# The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks: hand-decompiled Nintendo DS source

> A work-in-progress hand decompilation recreates source for the Nintendo DS game The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. Its build accepts an owned base ROM for asset extraction and lists Japanese, European and US releases, with Europe Revision 0 as the default.

- 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/st>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/zeldaret/st/blob/ca06f643bd6ade431254a7bec1fdfe1630922096/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/spirit-tracks-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/spirit-tracks-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/spirit-tracks-decomp-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** An owned copy of a supported Spirit Tracks ROM is required to extract assets.
- **Prerequisites:** Windows or Linux, Python 3.11+, GCC 9+ and Ninja are required for the documented build.
- **Limits:** The decompilation is a work in progress.
- **License:** CC0-1.0.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/zeldaret/st/blob/ca06f643bd6ade431254a7bec1fdfe1630922096/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/zeldaret/st/blob/ca06f643bd6ade431254a7bec1fdfe1630922096/INSTALL.md>

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