Case study

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled — a static recompilation for PC

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled Recompiled translates the Xbox 360 game's PowerPC code into C++ and builds a native PC port with the ReXGlue SDK. Its launcher extracts an exact Xbox Live Arcade package supplied by the user; the port adds PC display options and an online multiplayer service.

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

Stars: 48
Last commit: 2026-11-06
Language: C++
License (GitHub): GPL-2.0

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

How evidence classes are assigned

Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit, with a DirectX 12 graphics card, or 64-bit Linux with Vulkan; Linux and Steam Deck support is experimental.
Prerequisites: A user-owned Turtles in Time Re-Shelled Xbox Live Arcade STFS LIVE package, game version 0.0.1.3, with the specified executables.
Testing evidence: Linux rendering, audio, controllers and online play have not yet been validated on real Linux hardware or Steam Deck.
License: GPL-2.0 license.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{tmnt-turtles-in-time-reshelled-recompiled-case,
  title = {{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled — a static recompilation for PC}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/saulob/tmnt-turtles-in-time-reshelled-recompiled}},
  url = {https://github.com/saulob/tmnt-turtles-in-time-reshelled-recompiled},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/tmnt-turtles-in-time-reshelled-recompiled-case/}}
}

Plain text

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled — a static recompilation for PC. https://github.com/saulob/tmnt-turtles-in-time-reshelled-recompiled (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/tmnt-turtles-in-time-reshelled-recompiled-case/

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README.md GitHub · saulob/tmnt-turtles-in-time-reshelled-recompiled · Revision 4177fef
docs/project-status.md GitHub · saulob/tmnt-turtles-in-time-reshelled-recompiled · Revision 4177fef
LICENSE GitHub · saulob/tmnt-turtles-in-time-reshelled-recompiled · Revision 4177fef