# Rood Reverse: decompilation of Vagrant Story

> Rood Reverse is a reverse engineering of Vagrant Story for the PlayStation. The README describes splitting and building with make, then decompiling individual functions, including scratches created with make decompme.

- 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/ser-pounce/rood-reverse>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/ser-pounce/rood-reverse/blob/b46306b66b183b915fd41d02daa0db241096dec0/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/rood-reverse-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/rood-reverse-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/rood-reverse-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- You must own a copy of the game. The repository does not contain the original disc files.
- The quickstart says to install the system dependencies and copy a disc image as described under Setup, then run make for the initial split and build.
- License: CC0-1.0.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/ser-pounce/rood-reverse/blob/b46306b66b183b915fd41d02daa0db241096dec0/README.md>

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