BattleTech (Virtual World Entertainment pod)

BattleTech (Virtual World Entertainment pod) (Arcade, 1990) has an open-source reimplementation, sp00nznet/battlepod.

Data checked 2026-10-12 · unbaked registry

Every linked repository here is new and has little community signal yet. Read the code before running anything it offers for download.

Projects

battlepodnew, unvetted

Reimplementation68020 interpreter + hardware model0 starspushed 2026-10-08MIT license

Bring-up harness for the Virtual World Entertainment BattleTech arcade cockpit: loads the pod's own image set, runs its 68020, and maps the hardware underneath by observation.

v0.1.0 alpha: playable, UDP multi-pod combat, no sound; 292/292 conformance checkpoints

What you need

Check each project for what game data it needs. Code here is linked, never game files.

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GitHub data checked 2026-10-12. Notes are summaries from the research pass; the project pages are the authority.