# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-09
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://gitlab.com/banjo.decomp/banjo-kazooie>
- Primary source: <https://gitlab.com/banjo.decomp/banjo-kazooie/-/blob/7b6a4c44a1a5bf80977adcf48d822ea9d6bdf899/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/banjo-kazooie-rebuild-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/banjo-kazooie-rebuild-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/banjo-kazooie-rebuild-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

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

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