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Super Smash Bros Melee fully decompiled into C code after six-year effort

A team of developers has completed a full decompilation of Super Smash Bros Melee, converting Nintendo's 2001 GameCube fighter into readable C code that compiles into a binary identical to the original main.dol. The project, hosted on the doldecomp/melee GitHub page, took over six years and reportedly used OpenAI's Astra to help finish the work.

tomshardware.com · 2026-09-08

Super Smash Bros Melee fully decompiled, paving way for fan ports

Volunteer programmers have completed a 100% decompilation of Super Smash Bros Melee, according to the decomp.dev database, meaning the GameCube game's original code has been fully reverse-engineered. It joins other decompiled titles like Twilight Princess, Pikmin, and Animal Crossing, giving developers a legal path to build unofficial ports without using Nintendo's copyrighted code.

androidauthority.com · 2026-09-08