Case study

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 — byte-exact PlayStation 2 decompilation

This is a matching decompilation of Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 for the PlayStation 2, USA SLUS-21678. The main program SLUS_216.78 is 99.92 percent matching C, with four author-written assembly routines left. The menu program BIN/DBZP.BIN is 99.97 percent matching C. Both rebuilt binaries are byte-identical to the originals.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07

Stars: 35
Last commit: 2026-10-25
Language: C
License (GitHub): CC0-1.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

7z, ninja, Python 3 with splat, Sony ee-gcc 2.96, and PS2 MIPS binutils. Name the USA ISO as configure.py expects, then run .venv/bin/python configure.py and ninja.
License: CC0 1.0 for the names, comments, documentation, scripts, build configuration, and reconstruction work in this repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{bt3-decompiled,
  title = {{Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 — byte-exact PlayStation 2 decompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/z3xox/BT3-Decompiled}},
  url = {https://github.com/z3xox/BT3-Decompiled},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/bt3-decompiled/}}
}

Plain text

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 — byte-exact PlayStation 2 decompilation. https://github.com/z3xox/BT3-Decompiled (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/bt3-decompiled/

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README.md GitHub · z3xox/BT3-Decompiled · Revision 27a748b