# Pokémon Stadium 2: matching Nintendo 64 decompilation

> This is a work-in-progress decompilation of Pokémon Stadium 2 for the Nintendo 64, US and Japanese versions. It builds pokestadiumgs-us.z64 and pokestadiumgs-jp.z64.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/pret/pokestadiumgs>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/pret/pokestadiumgs/blob/c0e10f23d90cc4f335b654711f13e53c2c07323b/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/pokestadiumgs-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/pokestadiumgs-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/pokestadiumgs-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- Place the ROM at baseroms/us/baserom.z64 or baseroms/jp/baserom.z64. The US MD5 is 1561c75d11cedf356a8ddb1a4a5f9d5d. The Japanese MD5 is a17aadcc962393d476edc321e59c504b.
- On Debian or Ubuntu, install make, git, build-essential, binutils-mips-linux-gnu, and Python newer than 3.7, then pip install -r requirements.txt. VERSION=us make init extracts the ROM, and make rebuilds it.
- The README names no license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/pret/pokestadiumgs/blob/c0e10f23d90cc4f335b654711f13e53c2c07323b/README.md>

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