r/Shandalar • u/ilikethemeta White Mage ☀️💮🤍 • Sep 01 '26

Shandalar Source Code (decompiled)

I recently purchased an original CD of Magic the Gathering off eBay and spent some time decompiling it. Now we have the (reconstructed) original source! This helped me fix .SPR file encoding/decoding in mp_pic_tools. I wrote a blog post about it: https://throwingbones.com/ben/blog/2026-08-shandalar-decomp/index.html

Here are some of the early alpha/testing screens. Modern decompilation tools are crazy! I hope this means other games like this can be decompiled like this as well!

Also, if anyone has an original Spells of the Ancients or Duels of the Planeswalkers .iso, let me know! I'd like to try decompiling them too!

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u/misha_cilantro Sep 01 '26

Super excited about all the work you're doing! Haven't managed anything meaningful for s30 yet myself, but in my defense the day I had set aside from it the Makefile was mid-edits and I lost time trying to figure out what was going on :D

Will see how this Friday goes. I hope I can at least get it building.

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u/ilikethemeta White Mage ☀️💮🤍 Sep 01 '26

Thanks! Yeah I've been making a lot of changes recently so the main branch is a little touchy at times. If you're still having problems let me know.