# 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.

- 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/PartyPlanner64/mp3>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/PartyPlanner64/mp3/blob/76052cf28c127b8317d588a53481f857f6169717/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/mario-party-3-partial-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/mario-party-3-partial-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/mario-party-3-partial-decomp-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/PartyPlanner64/mp3/blob/76052cf28c127b8317d588a53481f857f6169717/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/PartyPlanner64/mp3/blob/76052cf28c127b8317d588a53481f857f6169717/Makefile>

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