# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/Swiftshine/key>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Swiftshine/key/blob/7f2a9ab9ad66d8e2f6eac52acc2c01dff0bd03a2/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/kirby-epic-yarn-decomp/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/kirby-epic-yarn-decomp/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/kirby-epic-yarn-decomp/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Swiftshine/key/blob/7f2a9ab9ad66d8e2f6eac52acc2c01dff0bd03a2/README.md>

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