Cave Story

Cave Story (PC, 2004) has an open-source reimplementation, doukutsu-rs/doukutsu-rs, and 6 other public projects, including a matching decompilation and a static recompilation.

Data checked 2026-10-12 · unbaked registry

PortMaster

Projects

doukutsu-rs

Reimplementation1,308 starspushed 2026-09-04MIT licenserelease 1.0.0

A faithful and open-source remake of Cave Story's engine written in Rust

faithful Rust remake of the engine (supports CS+ data)

NXEngine-evo

Reimplementation549 starspushed 2026-03-04GPL-3.0 licenserelease v2.6.5-1

nxengine refactoring

CSE2

Matching decompMSVC (accurate branch) + portable branch (SDL)198 starspushed 2026-03-12custom license

Decompilation of Cave Story (v1.0.0.6)

Complete decompilation of freeware v1.0.0.6; original Clownacy/CSE2 repo DMCA'd by Nicalis (2020-11); mirrors/forks continue

NXEngine (libretro)

ReimplementationNXEngine re-implementation as libretro core; packaged for aarch64 Lin…86 starspushed 2026-08-22no license

Port of NxEngine to the libretro API. NXEngine is a Cave Story game engine clone

In PortMaster (main) as 'Cave Story lr' (cave.story), updated 2025-10-04; ready-to-run

Cave-Story-Decompilationarchived

Matching decomp20 starspushed 2018-10-04no license

Decompilation of Cave Story. Made with IDA Pro

repo archived

cave-story-recompilation

Static recomp1 starspushed 2018-03-27no license

Cave-Story-PSP-Descompilation

Matching decomp0 starspushed 2026-06-14MIT license

A Partial Decompilation of Cave Story for PSP by ufo_z

What you need

You need your own copy of the game: these projects ship code only.

Same toolchain

GameMethodYearStarsLast push

DOSDoomSource releaseMatching decomp+8199320k2026-10-12 DOSCommand & ConquerSource releaseReimplementation+2199518k2026-10-12 WEB2048Source releaseReimplementation+1201413k2026-08-19 PC2048 PlusReadable bytecode13k2024-10-24 PCMinecraft: Java EditionReimplementationSource port+220117.6k2026-10-11 PCBattle for WesnothSource release20056.9k2026-10-12 DOSQuakeSource releaseMatching decomp+419966.1k2026-10-12 PCThe Elder Scrolls III: MorrowindReimplementation20026.6k2026-10-12

More on PC

GameMethodYearStarsLast push

PCMindustrySource releaseAgent environment201929k2026-10-11 PCosu!Source releaseReadable bytecode+1200719k2026-10-12 PCCommand & Conquer Remastered CollectionSource release202021k2025-01-16 PCRollerCoaster Tycoon 2ReimplementationAgent environment200216k2026-10-12 PCDune 2000Reimplementation199818k2026-10-11 PCAge of Empires IIReimplementation199914k2026-10-03 PCCataclysm: Dark Days AheadSource release201313k2026-10-12 PCCivilization VSource releaseReimplementation201011k2026-10-12

Found via github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-19-nical, PortsMaster/PortMaster-New/tree/main/ports/cave., PortsMaster/PortMaster-Info/blob/main/ports.json, search?type=repositories&q=%22decompilation+of%2, search?type=repositories&q=recomp+in%3Aname+crea

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