Recomp / OS & system / PlayStation 3
lv0pen
Byte-matching decompilation of the PS3 boot chain, rebuilt with the original compilers; lv0 and several loaders match fully and the rest are close.
Matching decomp Not stated wipFacts
- Original
- PlayStation 3 boot chain (lv0, loaders and isolated SPU modules)
- Platform
- PlayStation 3
- Method
- Matching decomp
- Provenance
- Not stated what this means
- Status
- wip
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
- Team
- sagemono
- Started
- 2026-10
- Needs the original
- Yes: you supply your own legally obtained copy
How to get it legally
This project ships code only. Build or download it from the official repository, then supply data from a copy of PlayStation 3 boot chain (lv0, loaders and isolated SPU modules) you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.
This project was decompiled by sagemono. Facts last checked 2026-10-17. Suggest a correction
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