# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Binary
- 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/ricbit/game-master>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/ricbit/game-master/blob/b1ca2ef4b34c01a68bb8b43acf458d3e4e41c197/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/konamis-game-master-disassembly-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/konamis-game-master-disassembly-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/konamis-game-master-disassembly-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

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

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/ricbit/game-master/blob/b1ca2ef4b34c01a68bb8b43acf458d3e4e41c197/README.md>

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