Case study

Kirby Air Ride: a GameCube DOL decompilation

Kirby Air Ride reconstructs a GameCube main.dol from C and assembly source for the US/Korean release. Its build targets a stated SHA-1 and uses a user-provided clean DOL with GameCube SDK and CodeWarrior tools.

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

Stars: 91
Last commit: 2025-02-26
Language: Assembly

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A clean US or Korean Kirby Air Ride DOL named baserom.dol.
Prerequisites: devkitPro, Python 3, GCC, GameCube SDK, CodeWarrior and GC_WII_COMPILERS.
Limits: The decompilation is work in progress.
License: No licence file in the repository.

Cite

BibTeX

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

Plain text

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

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README.md GitHub · doldecomp/kar · Revision 3ed51a1