# Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex: a GameCube decompilation

> Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex is being reconstructed as GameCube source for the USA Rev 0 release. The repository contains recovered source, object splits, symbol maps, and a ProDG 3.5 build configuration; its workflow uses decomp-toolkit and objdiff to compare rebuilt units with the user's original main.dol.

- 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/denzi-gh/crashwoc-decomp-gc>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/denzi-gh/crashwoc-decomp-gc/blob/9ab3fa7e18c2201bbd3da865bcd178e9188fcda6/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/crash-wrath-of-cortex-gc-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/crash-wrath-of-cortex-gc-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/crash-wrath-of-cortex-gc-decomp-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A user-provided USA Rev 0 GameCube executable at orig/GCBE7D/sys/main.dol is required.
- **Prerequisites:** Windows with Python and Ninja is the documented local setup; configuration uses ProDG 3.5.
- **Limits:** The decompilation is in progress, and local development is primarily tested on Windows.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/denzi-gh/crashwoc-decomp-gc/blob/9ab3fa7e18c2201bbd3da865bcd178e9188fcda6/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/denzi-gh/crashwoc-decomp-gc/blob/9ab3fa7e18c2201bbd3da865bcd178e9188fcda6/AGENTS.md>

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