Case study

Link's Awakening DX: static recompilation of the Game Boy Color ROM

LinksAwakening converts a user-supplied The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX Game Boy Color ROM into C and builds a native Windows program. It uses gb-recompiled for code translation and runtime support, with an interpreter fallback for unresolved jumps and tools that compare hardware traces against SameBoy.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C1 partial scope or analysis entry

Stars: 11
Last commit: 2026-10-21
Language: C
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Demo screenshot from the project's public documentation

Observed: Download and demo observed; the case covers part of the target software.
Scope: Partial
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Windows 10 or 11 and the user's own Link's Awakening DX ROM as .gbc or a ZIP containing one ROM.
Prerequisites: MSYS2 and its compiler packages are used for source builds.
Testing evidence: The tested ROM is USA/Europe Rev 2; other revisions are untested.
License: MIT license for repository code.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{links-awakening-dx-static-recomp-case,
  title = {{Link's Awakening DX: static recompilation of the Game Boy Color ROM}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/sp00nznet/LinksAwakening}},
  url = {https://github.com/sp00nznet/LinksAwakening},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/links-awakening-dx-static-recomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Link's Awakening DX: static recompilation of the Game Boy Color ROM. https://github.com/sp00nznet/LinksAwakening (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/links-awakening-dx-static-recomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · sp00nznet/LinksAwakening · Revision 58437d3
docs/architecture.md GitHub · sp00nznet/LinksAwakening · Revision 58437d3