# 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.

- 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/ThePerfectVale/Resident-Evil-Directors-Cut-Dualshock-Decompilation>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/ThePerfectVale/Resident-Evil-Directors-Cut-Dualshock-Decompilation/blob/8d6a992b629614ce47fbe36e21865caf1daf8d91/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/resident-evil-directors-cut-dual-shock-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/resident-evil-directors-cut-dual-shock-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/resident-evil-directors-cut-dual-shock-decomp-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/ThePerfectVale/Resident-Evil-Directors-Cut-Dualshock-Decompilation/blob/8d6a992b629614ce47fbe36e21865caf1daf8d91/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/ThePerfectVale/Resident-Evil-Directors-Cut-Dualshock-Decompilation/blob/8d6a992b629614ce47fbe36e21865caf1daf8d91/docs/README.md>

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