# DinoTale: a static-recompilation port of Yoshi's Story

> DinoTale statically recompiles Yoshi's Story with N64Recomp for Windows and Linux, using N64ModernRuntime and RT64 for execution and rendering. Its game-specific work maps overlays and functions and adds display modes, controls and renderer fixes.

- 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/wootbeer/dinotale>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/wootbeer/dinotale/blob/51e0cd7f94904f1bce463a2c80a240c4c9751aef/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/dinotale-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/dinotale-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/dinotale-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Windows or Linux and a user-supplied Yoshi's Story USA game copy matching the documented SHA-1.
- **Limits:** Hybrid and Expand display modes are experimental.
- **License:** GPL-3.0 license for the project's own code.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/wootbeer/dinotale/blob/51e0cd7f94904f1bce463a2c80a240c4c9751aef/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/wootbeer/dinotale/blob/51e0cd7f94904f1bce463a2c80a240c4c9751aef/PROGRESS.md>

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