# Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon: an in-progress N64 decompilation

> mnsg is an in-progress decompilation of Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon for Nintendo 64. It includes game-specific C files, symbol and split maps, and scripts that extract assets from a user-supplied US ROM before building a new ROM.

- 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/klorfmorf/mnsg>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/klorfmorf/mnsg/blob/7e2029c5c7beca705e7ded2c8fa85a5a21d1c3ee/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/mystical-ninja-starring-goemon-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/mystical-ninja-starring-goemon-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/mystical-ninja-starring-goemon-decomp-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** The user's own retail US Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon ROM as config/usa/baserom.z64.
- **Prerequisites:** uv and system build tools, including MIPS binutils on supported Linux setups.
- **Limits:** The decompilation is in progress.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/klorfmorf/mnsg/blob/7e2029c5c7beca705e7ded2c8fa85a5a21d1c3ee/README.md>

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