Case study

Thrasher: Skate and Destroy: a matching PlayStation decompilation

Thrasher: Skate and Destroy is being reconstructed function by function as C for its US PlayStation executable. The author reports a byte-identical full build from C and assembly, using a pinned PsyQ-era compiler, per-function comparison and a final SHA-1 check.

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: 2
Last commit: 2026-11-06
Language: C
License (GitHub): CC0-1.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-08

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A user-owned NTSC-U PlayStation disc dump of Thrasher: Skate and Destroy.
Prerequisites: Linux, Python 3 and the pinned compiler and extraction toolchain.
Limits: Readable C reconstruction remains in progress; PsyQ library functions remain assembly.
License: CC0-1.0 license.

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BibTeX

@misc{thrasher-skate-decomp-case,
  title = {{Thrasher: Skate and Destroy: a matching PlayStation decompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/andrewnakas/thrasher-skate-decomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/andrewnakas/thrasher-skate-decomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/thrasher-skate-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Thrasher: Skate and Destroy: a matching PlayStation decompilation. https://github.com/andrewnakas/thrasher-skate-decomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/thrasher-skate-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · andrewnakas/thrasher-skate-decomp · Revision fadbb9d
STATUS.md GitHub · andrewnakas/thrasher-skate-decomp · Revision fadbb9d