# 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.

- 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/VariantXYZ/dragon-warrior-3-gbc>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/VariantXYZ/dragon-warrior-3-gbc/blob/cfc909089f464c06553c845e9e3e8aad05be728d/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/dragon-warrior-3-gbc-disassembly-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/dragon-warrior-3-gbc-disassembly-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/dragon-warrior-3-gbc-disassembly-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/VariantXYZ/dragon-warrior-3-gbc/blob/cfc909089f464c06553c845e9e3e8aad05be728d/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/VariantXYZ/dragon-warrior-3-gbc/blob/cfc909089f464c06553c845e9e3e8aad05be728d/Makefile>

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