# 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.

- 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/bryankruman/BeetleDecomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/bryankruman/BeetleDecomp/blob/e147801318405b0da45350f797a64ba49ff76f8a/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/bar-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/bar-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/bar-decomp-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/bryankruman/BeetleDecomp/blob/e147801318405b0da45350f797a64ba49ff76f8a/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/bryankruman/BeetleDecomp/blob/e147801318405b0da45350f797a64ba49ff76f8a/docs/CAMPAIGN_STATUS.md>

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