# Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3: an exact-match disassembly

> sma3-disasm reconstructs the US Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 ROM as Armips assembly. The author reports an exact full-ROM match and replaces ROM pointers with labels to support edits. Game graphics and sound are extracted from a user-supplied vanilla ROM, while the single-cartridge multiplayer region still needs research.

- 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/sma3-disasm>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/KarisaAdvynia/sma3-disasm/blob/c8532ec9a8d0038c3bfeb003dd0c7ea89d7e1071/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/sma3-disasm-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/sma3-disasm-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/sma3-disasm-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Armips and a vanilla US ROM are required; run the extraction script to create the data folder.
- **Limits:** Pointer-label edits have not been thoroughly tested, and the single-cart region needs more research.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/KarisaAdvynia/sma3-disasm/blob/c8532ec9a8d0038c3bfeb003dd0c7ea89d7e1071/README.md>

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