# ZONE OF THE ENDERS: an early game decompilation

> zoe1 is an early decompilation of the 2001 game ZONE OF THE ENDERS. Its source implements the game's string-hash routine and sketches cache-system functions, many of which are still marked for decompilation.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/GirianSeed/zoe1>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/GirianSeed/zoe1/blob/5235acaca2d94ec1f7ae41bf1c0fc5e120e8e91d/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/zone-of-the-enders-2001-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/zone-of-the-enders-2001-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/zone-of-the-enders-2001-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Limits:** The cache-system functions shown in source/libfs/cache.cc are largely marked for decompilation.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/GirianSeed/zoe1/blob/5235acaca2d94ec1f7ae41bf1c0fc5e120e8e91d/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/GirianSeed/zoe1/blob/5235acaca2d94ec1f7ae41bf1c0fc5e120e8e91d/source/libfs/cache.cc>

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