Case study

pc-finalfantasy12revenantwings: a static recompilation port of Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings

pc-finalfantasy12revenantwings ports the European Nintendo DS release of Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings to PC by statically recompiling its ARM9 and ARM7 programs and six overlays to C++. The ndskit runtime replaces DS hardware, while repository tools and notes examine the cartridge, packed data, movies and executable layout. The author reports playing from a new game into the second chapter.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 1
Last commit: 2026-10-30
Language: Python
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-08

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A user-dumped European release cartridge image with decrypted secure area is required; game data is absent from the repository.
Prerequisites: ndskit must be checked out as a submodule; building requires Python 3, clang, CMake, Ninja, SDL3 and an OpenGL 4.5 GPU.
Testing evidence: The author reports play through the first chapter into the second.
License: MIT license.

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BibTeX

@misc{pc-finalfantasy12revenantwings-case,
  title = {{pc-finalfantasy12revenantwings: a static recompilation port of Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/vs-sr-dev/pc-finalfantasy12revenantwings}},
  url = {https://github.com/vs-sr-dev/pc-finalfantasy12revenantwings},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/pc-finalfantasy12revenantwings-case/}}
}

Plain text

pc-finalfantasy12revenantwings: a static recompilation port of Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings. https://github.com/vs-sr-dev/pc-finalfantasy12revenantwings (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/pc-finalfantasy12revenantwings-case/

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README.md GitHub · vs-sr-dev/pc-finalfantasy12revenantwings · Revision 5d1981c
docs/00-sessions.md GitHub · vs-sr-dev/pc-finalfantasy12revenantwings · Revision 5d1981c