Case study
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Game: a work-in-progress decompilation
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Game project reconstructs source for the GGVE78 NTSC game release. Its C and C++ tree, split and symbol configuration, and Ninja build operate on a user-supplied disc image; objdiff supports comparison of rebuilt objects.
- Targets
- Game
- Category
- Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship
- Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed
- Evidence class
- C2 code & docs, no demo or download
- Stars
- 26
- Last commit
- 2026-10-26
- Language
- C++
- License (GitHub)
- CC0-1.0
GitHub data as of 2026-11-10
Evidence
- Observed
- Code, documentation and a demo observed; no download method found.
- Checked
- 2026-11-09
Requirements & limits
- Prerequisites: Requires a user-supplied GGVE78 game disc image, Python and Ninja.
- Limits: The decompilation is a work in progress.
- License: CC0-1.0 license.
Cite
BibTeX
@misc{spongebob-squarepants-movie-decomp-case,
title = {{The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Game: a work-in-progress decompilation}},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/bfbbdecomp/tssm}},
url = {https://github.com/bfbbdecomp/tssm},
urldate = {2026-11-06},
note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/spongebob-squarepants-movie-decomp-case/}}
}Plain text
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Game: a work-in-progress decompilation. https://github.com/bfbbdecomp/tssm (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/spongebob-squarepants-movie-decomp-case/
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About this entry
The description was reviewed against primary sources.
Primary sources
- README.md GitHub · bfbbdecomp/tssm · Revision fc32870
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