Case study

Dragon Ball Z on the Nintendo 64: recompiling two GBA games for N64

Dragon Ball Z on the Nintendo 64 statically recompiles ARM and Thumb code from The Legacy of Goku II and Buu's Fury into C for N64 builds. Its runtime supplies GBA graphics, sound, DMA, timers, interrupts and saves, with an RDP renderer and wider field view. The author reports both games playable on real hardware.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

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Last commit: 2026-10-25
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-08

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Supply a user-owned USA cartridge dump of the game being built; the build checks its SHA-1.
Prerequisites: Hardware use requires an N64 with Expansion Pak or an Analogue 3D, plus a flash cart.
Prerequisites: Building uses WSL Ubuntu, the libdragon preview toolchain, Python 3 and capstone.
Limits: Buu's Fury's 320 × 240 field view currently applies to field maps.
License: PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0 for repository source code.

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BibTeX

@misc{dbz64-case,
  title = {{Dragon Ball Z on the Nintendo 64: recompiling two GBA games for N64}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/NaraKitty/DBZ64}},
  url = {https://github.com/NaraKitty/DBZ64},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/dbz64-case/}}
}

Plain text

Dragon Ball Z on the Nintendo 64: recompiling two GBA games for N64. https://github.com/NaraKitty/DBZ64 (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/dbz64-case/

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README.md GitHub · NaraKitty/DBZ64 · Revision 75c8d28
docs/ARCHITECTURE.md GitHub · NaraKitty/DBZ64 · Revision 75c8d28
LICENSE GitHub · NaraKitty/DBZ64 · Revision 75c8d28