Case study

The Phantom Menace: a PlayStation static recompilation and matching decompilation

The Phantom Menace project runs a static recompilation of the USA Rev 1 PlayStation game natively on desktop and M5Stack Tab5. Its recompiler translates MIPS code into C at build time and runs it with a PlayStation hardware runtime. A matching decompilation aims to replace the generated code function by function; the author reports native gameplay, while the initial handwritten C functions remain nonmatching.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 1
Last commit: 2026-10-27
Language: C
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a demo observed; no download method found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A user-owned USA Rev 1 PlayStation disc image and SLUS_008.84 executable are required.
Prerequisites: The matching build uses PSY-Q 4.3 GCC 2.8.1 and associated MIPS tooling.
Limits: The author reports that the initial hand-written C functions remain nonmatching.
License: MIT license.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{phantom-menace-psx-recomp-case,
  title = {{The Phantom Menace: a PlayStation static recompilation and matching decompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/esp-cpp/tpm-decomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/esp-cpp/tpm-decomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/phantom-menace-psx-recomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

The Phantom Menace: a PlayStation static recompilation and matching decompilation. https://github.com/esp-cpp/tpm-decomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/phantom-menace-psx-recomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · esp-cpp/tpm-decomp · Revision d51af21
recomp/README.md GitHub · esp-cpp/tpm-decomp · Revision d51af21