Case study

Advance Wars: Dual Strike: a matching Nintendo DS decompilation

Advance Wars: Dual Strike reconstructs C source for the US/Australia Nintendo DS release. The project reports that compiling it with the original Metrowerks compiler reproduces the retail ROM byte for byte; its build extracts data from the user's cartridge dump and compares the resulting ROM and modules with the original.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06

Stars: 5
Last commit: 2026-10-16
Language: C
License (GitHub): CC0-1.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Linux and a dump of the US/Australia AWRE cartridge with the specified SHA-1 are required.
Prerequisites: Building uses make, Ninja, Python 3 with YAML support and 32-bit libc for metroskrew.
Limits: Other regional releases are unsupported; some function names remain placeholders.
License: CC0-1.0 licence.

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BibTeX

@misc{advance-wars-dual-strike-decomp-case,
  title = {{Advance Wars: Dual Strike: a matching Nintendo DS decompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/sturmds/advance-wars-dual-strike-decomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/sturmds/advance-wars-dual-strike-decomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/advance-wars-dual-strike-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Advance Wars: Dual Strike: a matching Nintendo DS decompilation. https://github.com/sturmds/advance-wars-dual-strike-decomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/advance-wars-dual-strike-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · sturmds/advance-wars-dual-strike-decomp · Revision 4786481
PROGRESS.md GitHub · sturmds/advance-wars-dual-strike-decomp · Revision 4786481