# Mario Paint Recomp: a static recompilation of Mario Paint

> Mario Paint Recomp ports the SNES game Mario Paint to PC by translating 65816 routines into C while snesrecomp supplies SNES hardware behavior and interpreter fallback. Its headless tour and conformance tool compare selected routines with the original ROM; the author reports 57 of 103 hand-ported routines reached by the tour pass the checks.

- 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/sp00nznet/mariopaint>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/sp00nznet/mariopaint/blob/f4d490db50b6c42660681946ef798454777774fa/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/mario-paint-recomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/mario-paint-recomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/mario-paint-recomp-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Requires a user-supplied Mario Paint (Japan, USA) LoROM dump of 1 MB.
- **Prerequisites:** Windows build requires Visual Studio 2022, CMake 3.16+, vcpkg, SDL2 and SDL2_ttf; harness tools require Python 3.10+ with Pillow.
- **Limits:** Alpha: drawing, stamps, undo, Music Composer, Gnat Attack and animation are not covered by the tour; generated routines are experimental.
- **License:** MIT license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/sp00nznet/mariopaint/blob/f4d490db50b6c42660681946ef798454777774fa/README.md>

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