# Thunderball: decompilation of Peggle Deluxe

> Thunderball aims to decompile the English 1.01 executable of Peggle Deluxe from the Steam release. The README says many names come from unstripped ports cross-referenced with the Windows binary, and accuracy checks use reccmp. The repository omits the game assets.

- 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/teampopwork/Thunderball>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/teampopwork/Thunderball/blob/661e0de292a58a4d22355a45ce029cdb22078635/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/thunderball/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/thunderball/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/thunderball/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** CMake 3.25 or higher, Ninja, and Microsoft Visual C++ 14. The README says to place a portable MSVC toolchain in Thunderball/msvc80 and run cmake --workflow --preset release-x86.
- **Prerequisites:** A copy of Peggle Deluxe supplies the assets. The Steam English 1.01 executable is the named target.
- **Prerequisites:** reccmp is installed with pip install git+https://github.com/isledecomp/reccmp.
- **License:** GitHub reports the repository license as NOASSERTION. The README links LICENSE.md.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/teampopwork/Thunderball/blob/661e0de292a58a4d22355a45ce029cdb22078635/README.md>

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