Case study

wii-news-channel: a matching Wii News Channel decompilation

wii-news-channel reconstructs the USA v7 Wii News Channel as C/C++ source intended to build a byte-identical main.dol. Its symbol and split maps support function-level comparison with objdiff, while a separate branch adapts the channel to a native PC runtime.

Targets: App
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06

Stars: 1
Last commit: 2026-10-09
Language: C
License (GitHub): CC0-1.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Supply your own Wii News Channel USA v7 WAD; the build checks its DOL SHA-1.
Prerequisites: Python 3.9+, ninja, and libWiiPy for WAD extraction.
Limits: The author reports 99.53% decompiled code bytes, 93.12% byte matching, and 81.94% fully linked files.
License: CC0-1.0.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{wii-news-channel-case,
  title = {{wii-news-channel: a matching Wii News Channel decompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/hotlandsoftware/wii-news-channel}},
  url = {https://github.com/hotlandsoftware/wii-news-channel},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/wii-news-channel-case/}}
}

Plain text

wii-news-channel: a matching Wii News Channel decompilation. https://github.com/hotlandsoftware/wii-news-channel (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/wii-news-channel-case/

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README.md GitHub · hotlandsoftware/wii-news-channel · Revision 128e3ff