Case study

Dragon Warrior 3: a matching Game Boy Color disassembly

A Game Boy Color disassembly of Dragon Warrior 3 reconstructs the US ROM from assembly source and extracted game components. Its build takes a user-supplied ROM, produces dq3_en.gbc and compares the rebuilt output with the original.

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

Stars: 13
Last commit: 2024-06-28
Language: Assembly

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: The Dragon Warrior 3 US ROM with the documented SHA-1 hash is required.
Prerequisites: Make 4+, Python 3.6+ and RGBDS 0.4.2+ are required.
License: No licence file in the repository.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{dragon-warrior-3-gbc-disassembly-case,
  title = {{Dragon Warrior 3: a matching Game Boy Color disassembly}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/VariantXYZ/dragon-warrior-3-gbc}},
  url = {https://github.com/VariantXYZ/dragon-warrior-3-gbc},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/dragon-warrior-3-gbc-disassembly-case/}}
}

Plain text

Dragon Warrior 3: a matching Game Boy Color disassembly. https://github.com/VariantXYZ/dragon-warrior-3-gbc (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/dragon-warrior-3-gbc-disassembly-case/

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README.md GitHub · VariantXYZ/dragon-warrior-3-gbc · Revision cfc9090
Makefile GitHub · VariantXYZ/dragon-warrior-3-gbc · Revision cfc9090