Case study

Excitebike 64: matching three Nintendo 64 releases

Excitebike 64 reconstructs the LodgeNet, US Rev 1, and European Nintendo 64 releases in a shared C and assembly tree. The build compiles functions at their original addresses, compresses the game image, and checks the rebuilt ROM against each release's SHA-1. The author reports byte-identical results for all three versions; original assets and RSP microcode are taken from user-supplied ROMs.

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

Stars: 6
Last commit: 2026-10-14
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Own a big-endian .z64 ROM for the selected release.
SN64, KMC GCC, ultralib, SWD32, MIPS binutils, Python 3.11+, and the listed build utilities.
Windows 11 with WSL is reported as verified; Wine execution on other hosts is untested.

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BibTeX

@misc{excitebike-64-decomp-case,
  title = {{Excitebike 64: matching three Nintendo 64 releases}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/chasmlol/excitebike64}},
  url = {https://github.com/chasmlol/excitebike64},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/excitebike-64-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Excitebike 64: matching three Nintendo 64 releases. https://github.com/chasmlol/excitebike64 (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/excitebike-64-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · chasmlol/excitebike64 · Revision 9cdb194
docs/overview.md GitHub · chasmlol/excitebike64 · Revision 9cdb194