Case study

Mario Party 3: a partial Nintendo 64 decompilation

mp3 partially decompiles the US Nintendo 64 release of Mario Party 3 into C source. Its build extracts a user-provided big-endian ROM and reassembles the game; the author describes fully decompiled overlays that can be edited and rebuilt. The repository is archived.

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

Stars: 46
Last commit: 2026-06-04
Language: C
Status: Archived

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Requires a user-provided US Mario Party 3 ROM in big-endian .z64 format.
Prerequisites: Requires Python 3, pip and the listed ROM-analysis packages.
Limits: Only a small percentage of the game is decompiled; the repository is archived.
License: No licence file in the repository.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{mario-party-3-partial-decomp-case,
  title = {{Mario Party 3: a partial Nintendo 64 decompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/PartyPlanner64/mp3}},
  url = {https://github.com/PartyPlanner64/mp3},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/mario-party-3-partial-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Mario Party 3: a partial Nintendo 64 decompilation. https://github.com/PartyPlanner64/mp3 (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/mario-party-3-partial-decomp-case/

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Primary sources

README.md GitHub · PartyPlanner64/mp3 · Revision 76052cf
Makefile GitHub · PartyPlanner64/mp3 · Revision 76052cf