Case study

pokerecomp: reimplementing the Game Boy Pokémon games

pokerecomp is a Godot 4 reimplementation, written in GDScript, of the Game Boy Pokémon games. Gold, Silver, Crystal, Red, Blue, and Yellow are playable from the bedroom through the Hall of Fame and their credits. A cartridge dump is checked by SHA-1, decoded once into a cache, and then released.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C1 partial scope or analysis entry

Stars: 45
Last commit: 2026-11-06
Language: GDScript
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Demo screenshot from the project's public documentation

Observed: Code, documentation, download and demo observed; a full-reconstruction candidate for manual Class 0 review.
Scope: Partial
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

The documented engine is Godot 4.8.dev7. Releases cover Windows x86_64 and ARM, macOS, Linux x86_64 and ARM64, Android, iOS, and Switch.
License: MIT for the engine source. The README says that license does not cover the games or supplied dumps.

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BibTeX

@misc{pokerecomp,
  title = {{pokerecomp: reimplementing the Game Boy Pokémon games}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Decryptu/pokerecomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/Decryptu/pokerecomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/pokerecomp/}}
}

Plain text

pokerecomp: reimplementing the Game Boy Pokémon games. https://github.com/Decryptu/pokerecomp (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/pokerecomp/

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README.md GitHub · Decryptu/pokerecomp · Revision 452c2fb