# Fire Emblem: a partial NES disassembly of Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light

> fe1 reconstructs part of the NES game Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light as assembly. WLA-DX builds a ROM with a listed SHA-1, using bytes from the user's original ROM where disassembly is unfinished; the tree includes code, data, memory layouts, and build rules.

- 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/StanHash/fe1>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/StanHash/fe1/blob/9b2fd3a03347818a60afaf913f94c36de0d953ba/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/fe1-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/fe1-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/fe1-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A copy of the original ROM named fe1-base.nes is required.
- **Prerequisites:** A Unix-like environment, C++ compiler, CMake, and WLA-DX are required.
- **Limits:** The disassembly is incomplete and still uses bytes from the original ROM.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/StanHash/fe1/blob/9b2fd3a03347818a60afaf913f94c36de0d953ba/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/StanHash/fe1/blob/9b2fd3a03347818a60afaf913f94c36de0d953ba/Makefile>

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