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Diddy Kong Racing decompilation
Diddy Kong Racing rebuilt as matching C, with decompilation finished and documentation tracked separately. An SDL2 PC port has grown from it.
Matching decomp Human-led complete · 100%Facts
- Original
- Diddy Kong Racing (1997)
- Platform
- Nintendo 64
- Method
- Matching decomp
- Provenance
- Human-led · Started 2020 by a known volunteer team, predating AI coding agents (repository history) what this means
- Status
- complete · 100%
- Licence
- CC0-1.0
- Team
- DavidSM64
- Started
- 2020-05
- Runs on
- Nintendo 64
- Needs the original
- Yes: you supply your own legally obtained copy
How to get it legally
This project ships code only. Build or download it from the official repository, then supply data from a copy of Diddy Kong Racing you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.
This project was decompiled by DavidSM64. Facts last checked 2026-10-13.
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