# Tokyo Jungle Recompiled: a PS3 static recompilation bring-up

> Tokyo Jungle Recompiled translates the PS3 game's PowerPC executable into native PC code with ps3recomp and supplies game-specific loading, import and runtime glue. Its investigation documents PPU functions, SPU workloads, asset loading and a main-loop wait that currently blocks geometry rendering.

- 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/sp00nznet/tokyojungle>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/sp00nznet/tokyojungle/blob/5b7cc00ca1169edae75888611ce0752b538bfbe2/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/tokyo-jungle-recompiled-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/tokyo-jungle-recompiled-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/tokyo-jungle-recompiled-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** The user's own Tokyo Jungle game files and the ps3recomp toolchain.
- **Limits:** The current port reaches a D3D12 window and clear frame but has no geometry, host audio output or input support.
- **License:** MIT License.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/sp00nznet/tokyojungle/blob/5b7cc00ca1169edae75888611ce0752b538bfbe2/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/sp00nznet/tokyojungle/blob/5b7cc00ca1169edae75888611ce0752b538bfbe2/docs/WHERE_IT_STOPS.md>

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