dev/pc-abelsmt@b58c21a
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Madden Football 64 decompilation reconstructs portions of the USA Rev 0 Nintendo 64 game's code and maps its packed ROM layout.
Reviewed TheGh0stShip/Madden-64@a3eabb2
Game · Case study:
Rugrats: Scavenger Hunt reconstructs the USA Nintendo 64 game with matching C, reviewed assembly, symbolic RSP code and descriptions of initialized data.
Game · Case study:
Ninja Gaiden Black native PC port runs the original Xbox game's x86 code inside a 32-bit Windows process.
Game · Case study:
poketaka-sim reconstructs PokéTaka battle behavior from replay logs and simulates a recorded match hit by hit.
Game · Case study:
SOCOM Legacy rebuilds SOCOM II U.S. Navy SEALs in TypeScript and three.js for browser multiplayer, loading maps and other game data from the user's own disc.
Reviewed Scotho/socom-legacy@0d6dd76
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Tony Hawk's Underground is being reconstructed as matching C++ for the NTSC-U PlayStation 2 release SLUS-20731.
Reviewed andrewnakas/thug-decomp@3ae6093
Game · Case study:
Soleanna builds a native Windows port of the PlayStation 3 version of Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) from the user's BLES00028 disc.
Reviewed DrummingBird1/sonic06-recomp@d670b19
Game · Case study:
P3P3DS adapts Persona 3 Portable's North American PSP release for New Nintendo 3DS through static MIPS-to-C++ recompilation, an interpreter fallback and a PSP service runtime.
Reviewed endercodezz/P3P3DS@ce587d4
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wc2-re reconstructs Wing Commander II source from its Kilrathi Saga Win32 release and provides an SDL2 port.
Reviewed neuromancer/wc2-re@e15b8fc
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Abyssal reimplements the mobile game DEEP in a Godot engine for desktop, browser and Android.
Reviewed TheWWWorm/abyssal@670de94
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CSVM reimplements the Crimson Skies (2000) engine in Godot and reads game data from the player's own install or disc.
Reviewed Laeresh/CSVM@69063a5
Game · Case study:
d2-dedicated-server rebuilds a self-hosted Diablo II realm and headless game-server stack.
Reviewed jaenster/d2-dedicated-server@b661cac
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accd reconstructs the Assetto Corsa Competizione dedicated server in C99 for Linux and BSD systems.
Reviewed renaudallard/assettocorsa_competizione_server@08974b8
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Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow are built as native executables by translating their Game Boy SM83 code into C with gb-recompiled.
Reviewed sp00nznet/pokemon@da2d765
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HMC47 reconstructs Hitman: Codename 47 from the original game binaries as a modular C++ implementation.
Reviewed americusmaximus/HMC47@29d08d7
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AfroSamuraiRecomp statically translates the Europe Xbox 360 release of Afro Samurai into a native Windows x64 program using ReXGlue.
Reviewed LomoXSoft/AfroSamuraiRecomp@3bde90d
Game · Case study:
OpenPlatinum reimplements Pokémon Platinum's field engine in C++17 with SDL3 and OpenGL for Windows and macOS.
Reviewed shinzarou-eng/OpenPlatinum@48c8dea
Game · Case study:
hercules-native reimplements the 1997 Disney's Hercules Action Game engine in C11 and SDL2 for Apple silicon Macs.
Reviewed yelnady/hercules-native@53c1256
Game · Case study:
reEgg reconstructs part of the server behavior used by Egg, Inc.
Reviewed cernodile/reEgg@47b9889
Game · Case study:
gopenfusion reconstructs part of FusionFall's packet protocol and server services in Go.
Reviewed CPunch/gopenfusion@cafca90
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PTD2 Server reconstructs online services for the Flash game Pokémon Tower Defense 2 from analysis of its original SWF.
Reviewed KGMats/PTD2-Server@54b428f
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Reko-Btech investigates the 1988 MS-DOS game Crescent Hawks: Inception using Reko decompilation project files.
Reviewed Elthial/Reko-Btech@2b1d710
Firmware · Case study:
MobiGoEmu reconstructs the VTech MobiGo handheld in C so user-provided system ROM and cartridge images can run with touch, keyboard, pad and sound support.
Reviewed vs-sr-dev/mobigoemu@3a28479
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fh2-world-formats reconstructs the file formats behind the Forza Horizon 2 world and supplies Python tools for reading and changing them.
Reviewed DOLLARPL/fh2-world-formats@cea3e02
Game · Case study:
FSGCore reconstructs the C++ core library used by DJ Hero 2 to support decompilation of the game.
Reviewed LucasRitter/fsgcore@d36f61d
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ChaoResortWebserver recreates the Chao Resort server in Flask for the Chao Resort Island X mod.
Game · Case study:
RECAR rebuilds the server for the RACER Chrome Experiment game.
Reviewed Technohacker/recar@e16b98b
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The Ganbare Goemon 3 project reconstructs the Super Famicom game's ROM as assembly, with bank maps and notes on asset, compression and text formats.
