Case study

Conker's Bad Fur Day: an in-progress N64 decompilation

Conker's Bad Fur Day Decompilation reconstructs the US Nintendo 64 game from C, assembly and ROM-extracted sections. Its build splits compressed code, recompiles recovered functions and checks the rebuilt ROM; documentation also records the ROM layout and its rzip compression.

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

Stars: 239
Last commit: 2026-05-10
Language: C
Status: Archived

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: An owned US Conker's Bad Fur Day ROM named baserom.us.z64.
Prerequisites: Docker is the assumed build environment; the instructions also describe Ubuntu 20.04 under WSL.
Limits: The decompilation and asset-format documentation are unfinished.
License: No licence file in the repository.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{conkers-bad-fur-day-decomp-case,
  title = {{Conker's Bad Fur Day: an in-progress N64 decompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/mkst/conker}},
  url = {https://github.com/mkst/conker},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/conkers-bad-fur-day-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Conker's Bad Fur Day: an in-progress N64 decompilation. https://github.com/mkst/conker (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/conkers-bad-fur-day-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · mkst/conker · Revision 3adf229
conker/README.md GitHub · mkst/conker · Revision 3adf229