Case study

World of Kartcraft: porting Crash Team Racing physics into WoW

World of Kartcraft ports Crash Team Racing's driving model, read from a decompilation, into a Rust World of Warcraft 1.12.1 client. It recreates kart handling, powerslides and boosts in Azeroth while setup extracts kart data from the user's CTR disc and reads a separate WoW installation. The project documents the physics port and the resulting multiplayer kart systems.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C1 partial scope or analysis entry

Stars: 6
Last commit: 2026-11-03
Language: Rust
License (GitHub): Apache-2.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Demo video thumbnail from the project's public documentation

Observed: Download and demo observed; the case covers part of the target software.
Scope: Partial
Checked: 2026-11-09

How evidence classes are assigned

Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Supply an English World of Warcraft 1.12.1 build 5875 installation and a US Crash Team Racing PlayStation disc image.
Prerequisites: The documented source setup uses Windows or Linux, Docker and about 20 GB of free space.
Limits: The project describes rough edges in its current state.
License: The Rust workspace declares MIT or Apache-2.0; the repository also contains GPL-3.0 and separate cosmetic-art terms.

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BibTeX

@misc{world-of-kartcraft-case,
  title = {{World of Kartcraft: porting Crash Team Racing physics into WoW}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/duxanlol/world-of-kartcraft}},
  url = {https://github.com/duxanlol/world-of-kartcraft},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/world-of-kartcraft-case/}}
}

Plain text

World of Kartcraft: porting Crash Team Racing physics into WoW. https://github.com/duxanlol/world-of-kartcraft (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/world-of-kartcraft-case/

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README.md GitHub · duxanlol/world-of-kartcraft · Revision 7388051
INSTALL.md GitHub · duxanlol/world-of-kartcraft · Revision 7388051