Case study

Resident Evil Director's Cut Dual Shock: a matching PlayStation decompilation

Resident Evil Director's Cut Dual Shock reconstructs C source for the US PlayStation game's main program and 12 overlays. The author reports that all 13 program files rebuild to the original bytes with GCC 2.6.3; the repository also documents game logic, RAM use and disc contents.

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: 9
Last commit: 2026-10-17
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

Prerequisites: A personal disc dump of the USA SLUS-00747 release, with a CUE and two BIN tracks, is required.
Prerequisites: Builds use Windows with Git Bash and Python 3.14, or x86-64 Linux with Python 3.12 or newer.
Scope: The author reports a byte-identical match for all 13 program files; bundled PsyQ library functions are identified rather than decompiled.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{resident-evil-directors-cut-dual-shock-decomp-case,
  title = {{Resident Evil Director's Cut Dual Shock: a matching PlayStation decompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/ThePerfectVale/Resident-Evil-Directors-Cut-Dualshock-Decompilation}},
  url = {https://github.com/ThePerfectVale/Resident-Evil-Directors-Cut-Dualshock-Decompilation},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/resident-evil-directors-cut-dual-shock-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Resident Evil Director's Cut Dual Shock: a matching PlayStation decompilation. https://github.com/ThePerfectVale/Resident-Evil-Directors-Cut-Dualshock-Decompilation (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/resident-evil-directors-cut-dual-shock-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · ThePerfectVale/Resident-Evil-Directors-Cut-Dualshock-Decompilation · Revision 8d6a992
docs/README.md GitHub · ThePerfectVale/Resident-Evil-Directors-Cut-Dualshock-Decompilation · Revision 8d6a992