Case study

Digimon World: a PS1 decompilation with binary comparison

Digimon World decomp reconstructs the PlayStation game as C source and versioned build configuration. Its workflow extracts the user’s disc, regenerates disassembly, builds replacement binaries and runs a comparison against the original binaries.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06

Stars: 89
Last commit: 2026-10-19
Language: C
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A Digimon World PS1 disc image; the example uses the USA release.
Prerequisites: MIPS cross-toolchain, Python 3, Make, extraction tools and CodeWarrior for PlayStation Release 4.
Limits: The decompilation is work in progress.
License: MIT license.

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BibTeX

@misc{digimon-world-decomp-case,
  title = {{Digimon World: a PS1 decompilation with binary comparison}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/jype0/dw_decomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/jype0/dw_decomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/digimon-world-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Digimon World: a PS1 decompilation with binary comparison. https://github.com/jype0/dw_decomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/digimon-world-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · jype0/dw_decomp · Revision aaf69a4