# Snowboard Kids Plus: a matching PlayStation decompilation

> Snowboard Kids Plus reconstructs C for the Japanese PlayStation release SLPS-01823 and rebuilds its boot executable with remaining assembly. A build script extracts data from the user's disc image and checks that the resulting executable matches the original byte for byte. The SNB.DAT data file is extracted unchanged.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-08
- Original resource: <https://github.com/cdlewis/snowboardkidsplus-decomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/cdlewis/snowboardkidsplus-decomp/blob/85b77dfc1b75e24fc0831704b23a8fc84adbdc5d/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/snowboard-kids-plus-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/snowboard-kids-plus-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/snowboard-kids-plus-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** An existing copy of the Japanese Snobow Kids Plus disc image is required.
- **Prerequisites:** The documented build is on x86-64 Linux and needs make, git, Python, cpp, MIPS binutils, and the specified PSX GCC binaries.
- **Limits:** SNB/SNB.DAT is extracted but not rebuilt.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/cdlewis/snowboardkidsplus-decomp/blob/85b77dfc1b75e24fc0831704b23a8fc84adbdc5d/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/cdlewis/snowboardkidsplus-decomp/blob/85b77dfc1b75e24fc0831704b23a8fc84adbdc5d/AGENTS.md>

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