Case study

TA: Byte Tactics — matching decompilation of Total Annihilation

TA: Byte Tactics reconstructs Total Annihilation v3.1 functions as C++ compiled with Visual C++ 5.0 SP3. Its checker compares each compiled function with TotalA.exe while accounting for linker-filled bytes; the author reports 1,973 byte-matched functions.

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: 0
Last commit: 2026-09-27
Language: C++

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

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

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Provide your own Steam copy of Total Annihilation v3.1.
Prerequisites: Setup requires wine, 7z, cabextract, curl and uv; Ghidra export requires Java 21.
Limits: The author reports 1,973 of 3,267 functions matched byte for byte.
License: MIT covers tools/ only; reconstructed game code in src/ is offered without a licence.

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BibTeX

@misc{ta-byte-tactics-case,
  title = {{TA: Byte Tactics — matching decompilation of Total Annihilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/ozgb/byte-tactics}},
  url = {https://github.com/ozgb/byte-tactics},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/ta-byte-tactics-case/}}
}

Plain text

TA: Byte Tactics — matching decompilation of Total Annihilation. https://github.com/ozgb/byte-tactics (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/ta-byte-tactics-case/

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README.md GitHub · ozgb/byte-tactics · Revision 33d1455
LICENSE GitHub · ozgb/byte-tactics · Revision 33d1455