Pac-Man

Pac-Man (Arcade, 1980) has an open-source reimplementation, floooh/pacman.c, and 11 other public projects, including an official source code release and a matching decompilation. An agent environment already wraps it.

Data checked 2026-10-12 · unbaked registry

nesrecomp ca65 / cc65

Projects

pacman.c (floooh)

ReimplementationC99 single-file, sokol (runs native + WASM)594 starspushed 2026-07-02MIT license

Simple Pacman clone written in C99.

Faithful Pac-Man clone following the Pac-Man Dossier (ghost AI, timings); no ROM needed (embedded assets)

pacman-c (C translation of ROM)

Source portC (hand translation, original Z80 kept as comments)20 starspushed 2025-05-12MIT license

C translation of pacman ROM

C translation of the Pac-Man ROM code; needs ROMs for assets

PacManRecomp

Static recompnesrecomp (6502->C, cycle backend), CMake, SDL29 starspushed 2026-10-06custom licenserelease v1.1.1

Windows-only native recompilation of Pac-Man for the NES (the 1993 Namco release) with a launcher, extras, cheats and beginner-friendly modding. Bring your own ROM.

native Windows recomp with launcher, extras, cheats, modding; headless input-script tests; AI-assisted development ()

sajattack c64-pacman-disassembly

Disassembly6502 assembly (64tass/ACME/KickAssembler/ca65); reassembles to origin…7 starspushed 2018-11-30no license

What it says on the tin

Disassembly.

PacmanRecomp (Wilson-Flores)

Static recomp5 starspushed 2026-02-20MIT license

Static recompilation of Midway's original Pac-Man arcade game for PC (Windows/Linux/Mac)

Static recompilation for Windows/Linux/Mac (Feb 2026)

jotd666/pacman500 (arcade -> 68k transcode)

Source portZ80/6502 -> 68000 assembly transcode (amiga68ktools)5 starspushed 2026-04-25no license

1:1 port with original ghost behaviour & speed in 100% 68k assembly (Amiga 500)

Pacman-decompilednew, unvetted

Matching decomp0 starspushed 2026-09-21MIT license

Pacman decompiled: Purpose using AI to analyze a codebase and test conclusions in a fun way

pacman_src

Matching decomp0 starspushed 2026-09-10no license

Byte-identical ca65 source reconstruction of seven official Pac-Man NES revisions, with reverse-engineering documentation and content-authoring tools.

Byte-identical ca65 source reconstruction of seven official Pac-Man NES revisions, with reverse-engineering documentation and content-authoring tools; no GitHub releases; repo created 2026-02-23

j2me-decompilation-pacmannew, unvetted

DecompJava (decompiled MIDlet, recompilable)0 starspushed 2026-10-10no license

Decompilation (Oct 2026)

pacman-arcade-recomp (pacrecomp)

Static recompZ80 -> C (pacrecomp)0 starspushed 2026-06-19MIT license

Pac-Man (Namco, 1980) statically recompiled from Z80 to native C - renders its maze in full colour. Built on pacrecomp.

Renders maze in colour; ~99% of dispatches recompiled (Jun 2026)

NES-Games-Disassembly: Pac-Man (Namco, Japan v1.1)covers 29 games

DisassemblyBZK 6502 Disassembler scripts + asm6/ca65-style build (assemble.bat /…292 starspushed 2026-08-12no license

Source code of some NES games

complete: 'Each source code is equal to the original ROM, compilable and editable' ()

Pac-Man