Case study

Goemon's Great Adventure: a matching Nintendo 64 decompilation

Goemon's Great Adventure reconstructs the Nintendo 64 US game's code as C and supplies tools to rebuild its ROM from a user-provided copy. The author reports that the reconstructed ROM matches the original byte for byte and that all 5,838 game functions match at the instruction level. The build extracts assets from the user's ROM and rebuilds them alongside the code.

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

Stars: 1
Last commit: 2026-10-26
Language: C
License (GitHub): CC0-1.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Requires the user's own copy of the US Nintendo 64 game ROM as baserom.us.z64.
Prerequisites: Building requires Python 3 and Git; the documented Windows path uses MSYS2, while macOS uses GNU binutils for mips64-elf.
Testing evidence: The author reports that the build matches both the decompressed ROM and final ROM hashes.
License: CC0 1.0 Universal.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{goemons-great-adventure-decomp-case,
  title = {{Goemon's Great Adventure: a matching Nintendo 64 decompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/PandaPandel/Goemons-Great-Adventure-Decomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/PandaPandel/Goemons-Great-Adventure-Decomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/goemons-great-adventure-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Goemon's Great Adventure: a matching Nintendo 64 decompilation. https://github.com/PandaPandel/Goemons-Great-Adventure-Decomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/goemons-great-adventure-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · PandaPandel/Goemons-Great-Adventure-Decomp · Revision cd9fc66
canon-decompilation-tools/README.md GitHub · PandaPandel/Goemons-Great-Adventure-Decomp · Revision cd9fc66