GoKawiil17 May, 2026
I’m very pleased to announce that Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% decompiled!
All of the game’s functions have now been implemented in C and compile to assembly that matches the original game. There’s still some occasional __asm__ hackery, and plenty of code needs better names and documentation, but every function now has a matching C implementation.
That matters because a matching decompilation turns the game from a pile of MIPS assembly into a codebase we can read, build, study, and modify. It should help with recompilation, asset extraction, modding, and generally understanding the mechanics of the N64’s greatest game.
Snowboard Kids 2 decompilation report from decomp.dev. Boxes represent different files.
The journey
This project has been a little under two years in the making, with the first commit landing in September 2024.
The circumstances surrounding the final matches were not quite what I expected when I started. I’m currently sitting in hospital with my newborn daughter. She’s doing fine, but needs some help eating. Decompilation has been a useful distraction and an enjoyable way to fill the quiet hours.
The path to decompiling any game, let alone a Nintendo 64 game, is not especially well documented. This project would not have been possible without the N64 decompilation Discord community, whose members have been incredibly generous with their time. I would particularly like to thank Bl00D4NGEL, inspectredc, SlaveOfIDO, and queueRAM for their significant contributions to the project, especially across the final ten functions.
Leaderboard shared on discord for tracking work on the remaining Snowboard Kids 2 functions.
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