Case study

Golden Sun: a symbolized Game Boy Advance disassembly

Golden Sun reconstructs the Game Boy Advance game's known code as symbolized assembly. Its build compares the generated US ROM by SHA-1 and checks uncompressed map-code overlays separately against data from a user-supplied ROM.

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

Stars: 35
Last commit: 2025-06-05
Language: Assembly

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: The original US ROM must be named baserom.gba.
Prerequisites: GNU Make, ARM/Thumb binutils and a host C compiler are required.
Limits: Data remains undisassembled; a matching overlay compressor is unfinished.
License: No licence file in the repository.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{golden-sun-disassembly-case,
  title = {{Golden Sun: a symbolized Game Boy Advance disassembly}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/gsret/goldensun}},
  url = {https://github.com/gsret/goldensun},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/golden-sun-disassembly-case/}}
}

Plain text

Golden Sun: a symbolized Game Boy Advance disassembly. https://github.com/gsret/goldensun (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/golden-sun-disassembly-case/

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README.md GitHub · gsret/goldensun · Revision 0fa7b31
Makefile GitHub · gsret/goldensun · Revision 0fa7b31