Case study

Body Harvest: matching US and EU N64 decompilations

Body Harvest reconstructs the US and EU N64 releases of the game in C and assembly, using user-supplied ROMs for extraction and comparison. The author reports byte-exact builds for both regions; the repository also records function-level compiler matching work.

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

Stars: 46
Last commit: 2026-11-08
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

A user-supplied US or EU Body Harvest ROM, named baserom.us.z64 or baserom.eu.z64.
The documented Windows workflow uses Python 3.11.4–3.12; Linux instructions use Ubuntu 22.04.
Some NON_MATCHING source does not compile.

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BibTeX

@misc{body-harvest-decomp-case,
  title = {{Body Harvest: matching US and EU N64 decompilations}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/jaytheham/body-harvest-decompilation}},
  url = {https://github.com/jaytheham/body-harvest-decompilation},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/body-harvest-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Body Harvest: matching US and EU N64 decompilations. https://github.com/jaytheham/body-harvest-decompilation (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/body-harvest-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · jaytheham/body-harvest-decompilation · Revision 200e530
docs/eu-port-notes.md GitHub · jaytheham/body-harvest-decompilation · Revision 200e530