Case study

Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder: a PS2 decompilation and format study

SPPS reconstructs Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder for PlayStation 2 as C source and rebuilds game executables with splat and a matching-function workflow. Its notes document release hashes and the game's DATA.DAT asset archive, including sector-based entry offsets and sizes.

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: 2026-10-12
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 SPPS SLUS_201.99 or SLPM_651.98 ELF binary is required.
Prerequisites: Linux or WSL, Python 3, 7Zip and the project build dependencies are required.
License: No licence file in the repository.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{shaun-palmers-pro-snowboarder-decomp-case,
  title = {{Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder: a PS2 decompilation and format study}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Daniel-McCarthy/SPPS}},
  url = {https://github.com/Daniel-McCarthy/SPPS},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/shaun-palmers-pro-snowboarder-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder: a PS2 decompilation and format study. https://github.com/Daniel-McCarthy/SPPS (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/shaun-palmers-pro-snowboarder-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · Daniel-McCarthy/SPPS · Revision 3b483cf
docs/formats/DAT.md GitHub · Daniel-McCarthy/SPPS · Revision 3b483cf