# 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.

- 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/KarisaAdvynia/sma2-disasm>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/KarisaAdvynia/sma2-disasm/blob/b75c69fdb5eb253b85566fbbccf47b5f3d2633e8/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/sma2-disasm-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/sma2-disasm-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/sma2-disasm-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/KarisaAdvynia/sma2-disasm/blob/b75c69fdb5eb253b85566fbbccf47b5f3d2633e8/README.md>

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