# Ratchet & Clank Collection: PS3 executable analysis and matching reconstruction

> Ratchet & Clank Collection analyzes four PS3 retail executables for the BCUS98282 release and develops C and C++ bodies to match their bytes. Its Python tools inspect SELF and PPU ELF structures, bound functions, compare related builds, and grade reconstructed bodies. The author reports six matching bodies at the documented checkpoint.

- 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/llesieur99/rac-collection-decomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/llesieur99/rac-collection-decomp/blob/716c179c7c5b71869ea8ae522980ab4786a09637/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/ratchet-clank-collection-ps3-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/ratchet-clank-collection-ps3-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/ratchet-clank-collection-ps3-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Provide a local copy of the PS3 BCUS98282 release; executable decryption uses keys kept in a local file.
- **Scope:** The target is release 02.00 with GCC 4.1.1 from PS3 SDK 400 for most identified objects.
- **Limits:** The author reports six byte-exact bodies at the documented checkpoint.
- **License:** GPL-3.0 licence.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/llesieur99/rac-collection-decomp/blob/716c179c7c5b71869ea8ae522980ab4786a09637/README.md>

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