Case study

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga: a matching European GBA decompilation

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga is a matching decompilation of the European GBA release using C compiled with agbcc. Configuration generates comparison assembly from the user's ROM. Decompiled functions are compared with their original instructions, while undecompiled functions come from generated assembly. The author reports a byte-identical combined ROM build.

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

Stars: 2
Last commit: 2026-11-08
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Provide the European A88P ROM as baserom.gba.
Prerequisites: Build on Linux x86-64 with a C compiler, make, curl, git, xz, unzip and Python 3.
Limits: Some functions remain in generated assembly; names and layouts may be provisional.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{mario-luigi-superstar-saga-europe-decomp-case,
  title = {{Mario \& Luigi: Superstar Saga: a matching European GBA decompilation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/JohnSoellnerDev/mlss-decomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/JohnSoellnerDev/mlss-decomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/mario-luigi-superstar-saga-europe-decomp-case/}}
}

Plain text

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga: a matching European GBA decompilation. https://github.com/JohnSoellnerDev/mlss-decomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/mario-luigi-superstar-saga-europe-decomp-case/

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README.md GitHub · JohnSoellnerDev/mlss-decomp · Revision 12d6356
CONTRIBUTING.md GitHub · JohnSoellnerDev/mlss-decomp · Revision 12d6356