# Dinosaur Planet: byte-exact Nintendo 64 decompilation

> This is a work-in-progress decompilation of the Nintendo 64 game Dinosaur Planet, from the ROM released by Forest of Illusion on 20 February 2021. The ROM is named baserom.z64 and its MD5 is 49f7bb346ade39d1915c22e090ffd748. ./dino.py setup extracts it and ./dino.py build rebuilds it and checks the match. The page says the ROM is not shiftable yet. Linux needs a MIPS GNU binutils package, gcc, ninja, and Python 3. Windows setup uses MSYS2 and Python 3.12 or newer.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/zestydevy/dinosaur-planet>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/zestydevy/dinosaur-planet/blob/d616a6381e87ae6cab557e8f70458a07d5a48084/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/dinosaur-planet-decomp/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/dinosaur-planet-decomp/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/dinosaur-planet-decomp/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- The unmodified ROM named above. Linux or WSL with the packages in packages.txt, or MSYS2 on Windows.
- The README does not name a license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/zestydevy/dinosaur-planet/blob/d616a6381e87ae6cab557e8f70458a07d5a48084/README.md>

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