Case study

Virtua Cop 2: investigating PC game assets

The Virtua Cop 2 investigation examines the 1997 PC game's asset files with parsers, ImHex patterns and a browser explorer. The explorer displays models and textures from a selected game directory and offers experimental browsing of stage maps in P_STG*.BIN files.

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: 15
Last commit: 2026-05-19
Language: TypeScript

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a demo observed; no download method found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Requires the user's Virtua Cop 2 game files, including its executable.
Prerequisites: Local explorer development uses pnpm.
Limits: Stage-map browsing is experimental, and the project remains in progress.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{re-virtua-cop-2-case,
  title = {{Virtua Cop 2: investigating PC game assets}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/jevarg/re-virtua-cop-2}},
  url = {https://github.com/jevarg/re-virtua-cop-2},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/re-virtua-cop-2-case/}}
}

Plain text

Virtua Cop 2: investigating PC game assets. https://github.com/jevarg/re-virtua-cop-2 (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/re-virtua-cop-2-case/

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tools/explorer/README.md GitHub · jevarg/re-virtua-cop-2 · Revision 7ae9d0f
README.md GitHub · jevarg/re-virtua-cop-2 · Revision 7ae9d0f