# 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.

- 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/Bomberhackers/bm64>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Bomberhackers/bm64/blob/c7c5fd5a73a9d5969673535030fc4f1df956fa5f/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/bomberman-64-bm64-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/bomberman-64-bm64-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/bomberman-64-bm64-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Bomberhackers/bm64/blob/c7c5fd5a73a9d5969673535030fc4f1df956fa5f/README.md>

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