# Banjo-Kazooie: Xbox Live Arcade decompilation

> This decompiles the Xbox Live Arcade version of Banjo-Kazooie. The expected default.xex has SHA-1 24f81f8058d1be416d95ccfcb5ebd2503eb4fd47. make split reads bk.yaml, and make regenerates merged.xex. The documented Xbox 360 SDK is version 7645. Comparisons use Visual Studio 2005 SP1 output against GCC for PowerPC, so objdiff shows function-call relocations as different.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/banjo360/bk360>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/banjo360/bk360/blob/dc021c2fd04fcae54b51ec2bb0c426a09b295d88/readme.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/bk360/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/bk360/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/bk360/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- split360 and coff-linker on PATH, Visual Studio 2005 SP1, the Xbox 360 SDK, Python, and a PowerPC GCC. Linux builds use WINE.
- The README names no license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/banjo360/bk360/blob/dc021c2fd04fcae54b51ec2bb0c426a09b295d88/readme.md>

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