# Super Mario Sunshine: a PS5 port of the decompiled game

> PS5_Sunshine adapts the decompilation-based Super Mario Sunshine PC port to PlayStation 5 with platform code, SDL drivers and build patches. It compiles game code for the console and reads models, levels, sound and movies from the user's North American disc image.

- 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/griches/PS5_Sunshine>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/griches/PS5_Sunshine/blob/e01f5db1702ac21f2683666abc10917ff9dd206b/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/ps5-sunshine-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/ps5-sunshine-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/ps5-sunshine-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A PS5 capable of running homebrew and a personal North American GMSE01 revision 0 disc image are required.
- **Testing evidence:** The author reports play through Delfino Plaza and Bianco Hills episode 1; later areas remain unplayed on PS5.
- **License:** The repository as a whole is GPL-3.0; individual files have the licences listed in LICENSING.md.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/griches/PS5_Sunshine/blob/e01f5db1702ac21f2683666abc10917ff9dd206b/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/griches/PS5_Sunshine/blob/e01f5db1702ac21f2683666abc10917ff9dd206b/LICENSING.md>

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