Case study

Tourist Trophy: matching decompilation of the PS2 CORE.TT executable

Tourist Trophy decompilation reconstructs functions from the PS2 game's CORE.TT executable as C and C++ compiled with Sony ee-gcc 2.96. Its tools decrypt and split a user-provided executable, compare individual functions and check the complete linked build against the original.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-09
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 3
Last commit: 2026-10-14
Language: C
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A personal copy of the NTSC-U SCUS-97502 v1.00 game disc is required.
Prerequisites: Setup requires Linux or WSL, Python 3.11+ with rabbitizer, and the project compiler and MIPS tools.
Limits: The author reports 22,501 of 31,593 functions matching in the October 2026 progress snapshot; the project remains in progress.
License: MIT license.

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BibTeX

@misc{tourist-trophy-decomp-case,
  title = {{Tourist Trophy: matching decompilation of the PS2 CORE.TT executable}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/gustavocanepa/tt-decomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/gustavocanepa/tt-decomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-09},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/tourist-trophy-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Tourist Trophy: matching decompilation of the PS2 CORE.TT executable. https://github.com/gustavocanepa/tt-decomp (accessed 2026-11-09). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/tourist-trophy-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · gustavocanepa/tt-decomp · Revision e4947f8
orig/README.md GitHub · gustavocanepa/tt-decomp · Revision e4947f8
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