# 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.

- 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/Daniel-McCarthy/SPPS>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Daniel-McCarthy/SPPS/blob/3b483cf95c8c7ff67ee442e8018e82cc6f820531/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/shaun-palmers-pro-snowboarder-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/shaun-palmers-pro-snowboarder-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/shaun-palmers-pro-snowboarder-decomp-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Daniel-McCarthy/SPPS/blob/3b483cf95c8c7ff67ee442e8018e82cc6f820531/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/Daniel-McCarthy/SPPS/blob/3b483cf95c8c7ff67ee442e8018e82cc6f820531/docs/formats/DAT.md>

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