Donkey Kong Country

This is a WIP decompilation of Donkey Kong Country.

The purpose of the project is to recreate a source code base for the game from scratch, using information found inside the game along with static and/or dynamic analysis.

It is not, and will not, produce a PC port.

Table of contents

• Overview
• Features
• Usage
• References

Overview

The only version currently used is SNES US v1.0. It was initially made by using snes2asm disassembly tool on a SNES US v1.0 ROM copy.

This decompilation mostly contains game and audio code. Assets are proprietary and copyrighted by Nintendo Ltd, you will not find any of these here.

Note

You can still use snes2asm with a legally provided ROM, for data assets such as graphics, tilemaps, palettes, audio, text and be extracted by specifying a YAML configuration file. (See Configuration section).

Features

• ROM disassembly.
• SPC700 audio processor disassembly support.

Usage

Requirements

For building the project, you will need:

• WLA-DX Assembler

• GNU Make

Building

You can test compilation and reassemble ROM :

cd DKC-disassembly

# Edit Makefile PREFIX to point to your wla-dx install path

make # Once done, it will create result in a build/ directory. 

# Run the dkc.smc file in your emulator.

References

• snes2asm - tool which initially permitted this decompilation.
• p4plus2/DKC2-disassembly - Disassembly of DKC 2, for docs, code and structure reference.
• Comp/Decomp Country (DKC ROM Hacking Tool) - Compresses and decompresses graphics from DKC, and can extract tilesets and palettes
• zeldaret/mm - Decompilation of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, for readme structure reference.