# SSX 3: statically recompiling the PS2 game to Rust

> This is a native Rust port of SSX 3 for PlayStation 2, USA SLUS_207.72. The game code was statically recompiled to Rust and is being replaced function by function. Rendering, movies, sound, files, controllers, and the memory card are native. The README says every race, freestyle event, and Conquer the Mountain are playable, on macOS, Windows, and Linux, with an experimental browser build.

- 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/andersfischernielsen/ssx3-decomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/andersfischernielsen/ssx3-decomp/blob/94a28385fc9c86a7a895e35fb1e7bd9a0ffd065f/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/ssx3-decomp/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/ssx3-decomp/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/ssx3-decomp/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- The player supplies their own disc. Generated code and the disc image stay outside git.
- The README names no license for this project. It names MIT for ps2-web-recomp.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/andersfischernielsen/ssx3-decomp/blob/94a28385fc9c86a7a895e35fb1e7bd9a0ffd065f/README.md>

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