Case study

Banjo-Tooie: decompilation of the NTSC-U ROM

Banjo Tooie Decomp is a decompilation of Banjo-Tooie. The README says to place the NTSC-U ROM in the folder as baserom.us.z64, then run make setup and make to split and build it.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07

Stars: 157
Last commit: 2026-11-08
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

The NTSC-U ROM named in the README has SHA-1 af1a89e12b638b8d82cc4c085c8e01d4cba03fb3 and must be named baserom.us.z64.
make setup decompresses and splits the ROM. make builds it.
The README does not name a license.

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BibTeX

@misc{banjo-tooie-decomp-case,
  title = {{Banjo-Tooie: decompilation of the NTSC-U ROM}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Mr-Wiseguy/banjo-tooie}},
  url = {https://github.com/Mr-Wiseguy/banjo-tooie},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/banjo-tooie-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Banjo-Tooie: decompilation of the NTSC-U ROM. https://github.com/Mr-Wiseguy/banjo-tooie (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/banjo-tooie-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · Mr-Wiseguy/banjo-tooie · Revision 25033be