# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: App
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/hotlandsoftware/wii-news-channel>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/hotlandsoftware/wii-news-channel/blob/128e3ffbaee9e70bd175c5f66a44fb8430068629/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/wii-news-channel-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/wii-news-channel-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/wii-news-channel-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/hotlandsoftware/wii-news-channel/blob/128e3ffbaee9e70bd175c5f66a44fb8430068629/README.md>

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