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Every decompilation, static recompilation, clean-room rebuild and preservation project, tracked live.
Browse all projects · Recompiled games list · Decompiled games list · Progress tracker · Play in your browser · Submit a project
Recomp is a community tracker for the projects that rebuild software from its machine code: N64 games recompiled into native PC ports, byte-matching GameCube decompilations, open-source reimplementations of classic apps, revived online servers, and the reverse-engineering tools the scene runs on. It covers 2,300+ projects across games, apps, operating systems, RE tooling and preservation, and it updates itself every day from GitHub and the scene's progress trackers.
Every entry says how the project was made and who made it, including an honest label for AI use, taken from the project's own words.
What's on the site
| Page | What you get |
|---|
| Games, Apps, OS, Tools, Preservation | The full catalogue by section, searchable and filterable by method, platform and provenance |
| Recompiled games list | Every static recomp / native PC port, with download links to the latest release |
| Decompiled games list | Every game decompilation and how far along it is |
| Progress tracker | Matched-code % for ~275 decomps, history charts, weekly movers, milestones and per-platform leaderboards |
| Platforms | One page per console or system: "N64 decomps, recomps & PC ports: full list" |
| By game | Comparison pages for games that have several projects (e.g. Super Mario 64) |
| Trending · This week | What is gaining stars and shipping releases right now |
| Play | Builds that run in a browser tab: clean-room ROM-free builds, free originals, bring-your-own-file ports and software in WebAssembly |
| News · History · Tool lineage | Scene news, a timeline from the 1990s to now, and which tools grew out of which |
| What is a recomp? | Decompilation vs static recompilation vs clean-room reimplementation, in plain words |
Each project page (example) shows:
- the status, method and platform
- the provenance label and licence
- the latest release, with a download button
- GitHub activity and star growth
- a progress chart, where one exists
- related projects
Feeds: new releases (RSS) · news (RSS) · llms.txt
Labels
Method:
- matching decomp
- decompilation
- static recomp
- clean-room
- rewrite
- source port
- official source release
- binary lift
- emulation-hosted
- tool
Status: released · complete · wip · stalled · archived. Status keeps itself current:
- a decomp that reaches 100% on its progress source becomes complete
- a WIP port that publishes a GitHub release becomes released
- an archived repo becomes archived
Provenance:
| Label | When |
|---|
| Human-led | The project says so, or predates practical AI coding tools |
| AI-assisted | The project says AI helped (README, CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md, commit trailers, its own site) |
| AI-generated | The project says the work was done primarily by AI |
| Not stated | No statement from the project. Speculation from elsewhere never sets a label |
Rules for listing
Recomp lists projects whose repositories and releases contain their own work only:
- No hosted IP: no ROMs, ISOs, disc images, retail executables, DLLs, or game assets (extracted, converted or AI-upscaled) in the repo or its releases.
- Bring your own copy: projects that need the original must have players supply it from a copy they own.
- No leaked source.
- Public, primary sources: every fact on a page links to where it was checked.
- Our own words: summaries are written fresh, never copied from READMEs.
The site itself hosts no ROMs, disc images or ripped assets and does not link to any.
Submissions are verified before they go live:
- Scan the repo's file tree for game files.
- Check what the releases ship.
- Check how release binaries were built and look up their hashes.
- Find the AI-use statement, if any.
Submit a project or a correction
- New project: use the Submit a project form, or open a submission issue.
- Something wrong or stale? Use the correction form linked from every project page. Maintainers saying "I work on this" get priority.
- Want progress tracking? Publish your progress on ByteMatch, decomp.dev or frogress (opt-in sources are ranked on the leaderboards). An objdiff
*_report CI artifact or a README badge is also picked up, shown but not ranked. Ask to opt out and your entry's progress disappears everywhere.
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