{
  "added_at": "2026-11-09",
  "category": "reconstruction-cases",
  "class": "game",
  "description_en": "Weltall rebuilds the PlayStation game Xenogears as a native Unreal Engine 5 port that reads content from the user's disc images. Its source implements field and battle rendering, game systems, input, saves, and disc-data handling. The author reports checking gameplay behavior against the original code and completing a playthrough of both discs.",
  "description_zh": "Weltall 使用 Unreal Engine 5 将 PlayStation 游戏 Xenogears 重建为原生移植版，并从用户自己的光盘镜像读取内容。源码实现了场景与战斗渲染、游戏系统、输入、存档和光盘数据处理。作者报告已将玩法行为与原始代码比对，并完成两张光盘的通关。",
  "entry_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/weltall-xenogears-case/",
  "entry_url_zh": "https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/weltall-xenogears-case/",
  "evidence_class": 2,
  "evidence_status": "observed",
  "evidence_url": "https://github.com/Roman215/Weltall/blob/9344d23034a812ff3e44b1962c09f96c60ddf2a8/README.md",
  "group": "cases",
  "id": "weltall-xenogears-case",
  "json_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/weltall-xenogears-case/record.json",
  "kind": "case-study",
  "markdown_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/weltall-xenogears-case/index.md",
  "markdown_url_zh": "https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/weltall-xenogears-case/index.md",
  "name": "Weltall: rebuilding Xenogears in Unreal Engine 5",
  "name_zh": "Weltall：用 Unreal Engine 5 重建 Xenogears",
  "reconstruction_method": "engine-reimplementation",
  "record_type": "resource",
  "relationship": "independent-reconstruction",
  "requirement_facets": [
    "prerequisites",
    "prerequisites",
    "limits",
    "license"
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "A user-supplied USA Xenogears disc set or supported English undub is required.",
    "Windows 10 or 11 x64 with a DirectX 12 GPU, or 64-bit Linux with a Vulkan driver, is required for the documented desktop builds.",
    "Japanese retail discs are not playable; raw-sector images preserve movie audio, while 2048-byte ISO images have silent movies.",
    "MIT licence for the project code."
  ],
  "requirements_zh": [
    "须提供用户自己的美版 Xenogears 光盘镜像，或受支持的英语 undub 版本。",
    "文档所述桌面版本要求 Windows 10/11 x64 与 DirectX 12 显卡，或配备 Vulkan 驱动的 64 位 Linux。",
    "日版零售光盘无法游玩；原始扇区镜像可保留影片音频，2048 字节扇区的 ISO 镜像则只有无声影片。",
    "项目代码采用 MIT 许可证。"
  ],
  "scope": "unknown",
  "targets": [
    "game"
  ],
  "url": "https://github.com/Roman215/Weltall",
  "verification": "source-reviewed",
  "verified_at": "2026-11-06"
}