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DX-Ball reconstruction

Readable C and C++ reconstruction of DX-Ball 1.07 checked with differential tests against the original x86 binary and byte-exact compiler oracles.

Matching decomp AI-assisted wip

Source code

Image: the project's own README · source

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Latest release—

Last pushOct 18, 2026

GitHub figures as of 2026-10-18, refreshed daily.

Facts

Original: DX-Ball 1.07 (1996)
Platform: Windows
Method: Matching decomp
Provenance: AI-assisted · AGENTS.md present in the repo root (GitHub) what this means
Status: wip
Licence: MIT
Team: N0zoM1z0
Started: 2026-10
Runs on: Windows
Needs the original: Yes: you supply your own legally obtained copy

How to get it legally

This project ships code only. Build or download it from the official repository, then supply data from a copy of DX-Ball 1.07 you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.

This project was decompiled by N0zoM1z0. Facts last checked 2026-10-14. Suggest a correction

Lineage

uses Ghidra

Sources

https://github.com/N0zoM1z0/dx-ball

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