# P3P3DS: running Persona 3 Portable on New Nintendo 3DS

> P3P3DS adapts Persona 3 Portable's North American PSP release for New Nintendo 3DS through static MIPS-to-C++ recompilation, an interpreter fallback and a PSP service runtime. Its research documents the game's ELF32 PRX executable, relocations and imports. The author reports early playable progress on hardware, with sound and opening video still absent.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Binary · 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/endercodezz/P3P3DS>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/endercodezz/P3P3DS/blob/ce587d47d9c8f9a2fc7d0fcbf551750dea8f72d4/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/p3p3ds-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/p3p3ds-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/p3p3ds-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** The North American Persona 3 Portable release, ULUS-10512, is the target input.
- **Prerequisites:** New Nintendo 3DS, New 3DS XL or New 2DS XL hardware and devkitARM are specified for the 3DS build.
- **Limits:** The author reports early playable progress; later game sections remain untested, and 3DS sound and opening video are unavailable.
- **License:** MIT License.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/endercodezz/P3P3DS/blob/ce587d47d9c8f9a2fc7d0fcbf551750dea8f72d4/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/endercodezz/P3P3DS/blob/ce587d47d9c8f9a2fc7d0fcbf551750dea8f72d4/docs/P3P_EXECUTABLE_ANALYSIS.md>
3. <https://github.com/endercodezz/P3P3DS/blob/ce587d47d9c8f9a2fc7d0fcbf551750dea8f72d4/LICENSE>

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