{
  "added_at": "2026-11-09",
  "category": "reconstruction-cases",
  "class": "apps",
  "description_en": "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.",
  "description_zh": "wii-news-channel 将美国版 v7 Wii 新闻频道重建为 C/C++ 源码，目标是生成字节一致的 main.dol。项目用符号表、文件分段和 objdiff 比对函数，另有分支将频道移植为原生 PC 程序。",
  "entry_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/wii-news-channel-case/",
  "entry_url_zh": "https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/wii-news-channel-case/",
  "evidence_url": "https://github.com/hotlandsoftware/wii-news-channel/blob/128e3ffbaee9e70bd175c5f66a44fb8430068629/README.md",
  "group": "cases",
  "id": "wii-news-channel-case",
  "json_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/wii-news-channel-case/record.json",
  "kind": "case-study",
  "markdown_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/wii-news-channel-case/index.md",
  "markdown_url_zh": "https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/wii-news-channel-case/index.md",
  "name": "wii-news-channel: a matching Wii News Channel decompilation",
  "name_zh": "wii-news-channel：Wii 新闻频道的匹配反编译",
  "record_type": "resource",
  "relationship": "independent-reconstruction",
  "requirement_facets": [
    "prerequisites",
    "prerequisites",
    "limits",
    "license"
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Supply your own Wii News Channel USA v7 WAD; the build checks its DOL SHA-1.",
    "Python 3.9+, ninja, and libWiiPy for WAD extraction.",
    "The author reports 99.53% decompiled code bytes, 93.12% byte matching, and 81.94% fully linked files.",
    "CC0-1.0."
  ],
  "requirements_zh": [
    "需自备美国版 v7 Wii 新闻频道 WAD；构建会校验其中 DOL 的 SHA-1。",
    "需要 Python 3.9+、ninja，以及用于提取 WAD 的 libWiiPy。",
    "作者报告代码字节反编译率为 99.53%，字节匹配率为 93.12%，文件完整链接率为 81.94%。",
    "许可证为 CC0-1.0。"
  ],
  "targets": [
    "app"
  ],
  "url": "https://github.com/hotlandsoftware/wii-news-channel",
  "verification": "source-reviewed",
  "verified_at": "2026-11-06"
}