# Mario vs. Donkey Kong: a Game Boy Advance disassembly

> Mario vs. Donkey Kong is disassembled into ARM assembly and C sources that build a Game Boy Advance ROM with a specified MD5 hash. The build uses a user-provided US ROM, devkitARM and pokeruby-tools.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-08
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/camthesaxman/mariovsdk>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/camthesaxman/mariovsdk/blob/ee1720bea222ee4b8762817cd4ef2de64081a74d/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/mariovsdk-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/mariovsdk-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/mariovsdk-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A copy of the Mario vs. Donkey Kong ROM named baserom.gba.
- **Prerequisites:** devkitARM and the tools folder from pokeruby-tools; build with make in its MSYS environment.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/camthesaxman/mariovsdk/blob/ee1720bea222ee4b8762817cd4ef2de64081a74d/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/camthesaxman/mariovsdk/blob/ee1720bea222ee4b8762817cd4ef2de64081a74d/Makefile>

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