# Xenogears Decompilation: matching the US PlayStation release

> Xenogears Decompilation reconstructs source for the US PlayStation 1 release of Xenogears as an in-progress matching build. Its workflow uses splat to split binaries, spimdisasm for disassembly, and objdiff to compare compiled objects.

- 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/ladysilverberg/xenogears-decomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/ladysilverberg/xenogears-decomp/blob/0b99ca6e058dd74e6277d4eec822717cd50abd2f/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/xenogears-decompilation-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/xenogears-decompilation-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/xenogears-decompilation-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** The current target is the US Xenogears release SLUS 006.64.
- **Limits:** Matching decompilation is in progress; other releases are planned.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/ladysilverberg/xenogears-decomp/blob/0b99ca6e058dd74e6277d4eec822717cd50abd2f/README.md>

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