# Duke Nukem Zero Hour: decompiling the Nintendo 64 game

> This decompiles Duke Nukem: Zero Hour for the Nintendo 64. The US ROM is named baserom.us.z64. make setup extracts it, and make builds build/us/dukenukemzerohour.z64. The French ROM is baserom.fr.z64 and uses VERSION=fr. The README instructions use Ubuntu 22.04 or WSL2, a MIPS GNU toolchain, Python 3.9 or newer, and splat64. A Docker image dukenukemzerohour contains the same dependencies.

- 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/Gillou68310/DukeNukemZeroHour>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Gillou68310/DukeNukemZeroHour/blob/beca47137e63a2da6999ef9a7974dba16cd6f82b/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/duke-nukem-zero-hour/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/duke-nukem-zero-hour/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/duke-nukem-zero-hour/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- A US or French ROM. Ubuntu 22.04 packages make, git, build-essential, and the MIPS binutils and cpp packages. Python 3.9 or newer.
- The README names no license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Gillou68310/DukeNukemZeroHour/blob/beca47137e63a2da6999ef9a7974dba16cd6f82b/README.md>

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