Case study

Dragon Warrior IV: a byte-exact NES disassembly

Reconstructs the US NES release of Dragon Warrior IV as assembly for all 32 physical PRG banks. The project records code classification, labels, pointer recovery, runtime traces, and save evidence, and the author reports a rebuild matching the reference ROM's SHA-256.

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

Stars: 1
Last commit: 2026-10-16
Language: Assembly

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A legally obtained reference ROM is required to regenerate bank assembly or run the full evidence gate.
Prerequisites: The project uses a Windows-native build and Visual Studio 2026 environment.
Limits: Semantic notes for 1,331 widened interfaces remain to be re-reviewed.
License: No licence file in the repository.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{dragon-warrior-iv-nes-disassembly-case,
  title = {{Dragon Warrior IV: a byte-exact NES disassembly}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/JEschete/DW4_Disassembly}},
  url = {https://github.com/JEschete/DW4_Disassembly},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/dragon-warrior-iv-nes-disassembly-case/}}
}

Plain text

Dragon Warrior IV: a byte-exact NES disassembly. https://github.com/JEschete/DW4_Disassembly (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/dragon-warrior-iv-nes-disassembly-case/

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README.md GitHub · JEschete/DW4_Disassembly · Revision bbcf840
docs/ARCHITECTURE.md GitHub · JEschete/DW4_Disassembly · Revision bbcf840