# 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.

- 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/NiyaDev/DWM2>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/NiyaDev/DWM2/blob/055ecee52ce0c9be928817c03f7dc9d37c005f03/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/dwm2-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/dwm2-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/dwm2-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/NiyaDev/DWM2/blob/055ecee52ce0c9be928817c03f7dc9d37c005f03/README.md>

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