Case study

George of the Jungle: partial matching PS2 decompilation

The George of the Jungle and the Search for the Secret decompilation reconstructs the USA PS2 game's main CPU code with a byte-matched assembly baseline and selected C/C++ functions compared against the retail executable. Its tooling extracts boot files from the user's disc, builds a hybrid ELF and reports function-level byte matches; the author reports 24,396 matched C/C++ code bytes.

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

Stars: 1
Last commit: 2026-10-09
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Requires the user's USA PS2 disc for SLUS_216.68.
Prerequisites: Windows build instructions require Python 3.12 or newer and the project's toolchain bootstrap.
Limits: The full source build is incomplete; the author reports 0.791124% of code bytes matched as C/C++.
License: Original tooling and documentation use the MIT license; reconstructed game code and imported runtime files have separate rights and terms.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{george-of-the-jungle-decomp-case,
  title = {{George of the Jungle: partial matching PS2 decompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/2gifts/george-decomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/2gifts/george-decomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/george-of-the-jungle-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

George of the Jungle: partial matching PS2 decompilation. https://github.com/2gifts/george-decomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/george-of-the-jungle-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · 2gifts/george-decomp · Revision 09880fd
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