# 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.

- 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/zeldaret/oot-vc>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/zeldaret/oot-vc/blob/6fee0769e9e2f0ba7ad20c2b36c5c6063f24a8bd/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/oot-vc-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/oot-vc-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/oot-vc-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/zeldaret/oot-vc/blob/6fee0769e9e2f0ba7ad20c2b36c5c6063f24a8bd/README.md>

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