# 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.

- 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/2gifts/george-decomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/2gifts/george-decomp/blob/09880fd9dcc8fe2ccb9efc230b68961c960683ff/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/george-of-the-jungle-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/george-of-the-jungle-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/george-of-the-jungle-decomp-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/2gifts/george-decomp/blob/09880fd9dcc8fe2ccb9efc230b68961c960683ff/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/2gifts/george-decomp/blob/09880fd9dcc8fe2ccb9efc230b68961c960683ff/docs/research.md>
3. <https://github.com/2gifts/george-decomp/blob/09880fd9dcc8fe2ccb9efc230b68961c960683ff/LICENSE.md>

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