Case study

AceCombat3-xport: an Ace Combat 3 PlayStation decompilation port

AceCombat3-xport ports reconstructed code from the Project Nemo edition of the PlayStation game Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere. Its startup code loads ACE3.BIN from DATA, while an extraction script processes the game's resource archives and XA sectors.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 1
Last commit: 2026-10-28
Language: C
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a demo observed; no download method found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Provide original game files under DATA, including ACE3.BIN and the archive files.
Limits: The extraction script rejects unsupported XA coding and changes to the XA file number, channel and coding tuple.
License: MIT license.

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BibTeX

@misc{acecombat3-xport-case,
  title = {{AceCombat3-xport: an Ace Combat 3 PlayStation decompilation port}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/psxports/AceCombat3-xport}},
  url = {https://github.com/psxports/AceCombat3-xport},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/acecombat3-xport-case/}}
}

Plain text

AceCombat3-xport: an Ace Combat 3 PlayStation decompilation port. https://github.com/psxports/AceCombat3-xport (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/acecombat3-xport-case/

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Primary sources

src/game_main.c GitHub · psxports/AceCombat3-xport · Revision 084467d
README.md GitHub · psxports/AceCombat3-xport · Revision 084467d
tools/extract_archives.py GitHub · psxports/AceCombat3-xport · Revision 084467d