# retrokit

> retrokit decompiles 32-bit games from about 1993 to 2010 with headless Ghidra. It loads DOS LE and LX executables, including Watcom calling conventions, and types Win32 PE imports such as DirectX COM methods and Miles, Smacker, Bink, FMOD, and BASS. The export is one large C file plus indexes of functions, calls, strings, and imports.

- Type: Tool
- Targets: Game
- Category: Native analysis tools
- Relationship: Foundation tool
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/nautilusbits/retrokit>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/nautilusbits/retrokit/blob/7625c6b6a1f29d4793bc528c31621cd9ef784b1d/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/retrokit/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/retrokit/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/retrokit/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- Ghidra 12.x, JDK 21 or newer, and Python 3.10 or newer. retrokit install-loader registers the DOS loader once per Ghidra install.
- License: Apache-2.0.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/nautilusbits/retrokit/blob/7625c6b6a1f29d4793bc528c31621cd9ef784b1d/README.md>

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