# 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.

- 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/gabe-k/money-idol-exchanger-re>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/gabe-k/money-idol-exchanger-re/blob/ae4456d925b639a31be9f86e461317b3c1791f7d/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/money-idol-exchanger-disassembly-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/money-idol-exchanger-disassembly-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/money-idol-exchanger-disassembly-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/gabe-k/money-idol-exchanger-re/blob/ae4456d925b639a31be9f86e461317b3c1791f7d/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/gabe-k/money-idol-exchanger-re/blob/ae4456d925b639a31be9f86e461317b3c1791f7d/Makefile>

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