Snowboard Kids 2 is Recompiled
Snowboard Kids 2 has been recompiled for modern platforms, bringing widescreen, 60 FPS support, and modding to Snow Town.
Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled
Snowboard Kids 2 for the Nintendo 64 has reached 100% matching decompilation. A brief note on what that means, how we got here, and what comes next.
The Long Tail of LLM-Assisted Decompilation
After rapid advances thanks to one-shot decompilation, progress on the Snowboard Kids 2 decompilation began to falter. This post explores the workflow evolution, tooling improvements, and fundamental LLM limits that emerged when tackling the long tail of increasingly difficult functions.
Finding Jingle Town: Debugging an N64 Game without Symbols
Debuggers are an invaluable tool for decompilation but a lack of symbols can make it challenging to effectively use them. This post provides an overview of my own workflow applied to a seasonally appropriate problem: figuring out how the game loads Jingle Town.
The Unexpected Effectiveness of One-Shot Decompilation with Claude
A deep dive into how a 'one-shot' Claude headless loop (paired with scoring, defensive tooling, and a simple bash driver) massively accelerates matching decompilation of Snowboard Kids 2 on the Nintendo 64.
Using Coding Agents to Decompile Nintendo 64 Games
A look at where coding agents help (or don’t) in the matching decompilation of Snowboard Kids 2 on the Nintendo 64.