Case study

Garigari: matching decompilation of Super Mario Galaxy 2

Garigari reconstructs the USA Wii release SB4E01 Rev 0 of Super Mario Galaxy 2 as C and C++ source. Contributors build against main.dol extracted from their own game and use objdiff to compare compiled objects and functions with the original binary.

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

Stars: 97
Last commit: 2026-11-09
Language: C
License (GitHub): CC0-1.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A copy of Super Mario Galaxy 2 SB4E01 Rev 0 and its extracted sys/main.dol are required.
Prerequisites: Python and Ninja are required for configuration and building; objdiff is used for comparison.
Limits: The decompilation is in progress.
License: CC0-1.0.

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BibTeX

@misc{garigari-case,
  title = {{Garigari: matching decompilation of Super Mario Galaxy 2}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/SMGCommunity/Garigari}},
  url = {https://github.com/SMGCommunity/Garigari},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/garigari-case/}}
}

Plain text

Garigari: matching decompilation of Super Mario Galaxy 2. https://github.com/SMGCommunity/Garigari (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/garigari-case/

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README.md GitHub · SMGCommunity/Garigari · Revision d969f2c
CONTRIBUTING.md GitHub · SMGCommunity/Garigari · Revision d969f2c