Case study

Super Mario Advance 2: exact-match GBA disassembly

SMA2 disasm reconstructs the US Game Boy Advance ROM of Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 as Armips assembly. The author reports an exact full-ROM rebuild, with ROM pointers replaced by labels and graphics and sound extracted locally from an original ROM.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 7
Last commit: 2024-01-30
Language: Assembly

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Armips and an original US SMA2 ROM for extracting game data.
Limits: Pointer-label changes have not been thoroughly tested.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{sma2-disasm-case,
  title = {{Super Mario Advance 2: exact-match GBA disassembly}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/KarisaAdvynia/sma2-disasm}},
  url = {https://github.com/KarisaAdvynia/sma2-disasm},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/sma2-disasm-case/}}
}

Plain text

Super Mario Advance 2: exact-match GBA disassembly. https://github.com/KarisaAdvynia/sma2-disasm (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/sma2-disasm-case/

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README.md GitHub · KarisaAdvynia/sma2-disasm · Revision b75c69f