# god-hand-decomp: matching decompilation of God Hand

> god-hand-decomp reconstructs the NTSC-U PS2 release of God Hand as C/C++ that is checked against the retail boot ELF. It starts from assembly generated by splat, replaces functions individually, and uses objdiff plus a full-file SHA-256 comparison to track matching output. The author reports that the current build remains byte-identical to the retail boot ELF.

- 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/LucasPicoli/god-hand-decomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/LucasPicoli/god-hand-decomp/blob/a2c98cb5c3e5b5b3f4a8cc08a19fbfbb6499699a/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/god-hand-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/god-hand-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/god-hand-decomp-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A personally dumped NTSC-U God Hand disc is required.
- **Prerequisites:** The setup uses the original PS2 compiler and linker toolchain, splat, objdiff, and MIPS cross-binutils.
- **Limits:** C decompilation is still progressing; an assembly-only build can reproduce the retail ELF.
- **License:** MIT License.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/LucasPicoli/god-hand-decomp/blob/a2c98cb5c3e5b5b3f4a8cc08a19fbfbb6499699a/README.md>

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