# Breath of Fire GBA: a European-version decompilation

> bof_old decompiles the European multilingual Game Boy Advance port of Breath of Fire into C and assembly. Its build uses a user-provided baserom.gba, devkitARM and agbcc, and lists the SHA-1 of the resulting ROM for comparison.

- 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/StanHash/bof_old>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/StanHash/bof_old/blob/600557b156ab34ecdd998de96742546a632a70e8/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/breath-of-fire-gba-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/breath-of-fire-gba-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/breath-of-fire-gba-decomp-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Provide the original ROM as baserom.gba for every build.
- **Prerequisites:** Use devkitARM or another arm-none-eabi toolchain and agbcc.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/StanHash/bof_old/blob/600557b156ab34ecdd998de96742546a632a70e8/README.md>

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