Emulator·Recreation · 2026 · playable

Sinistar (native recreation)

Run, coward. Rebuilt from the ROM.

Sinistar recreation gameplay — ROM-accurate sprites in deep space
Role
Solo developer
Tech
C++17 · SDL2 · CMake

A from-scratch C++/SDL2 reimplementation of Williams’ 1983 Sinistar — a recreation, not an emulator. ROM-accurate AI, extracted sprites, all eight digitized speech phrases, the original sixteen-color palette. The reverse-engineering notes ship in the repo.

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