Case study

Virtua Cop: statically recompiling the Model 2 arcade game

Virtua Cop statically recompiles the Sega Model 2 arcade game's i960 program ROM into C for a native Windows build. A ROM loader prepares flat images from the user's ROM set, and the generated C links with model2recomp to model the board and render the game. The author reports that the game boots and plays a stage; sound is unimplemented.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-09
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 4
Last commit: 2026-09-17
Language: Python
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a demo observed; no download method found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A Virtua Cop vcop or vcopa ROM set owned or dumped by the user.
Prerequisites: Windows 10 or 11, Visual Studio 2022, CMake 3.20 or newer, SDL2 via vcpkg, and Python 3.10 or newer.
Limits: Sound is not implemented, and a full stage playthrough has not been checked.
License: MIT License.

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BibTeX

@misc{virtua-cop-static-recomp-case,
  title = {{Virtua Cop: statically recompiling the Model 2 arcade game}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/sp00nznet/virtuacop}},
  url = {https://github.com/sp00nznet/virtuacop},
  urldate = {2026-11-09},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/virtua-cop-static-recomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Virtua Cop: statically recompiling the Model 2 arcade game. https://github.com/sp00nznet/virtuacop (accessed 2026-11-09). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/virtua-cop-static-recomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · sp00nznet/virtuacop · Revision 9532c1a
docs/GETTING_STARTED.md GitHub · sp00nznet/virtuacop · Revision 9532c1a