# SpaceCadetPinball: decompiled game logic adapted to SDL2

> Converts the reverse-engineered Space Cadet pinball game into compilable C++ for desktop platforms. The README identifies the Windows XP executable and public PDB, a Full Tilt executable, and the work of recovering structures, naming variables and adapting the decompiled routines.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-10-17
- Added to the catalog: 2026-10-17
- Original resource: <https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball/blob/cb9b7b886244a27773f66b0b19fdc2998392565e/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/space-cadet-pinball-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/space-cadet-pinball-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/space-cadet-pinball-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Requires original game resources supplied separately. The project supports resource data from Windows and Full Tilt editions; its releases do not supply those assets.
- **Prerequisites:** Source builds require C++11, CMake, SDL2 and SDL2_mixer. The README gives Visual Studio, GCC/Clang and Xcode build paths, including x86_64 or arm64 selection on macOS.
- **Scope:** The main project targets desktop Windows, Linux and macOS. Its list of console, mobile and browser ports points to separate projects.
- **Scope:** The README reports that all subroutines were decompiled and converted to C++. Full Tilt feature work and possible support for its other two tables remain separate plans.
- **License:** MIT license for this repository; original game resources and dependencies retain their own terms.
- **Scope:** As checked on 2026-10-20, the latest release is Release_2.1.0 (2023-10-16); the reviewed 2024-08-21 commit is still the master head and GitHub’s last recorded push, the repository is not archived and the README does not mark it as maintained, superseded or archived.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball/blob/cb9b7b886244a27773f66b0b19fdc2998392565e/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball/blob/cb9b7b886244a27773f66b0b19fdc2998392565e/CMakeLists.txt>
3. <https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball/blob/cb9b7b886244a27773f66b0b19fdc2998392565e/LICENSE>
4. <https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball/releases/tag/Release_2.1.0>

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