Shadowrun’s Japanese release, kept playable. Return to the original game, explore our recreation so far, and follow every new piece we recover.
Both belong to this project. Each player explains how it runs and what is ready to play.
The complete original Japanese ROM runs in a browser SNES emulator. This preserves the original game program, progression and soundtrack.
This player uses emulation. It is separate from the rebuilt JavaScript engine.
Play original ShadowrunOur new engine brings back the Japanese artwork, source scripts, mouse controls and reconstructed rooms. Follow the work as more of the original game is rebuilt.
Incomplete: later routes, combat, spells and quests are still being reconstructed.
Play the reconstructionListen to the game music recovered by this project in a dedicated player, with track notes that explain the source and recording limits.
Open the music playerThe morgue, hallway, streets, station notice board, hotel corridor and injured man’s room run in the native engine. Original door and item scripts, Japanese captions, inventory and native save states carry the progress.
Click the floor to walk and objects to interact. The recreation supports keyboard input, browser gamepads and optional HID mapping. Physical controller compatibility varies with the device and browser.
The free Matchbox offer and restored hidden-room shortcut are optional additions requested for this recreation. They are identified separately from the original Japanese game.
The native project remains available as a downloadable package. Browser saves stay in the browser that created them; export and import can move a native save between the local and hosted players.
Download native version 0.13.0