Case study

Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak: a matching GBA decompilation

Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak reconstructs the European AH3P revision 0 GBA game as C and assembly that builds a specified 16 MiB ROM. Its technical notes cover startup, graphics, actors, scripts, text, sound and saves, and describe ROM equality checks against the original image.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07

Stars: 1
Last commit: 2026-10-21
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Scope: The target is the European AH3P revision 0 ROM identified by the documented SHA-1 and SHA-256 hashes.
Limits: Some data meanings and execution paths remain only partially understood.
License: No licence file in the repository.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{hamtaro-heartbreak-decomp-case,
  title = {{Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak: a matching GBA decompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/josealmon/hamtaro-heartbreak}},
  url = {https://github.com/josealmon/hamtaro-heartbreak},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/hamtaro-heartbreak-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak: a matching GBA decompilation. https://github.com/josealmon/hamtaro-heartbreak (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/hamtaro-heartbreak-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · josealmon/hamtaro-heartbreak · Revision 14f0aec
docs/analysis.md GitHub · josealmon/hamtaro-heartbreak · Revision 14f0aec