Conker's Bad Fur Day Decompilation for Nintendo 64 (N64)

A work-in-progress matching decompilation of Conker's Bad Fur Day for Nintendo 64 (N64), with asset extraction tools, model-preview generation, and documented asset-format research.

The North American (US) release is the active target; Europe/PAL remains a future goal and does not currently gate progress.

Project progress

The badges show native objdiff matching from the latest published US report. US Code covers tracked CPU code, including SDK code; US Data covers tracked data and stored assets. Both exclude EU/PAL. Public results can lag local work until a verified report is published. ./conker progress shows the code metric from your local ./conker objdiff report, plus source-unit and function counts. See progress reports.

The repository contains no ROMs or extracted game assets. Read LEGAL.md before contributing.

Quick start

Local builds use Docker for the pinned IDO-compatible toolchain on Linux, Intel macOS and Apple Silicon. Managed Linux executors can use the supported cloud setup. ./conker runs the image natively on amd64 and arm64 hosts (Apple Silicon, ARM Linux, Windows on ARM); both build the same ROMs. Set CONKER_PLATFORM=linux/amd64 or linux/arm64 to override.

git clone https://github.com/DevOldSchool/conkers-bfd-decomp.git
cd conkers-bfd-decomp
./conker doctor

Copy your owned US ROM into the ignored roms/ directory, then validate and record it for local builds:

cp /path/to/your-us-rom.z64 roms/baserom.us.z64
./conker setup --us roms/baserom.us.z64
./conker build

The normal function workflow starts with:

./conker next --ready
# Replace the selected GLOBAL_ASM pragma with the emitted C starter.
./conker finish <work-item-id>

Before making a contribution, read CONTRIBUTING.md. The decompilation workflow explains candidate selection, focused diffs, source-unit registration, integration, and batch verification in detail.

Project areas

Area	Start here
Function matching and source integration	Contributing and decompilation workflow
Current progress	US objdiff report · Local reports
Clean-room baseline and ROM profiles	Bootstrap guide
Asset extraction and format research	RZIP and asset extraction
Model previews and scoped material evidence	Model appearance extraction
Future asset editing and ROM insertion	Asset editing
Remaining asset research	Asset roadmap
Nintendo 64 library reconstruction	Library track
Debug and ECTS research inputs	Beta evidence
Runtime investigation	Runtime tracing
CI and protected ROM verification	Continuous integration

The documentation index provides a complete map of the project guides and explains which files are generated or evidence-only.

Active target

Contributor commands default to the US profile. A function counts as matched only after its US focused diff reports CURRENT (0). A source unit counts as complete only after every member matches and the unit is integrated into the byte-identical build. EU/PAL configuration and research are retained for future activation but do not affect the active completion percentage.

Generated assembly, extracted assets, and build products stay ignored. The canonical inventories are maintained through ./conker; contributors should not edit their JSON files manually.

Credits

Thanks to the authors and maintainers of:

• Compilation and assembly: IDO static recompilation, asm-processor, and armips
• Decompilation and matching: splat, spimdisasm, m2c, asm-differ, decomp-permuter, and objdiff
• Reused work: ultralib, Rare-modified library sources, and RSP sources, with detailed attribution in their existing notices