Case study

Bomberman 64: a decompressed USA ROM decompilation

bm64 reconstructs a decompressed ROM of the USA Nintendo 64 game Bomberman 64 from C, assembly and a user-supplied baserom. Its build specifies an MD5 for the resulting ROM and provides setup steps for extraction and reassembly.

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

Stars: 36
Last commit: 2026-03-08
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A USA Bomberman 64 ROM must be supplied as baserom.z64.
Prerequisites: The documented build needs Make, MIPS binutils, Python newer than 3.7 and packages in requirements.txt.
Limits: The decompilation is a work in progress.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{bomberman-64-bm64-case,
  title = {{Bomberman 64: a decompressed USA ROM decompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Bomberhackers/bm64}},
  url = {https://github.com/Bomberhackers/bm64},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/bomberman-64-bm64-case/}}
}

Plain text

Bomberman 64: a decompressed USA ROM decompilation. https://github.com/Bomberhackers/bm64 (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/bomberman-64-bm64-case/

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README.md GitHub · Bomberhackers/bm64 · Revision c7c5fd5