# 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.

- 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/gsret/goldensun>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/gsret/goldensun/blob/0fa7b312199c10b96544e825be86cfc476493eb7/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/golden-sun-disassembly-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/golden-sun-disassembly-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/golden-sun-disassembly-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/gsret/goldensun/blob/0fa7b312199c10b96544e825be86cfc476493eb7/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/gsret/goldensun/blob/0fa7b312199c10b96544e825be86cfc476493eb7/Makefile>

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