# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-08
- Original resource: <https://github.com/consolesplayingconsoles/dbzbr-disasm>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/consolesplayingconsoles/dbzbr-disasm/blob/2b45e553b1b75b1d80266d7d023a9104f32b0e59/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/dbzbr-disasm-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/dbzbr-disasm-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/dbzbr-disasm-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/consolesplayingconsoles/dbzbr-disasm/blob/2b45e553b1b75b1d80266d7d023a9104f32b0e59/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/consolesplayingconsoles/dbzbr-disasm/blob/2b45e553b1b75b1d80266d7d023a9104f32b0e59/REGIONS.md>

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