Case study
Lester the Unlikely: SNES disassembly and ROM maps
Lester the Unlikely Disassembly reconstructs the USA SNES game in assembly with RAM and ROM maps and asset-extraction scripts. It uses the project's included SNES ROM framework and requires the user's clean, headerless ROM to extract game assets.
- Targets
- Game
- Category
- Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship
- Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed
- Stars
- 1
- Last commit
- 2023-07-07
- Language
- Assembly
- License (GitHub)
- GPL-3.0
GitHub data as of 2026-11-10
Requirements & limits
- Prerequisites: Requires a clean, headerless USA ROM with MD5 bb8e9e7429145404f0e4186ad0161fc8 to extract assets.
- Prerequisites: Uses version 1.3.1 of the author's SNES ROM framework.
- License: GPL-3.0 license.
Cite
BibTeX
@misc{lester-the-unlikely-disassembly-case,
title = {{Lester the Unlikely: SNES disassembly and ROM maps}},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Yoshifanatic1/Lester-The-Unlikely-Disassembly}},
url = {https://github.com/Yoshifanatic1/Lester-The-Unlikely-Disassembly},
urldate = {2026-11-06},
note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/lester-the-unlikely-disassembly-case/}}
}Plain text
Lester the Unlikely: SNES disassembly and ROM maps. https://github.com/Yoshifanatic1/Lester-The-Unlikely-Disassembly (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/lester-the-unlikely-disassembly-case/
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About this entry
The description was reviewed against primary sources.
Primary sources
- readme.md GitHub · Yoshifanatic1/Lester-The-Unlikely-Disassembly · Revision 64e775d
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