# Vagrant Story Native: a Windows source port of the PlayStation game

> Vagrant Story Native ports the PlayStation release of Vagrant Story to Windows x64 in C++. It adapts prior decompilation work into native game systems, converts data from the user's disc, and documents remaining engine and content gaps.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/JEschete/VS-NativePort>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/JEschete/VS-NativePort/blob/f104d511ca04665edfd6fc74b7216a3220fbe055/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/vagrant-story-native-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/vagrant-story-native-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/vagrant-story-native-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Windows x64 and the user's own SLUS-01040 game disc image.
- **Limits:** Native save/load and native geometry rendering are identified as unfinished.
- **License:** Original contributions are under CC0-1.0; third-party components retain their own terms.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/JEschete/VS-NativePort/blob/f104d511ca04665edfd6fc74b7216a3220fbe055/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/JEschete/VS-NativePort/blob/f104d511ca04665edfd6fc74b7216a3220fbe055/Docs/CodeQC%20Reports/Code_Quality_Report_20261022.md>

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