Game · Case study:
TamagoC implements Tamagotchi-style virtual-pet behaviour from observation.
Reviewed adrianparvino/TamagoC@a02d48d
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Marble Knights Recompiled ports the iOS game to Windows by translating ARM64 functions in its UnityFramework into C and compiling them into a GameAssembly.dll for the Unity 2019.4.17f1 Windows player.
Game · Case study:
Prineo_RE investigates the PriPara arcade games' model and resource formats and provides a Noesis addon to load skinned meshes, encrypted assets and texture bindings.
Reviewed ExIfDev/Prineo_RE@c1779f4
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Wizardry 6 investigates the data formats and systems of Bane of the Cosmic Forge, with parsers and viewers for graphics, maps, scenario records, text and sound.
Game · Case study:
Reverse Engineering Scorcher investigates the 1996 game's asset formats through a Python extractor.
Game · Case study:
Precursor ports the Jak and Daxter trilogy to Android ARM64 using OpenGOAL's recovered GOAL code and tools.
Reviewed thebardockgames/Precursor@8c6f2c6
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Grand Prix Circuit is a Rust port of the 1988 DOS racing game that loads the user's GPEGA.EXE and game assets.
Game · Case study:
OpenInsaniquarium reimplements Insaniquarium Deluxe 1.1 in Rust with a deterministic simulation and Bevy presentation layer.
Reviewed elgreams/OpenInsaniquarium@c3f3bb7
Game · Case study:
Durak NX runs the Android ARM64 Unity game Durak 25.0 on Nintendo Switch through a target-specific compatibility layer for graphics, audio, files and input.
Reviewed Oleksa126/durak_nx@8eb7666
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OpenCE PS4 ports OpenCE's reconstructed Halo: Combat Evolved code to a jailbroken PlayStation 4.
Reviewed iHaiDeeZ/OpenCE-PS4@dcf1b83
Game · Case study:
SR1 Creator recreates the Saints Row (2006) character creator in a browser using meshes, morph targets, textures and tables read from the user's Saints Reborn folder.
Reviewed 00xJS/SR1-Creator@fc3a776
Game · Case study:
Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku II is reconstructed as a byte-matching GBA disassembly using ARM and Thumb assembly generated from the user's USA ROM.
Game · Case study:
lsd-decomp reconstructs C source for the SLPS-01556 PlayStation release of LSD: Dream Emulator and checks the rebuilt executable by SHA-1.
Reviewed klNuno/lsd-decomp@c28230c
Game · Case study:
onslaught-decomp reconstructs Battle Engine Aquila's PC game code from a published GPL source release and retail executable evidence.
Reviewed dlprentice/onslaught-decomp@76e277d
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ash reimplements a limited Dark Souls: Remastered experience in a C99 engine for Sony PSP hardware.
Reviewed meshoklv/ash@3ffe1c4
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rrt2-decomp reimplements Railroad Tycoon II in Rust after studying the Platinum executable, game data and simulation rules.
Reviewed pedryvo/rrt2-decomp@2e29341
Game · Case study:
Onslaught CE ports Battle Engine Aquila to native 32-bit Linux and Windows builds using the game's public source and a separate matching decompilation.
Reviewed dlprentice/onslaught-ce@1f1639f
Game · Case study:
thps64 reconstructs the C source of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater for Nintendo 64 (US V1.1) from a user-supplied ROM.
Reviewed andrewnakas/thps64@82558fd
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Quake 4 Definitive Edition ports selected Xbox 360 controller behavior into openQ4 patches for the PC game.
Game · Case study:
Luna Purpura works toward a portable interpreter for 1990s Purple Moon games, including Rockett's New School, using the user's original CD-ROM files.
Reviewed dressupgeekout/lunapurpura@74bba1e
Game · Case study:
Digimon World 2003 adapts an upstream matching decompilation and PC port for RK3326 Linux handhelds including the R36S and XF35H.
Reviewed al4xdev/dw3@61d06ba
Game · Case study:
Shadow the Hedgehog reconstructs C++ source for the USA Rev 0 GameCube release using the original Metrowerks toolchain.
Reviewed 2Balanced/Shadow-GC-Decomp@dbc7533
Game · Case study:
pc-ffcceotwii statically recompiles the European Wii release of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time into C++ for PC on the wiikit runtime.
Reviewed vs-sr-dev/pc-ffcceotwii@f62ee88
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Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak reconstructs the European AH3P revision 0 GBA game as C and assembly that builds a specified 16 MiB ROM.
Reviewed josealmon/hamtaro-heartbreak@14f0aec
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pc-4ddriving ports the FM Towns Marty game 4D Driving by recompiling its 386 program and TBIOS into C++ with fmtownskit.
Reviewed vs-sr-dev/pc-4ddriving@fbff75f
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pc-thequeenofduellist ports the FM Towns game The Queen of Duellist by recompiling its 386 program and TBIOS code into C++ with fmtownskit.
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The NGPC–Dreamcast link-cable project reconstructs serial exchanges between SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium and Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000.