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Plants vs. Zombies Decompilation (ruslan831 fork)

Fork of a Plants vs. Zombies decompilation with fixes checked against the original binary.

Decompilation AI-assisted wip
Stars121+4 ★ in 4 days
Commits, 30 days1
Latest release—
Last pushSep 19, 2026

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

Facts

Original
Plants vs. Zombies (2009)
Platform
Windows
Method
Decompilation
Provenance
AI-assisted · AGENTS.md in repo root describes agent workflow (GitHub) what this means
Status
wip
Licence
MIT
Team
ruslan831
Started
2023-02
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 Plants vs. Zombies you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.

This project was decompiled by ruslan831. Facts last checked 2026-10-14. Suggest a correction

Sources

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