# Bomberman Hero: matching decompilation of the Nintendo 64 game

> This is a work-in-progress decompilation of Bomberman Hero for the Nintendo 64, US release. It builds bmhero.z64.

- 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/Bomberhackers/bmhero>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Bomberhackers/bmhero/blob/a07c57e1ee9bd20d054a7180017d30f5aa86d70f/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/bmhero-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/bmhero-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/bmhero-decomp-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- Place the US ROM at baserom.z64. The built ROM MD5 is ef2453bff7ad0c4bfa9ab0bd6324ebf3.
- On Debian or Ubuntu, install make, git, build-essential, binutils-mips-linux-gnu, and Python newer than 3.7, then pip install -r requirements.txt. make setup extracts the ROM, and make rebuilds it.
- The README names no license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Bomberhackers/bmhero/blob/a07c57e1ee9bd20d054a7180017d30f5aa86d70f/README.md>

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