# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/SecondaryLifer/StarHaven>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/SecondaryLifer/StarHaven/blob/3fa147a8884cf1095f9073f2fa06a78d3c9626e0/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/starhaven-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/starhaven-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/starhaven-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/SecondaryLifer/StarHaven/blob/3fa147a8884cf1095f9073f2fa06a78d3c9626e0/README.md>

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