Case study

Mario Kart DS: an incremental matching decompilation of the European release

mkds-decomp incrementally reconstructs the European Mario Kart DS ARM9 code in C. Candidate functions are compiled with mwccarm, compared against cartridge bytes with relocation checks, and incorporated into a ROM rebuild checked by SHA-1. The author reports that unmatched spans remain original-byte gap objects during the partial reconstruction.

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

Stars: 3
Last commit: 2026-07-24
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Provide a legally dumped European Mario Kart DS cartridge image.
Prerequisites: The workflow specifies ndspy, capstone, pyelftools and the mwccarm 1.2/sp2p3 compiler.
Limits: The author reports partial ARM9 function and code-byte coverage.
License: MIT License for the project's original work.

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BibTeX

@misc{mkds-decomp-case,
  title = {{Mario Kart DS: an incremental matching decompilation of the European release}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/ai-tdd-labs/mkds-decomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/ai-tdd-labs/mkds-decomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/mkds-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Mario Kart DS: an incremental matching decompilation of the European release. https://github.com/ai-tdd-labs/mkds-decomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/mkds-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · ai-tdd-labs/mkds-decomp · Revision c6e18fa