Case study

Hamtaro in Pieces: an incomplete Game Boy Color disassembly

Hamtaro in Pieces disassembles the North American Game Boy Color release of Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite!. RGBDS assembles the recovered source, using a user-supplied base ROM for incomplete regions, and the Makefile compares the resulting ROM with the original. Crystal tools support the build.

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

Stars: 21
Last commit: 2018-04-09
Language: Crystal

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Requires a North American base ROM matching the documented MD5 hash.
Prerequisites: Requires Crystal, RGBDS 0.3.6 or newer, and Make.
Limits: The disassembly is incomplete and still relies on the base ROM.
License: No licence file in the repository.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{hamtaro-in-pieces-case,
  title = {{Hamtaro in Pieces: an incomplete Game Boy Color disassembly}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/obskyr/hamtaro-in-pieces}},
  url = {https://github.com/obskyr/hamtaro-in-pieces},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/hamtaro-in-pieces-case/}}
}

Plain text

Hamtaro in Pieces: an incomplete Game Boy Color disassembly. https://github.com/obskyr/hamtaro-in-pieces (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/hamtaro-in-pieces-case/

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Primary sources

README.md GitHub · obskyr/hamtaro-in-pieces · Revision 951eef5
Makefile GitHub · obskyr/hamtaro-in-pieces · Revision 951eef5