About
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire is a 1996 action game developed by LucasArts and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64, primarily a third-person shooter with vehicular-combat sequences; a Windows version followed in 1997. SotE is an in-progress decompilation of a prototype build of Shadows of the Empire for the Nintendo 64, verified against a specific prototype ROM by its SHA1 checksum.
How it differs from the original
Rather than the finished retail release, it specifically decompiles a prototype build of the game, verified against a particular ROM dump by SHA1 checksum.