Case study

Advance Wars: a byte-identical GBA reconstruction

advancewars reconstructs the USA Game Boy Advance release of Advance Wars as assembly and C that build a byte-identical ROM. Its build uses devkitARM and agbcc, incorporates a user-supplied baserom, and checks the output against the listed game hash.

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

Stars: 12
Last commit: 2020-01-04
Language: Assembly
Status: Archived

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Requires a user-supplied first-revision Advance Wars USA baserom with the specified SHA-1 hash.
Prerequisites: Requires Linux or WSL, devkitARM, GBA tools and agbcc.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{advancewars-decomp-case,
  title = {{Advance Wars: a byte-identical GBA reconstruction}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/ketsuban/advancewars}},
  url = {https://github.com/ketsuban/advancewars},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/advancewars-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Advance Wars: a byte-identical GBA reconstruction. https://github.com/ketsuban/advancewars (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/advancewars-decomp-case/

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Primary sources

README.md GitHub · ketsuban/advancewars · Revision c5ecbd5
INSTALL.md GitHub · ketsuban/advancewars · Revision c5ecbd5
Makefile GitHub · ketsuban/advancewars · Revision c5ecbd5