Case study

Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal — byte-exact PlayStation 2 decompilation

This is a matching decompilation of Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal for the PlayStation 2, NTSC-U SCUS-97353. It builds frontbin.elf, boot_elf.elf, and i5bootn.elf byte for byte. Their SHA-1 values are 3bc94ee895e4b4af9b5602a229af599c1103b542, 487975305f8a263c750dfede50391b575ed07835, and 71f3ecfc54c3d24d1475ef9efe8228fbfe59d65f.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 36
Last commit: 2026-10-22
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

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

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Requirements & limits

SN Systems ee-gcc 2.95.3 v1.36. Place frontbin.elf, boot_elf.elf, and i5bootn.elf from the disc files folder in the repository root, then run pip install -r tools/requirements.txt and python tools/setup_asm.py --target all.
License: GPL-3.0 for the project's tooling, build files, tables, and documentation. The README says the decompiled game code in src/ is not licensed, and the libgcc sources stay GPL-2.0-or-later with the libgcc runtime exception.

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BibTeX

@misc{rac3-uya-decomp,
  title = {{Ratchet \& Clank: Up Your Arsenal — byte-exact PlayStation 2 decompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/vetusmagnus/rac3-uya-decomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/vetusmagnus/rac3-uya-decomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/rac3-uya-decomp/}}
}

Plain text

Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal — byte-exact PlayStation 2 decompilation. https://github.com/vetusmagnus/rac3-uya-decomp (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/rac3-uya-decomp/

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README.md GitHub · vetusmagnus/rac3-uya-decomp · Revision fc118a0