# 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.

- 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/Kirby64Ret/kirby64>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Kirby64Ret/kirby64/blob/2844ceae4b9e61c56176851038bdb90fd26513e7/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/kirby64-decomp/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/kirby64-decomp/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/kirby64-decomp/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

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

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Kirby64Ret/kirby64/blob/2844ceae4b9e61c56176851038bdb90fd26513e7/README.md>

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