Arcade native rebuild
namco22-decompile
Category: Games & game engines · Type: Reconstruction
Target: Namco System 21/22/23 arcade titles · Ghidra lift → C · native PC
Reverse-engineers Namco System 21/22/23 arcade programs with Ghidra, lifts and rewrites them to C checked against MAME, and ships native Windows/Linux packages so owners run titles from their own MAME ROM sets.
Relationship
Independent reimplementation
Evidence scope
Upstream README states Namco arcade games from the 1990s rebuilt to run on a normal computer, with playable-status tables and Ghidra+MAME instruction-level checks, and no ROM/BIOS game files in packages. No REA involvement is claimed.
Know before you try
Time Crisis not yet frame-by-frame matched to MAME per README; force feedback / some link features incomplete on certain titles. We have not independently tested it.
Status
Active; release 0.9.3 with multiple titles listed Playable
License
MIT
No ROM/BIOS game files redistributed — supply MAME 0.271+ sets. Original Namco titles remain with rights holders. Unofficial.
Source checked