Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex Decompilation (PS2)

A byte-exact matching decompilation of Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex for the PlayStation 2 - reconstructing the retail executable from hand-written C that compiles to the exact original bytes.

Want to contribute? Start with CONTRIBUTING.md.

Target

All matching work targets exactly one build:

Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
PAL retail v1.03 - SLES-50386 (SLES_503.86)

You supply your own legally obtained copies at orig/pal103/; they must match exactly:

File	Size (bytes)	SHA-256
SLES_503.86	6,731,763	7fc6826d08c42a5a92fc018edae3e520783beb5a8330410251192bfe26b1eca1
SYSTEM.CNF	56	86fe327e4576516f57004800b2663c75c8a65a62872f3fdf3aa0618daf23d9c1

Diffing

After initial setup, objdiff.json will be generated and can be used with the objdiff-cli or the objdiff GUI.

Documentation

Doc	What it covers
CONTRIBUTING.md	Setup (Docker or native), and how to validate the repo
docs/pipeline.md	The full reconstruction pipeline, toolchain, and CI (fork-safe private-image method)
docs/decomp_agent.md	The matching MCP server and shared agent workflow

Comunity

The Wrath of Cortex Modding Discord Server: https://discord.gg/QqQtEfKC2V

Legal

This repository contains no game assets, no game code, and no copyrighted binaries. It is a clean-room reconstruction workspace: all original files must be supplied by the user from their own copy of the game.