# Wizardry 8 decompilation: reconstructing the Windows game and libraries

> Wizardry 8 decompilation reconstructs the Windows game's executable and supporting libraries as C and C++ and compares rebuilt functions with retail code. Its workflow combines Ghidra analysis, Visual C++ 6 builds, reccmp comparisons and runtime tests; the recovered executable runs with original game data.

- 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/agluszak/wizardry-8-decomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/agluszak/wizardry-8-decomp/blob/075cbd0b853c4670e94f6ae4fe48d53b52b5e819/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/wizardry-8-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/wizardry-8-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/wizardry-8-decomp-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Requires a legally obtained Wizardry 8 copy; the current workflow uses the GOG release.
- **Prerequisites:** Development uses uv, Docker, Wine, Java 25, a pinned Ghidra fork, CMake and reccmp.
- **Limits:** Semantic, binary-structure and behavioral audits remain open.
- **License:** The SGP component retains Strategy First's non-commercial SFI Source Code License Agreement; no project-wide licence file is listed.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/agluszak/wizardry-8-decomp/blob/075cbd0b853c4670e94f6ae4fe48d53b52b5e819/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/agluszak/wizardry-8-decomp/blob/075cbd0b853c4670e94f6ae4fe48d53b52b5e819/src/sgp/README.md>

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