Case study

BAR Decomp: a matching Beetle Adventure Racing! decompilation fork

BAR Decomp reconstructs the USA Nintendo 64 release of Beetle Adventure Racing! as C intended to compile to the original ROM bytes. It extends an earlier decompilation with AI-assisted source recovery and a ROM hash gate for changes.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06

Stars: 4
Last commit: 2026-10-25
Language: C
License (GitHub): AGPL-3.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Ubuntu 22.04 or newer; Ubuntu 24.04 is recommended, with the documented MIPS build dependencies and Python virtual environment.
Prerequisites: A legally dumped USA cartridge image named baserom.us.z64 with the specified SHA-1 is required.
Limits: The work remains incomplete; the author reports roughly 26% of functions matched at the time of forking.
License: AGPL-3.0.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{bar-decomp-case,
  title = {{BAR Decomp: a matching Beetle Adventure Racing! decompilation fork}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/bryankruman/BeetleDecomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/bryankruman/BeetleDecomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/bar-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

BAR Decomp: a matching Beetle Adventure Racing! decompilation fork. https://github.com/bryankruman/BeetleDecomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/bar-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · bryankruman/BeetleDecomp · Revision e147801
docs/CAMPAIGN_STATUS.md GitHub · bryankruman/BeetleDecomp · Revision e147801