# 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.

- 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/orangedude27/excite-truck>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/orangedude27/excite-truck/blob/5ff0ef5fb7081f5783ccadc276b06abc52804aeb/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/excite-truck-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/excite-truck-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/excite-truck-decomp-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/orangedude27/excite-truck/blob/5ff0ef5fb7081f5783ccadc276b06abc52804aeb/README.md>

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