# Final Fantasy Tactics Advance: matching decompilation and battle AI analysis

> Reconstructs selected Final Fantasy Tactics Advance functions in C while mapping battle AI, abilities, jobs, missions and other ROM tables. The author reports 173 functions compiled to matching bytes; remaining ROM regions are incorporated from the user's original during a hash-checked build.

- 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/charlie-troy/ffta-decomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/charlie-troy/ffta-decomp/blob/f072a1f2c98c68ec3a949306c47baf16f541d516/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/ffta-battle-ai-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/ffta-battle-ai-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/ffta-battle-ai-decomp-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** The specified FFTA USA rev 0 ROM, SHA-1 4ac05441f4de70a4ec3dd932116346c61b8783d9.
- **Prerequisites:** WSL Ubuntu for the Linux-native toolchain and agbcc.
- **Limits:** The author reports 173 of 3,594 discovered functions compiled from C; other regions use the base ROM.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/charlie-troy/ffta-decomp/blob/f072a1f2c98c68ec3a949306c47baf16f541d516/README.md>

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