Case study

Madden Football 64: matching Nintendo 64 decompilation

Madden Football 64 decompilation reconstructs portions of the USA Rev 0 Nintendo 64 game's code and maps its packed ROM layout. Build commands recover the resident program, compare compiled C units byte for byte with retail code and track assembly references separately. The author reports 19.60% of whole-program code as matching decompiled C at the documented snapshot.

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

Stars: 0
Last commit: 2026-11-04
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A matching USA Rev 0 retail ROM, n64-decomp-kit and the matching toolchains.
Limits: The project is in its initial recovery phase; executable-overlay boundaries remain provisional.
License: GPL-3.0-or-later license, as stated in COPYING.

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BibTeX

@misc{madden-football-64-decomp-case,
  title = {{Madden Football 64: matching Nintendo 64 decompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/TheGh0stShip/Madden-64}},
  url = {https://github.com/TheGh0stShip/Madden-64},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/madden-football-64-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Madden Football 64: matching Nintendo 64 decompilation. https://github.com/TheGh0stShip/Madden-64 (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/madden-football-64-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · TheGh0stShip/Madden-64 · Revision a3eabb2
docs/ROM_LAYOUT.md GitHub · TheGh0stShip/Madden-64 · Revision a3eabb2
COPYING GitHub · TheGh0stShip/Madden-64 · Revision a3eabb2