# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/n0madic/StarCraft64-recomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/n0madic/StarCraft64-recomp/blob/fd190148ed6f2d3c688890ed4ce9144769bfc344/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/starcraft64-recomp/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/starcraft64-recomp/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/starcraft64-recomp/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/n0madic/StarCraft64-recomp/blob/fd190148ed6f2d3c688890ed4ce9144769bfc344/README.md>

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