# Mario Artist Paint Studio: a Nintendo 64DD decompilation

> Mario Artist Paint Studio Decompilation reconstructs code from the Nintendo 64DD game's disk image. Its build setup uses a specific user-provided D64 dump, splat extraction and a MIPS toolchain; the repository contains reconstructed C source and headers.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/LuigiBlood/paintstudio_decomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/LuigiBlood/paintstudio_decomp/blob/1655333a149d2ab1684b25c40cb79b241081fed1/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/mario-artist-paint-studio-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/mario-artist-paint-studio-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/mario-artist-paint-studio-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A Mario Artist Paint Studio dmpj.d64 image matching MD5 3546bc6d93928a28285a91478bc41b68.
- **Prerequisites:** Python 3, make, git, curl, md5sum, a supported MIPS binutils toolchain and the project submodules.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/LuigiBlood/paintstudio_decomp/blob/1655333a149d2ab1684b25c40cb79b241081fed1/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/LuigiBlood/paintstudio_decomp/blob/1655333a149d2ab1684b25c40cb79b241081fed1/Makefile>

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