Case study

medarot: a partial matching disassembly of Medarot Kabuto

medarot reconstructs portions of the Game Boy game Medarot Kabuto in assembly while importing unreconstructed ranges from baserom.gbc. Its RGBDS build compares the resulting ROM against that base ROM.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C3 notes only

Stars: 7
Last commit: 2015-04-26
Language: Assembly

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code observed; no usable documentation found.
Scope: Notes
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A local baserom.gbc is required to supply unreconstructed ROM ranges and for comparison.
Prerequisites: RGBDS tools rgbasm, rgblink and rgbfix are required by the Makefile.
Limits: The reconstruction is partial; main.asm still imports ranges from the base ROM.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{medarot-kabuto-disassembly-case,
  title = {{medarot: a partial matching disassembly of Medarot Kabuto}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Sanqui/medarot}},
  url = {https://github.com/Sanqui/medarot},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/medarot-kabuto-disassembly-case/}}
}

Plain text

medarot: a partial matching disassembly of Medarot Kabuto. https://github.com/Sanqui/medarot (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/medarot-kabuto-disassembly-case/

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Primary sources

Makefile GitHub · Sanqui/medarot · Revision f78e0ab
main.asm GitHub · Sanqui/medarot · Revision f78e0ab