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OpenLW

Hobby recreation of Sonic Lost World written from Ghidra study of the Wii U and PC builds, targeting PC accuracy; building needs proprietary middleware SDKs.

Rewrite Human-led stalled

Source code

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Facts

Original: Sonic Lost World (2013)
Platform: Wii U
Method: Rewrite
Provenance: Human-led · Repo created 2020, predates AI coding tools (GitHub) what this means
Status: stalled
Licence: none
Team: Radfordhound
Started: 2020-04
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 Sonic Lost World you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.

This project was rebuilt by Radfordhound. Facts last checked 2026-10-17. Suggest a correction

Lineage

uses Ghidra

Sources

https://github.com/Radfordhound/OpenLW

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