# pc-virtualhydlide: statically recompiling Virtual Hydlide for PC

> pc-virtualhydlide ports the European Sega Saturn release of Virtual Hydlide toward PC by statically recompiling fifteen SH-2 programs to C++ and running them with saturnkit. Its notes document disc structure, game files, executable behavior, video and sound; the author reports playable output and an optional interpolated display between the game's logic frames.

- 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/vs-sr-dev/pc-virtualhydlide>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/vs-sr-dev/pc-virtualhydlide/blob/74e8e8abfc5a23623dab610cc207e26bbf9d0ec9/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/pc-virtualhydlide-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/pc-virtualhydlide-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/pc-virtualhydlide-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** The user's own European MK-81380 V1.000 disc image in a Redump-style .cue/.bin set is required; the repository ships no game assets.
- **Prerequisites:** Python 3.8+ is required for the tools; C++ builds use CMake, Ninja, clang and SDL3, with saturnkit as a submodule.
- **Limits:** The author reports that interpolated output still has glitches and further game areas remain to be covered.
- **License:** MIT license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/vs-sr-dev/pc-virtualhydlide/blob/74e8e8abfc5a23623dab610cc207e26bbf9d0ec9/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/vs-sr-dev/pc-virtualhydlide/blob/74e8e8abfc5a23623dab610cc207e26bbf9d0ec9/docs/00-sessions.md>

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