Case study

Tenchu 1: a PlayStation decompilation of Shinobi Gaisen

The Tenchu 1 project reconstructs code for the PlayStation game Shinobi Gaisen through a split, C compilation and reassembly pipeline. Its documentation reports 175 exact C functions recovered for the ending executable and describes per-function matching work across the game's executables.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C3 notes only

Stars: 6
Last commit: 2026-10-31
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code observed; no usable documentation found.
Scope: Notes
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A local copy of the Tenchu game disk is required for the original inputs.
Prerequisites: The build uses the documented PlayStation compiler, assembler and project toolchain.
Attribution: The author says most current content was generated by AI agents.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{tenchu-shinobi-gaisen-decomp-case,
  title = {{Tenchu 1: a PlayStation decompilation of Shinobi Gaisen}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Fuuzetsu/tenchu-decomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/Fuuzetsu/tenchu-decomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/tenchu-shinobi-gaisen-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Tenchu 1: a PlayStation decompilation of Shinobi Gaisen. https://github.com/Fuuzetsu/tenchu-decomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/tenchu-shinobi-gaisen-decomp-case/

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docs/README.md GitHub · Fuuzetsu/tenchu-decomp · Revision 78c1d97
README.md GitHub · Fuuzetsu/tenchu-decomp · Revision 78c1d97
disks/README.md GitHub · Fuuzetsu/tenchu-decomp · Revision 78c1d97