Case study

StarCraft 64: a native port by static recompilation

This is a native port of StarCraft 64, NTSC-U. N64Recomp translates the MIPS code to C, and a software renderer draws the game's display lists. The ROM must match SHA-1 a36d91b5aac7bb95df0d7de5f9814f5270e25c2b after byte-order normalization. The README says the single-player campaign, menus, Encyclopedia, saves, and sound work. macOS on Apple Silicon and Android arm64 from Android 9 are the accepted platforms. Windows x86_64 and Linux x86_64 packages are cross-built.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 41
Last commit: 2026-11-04
Language: C++

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

CMake, Ninja, and Python 3.10 or newer. The documented launcher build is make doctor, make bootstrap, make build-recompiler, and make package. z64, v64, and n64 dumps are accepted.
License: MIT for the original source and documentation. The README says launcher packages statically link N64ModernRuntime under GPL-3.0, and tools/bolt_extract.py plus tools/research/bolt_audit.py are GPL-3.0-or-later.

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BibTeX

@misc{starcraft64-recomp,
  title = {{StarCraft 64: a native port by static recompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/n0madic/StarCraft64-recomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/n0madic/StarCraft64-recomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/starcraft64-recomp/}}
}

Plain text

StarCraft 64: a native port by static recompilation. https://github.com/n0madic/StarCraft64-recomp (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/starcraft64-recomp/

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README.md GitHub · n0madic/StarCraft64-recomp · Revision fd19014