# Pokémon FireRed: an early GBA disassembly

> The Pokémon FireRed disassembly project contains an early assembly reconstruction of the GBA game. Its Makefile combines local ROM input with assembly source, assembles and links it with the ARM toolchain, and produces a GBA file 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/cosarara/pokefirered>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/cosarara/pokefirered/blob/11b9adb3b669d3743f34a32767ebe40124f741f3/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/cosarara-pokefirered-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/cosarara-pokefirered-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/cosarara-pokefirered-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A local FireRed ROM file named fr.gba and the arm-none-eabi toolchain are used by the Makefile.
- **Limits:** The author calls the project very early stage and does not expect to finish it.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/cosarara/pokefirered/blob/11b9adb3b669d3743f34a32767ebe40124f741f3/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/cosarara/pokefirered/blob/11b9adb3b669d3743f34a32767ebe40124f741f3/Makefile>

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