Case study

Scooby-Doo Mystery: a reconstructed Sega Genesis engine

The Scooby-Doo Mystery port reimplements the Sega Genesis game's engine in C++ with SFML 3, porting routines from 68000 code and reading graphics, text and scripts from a user ROM. The repository includes engine notes, script VM findings, Ghidra exports and emulator comparison tools.

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: 20
Last commit: 2026-11-03
Language: C++
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

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

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A user-owned, plain 2 MB USA Scooby-Doo Mystery ROM is required.
Prerequisites: Building requires Git, CMake 3.24+ and a C++20 compiler; the first configuration downloads SFML 3 and sound cores.
Testing evidence: The author reports Windows build startup but no play session on a real Windows machine.
License: MIT.

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BibTeX

@misc{scooby-doo-mystery-genesis-case,
  title = {{Scooby-Doo Mystery: a reconstructed Sega Genesis engine}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/janezkranjc/scooby-doo-mistery-mouse-version}},
  url = {https://github.com/janezkranjc/scooby-doo-mistery-mouse-version},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/scooby-doo-mystery-genesis-case/}}
}

Plain text

Scooby-Doo Mystery: a reconstructed Sega Genesis engine. https://github.com/janezkranjc/scooby-doo-mistery-mouse-version (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/scooby-doo-mystery-genesis-case/

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Primary sources

README.md GitHub · janezkranjc/scooby-doo-mistery-mouse-version · Revision 87f687f
docs/ENGINE_NOTES.md GitHub · janezkranjc/scooby-doo-mistery-mouse-version · Revision 87f687f