# 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.

- 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/jype0/dw_decomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/jype0/dw_decomp/blob/aaf69a4491cbf275ffd24df19fe78010151c10f2/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/digimon-world-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/digimon-world-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/digimon-world-decomp-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/jype0/dw_decomp/blob/aaf69a4491cbf275ffd24df19fe78010151c10f2/README.md>

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