Case study

tactical-decomp: matching recovery of Final Fantasy Tactics

tactical-decomp reconstructs the USA PlayStation release of Final Fantasy Tactics as C89 matched against the original executable and disc blobs. It splits user-supplied disc data, replaces assembly stubs function by function and checks rebuilt bytes with comparison tools. A related static recompilation directory uses the decompilation's address map as input.

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: 0
Last commit: 2026-09-30
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a demo observed; no download method found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A retail USA Final Fantasy Tactics BIN/CUE disc dump is required.
Prerequisites: The workflow uses Python tooling, splat, m2c, maspsx, GCC 2.6.0-psx and binutils.
Limits: The decompilation remains in progress, especially for BATTLE and EFFECT blobs.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{tactical-decomp-case,
  title = {{tactical-decomp: matching recovery of Final Fantasy Tactics}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Kyagara/tactical-decomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/Kyagara/tactical-decomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/tactical-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

tactical-decomp: matching recovery of Final Fantasy Tactics. https://github.com/Kyagara/tactical-decomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/tactical-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · Kyagara/tactical-decomp · Revision fb105fa
recomp/README.md GitHub · Kyagara/tactical-decomp · Revision fb105fa