Case study

Banjo-Kazooie: rebuilding the game from base ROMs

Banjo-Kazooie provides a workflow to extract from a user-supplied base ROM and build the game in full or by module. It lists US, Japanese and PAL ROM variants; the author reports 100.0000% progress.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Provide a Banjo-Kazooie base ROM named baserom.<version>.z64.
Prerequisites: Build on Ubuntu 18.04 or newer on x86_64, or use Docker on Linux or macOS.
License: No licence stated on the project page.

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BibTeX

@misc{banjo-kazooie-rebuild-case,
  title = {{Banjo-Kazooie: rebuilding the game from base ROMs}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://gitlab.com/banjo.decomp/banjo-kazooie}},
  url = {https://gitlab.com/banjo.decomp/banjo-kazooie},
  urldate = {2026-11-09},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/banjo-kazooie-rebuild-case/}}
}

Plain text

Banjo-Kazooie: rebuilding the game from base ROMs. https://gitlab.com/banjo.decomp/banjo-kazooie (accessed 2026-11-09). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/banjo-kazooie-rebuild-case/

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https://gitlab.com/banjo.decomp/banjo-kazooie/-/blob/7b6a4c44a1a5bf80977adcf48d822ea9d6bdf899/README.md