Independent game engine
Marble Love
Category: Games & game engines · Type: Reconstruction
Target: Marble Madness (1984 arcade) · TypeScript
A function-by-function TypeScript port of Atari’s 1984 arcade Marble Madness with a browser frontend, reverse-engineered from the 68010 disassembly and parity-tested against MAME.
Relationship
Independent reimplementation
Evidence scope
The upstream README describes a function-by-function TypeScript port (not an emulator) whose routines were reverse-engineered from the 68010 disassembly and tested against MAME, and documents its Ghidra/MAME method. No REA involvement is claimed.
Know before you try
Requires user-supplied MAME ROM ZIPs. Audio is not globally bit-perfect, attract/insert-coin audio is unfinished, and known bugs remain. Small single-maintainer project. We have not independently tested it.
Status
Research-grade; gameplay and level progression work
License
MIT
Marble Love code is MIT (see NOTICE and THIRD_PARTY.md); Marble Madness ROMs and Atari IP remain with rights holders.
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