Case study

Star Haven: a native 3DS port of Paper Mario

Star Haven is a native Nintendo 3DS port of Paper Mario for the Nintendo 64, built from the pmret/papermario decompilation. The game's own C code runs on the 3DS.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C1 partial scope or analysis entry

Stars: 114
Last commit: 2026-11-05
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Demo screenshot from the project's public documentation

Observed: Download and demo observed; the case covers part of the target software.
Scope: Partial
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

The player supplies a Paper Mario ROM: EU, US, or the iQue Player Chinese release. Copy it to /3ds/StarHaven/ on the SD card. .z64, .n64, and .v64 dumps are accepted.
On a 3DS with custom firmware, install StarHaven.cia with FBI or use StarHaven.3dsx. Releases are on the repository Releases page.
The port under port/3ds/ and the port's changes to the decompilation are Apache License 2.0. The decompilation itself remains pmret/papermario.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{starhaven-case,
  title = {{Star Haven: a native 3DS port of Paper Mario}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/SecondaryLifer/StarHaven}},
  url = {https://github.com/SecondaryLifer/StarHaven},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/starhaven-case/}}
}

Plain text

Star Haven: a native 3DS port of Paper Mario. https://github.com/SecondaryLifer/StarHaven (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/starhaven-case/

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README.md GitHub · SecondaryLifer/StarHaven · Revision 3fa147a