{
  "added_at": "2026-11-09",
  "additional_evidence_urls": [
    "https://github.com/ThisIsAkill/ChronoRET/blob/1ac6f9043646129b74559490556f9f47c9c4f04b/LICENSE"
  ],
  "category": "reconstruction-cases",
  "class": "game",
  "description_en": "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.",
  "description_zh": "ChronoRET 用带标签的 65816 汇编重建美版 SNES 游戏 Chrono Trigger。构建流程从用户自备 ROM 提取尚未写成源码的数据，组装完整映像并逐字节比较；进度记录区分代码匹配与数据覆盖。",
  "entry_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/chronoret-case/",
  "entry_url_zh": "https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/chronoret-case/",
  "evidence_url": "https://github.com/ThisIsAkill/ChronoRET/blob/1ac6f9043646129b74559490556f9f47c9c4f04b/README.md",
  "group": "cases",
  "id": "chronoret-case",
  "json_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/chronoret-case/record.json",
  "kind": "case-study",
  "markdown_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/chronoret-case/index.md",
  "markdown_url_zh": "https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/chronoret-case/index.md",
  "name": "ChronoRET: matching 65816 reconstruction of Chrono Trigger",
  "name_zh": "ChronoRET：Chrono Trigger 的 65816 精确重建",
  "reconstruction_method": "matching-decompilation",
  "record_type": "resource",
  "relationship": "independent-reconstruction",
  "requirement_facets": [
    "prerequisites",
    "prerequisites",
    "limits",
    "license"
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "A legally dumped, unheadered 4 MiB US 1.0 Chrono Trigger ROM is required.",
    "Building requires asar 1.91, Python 3.10+ and make; a debugger-equipped SNES emulator is recommended for tracing.",
    "Data not yet expressed in source is extracted from the user's ROM during the build.",
    "MIT license."
  ],
  "requirements_zh": [
    "需要合法转储的美版 1.0 Chrono Trigger ROM，容量 4 MiB 且无文件头。",
    "构建需要 asar 1.91、Python 3.10+ 和 make；追踪时建议使用带调试器的 SNES 模拟器。",
    "尚未写成源码的数据会在构建时从用户的 ROM 提取。",
    "MIT 许可证。"
  ],
  "targets": [
    "game"
  ],
  "url": "https://github.com/ThisIsAkill/ChronoRET",
  "verification": "source-reviewed",
  "verified_at": "2026-11-09"
}