Case study

Yoshi's Story: an in-progress US decompilation

Yoshi's Story Decompilation reconstructs the US Nintendo 64 game's code in C and assembly. The repository provides source files, extraction and build commands, and a workflow that starts from a user-provided .z64 base ROM.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 83
Last commit: 2026-04-19
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Requires the user's US ROM at baseroms/us/baserom.z64.
Prerequisites: Building on Linux requires make, Git, a MIPS binutils package, Python, and pip.
Limits: The decompilation is a work in progress.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{yoshis-story-decomp-case,
  title = {{Yoshi's Story: an in-progress US decompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/decompals/yoshis-story}},
  url = {https://github.com/decompals/yoshis-story},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/yoshis-story-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Yoshi's Story: an in-progress US decompilation. https://github.com/decompals/yoshis-story (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/yoshis-story-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · decompals/yoshis-story · Revision 82e891e