Case study

oot-vc: decompiling the Wii Virtual Console N64 emulator

oot-vc reconstructs the N64 emulator used in Wii Virtual Console releases of Ocarina of Time, Super Mario 64, and Mario Kart 64. It builds against a user-extracted content1.app and provides DOL and function diffing tools, with work mainly focused on the Japanese Ocarina of Time release.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 95
Last commit: 2026-09-06
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Extract content1.app from the Wii Virtual Console WAD for the chosen version.
Git, Ninja, and Python 3 are required; macOS or non-x86 Linux also requires Wine.
The decompilation is in progress and mainly targets oot-j.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{oot-vc-case,
  title = {{oot-vc: decompiling the Wii Virtual Console N64 emulator}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/zeldaret/oot-vc}},
  url = {https://github.com/zeldaret/oot-vc},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/oot-vc-case/}}
}

Plain text

oot-vc: decompiling the Wii Virtual Console N64 emulator. https://github.com/zeldaret/oot-vc (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/oot-vc-case/

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README.md GitHub · zeldaret/oot-vc · Revision 6fee076