# Rugrats: Scavenger Hunt: matching reconstruction of the USA N64 release

> Rugrats: Scavenger Hunt reconstructs the USA Nintendo 64 game with matching C, reviewed assembly, symbolic RSP code and descriptions of initialized data. Its tools rebuild CPU units with recorded compiler pipelines and compare code and non-code regions with a player-supplied ROM. The author reports complete executable-byte and ROM-inventory coverage.

- 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/TheGh0stShip/Rugrats-Scavenger-Hunt>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/TheGh0stShip/Rugrats-Scavenger-Hunt/blob/970beb763697053eded0513de0a05a55a9cfb2b0/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/rugrats-scavenger-hunt-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/rugrats-scavenger-hunt-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/rugrats-scavenger-hunt-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A player-supplied USA ROM matching the listed SHA-1 and legally obtained historical N64 compiler files are required.
- **Prerequisites:** Linux or WSL, Python 3.11 or newer, GNU Make, rabbitizer and armips are required for the stated checks.
- **Scope:** The author reports complete byte coverage while retaining 29 functions as assembly.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/TheGh0stShip/Rugrats-Scavenger-Hunt/blob/970beb763697053eded0513de0a05a55a9cfb2b0/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/TheGh0stShip/Rugrats-Scavenger-Hunt/blob/970beb763697053eded0513de0a05a55a9cfb2b0/Makefile>

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