Case study

Shadow the Hedgehog: a three-region GameCube decompilation

Shadow the Hedgehog decomp reconstructs source for the USA, Japanese and European/Australian GameCube releases. Its build extracts inputs from a user-owned disc image, compiles reconstructed files with pinned tools and uses objdiff for object-level comparison.

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: 7
Last commit: 2026-11-08
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

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

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: An existing copy of a supported game disc image.
Prerequisites: Python 3.14 or newer and uv for the build environment.
Limits: The decompilation is a work in progress.
License: No licence file in the repository.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{shadow-the-hedgehog-decomp-case,
  title = {{Shadow the Hedgehog: a three-region GameCube decompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/dev-camo/shadow-decomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/dev-camo/shadow-decomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/shadow-the-hedgehog-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Shadow the Hedgehog: a three-region GameCube decompilation. https://github.com/dev-camo/shadow-decomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/shadow-the-hedgehog-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · dev-camo/shadow-decomp · Revision cacf453