# AC1_RE: Armored Core analysis and matching decompilation

> AC1_RE documents and analyzes the North American PlayStation release of Armored Core, including its executable, overlays, mission pipeline, text system and asset formats. It provides behavioral C models, matching-decompilation work, Ghidra scripts, extraction and repacking tools, and local viewers for game structures.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Binary · Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/byroweb/AC1_RE>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/byroweb/AC1_RE/blob/ed1a82be9c3a0b8a05714a3a46641a617aac8a31/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/ac1-re-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/ac1-re-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/ac1-re-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Provide your own legally obtained SLUS-01323 Armored Core disc image; the documentation also identifies applicable addresses in SCUS-94182.
- **Prerequisites:** A mipsel toolchain is required to build C patches.
- **Scope:** Japanese and European releases are outside the documented address scope.
- **License:** MIT License for the repository's original code.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/byroweb/AC1_RE/blob/ed1a82be9c3a0b8a05714a3a46641a617aac8a31/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/byroweb/AC1_RE/blob/ed1a82be9c3a0b8a05714a3a46641a617aac8a31/LICENSE>

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