# Salamander UEFI: a disassembly-based UEFI port of the NES game

> Salamander UEFI ports the NES game Salamander to a native UEFI Shell application by translating its 6502 disassembly into a platform-independent C core. The repository includes a 6502 disassembler, a user-ROM resource extractor, host tests and a fidelity checklist. UEFI GOP, input and timing services replace the original console environment.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-06
- Original resource: <https://github.com/MikeWuPing/UEFI_Salamander>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/MikeWuPing/UEFI_Salamander/blob/56160dc0587b8729d0cf731c7fff0e7ad2581eb3/README_en.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/salamander-uefi-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/salamander-uefi-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/salamander-uefi-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A legally held Salamander NES ROM is required to generate game-resource headers.
- **Prerequisites:** Building requires Windows, Visual Studio 2019, EDK2 and Python 3.10 or newer; QEMU/OVMF is used for emulated runs.
- **Limits:** The app has no audio, and the source lists score display and some boss sprite differences.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/MikeWuPing/UEFI_Salamander/blob/56160dc0587b8729d0cf731c7fff0e7ad2581eb3/README_en.md>
2. <https://github.com/MikeWuPing/UEFI_Salamander/blob/56160dc0587b8729d0cf731c7fff0e7ad2581eb3/SalamanderPkg/Generated/readme.md>
3. <https://github.com/MikeWuPing/UEFI_Salamander/blob/56160dc0587b8729d0cf731c7fff0e7ad2581eb3/docs/fidelity-checklist.md>

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