# 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.

- 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/Kyagara/tactical-decomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Kyagara/tactical-decomp/blob/fb105fa429bcd9f95e35642e295b1165b81cfe7e/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/tactical-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/tactical-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/tactical-decomp-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Kyagara/tactical-decomp/blob/fb105fa429bcd9f95e35642e295b1165b81cfe7e/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/Kyagara/tactical-decomp/blob/fb105fa429bcd9f95e35642e295b1165b81cfe7e/recomp/README.md>

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