# Mario Party 1 US Decomp: rebuilding the US Nintendo 64 game

> Mario Party 1 US Decomp reconstructs the US Nintendo 64 game's code as buildable C sources. Its build uses a user-provided big-endian .z64 ROM, runs setup and make, and provides comparison controls in the Makefile.

- 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/mariopartyrd/marioparty>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/mariopartyrd/marioparty/blob/26dca4f3cf2dab1839bc1de3579b7227b65b9ee6/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/mario-party-1-us-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/mario-party-1-us-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/mario-party-1-us-decomp-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Requires a vanilla US Mario Party 1 big-endian ROM named baserom.us.z64.
- **Testing evidence:** Tested on WSL2 with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and macOS 12.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/mariopartyrd/marioparty/blob/26dca4f3cf2dab1839bc1de3579b7227b65b9ee6/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/mariopartyrd/marioparty/blob/26dca4f3cf2dab1839bc1de3579b7227b65b9ee6/Makefile>

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