# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- 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/decompals/yoshis-story>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/decompals/yoshis-story/blob/82e891eea6c523684e1e1a43f0229a243858cf84/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/yoshis-story-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/yoshis-story-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/yoshis-story-decomp-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/decompals/yoshis-story/blob/82e891eea6c523684e1e1a43f0229a243858cf84/README.md>

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