Case study

DisMKW: an in-progress Mario Kart Wii disassembly

DisMKW reconstructs the NTSC-U release of Mario Kart Wii as PowerPC assembly, covering game and Mario Kart Channel code. Its build uses main.dol and StaticR.rel from the user's copy, while the progress list tracks sections still dependent on binary inclusion.

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

Stars: 20
Last commit: 2018-11-26
Language: Assembly

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Obtain NTSC-U main.dol and StaticR.rel from a USA copy of Mario Kart Wii.
Prerequisites: Install devkitPPC and the platform build tools described in the README.
Limits: The disassembly is a work in progress, with several sections still using incbin.
License: No licence file in the repository.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{dismkw-case,
  title = {{DisMKW: an in-progress Mario Kart Wii disassembly}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/aplumafreak500/DisMKW}},
  url = {https://github.com/aplumafreak500/DisMKW},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/dismkw-case/}}
}

Plain text

DisMKW: an in-progress Mario Kart Wii disassembly. https://github.com/aplumafreak500/DisMKW (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/dismkw-case/

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README.md GitHub · aplumafreak500/DisMKW · Revision 7c7c5e9