Case study

Kirby's Epic Yarn: decompiling the USA Wii release

This repository is a work-in-progress decompilation of Kirby's Epic Yarn. The supported version is RK5E01, the USA revision 0. The tree contains no game assets or assembly.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07

Stars: 57
Last commit: 2026-10-14
Language: C++
License (GitHub): CC0-1.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Requirements & limits

Extract the game with Dolphin into orig/RK5E01. Only sys/main.dol is required. Then run python configure.py and ninja.
Diffing uses objdiff. The README does not name a license.

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BibTeX

@misc{kirby-epic-yarn-decomp,
  title = {{Kirby's Epic Yarn: decompiling the USA Wii release}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Swiftshine/key}},
  url = {https://github.com/Swiftshine/key},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/kirby-epic-yarn-decomp/}}
}

Plain text

Kirby's Epic Yarn: decompiling the USA Wii release. https://github.com/Swiftshine/key (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/kirby-epic-yarn-decomp/

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README.md GitHub · Swiftshine/key · Revision 7f2a9ab