# Digimon World 2003: byte-matching decompilation and PC port

> This decompiles Digimon World 2003 for the PlayStation, Europe SLES-03936, the PAL release of Digimon World 3. The C rebuilds a byte-identical executable and overlays, and the same C runs as a native PC program. The supported image is a one-track MODE2/2352 BIN/CUE of 692,146,560 bytes, SHA-1 457cb233349ba841e03b33d8060f8fbcadd45cb3. Linux x86-64 releases are dw2003-<version>-x86_64.AppImage and need glibc 2.39 or newer.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/gascarcella/dw2003recomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/gascarcella/dw2003recomp/blob/841521ab2071096038316b93b8f778255b85730a/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/dw2003-recomp/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/dw2003-recomp/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/dw2003-recomp/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- A Europe BIN/CUE with that SHA-1. chmod +x the AppImage and run it. A source build is documented separately from the release.
- License: MIT for this project's own source, tools, tests, and documentation. Borrowed pieces are listed in docs/THIRD_PARTY.md.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/gascarcella/dw2003recomp/blob/841521ab2071096038316b93b8f778255b85730a/README.md>

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