Case study

Konami's Game Master: a matching MSX utility-cartridge disassembly

Konami's Game Master reconstructs the Japanese RC-735 MSX utility cartridge as annotated assembly. The cartridge adds save and load functions, cheats and rankings to other Konami MSX1 games. The author reports that sjasmplus assembles the source into a bit-perfect copy of the original 16 KB ROM.

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

Stars: 3
Last commit: 2026-05-28
Language: Assembly

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: sjasmplus is required to assemble the source.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{konamis-game-master-disassembly-case,
  title = {{Konami's Game Master: a matching MSX utility-cartridge disassembly}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/ricbit/game-master}},
  url = {https://github.com/ricbit/game-master},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/konamis-game-master-disassembly-case/}}
}

Plain text

Konami's Game Master: a matching MSX utility-cartridge disassembly. https://github.com/ricbit/game-master (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/konamis-game-master-disassembly-case/

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README.md GitHub · ricbit/game-master · Revision b1ca2ef