Case study

DWM2: disassembling Dragon Warrior Monsters 2

DWM2 is a partial disassembly of Dragon Warrior Monsters 2 with assembly sources and function-level documentation. Its Windows build uses rgbasm, rgblink and rgbfix, then compares the produced ROM with a user-held backup. The author reports a very early byte-similarity result and says documentation progress differs from that figure.

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

Stars: 7
Last commit: 2022-07-23
Language: Assembly

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Windows and the RGBDS tools are required for the documented build; comparison also requires an original ROM backup at ROM/Cobi.gbc.
Limits: The author reports only partial byte similarity; Linux and Mac build instructions remain unfinished.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{dwm2-case,
  title = {{DWM2: disassembling Dragon Warrior Monsters 2}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/NiyaDev/DWM2}},
  url = {https://github.com/NiyaDev/DWM2},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/dwm2-case/}}
}

Plain text

DWM2: disassembling Dragon Warrior Monsters 2. https://github.com/NiyaDev/DWM2 (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/dwm2-case/

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README.md GitHub · NiyaDev/DWM2 · Revision 055ecee