Case study

TetrisGBRecomp: a static recompilation of Game Boy Tetris

TetrisGBRecomp statically translates the Game Boy Tetris version 1.0 ROM into C for native PC execution. Its configuration identifies the ROM and entry points, while a dispatch manifest supplies harvested function seeds; the gb-recompiled runtime models Game Boy graphics, audio and memory. The author reports all game modes playable.

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: 10
Last commit: 2026-08-17
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

Prerequisites: A user-supplied Tetris version 1.0 Game Boy ROM matching CRC32 0x63F9407D is required.
Prerequisites: The gb-recompiled engine and recomp-ui launcher must be checked out alongside the project.
Prerequisites: The documented Windows build uses GCC, CMake, Ninja and SDL2 under msys2 mingw64.
Limits: The author reports playability; Tetris version 1.1 is unsupported.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{tetris-gb-recomp-case,
  title = {{TetrisGBRecomp: a static recompilation of Game Boy Tetris}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/mstan/TetrisGBRecomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/mstan/TetrisGBRecomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/tetris-gb-recomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

TetrisGBRecomp: a static recompilation of Game Boy Tetris. https://github.com/mstan/TetrisGBRecomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/tetris-gb-recomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · mstan/TetrisGBRecomp · Revision cf67e43