# Tekken 5 × Tekken 3 Merge: Tekken 3 characters reconstructed in Tekken 5

> Tekken 5 × Tekken 3 Merge adds five Tekken 3 characters to a statically recompiled Tekken 5. Its tools extract programs from the user’s discs, analyse them with Ghidra, generate Rust code from instruction sheets, and convert models, movesets, animations, and portraits for the expanded roster. The project documents patches and character-specific findings in its merge plan.

- 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/MrPrinceYL/tekken5-t3-merge>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/MrPrinceYL/tekken5-t3-merge/blob/7ae82b95d1412291ac3552ce3a8f989382f67ffa/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/tekken5-t3-merge-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/tekken5-t3-merge-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/tekken5-t3-merge-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Provide your own Tekken 5 (USA, SLUS-21059) and Tekken 3 disc images to generate the game code and converted character data.
- **Prerequisites:** Install Python 3, a Rust toolchain, Ghidra 12.1.4 with ghidra-emotionengine-reloaded 2.1.38, and ghidra-cli.
- **Limits:** Character-data conversion has no one-command pipeline yet; some helper scripts retain developer paths as defaults.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/MrPrinceYL/tekken5-t3-merge/blob/7ae82b95d1412291ac3552ce3a8f989382f67ffa/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/MrPrinceYL/tekken5-t3-merge/blob/7ae82b95d1412291ac3552ce3a8f989382f67ffa/merge/PLAN.md>

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