Case study

Fossil Fighters Champions: matching the Nintendo DS battle overlay

Reconstructs Fossil Fighters Champions' Nintendo DS battle overlay as C compiled with the original mwccarm toolchain, retaining assembly for unmatched functions. The author reports 1,141 of 1,382 overlay functions build-verified, and the repository documents accuracy and damage behavior.

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

Stars: 1
Last commit: 2026-10-13
Language: Assembly

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A legally dumped USA Fossil Fighters Champions ROM is required.
Prerequisites: macOS or Linux, make, clang, Python 3, wine, ndspy, Capstone, and mwccarm DSi 1.1 build 1018 are required.
Limits: The author's reported 82.6% function match applies to overlay 2; the other modules are scaffolded.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{fossil-fighters-champions-decomp-case,
  title = {{Fossil Fighters Champions: matching the Nintendo DS battle overlay}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/arcnid/ffc-decomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/arcnid/ffc-decomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/fossil-fighters-champions-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Fossil Fighters Champions: matching the Nintendo DS battle overlay. https://github.com/arcnid/ffc-decomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/fossil-fighters-champions-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · arcnid/ffc-decomp · Revision 3c7a101
STATUS.md GitHub · arcnid/ffc-decomp · Revision 3c7a101