# 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.

- 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/obskyr/hamtaro-in-pieces>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/obskyr/hamtaro-in-pieces/blob/951eef5008917a714560944a45f7d3c297b59427/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/hamtaro-in-pieces-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/hamtaro-in-pieces-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/hamtaro-in-pieces-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/obskyr/hamtaro-in-pieces/blob/951eef5008917a714560944a45f7d3c297b59427/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/obskyr/hamtaro-in-pieces/blob/951eef5008917a714560944a45f7d3c297b59427/Makefile>

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