{
  "added_at": "2026-11-09",
  "category": "reconstruction-cases",
  "class": "game",
  "description_en": "widebrim recreates the Nintendo DS Layton 2 engine in Python and pygame, informed by decompilation research on the European Professor Layton and Pandora's Box release. It reads a user-provided ROM and implements game modes, puzzles and saves while documenting behavior it approximates or omits.",
  "description_zh": "widebrim 以 Python 和 pygame 重建 Nintendo DS 版 Layton 2 引擎，依据对欧版 Professor Layton and Pandora's Box 的反编译研究。它读取用户提供的 ROM，实现游戏模式、谜题与存档，并说明哪些行为经过近似处理或尚未实现。",
  "entry_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/widebrim-case/",
  "entry_url_zh": "https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/widebrim-case/",
  "evidence_class": 2,
  "evidence_status": "observed",
  "evidence_url": "https://github.com/bullbin/widebrim/blob/29182559cfcfa9206e02edee9cd89dff8d1fa32f/README.md",
  "group": "cases",
  "id": "widebrim-case",
  "json_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/widebrim-case/record.json",
  "kind": "case-study",
  "markdown_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/widebrim-case/index.md",
  "markdown_url_zh": "https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/widebrim-case/index.md",
  "name": "widebrim: reimplementing the Professor Layton and Pandora's Box engine",
  "name_zh": "widebrim：重建 Professor Layton and Pandora's Box 引擎",
  "reconstruction_method": "engine-reimplementation",
  "record_type": "resource",
  "relationship": "independent-reconstruction",
  "requirement_facets": [
    "prerequisites",
    "prerequisites",
    "limits",
    "license"
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Provide a Professor Layton and Pandora's Box ROM for the default configuration.",
    "Tesseract-OCR is needed for handwriting puzzle input; FFmpeg 4.4 or newer enables movies.",
    "Minigames and sound are not implemented; some effects and puzzle details differ from the original.",
    "MIT licence."
  ],
  "requirements_zh": [
    "默认配置需要提供 Professor Layton and Pandora's Box ROM。",
    "手写谜题输入需要 Tesseract-OCR；电影播放需要 FFmpeg 4.4 或更新版本。",
    "小游戏和声音尚未实现；部分特效及谜题细节与原版不同。",
    "MIT 许可证。"
  ],
  "scope": "unknown",
  "targets": [
    "game"
  ],
  "url": "https://github.com/bullbin/widebrim",
  "verification": "source-reviewed",
  "verified_at": "2026-11-06"
}