Case study

LEGO City Undercover: a matching Nintendo Switch decompilation

LEGO City Undercover Decompilation reconstructs functions from the Nintendo Switch game in C++. The project uses symbols from the game's dumped main executable and checks rebuilt functions against the original binary, with contributor instructions for analysis in IDA or Ghidra.

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

Stars: 31
Last commit: 2026-10-24
Language: C++

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Requirements & limits

A dumped main executable from the EU v1.0.3 update is required.
The documented toolchain uses Python 3.6 or later, Ninja, CMake 3.13 or later and other build dependencies.
The US v1.0.2 release is untested; the Japanese release is unsupported.

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BibTeX

@misc{lego-city-undercover-decomp-case,
  title = {{LEGO City Undercover: a matching Nintendo Switch decompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Nintendocustom/Lego-City-Undercover-Decompilation}},
  url = {https://github.com/Nintendocustom/Lego-City-Undercover-Decompilation},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/lego-city-undercover-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

LEGO City Undercover: a matching Nintendo Switch decompilation. https://github.com/Nintendocustom/Lego-City-Undercover-Decompilation (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/lego-city-undercover-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · Nintendocustom/Lego-City-Undercover-Decompilation · Revision 2b45c42
docs/CONTRIBUTING.md GitHub · Nintendocustom/Lego-City-Undercover-Decompilation · Revision 2b45c42