# Gangstar: West Coast Hustle: Android native-library decompilation

> Gangstar: West Coast Hustle is being decompiled from its Android ARM library libsanangeles.so into C++ intended to reproduce retail bytes. The project maps symbols and original source-file names, stores unmatched functions as named assembly, and records matching work by gameplay area. The author reports 4,661 game functions in scope and 24.40% matched bytes.

- 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/Virjoinga/gangstar-wch-decomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Virjoinga/gangstar-wch-decomp/blob/bc3920b9f9c5fabfc2fc79476906c2b2523d787f/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/gangstar-west-coast-hustle-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/gangstar-west-coast-hustle-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/gangstar-west-coast-hustle-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A personal copy of libsanangeles.so is required in baselib/.
- **Prerequisites:** Tooling requires Python 3.9 or newer and ARM GNU objdump plus c++filt, or Docker.
- **Limits:** Matching work is incomplete; the author reports 24.40% matched bytes.
- **License:** MIT.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Virjoinga/gangstar-wch-decomp/blob/bc3920b9f9c5fabfc2fc79476906c2b2523d787f/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/Virjoinga/gangstar-wch-decomp/blob/bc3920b9f9c5fabfc2fc79476906c2b2523d787f/docs/matches/achievement-progress-readers.md>

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