Case study

Kirby Air Ride: a three-region GameCube decompilation

KAR reconstructs Kirby Air Ride code for the USA, Japan and Europe GameCube releases using decomp-toolkit and CodeWarrior build settings. It keeps source, symbols and split metadata for comparison with the user's extracted discs; data-split notes describe source ownership inferred from strings, cross-references and layout.

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

Stars: 8
Last commit: 2026-08-16
Language: C
License (GitHub): CC0-1.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Provide an extracted game disc with sys/main.dol under orig/<GAMEID>.
Prerequisites: CodeWarrior for GameCube 2.4.2 build 81 is the documented game-code baseline.
Limits: The decompilation is in progress; some small-data and BSS ownership remains provisional.
License: CC0-1.0 license.

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BibTeX

@misc{kar-kirby-air-ride-case,
  title = {{Kirby Air Ride: a three-region GameCube decompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/wowjinxy/KAR}},
  url = {https://github.com/wowjinxy/KAR},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/kar-kirby-air-ride-case/}}
}

Plain text

Kirby Air Ride: a three-region GameCube decompilation. https://github.com/wowjinxy/KAR (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/kar-kirby-air-ride-case/

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README.md GitHub · wowjinxy/KAR · Revision cb94b15
docs/kar_data_split_notes.md GitHub · wowjinxy/KAR · Revision cb94b15