Case study

Dragon Ball Z: L'Appel du Destin: rebuilding the Mega Drive ROM from source

Dragon Ball Z: L'Appel du Destin disassembly reconstructs the French Mega Drive ROM as generated assembly and compares it byte for byte with a user-provided original. A recursive 68000 tracer, labelled listing, ROM region map, text decoder, and LZSS decoder record the game's code and data formats. The author reports a matching rebuild with substantial naming work still open.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06

Stars: 1
Last commit: 2026-10-22
Language: Python
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A user-provided French ROM, Python 3 with capstone, and AS with asl and p2bin are required.
Limits: The author reports 60.9% equivalent named source, with most traced routines unnamed.
License: GPL-3.0-or-later license.

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BibTeX

@misc{dbzbr-disasm-case,
  title = {{Dragon Ball Z: L'Appel du Destin: rebuilding the Mega Drive ROM from source}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/consolesplayingconsoles/dbzbr-disasm}},
  url = {https://github.com/consolesplayingconsoles/dbzbr-disasm},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/dbzbr-disasm-case/}}
}

Plain text

Dragon Ball Z: L'Appel du Destin: rebuilding the Mega Drive ROM from source. https://github.com/consolesplayingconsoles/dbzbr-disasm (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/dbzbr-disasm-case/

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README.md GitHub · consolesplayingconsoles/dbzbr-disasm · Revision 2b45e55
REGIONS.md GitHub · consolesplayingconsoles/dbzbr-disasm · Revision 2b45e55