# Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Recompiled: a PS3 boot investigation

> Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Recompiled lifts the PS3 game's PowerPC code with ps3recomp and builds a native Windows x86-64 executable. Game-specific scripts cover SELF decryption, function discovery, SPU workloads and a longjmp patch. The author reports repeatable loading of 116 assets during boot, before any frame is drawn.

- 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/sp00nznet/GT5P>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/sp00nznet/GT5P/blob/65c75d61ade58efb4f6af5f099c3b78b64c0a8e6/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/gran-turismo-5-prologue-recompiled-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/gran-turismo-5-prologue-recompiled-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/gran-turismo-5-prologue-recompiled-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** The user's NPUA80075 PSN package and its .rap file are required.
- **Prerequisites:** Windows 10/11 x64, Visual Studio 2022, LLVM 18+, CMake 3.20+, Ninja, Python 3.10+ and ps3recomp are required.
- **Limits:** Pre-alpha: the boot loads content but has not drawn a frame.
- **License:** MIT license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/sp00nznet/GT5P/blob/65c75d61ade58efb4f6af5f099c3b78b64c0a8e6/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/sp00nznet/GT5P/blob/65c75d61ade58efb4f6af5f099c3b78b64c0a8e6/docs/progress.md>

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