ActRaiser

Game: ActRaiser (SNES / Super Famicom, 1990)

A static recompilation of the US cartridge: the 65816 code is translated to C with snesrecomp-go, the project’s own Go port of snesrecomp, and linked with a hand-written SDL3 runtime. A Builder for Windows (x64 and ARM64), macOS (Apple silicon and Intel), Linux (x64 and ARM64), and Steam Deck includes the compiler, verifies your ROM, and builds the game on your machine, offline too; the downloads contain no game code. According to the project, the full US campaign has been played from start to finish: all six towns, all 12 acts, Death Heim, and the ending. It boots with the original 4:3 look, and everything else is optional: true 16:9 or 16:10 widescreen that extends the backgrounds, a Diorama mode that splits the action stages into 3D planes, towns rebuilt in 3D with terrain relief and voxel models, a spherical 3D world for traveling between them, GPU and CRT effects, high-resolution Mode 7, interpolated frames on high-refresh displays, an HD title logo, replacement music in OGG, language packs with their own editor, US, Japanese, or European regional rules, ten save slots, and optional fixes for bugs in the original. The latest pre-release is 0.803 (October 17), and a full decompilation is in progress. Its README states that several AI coding assistants contributed to the tooling, runtime, debugging infrastructure, and documentation, and 121 of its 901 commits list Claude as co-author.

You needYour own US ActRaiser ROM for SNES (internal title ACTRAISER-USA), 1,048,576 bytes without a copier header, internal checksum 0x83DB, SHA-256 b8055844825653210d252d29a2229f9a3e7e512004e83940620173c57d8723f0. Plus Windows 10 or 11 (the Builder uses WebView2, which they already include), macOS, Linux, or a Steam Deck.

How it gets to PC

Static recompilation

Console

Super Nintendo / Super Famicom

Architecture

65816

Author

DerrickGold

Original studio

Quintet

Year

1990

Stars

24

Last activity

2026-10-30 · 1 day ago

Language

C