# Friends of Mineral Town: decompiling the US GBA release

> Friends of Mineral Town reconstructs the US Game Boy Advance release of Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town from C++, C and assembly source. Its build produces a ROM with a stated SHA-1 target, and the setup uses a user-supplied base ROM for comparison.

- 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/fomt>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/StanHash/fomt/blob/b8471ae065744869f64283473ed68372f82321c9/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/friends-of-mineral-town-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/friends-of-mineral-town-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/friends-of-mineral-town-decomp-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A user-supplied USA base ROM named baserom.gba.
- **Prerequisites:** An arm-none-eabi toolchain and an agbcc fork that includes agbcp.
- **Limits:** Decompilation of the rest of the game remains on the TODO list.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/StanHash/fomt/blob/b8471ae065744869f64283473ed68372f82321c9/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/StanHash/fomt/blob/b8471ae065744869f64283473ed68372f82321c9/INSTALL.md>
3. <https://github.com/StanHash/fomt/blob/b8471ae065744869f64283473ed68372f82321c9/TODO.md>

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