Case study
Money Idol Exchanger: a Game Boy ROM disassembly
Money Idol Exchanger is a banked assembly disassembly of the Game Boy game. Its RGBDS Makefile assembles the sources into game.gb, and the project specifies an MD5 goal for comparing the resulting ROM.
- Targets
- Game
- Category
- Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship
- Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed
- Stars
- 2
- Last commit
- 2023-07-24
- Language
- Assembly
GitHub data as of 2026-11-10
Requirements & limits
- Prerequisites: The documented game.gb build uses RGBDS tools rgbasm, rgblink and rgbfix; its PNG conversion rules use rgbgfx.
- Testing evidence: The project specifies an MD5 goal for the built game.gb.
- License: No licence file is listed in the repository.
Cite
BibTeX
@misc{money-idol-exchanger-disassembly-case,
title = {{Money Idol Exchanger: a Game Boy ROM disassembly}},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/gabe-k/money-idol-exchanger-re}},
url = {https://github.com/gabe-k/money-idol-exchanger-re},
urldate = {2026-11-06},
note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/money-idol-exchanger-disassembly-case/}}
}Plain text
Money Idol Exchanger: a Game Boy ROM disassembly. https://github.com/gabe-k/money-idol-exchanger-re (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/money-idol-exchanger-disassembly-case/
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