# Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door — decompiling the Japanese GameCube release

> This repository is a work-in-progress decompilation of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Japanese version G8MJ01, based on symbol maps from the Paper Mario 2 demo. The README says it aims at the same functionality rather than a 1:1 match.

- 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/NWPlayer123/PaperMario2>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/NWPlayer123/PaperMario2/blob/5421b46a8d0fe400a88a1f4ad88f0308e3c99058/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/ttyd-g8mj01-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/ttyd-g8mj01-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/ttyd-g8mj01-decomp-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- SDK_BASE_PATH must point at a 20 April 2004 Patch 1 Nintendo GameCube SDK. MUSYX_BASE_PATH must point at MusyX 2.0 Patch 3. MW_BASE_PATH must point at CodeWarrior 2.7 for GameCube.
- Python 3 with the regex and colorama packages, then build.py. A successful build writes build/G8MJ01.elf and build/G8MJ01.map.
- License: MIT.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/NWPlayer123/PaperMario2/blob/5421b46a8d0fe400a88a1f4ad88f0308e3c99058/README.md>

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