# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/vetusmagnus/rac3-uya-decomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/vetusmagnus/rac3-uya-decomp/blob/fc118a0b7442665a2b181055dc352ce5d117c41b/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/rac3-uya-decomp/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/rac3-uya-decomp/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/rac3-uya-decomp/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/vetusmagnus/rac3-uya-decomp/blob/fc118a0b7442665a2b181055dc352ce5d117c41b/README.md>

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