# 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.

- 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/jaytheham/body-harvest-decompilation>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/jaytheham/body-harvest-decompilation/blob/200e5309572a8144e0f14450eae2e3f966027406/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/body-harvest-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/body-harvest-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/body-harvest-decomp-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/jaytheham/body-harvest-decompilation/blob/200e5309572a8144e0f14450eae2e3f966027406/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/jaytheham/body-harvest-decompilation/blob/200e5309572a8144e0f14450eae2e3f966027406/docs/eu-port-notes.md>

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