# Kirby's Adventure: an in-progress NES disassembly

> Kirby's Adventure is reconstructed as a work-in-progress NES assembly source tree with program and graphics banks. Build scripts configure the toolchain and assemble a ROM, while bundled helpers include an Actionscript bytecode dumper for the game.

- 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/Nathan-R-Og/kirbyadventure>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Nathan-R-Og/kirbyadventure/blob/b8aa8875b039098882547c6841f752aaa9ccd114/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/kirbys-adventure-nes-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/kirbys-adventure-nes-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/kirbys-adventure-nes-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** WSL2 Ubuntu is the documented environment; Linux is also mentioned as likely compatible.
- **Prerequisites:** The install script sets up cc65.
- **Limits:** The disassembly is described as work in progress.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Nathan-R-Og/kirbyadventure/blob/b8aa8875b039098882547c6841f752aaa9ccd114/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/Nathan-R-Og/kirbyadventure/blob/b8aa8875b039098882547c6841f752aaa9ccd114/tools/actionscript_dumper/README.md>

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