# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/josealmon/hamtaro-heartbreak>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/josealmon/hamtaro-heartbreak/blob/14f0aec2014cb0f631a0784f9846ba6419a4ecc1/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/hamtaro-heartbreak-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/hamtaro-heartbreak-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/hamtaro-heartbreak-decomp-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/josealmon/hamtaro-heartbreak/blob/14f0aec2014cb0f631a0784f9846ba6419a4ecc1/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/josealmon/hamtaro-heartbreak/blob/14f0aec2014cb0f631a0784f9846ba6419a4ecc1/docs/analysis.md>

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