Josh Schuler / Reverse engineering
Bringing basketball classics back to life.
Native ports.
Recovered behavior. Same obsession.
Currently rebuilding NBA Live ’95 & ’97
Real games. Rebuilt from the inside.
Super Nintendo / C99 / Win32
Bringing the 16-bit court back in native C. Original presentation, menus, graphics, and audio meet a growing reconstruction of the game’s on-court systems.
PlayStation / Recovered C + C++ host
From MIPS routines to a native frontend: menus, rules, user profiles, rosters, player portraits, and original audio. The next era of the same preservation work.
Frontend reconstruction is underway. Playable basketball is not yet implemented.
Game Boy / C99 / SDL 3
Five modes, one native codebase. One-on-One, Free Throws, H-O-R-S-E, Accuracy Shootout, and Tournament—rebuilt with a software renderer and cross-platform SDL host.
Completed single-player behavioral port, not cycle-accurate emulation. Two-player input and music beyond the title/menu theme remain outside the completed scope. See the repository for the current fidelity notes.
The NES projects that started the journey.
04 / NES · C · WIN32
Recovering title-to-court flow, audio, shooting, scoring, and inbounds.
Image: original game reference
05 / NES · C · WIN32
Preseason and season flows, team data, and a native ten-player court.
Image: opening presentationBeyond my own repositories
Contributing upstream matters, too. A few merged improvements to the frameworks and documentation other developers rely on.
The person behind the ports
I’m Josh Schuler, an engineering leader and hands-on builder with 15+ years of software experience.
Classic games are where I get closest to the details: understanding how an old machine made something work, then expressing that behavior in code someone can read, test, and maintain.
My process is straightforward: inspect the original, recover the behavior, and compare the result. I keep verified work, approximations, and open questions separate.
More of my work on GitHub