Case study

ChronoRET: matching 65816 reconstruction of Chrono Trigger

ChronoRET reconstructs the US SNES release of Chrono Trigger as labelled 65816 assembly. Its build extracts remaining data from a user-supplied ROM, assembles a complete image and compares it byte for byte with the original; progress records separate code matching from data coverage.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-09

Stars: 8
Last commit: 2026-10-30
Language: Assembly
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A legally dumped, unheadered 4 MiB US 1.0 Chrono Trigger ROM is required.
Prerequisites: Building requires asar 1.91, Python 3.10+ and make; a debugger-equipped SNES emulator is recommended for tracing.
Limits: Data not yet expressed in source is extracted from the user's ROM during the build.
License: MIT license.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{chronoret-case,
  title = {{ChronoRET: matching 65816 reconstruction of Chrono Trigger}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/ThisIsAkill/ChronoRET}},
  url = {https://github.com/ThisIsAkill/ChronoRET},
  urldate = {2026-11-09},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/chronoret-case/}}
}

Plain text

ChronoRET: matching 65816 reconstruction of Chrono Trigger. https://github.com/ThisIsAkill/ChronoRET (accessed 2026-11-09). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/chronoret-case/

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README.md GitHub · ThisIsAkill/ChronoRET · Revision 1ac6f90
LICENSE GitHub · ThisIsAkill/ChronoRET · Revision 1ac6f90