# Medarot Parts Collection: a Game Boy disassembly and translation workspace

> medarot1-pc disassembles parts of Medarot Parts Collection for Game Boy and maintains text, tilemap, and tileset extraction tools for a translation workspace. Its build overlays the reconstructed parts on a user-supplied ROM and compares the output with the original.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/Medabots/medarot1-pc>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Medabots/medarot1-pc/blob/0343c6f2bbc801fc7ca762d77e457d6e7afc86c9/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/medarot-parts-collection-disassembly-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/medarot-parts-collection-disassembly-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/medarot-parts-collection-disassembly-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- Supply the Medarot Parts Collection GB ROM with the documented MD5 and name it baserom_parts_collection.gb.
- Make, Python 3.6+, and RGBDS are required.
- The build currently relies on RGBDS overlays while parts are disassembled.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Medabots/medarot1-pc/blob/0343c6f2bbc801fc7ca762d77e457d6e7afc86c9/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/Medabots/medarot1-pc/blob/0343c6f2bbc801fc7ca762d77e457d6e7afc86c9/scripts/README.md>

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