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Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards — decompiling the Nintendo 64 game

This is a work-in-progress decompilation of Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. The US ROM is named baserom.us.z64. make setup extracts assets and make builds the project. The setup uses Linux or WSL, python3, git, a MIPS GNU compiler, the qemu-irix package from n64decomp, and uv. The page reports 97 percent of the code matched.

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

Stars: 237
Last commit: 2026-10-30
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

A US ROM named baserom.us.z64. Linux or WSL, with the packages named above.
The README does not name a license.

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BibTeX

@misc{kirby64-decomp,
  title = {{Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards — decompiling the Nintendo 64 game}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Kirby64Ret/kirby64}},
  url = {https://github.com/Kirby64Ret/kirby64},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/kirby64-decomp/}}
}

Plain text

Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards — decompiling the Nintendo 64 game. https://github.com/Kirby64Ret/kirby64 (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/kirby64-decomp/

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README.md GitHub · Kirby64Ret/kirby64 · Revision 2844cea