Case study

Kanken Training 2: matching reconstruction of a Nintendo 3DS executable

Kanken Training 2 decomp reconstructs the Nintendo 3DS game's code.bin as C/C++ compiled with an ARM toolchain and compared byte for byte with the original. It records function analysis, matching recipes and checkpoint results. The author reports 2,832 accepted matching functions out of 4,545 creditable functions; readability work remains.

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

Stars: 0
Last commit: 2026-10-26
Language: C++
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A user-supplied cartridge dump is required; encrypted dumps also require boot9.bin from the user's console.
Prerequisites: macOS on Apple Silicon, Windows or Linux, Python 3.12 and uv are required.
Limits: The author reports 27.74% of creditable code bytes accepted; the readability pass has not started.
License: GPL-3.0-or-later.

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BibTeX

@misc{kanken-training-2-decomp-case,
  title = {{Kanken Training 2: matching reconstruction of a Nintendo 3DS executable}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/mschienbein/kanken-training-2-decomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/mschienbein/kanken-training-2-decomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/kanken-training-2-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Kanken Training 2: matching reconstruction of a Nintendo 3DS executable. https://github.com/mschienbein/kanken-training-2-decomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/kanken-training-2-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · mschienbein/kanken-training-2-decomp · Revision d35d69b
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