# VERA20K: rebuilding Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge in Rust

> VERA20K rebuilds the Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge engine in Rust while reading the user's original game files. The project says coding agents study the original engine with Ghidra, implement its behavior in a new simulation and rendering architecture, and compare results with the original through tools and playtests.

- 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/YuriPlanet/vera20k>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/YuriPlanet/vera20k/blob/b4497a73217353d1979488be1a44323a4705d1ad/README.ar.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/vera20k-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/vera20k-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/vera20k-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Requires the user's own copy of Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge.
- **Prerequisites:** Building requires Rust 1.97 or later, Git and platform build tools.
- **Limits:** Campaign missions can start, but objectives, triggers, scripted transitions, saving and loading still need work.
- **License:** Code is licensed under GPLv3 with additional terms; art added to the project's art/ folder defaults to CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/YuriPlanet/vera20k/blob/b4497a73217353d1979488be1a44323a4705d1ad/README.ar.md>
2. <https://github.com/YuriPlanet/vera20k/blob/b4497a73217353d1979488be1a44323a4705d1ad/LEGAL.md>

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