About
Mario Kart 64 is a 1996 kart racing game by Nintendo for the N64, the second entry in the Mario Kart series, featuring Grand Prix and battle modes with items, obstacles, and local multiplayer. Mario Kart 64 (n64decomp/mk64) is an ongoing decompilation of the original ROM. It builds and verifies against the USA release as well as both European revisions, but includes no game assets — these must be extracted from a copy of the original ROM.
Getting started
Building requires cloning the repo with submodules, extracting assets from your own ROM copy of a supported region (USA, or European revision 1.0/1.1) using the included tools, and then running make; full instructions are published in the project's online docs.
History
The project was undertaken for historical and educational reasons, driven by interest in the game's underlying hardware and technology as well as its broad cultural impact.
Known limitations
- compatibility: Some menu textures are compressed using tkmk00 format and a byte-matching compressor/decompressor does not yet exist.
Additional notes
- Technical note
- Some menu textures use a custom 'tkmk00' compression format that doesn't yet have a byte-matching compressor/decompressor, a known gap in build accuracy.