Case study

BattleTanx: an in-progress matching N64 decompilation

BattleTanx reconstructs the North American Nintendo 64 game as C and assembly, with builds checked against a user-supplied cartridge dump. The repository includes source, symbol files and build configuration. The author reports 22.71% of code bytes and 830 of 1,736 functions matched at the stated update.

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

Stars: 3
Last commit: 2026-11-07
Language: C
License (GitHub): CC0-1.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A legally acquired North American BattleTanx cartridge dump is required at roms/baserom.us.z64.
Prerequisites: GNU Make, Python 3, MIPS binutils, splat, GCC 2.7.2 and abumas are required.
Limits: The author reports 22.71% of code bytes matched at the stated update.
License: CC0-1.0 license.

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BibTeX

@misc{battletanx-n64-decomp-case,
  title = {{BattleTanx: an in-progress matching N64 decompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/AbuN64/BattleTanx}},
  url = {https://github.com/AbuN64/BattleTanx},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/battletanx-n64-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

BattleTanx: an in-progress matching N64 decompilation. https://github.com/AbuN64/BattleTanx (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/battletanx-n64-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · AbuN64/BattleTanx · Revision f5030a9
CONTRIBUTING.md GitHub · AbuN64/BattleTanx · Revision f5030a9