# Lego Island 2: GBA decompilation

> Lego Island 2 reconstructs the GBA game's code in C and assembly using bagd. Its documented workflow extracts assets from a user-provided baserom.gba with isle2-tool, generates build files with bagd and builds the ROM.

- 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/minirop/lego-island-gba>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/minirop/lego-island-gba/blob/008273294dcfffab9df9dc8b3797eb2b153c58df/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/lego-island-2-gba-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/lego-island-2-gba-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/lego-island-2-gba-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Provide the GBA ROM as baserom.gba; building requires git, Rust, agbcc and arm-none-eabi tools.
- **Limits:** Setup is mostly manual and undocumented.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/minirop/lego-island-gba/blob/008273294dcfffab9df9dc8b3797eb2b153c58df/README.md>

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