# azure: matching decompilation of Azure Dreams

> azure reconstructs source for the PlayStation game Azure Dreams and builds PSX executables from a user-supplied CD image. Its workflow extracts code and data, compiles C with a source-built PSY-Q 4.1-compatible compiler, and documents per-function matching work and unresolved overlays.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: 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/forestbelton/azure>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/forestbelton/azure/blob/31b9bfa70dbe09734c0c62887caaf03a4ec47f57/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/azure-dreams-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/azure-dreams-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/azure-dreams-decomp-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Supply the Azure Dreams CD image as az.bin with the SHA256 specified in the README.
- **Prerequisites:** Provide PSY-Q headers and libraries, Docker, MIPS GNU binutils, Python and uv.
- **Limits:** The decompilation is in progress; the author states that overlays still need matching work.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/forestbelton/azure/blob/31b9bfa70dbe09734c0c62887caaf03a4ec47f57/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/forestbelton/azure/blob/31b9bfa70dbe09734c0c62887caaf03a4ec47f57/docs/near-misses/README.md>

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