# Animal Crossing: Wild World: a native PC port of the decompilation

> Animal Crossing: Wild World, native compiles decompiled code from the USA Rev 1 Nintendo DS game into a PC program. A host layer supplies DS hardware services, SDL input, and CPU or WebGPU renderers; this branch changes the source for portability. The byte-matching ROM build is retained at the matching tag.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/7ucina/acww-decomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/7ucina/acww-decomp/blob/4e54d6abbd696a43213b0c600e7f466cf7b22f32/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/animal-crossing-wild-world-native-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/animal-crossing-wild-world-native-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/animal-crossing-wild-world-native-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Requires a user-owned USA Rev 1 game ROM.
- **Prerequisites:** The documented native builds target x86-64 Linux and Apple Silicon or Intel macOS; Linux needs GCC, Python 3, Ninja and SDL2 development files.
- **Limits:** This branch no longer rebuilds the original ROM; the matching build is at the matching tag.
- **License:** The project’s own work is under the MIT licence.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/7ucina/acww-decomp/blob/4e54d6abbd696a43213b0c600e7f466cf7b22f32/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/7ucina/acww-decomp/blob/4e54d6abbd696a43213b0c600e7f466cf7b22f32/docs/host.md>

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