# persona-psx: matching decompilation of Megami Ibunroku Persona

> persona-psx reconstructs the Japanese PlayStation release of Megami Ibunroku Persona as C source. Its documentation covers loading game overlays into Ghidra and IDA and adjusting source structure until compiled routines match the original bytes. The work remains in progress.

- 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/daanhenke/persona-psx>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/daanhenke/persona-psx/blob/dfd1cd401d2c260cf2b8a91e50acb78a9e803e75/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/persona-psx-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/persona-psx-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/persona-psx-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Scope:** The Japanese PlayStation release is the current decompilation target.
- **Limits:** The decompilation is in progress.
- **License:** GPL-3.0.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/daanhenke/persona-psx/blob/dfd1cd401d2c260cf2b8a91e50acb78a9e803e75/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/daanhenke/persona-psx/blob/dfd1cd401d2c260cf2b8a91e50acb78a9e803e75/docs/Matching%20Nudges.md>
3. <https://github.com/daanhenke/persona-psx/blob/dfd1cd401d2c260cf2b8a91e50acb78a9e803e75/LICENSE>

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