# Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories — matching GBA decompilation

> This is a matching decompilation of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories for the Game Boy Advance. It targets the US, Japanese, and European versions.

- 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/Pheenoh/khcom>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Pheenoh/khcom/blob/5dc49b75068bfe24e07bdaf365570d64682680c3/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/khcom-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/khcom-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/khcom-decomp-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- Copy the dumped ROM to roms/ as B8CE.gba, B8CJ.gba, or B8CP.gba. The SHA-1 values are 10729bd884f8fdca7a310b6d606c52e46657aa48, 59ec0a0a4ccd1e6acb3bbd7bfb21d63988958cfa, and 8db73586cdb11b3795907edebf43228dbcd3e6b2.
- Dependencies are git, ninja, Python 3, PyYAML, binutils-arm-none-eabi, and pret/agbcc. Extract with python3 tools/extract_assets.py, configure with python3 configure.py, then build with ninja.
- License: CC0 1.0 Universal.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Pheenoh/khcom/blob/5dc49b75068bfe24e07bdaf365570d64682680c3/README.md>

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