# Pebble Beach Golf Links: a byte-matched Mega Drive reconstruction

> Reconstructs the European Mega Drive release of Pebble Beach Golf Links from a locally supplied ROM. The project represents the 68000 game code, Z80 audio driver, tables, and asset pipelines in source, then checks the build against the original SHA-256. The author reports a byte-identical 2 MiB ROM build and documents remaining semantic naming work.

- 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/JeremyPerbost/pebble-beach-golf-links-md-disasm>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/JeremyPerbost/pebble-beach-golf-links-md-disasm/blob/998fc7929f23cff28272db19f82263b2d5e07afc/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/pebble-beach-golf-links-mega-drive-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/pebble-beach-golf-links-mega-drive-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/pebble-beach-golf-links-mega-drive-decomp-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A local copy of the European Pebble Beach Golf Links ROM is required.
- **Prerequisites:** Windows, PowerShell, Python 3.11 or later, and the pinned SGDK submodule are documented for building.
- **Limits:** Semantic naming and structure work remains ongoing.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/JeremyPerbost/pebble-beach-golf-links-md-disasm/blob/998fc7929f23cff28272db19f82263b2d5e07afc/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/JeremyPerbost/pebble-beach-golf-links-md-disasm/blob/998fc7929f23cff28272db19f82263b2d5e07afc/GETTING_STARTED.md>

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