# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-09
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/sp00nznet/virtuacop>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/sp00nznet/virtuacop/blob/9532c1a69c60a5213127506a8181c1a073f18070/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/virtua-cop-static-recomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/virtua-cop-static-recomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/virtua-cop-static-recomp-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/sp00nznet/virtuacop/blob/9532c1a69c60a5213127506a8181c1a073f18070/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/sp00nznet/virtuacop/blob/9532c1a69c60a5213127506a8181c1a073f18070/docs/GETTING_STARTED.md>

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