Maniatic Launcher

A launcher for the decompilation of Retro Engine v5, used in Sonic Mania Plus.

It allows to run this game natively, and facilitates the installation and development

of mods.

To play this decompilation, you neeed to own a Steam copy of Sonic Mania (or Plus).

This software is distributed under Fair Use. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998, in Section 103(f)(3) regarding Reverse Engineering states:

The information acquired through the acts permitted under

paragraph (1), and the means permitted under paragraph (2),

may be made available to others if the person referred to in paragraph

(1) or (2), as the case may be, provides such information or means

solely for the purpose of enabling interoperability of an independently

created computer program with other programs, and to the

extent that doing so does not constitute infringement under this

title or violate applicable law other than this section.

This software contains decompiled code from Sonic Mania, made by Sega Corporation and Evening Star,

which was adapted to run natively in Linux-based operating systems. It does not

contain any kind of art (music, graphics) or level layouts from the original game.

As a result, the software does not work unless the user provides their own copy

of Sonic Mania, obtained by their own legal means.