# Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising: partial GBA decompilation

> aw2bhr reconstructs Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising for Game Boy Advance with C source and assembly. Its build uses the user's base ROM for unfinished regions and provides a SHA-1 target for comparing the generated ROM.

- 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/Eebit/aw2bhr>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Eebit/aw2bhr/blob/63a26942a9a1249fe4e02c4c2ec0b3d2ee6b16cb/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/aw2bhr-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/aw2bhr-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/aw2bhr-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A copy of the original ROM named baserom.gba is required for every build.
- **Prerequisites:** The documented Debian/Ubuntu setup uses build-essential, gcc-arm-none-eabi, and agbcc.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Eebit/aw2bhr/blob/63a26942a9a1249fe4e02c4c2ec0b3d2ee6b16cb/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/Eebit/aw2bhr/blob/63a26942a9a1249fe4e02c4c2ec0b3d2ee6b16cb/Makefile>

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