Case study

Star Fox: a native SNES recompilation

This statically recompiles Star Fox for the Super Nintendo into native C with snesrecomp. The required ROM is an unheadered 1 MiB dump of Star Fox (USA) version 1.2, SHA-256 82E39DFBB3E4FE5C28044E80878392070C618B298DD5A267E5EA53C8F72CC548. The README says the game boots and that attract mode, menus, route selection, training, and gameplay have passed basic testing. An optional widescreen renderer is included.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C1 partial scope or analysis entry

Stars: 38
Last commit: 2026-11-06
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Demo screenshot from the project's public documentation

Observed: Download and demo observed; the case covers part of the target software.
Scope: Partial
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Download StarFoxSNESRecomp-windows-x64-v0.3.0.zip from Releases and run StarFoxSNESRecomp.exe. The runtime checks the SHA-256 before play.
License: PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{starfox-snes-recomp,
  title = {{Star Fox: a native SNES recompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/mstan/StarFoxSNESRecomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/mstan/StarFoxSNESRecomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/starfox-snes-recomp/}}
}

Plain text

Star Fox: a native SNES recompilation. https://github.com/mstan/StarFoxSNESRecomp (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/starfox-snes-recomp/

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README.md GitHub · mstan/StarFoxSNESRecomp · Revision faac8d4