Case study
Excite Truck: matching Wii decompilation
Excite Truck is an unfinished matching decompilation of the USA Wii release REXE01. It builds from a user-provided disc image, uses objdiff to compare rebuilt objects, and includes decompdecomp helpers for symbol and function-signature updates. The author reports 9,067 of 13,779 functions exactly matched.
- Targets
- Game
- Category
- Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship
- Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed
- Stars
- 3
- Last commit
- 2026-11-09
- Language
- C
- License (GitHub)
- CC0-1.0
GitHub data as of 2026-11-09
Requirements & limits
- Prerequisites: A personal copy of the REXE01 Rev 0 USA disc image is required.
- Prerequisites: Python and ninja are required; macOS lists wine-crossover, and non-x86 Linux lists wine.
- Limits: The author reports 9,067 of 13,779 functions exactly matched; the decompilation remains unfinished.
- License: CC0-1.0.
Cite
BibTeX
@misc{excite-truck-decomp-case,
title = {{Excite Truck: matching Wii decompilation}},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/orangedude27/excite-truck}},
url = {https://github.com/orangedude27/excite-truck},
urldate = {2026-11-06},
note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/excite-truck-decomp-case/}}
}Plain text
Excite Truck: matching Wii decompilation. https://github.com/orangedude27/excite-truck (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/excite-truck-decomp-case/
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About this entry
The description was reviewed against primary sources.
Primary sources
- README.md GitHub · orangedude27/excite-truck · Revision 5ff0ef5
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